Rick Sopher

Rick Sopher (born 22 December 1959, in London, England) is chairman of the management board of several listed investment companies including Leveraged Capital Holdings (the first fund of funds, which was started by the Edmond de Rothschild Group), Trading Capital Holdings and is a former director of the management company of RIT Capital Partners plc, whose Chairman is Lord Jacob Rothschild. He is also Chairman and CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Holdings Limited.
Early life and education
Rick Sopher studied at the City of London School, was awarded a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated in economics in 1981.
He is married to Carol Sopher and has two daughters, Hannah and beauty blogger and YouTuber Amelia Liana.
Career
He joined Edmond de Rothschild in 1993 and is Head of Alternative Multi-Management.
He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1984, and worked at BDO Stoy Hayward in corporate finance and investigations, becoming in 1988 the youngest partner ever made by that firm. While there he devised in 1987 the Private Company Price Index, a published measure of the valuations at which private companies were being sold.
Service
He is a trustee of the endowment of Sir Moses Montefiore, a former director of the London Jewish Museum, chair of the Sephardi Centre, member of the development committee of the Woolf Institute, and a member of the Haut-Conseil of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.

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