Peter de Putron
{{Short description|English businessman}}
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| birth_name = Peter Nicholas de Putron{{cite web |title=Webb-site Who's Who: de Putron, Peter Nicholas |url=https://webb-site.com/dbpub/natperson.asp?p=17581858 |website=webb-site.com}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|10|15|df=y}}
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| education = Eton College
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- Jesus College, University of Oxford (BA, MA){{cite web |title=Annual Report 2002 |url=https://www.fundsquare.net/download/dl?siteId=FSQ&v=G1vU4RTTewbZVa39Nk5Zgza/hBBVZPHHXZBfBQartTT9ZX5grgQmlSa1snqyJ4XCf+EuhQMTDzNt/VcuYexe5jMgu70nK1w8AHerudZJTU8baKMyqCQ3ud8M391BafF+NEuadom1Uz9TlxITR0qrSQ== |website=Fundsquare| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204015529/https://www.fundsquare.net/download/dl?siteId=FSQ&v=G1vU4RTTewbZVa39Nk5Zgza/hBBVZPHHXZBfBQartTT9ZX5grgQmlSa1snqyJ4XCf+EuhQMTDzNt/VcuYexe5jMgu70nK1w8AHerudZJTU8baKMyqCQ3ud8M391BafF+NEuadom1Uz9TlxITR0qrSQ== | archive-date=4 February 2023 }}
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA)
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| occupation = Investor, hedge fund manager
| known_for = Owner of G-Research
| spouse = Carolynne Hayley Salmon{{cite web |title=Webb-site Who's Who: de Putron, Carolynne Hayley |url=https://webb-site.com/dbpub/natperson.asp?p=19788514 |website=webb-site.com}}
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Peter Nicholas de Putron (born 15 October 1963) is a British financier, and the founder of De Putron Fund Management, G-Research and associated companies.{{cite news |title=The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-19/the-triple-jeopardy-of-ke-xu-a-chinese-hedge-fund-quant |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=Bloomberg.com |date=19 November 2018 |language=en}}
Background
De Putron grew up in Guernsey, where his father was a local politician. He attended Eton College.
De Putron graduated from Jesus College, University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in engineering science.
De Putron began his career in the corporate finance department of Royal Bank of Canada in 1985. From 1987 to 1990 he, worked at GNI, a brokerage firm where he traded derivatives. From 1990 to 1992, De Putron attended Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania graduating in 1992 with a Master of Business Administration in finance and entrepreneurial management. He then worked at IFM, a London-based hedge fund where he specialized in market neutral solutions.
He founded De Putron Fund Management in 1997, which had seed money from George Soros. G-Research, a quantitative investment firm is part of the De Putron Fund Management Group.
De Putron is resident in Jersey. He is regarded as a very private individual.
Political activities
De Putron is the brother-in-law of Andrea Leadsom, a British Conservative Party member of Parliament and financial services minister who was briefly a contender for the position of leader of the Conservative party and hence Prime Minister in July 2016. Leadsom also worked for De Putron Fund Management in the 1990s.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/08/andrea-leadsom-family-links-offshore-bank-donations-tories|title=Top Tory has family link with offshore banker who gave party £800,000|first1=James|last1=Ball|first2=Leila|last2=Haddou|first3=David|last3=Leigh|date=8 July 2014|work=theguardian.com|accessdate=27 June 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2012/07/15/inspirational-islanders-who-will-carry-the-flame/|title=Inspirational Islanders who will carry the flame « Jersey Evening Post|work=jerseyeveningpost.com|date=15 July 2012 |accessdate=27 June 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-28210445|title=Kleinwort Benson bank hires experts after media leak|work=bbc.co.uk|date=9 July 2014 |accessdate=27 June 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Windhorst |first1=Lars |title=City Insider: To Russia with love |url=https://www.ft.com/content/43146786-8757-11e4-8c91-00144feabdc0 |website=www.ft.com}}
He has donated money to the Leadsom and the Conservative Party, as well as Eurosceptic think tanks.{{cite news |last1=Pegg |first1=David |last2=Watt |first2=Holly |title=How close are Andrea Leadsom's political links with Peter de Putron? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/06/andrea-leadsom-political-links-peter-de-putron-tory-leadership |access-date=27 October 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=6 July 2016 |language=en}}
De Putron was one of those mentioned in the "Jersey files" which were leaked from Kleinwort Benson to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tax-avoidance-celebrities-named-in-leaked-documents-revealing-offshore-financial-dealings-9595904.html Tax avoidance: Celebrities named in leaked documents revealing offshore financial dealings.] Jonathan Owen, The Independent, 9 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
Other ventures
According to The Times in March 2024, De Putron is the real owner of the Williams Racing team{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=David |date=2024-03-08 |title=Tory donor ‘behind smear campaign of Williams F1 marketing director’ |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/f1-williams-team-tory-donor-peter-putron-claudia-schwarz-zngxj8f35 |access-date=2025-06-06 |website=The Times |language=en}}