Simon Ruddick - Chairman & Co-Founder of Albourne Partners

 Simon Ruddick is the Chairman of Albourne Partners, the world's largest hedge fund advisory firm, having served as its CEO from the firm’s formation in March 1994 through to August 2015. Albourne's 280+ clients have over 400 billion dollars invested in hedge funds. Albourne was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2006 and again in 2009. Simon Ruddick received Lifetime Achievement Awards from Global Custodian in 2010 and from Hedge Fund Review in 2012, along with the International Leadership Award from the American Red Cross. Also in 2012, Albourne was ranked 1^st in HFM Week’s Investor Power 30, the top most influential investors and advisors in the hedge fund space.

Albourne has led a number of industry-wide initiatives with no commercial agenda. It co-chairs the Open Protocol Enabling Risk Aggregation. It suggested, and participates in, the hedge fund working group formed as part of the United Nations PRI initiative. It suggested, and promotes, Administrator Transparency Reports. Simon Ruddick has been a Trustee of the Hedge Funds Standard Board since 2008.

Village.albourne.com, the not-for-profit website set up in 2000, has over 80,000 residents and has led to Simon Ruddick twice appearing in the Institutional Investor’s Top 40 Online Entrepreneurs. As well as appearing on Bloomberg TV and Thomson Reuters TV, Ruddick’s appearances on CNBC have included co-hosting both its Squawk Box, Europe Tonight and Closing Bell programmes.  Albourne hosted Hedgestock in 2006, attracting over 4,000 attendees and featuring a performance by The Who, to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust. In 2014, Simon Ruddick was appointed a Trustee of The Theatres Trust by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

Simon holds an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Trinity College, University of Oxford. Outside of work, Simon’s all-consuming passions are theatre and strict tempo dancing.