Florian Homm

Dr. h.c. Florian Homm, MBA, is Germany's most well-known hedge fund manager. Throughout his career, Homm has been awarded Europe's Hedge Fund Manager of the Year three times, named Best U.S. Specialist Fund Manager, and recognized multiple times as the Best European Fund Manager and Best German Fund Manager.

Homm worked as an analyst, proprietary trader, and fund manager at Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, Tweedy, Browne, and Bank Julius Baer before becoming a billionaire as a financial entrepreneur and hedge fund manager.

His positive, absolute, relative, and audited performance during the stock market crashes of 1987 and 2002, as well as the corrections in 1990 and 1994, is unique in Europe. His successful short-selling speculations on Bremer Vulkan, MLP, and WCM are well-documented.

Homm speaks six languages, is a former ambassador and UNESCO delegate, a junior national basketball player, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, and at the peak of his career, appeared on Manager Magazin's list of the richest Germans.

He became widely known to the public through the successful restructuring of Borussia Dortmund and as a multiple bestselling author. Homm is certainly controversial and polarizing. For years, he has been defending himself against various allegations from 2004 to 2007. Homm is a practicing Catholic and active in several charitable organizations.