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Arpad A. Busson (born 27 January 1963) is a London-based French financier. Busson entered the world of hedge funds in 1986 working in New York.〔Costello, Miles (31 December 2007). Monday manifesto: Arpad Busson; Retrieved 29 June 2008 from http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3111342.ece〕 He is the founder and Chairman of the EIM Group, a fund of funds company. Busson is also active in a number of philanthropic causes around the globe. According to prestigious French business magazine ''Challenges'', financier Arpad Busson is a multi-millionaire with a net worth of €150 million at 2013. ==Early life== Arpad Busson's father, Pascal Busson, was a former French army officer and Algerian War veteran, who later turned financier.〔 His mother, Florence "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith, was an English former debutante.〔(Daily Mail: "Sex, drugs and a £100m lost legacy" Richard Kay ) 29 May 2011〕 His aunt, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, was a companion of Timothy Leary, who coincidentally was married in the early 1960s to the mother of Arpad's partner, Uma Thurman.〔Etti (Mrs Arpad) Plesch, Horses & Husbands: The Memoirs of Etti Plesch, Dorset: Dovecote Press, pages 130-139〕 His parents met in Paris and named their son after the Hungarian-born banker Árpád Plesch (1889–1974), who was not only Florence Busson's stepfather (he was the second husband of her mother, Marysia Ulam Krauss Harcourt-Smith), but also her stepgrandfather (Plesch's first wife was his second wife's mother, Leonie Caro Ulam).〔Etti (Mrs Arpad) Plesch, ''Horses & Husbands: The Memoirs of Etti Plesch'', Dorset: Dovecote Press, pgs. 130-139〕 Plesch was a mentor to Italy's richest man, Gianni Agnelli, the late head of Fiat. Growing up in France, some sources have suggested that Busson made early profits selling toothpicks door-to-door (which he denies), but he was educated in France and at the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. He then served national service as a medic in the French army, where a friend said: ''"He loved the discipline of the army - it was the making of him.". On being demobilised, Busson had a well-publicised relationship with the actress Farrah Fawcett and appeared in tabloid gossip columns. As he often refuses to give interviews, stories surround Busson - the story about Fawcett is that they met on the French Riviera. The story is only partly true, in that it was perpetuated by the gossip columnist "Taki" as a sort of in-joke: Taki knew Busson's mother, who was friends with Fawcett.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arpad Busson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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