A co-founder of U.K.-based, activist hedge fund The Children’s Investment Fund, Patrick Degorce, 41, last year stepped from behind the shadow of TCI managing partner Christopher Hohn to launch Thélème Partners.
Unlike TCI, Degorce’s firm won’t pursue an activist investing bent. Rather, Thélème, which shares back-office functions with London-based hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, is running a global long-short equity strategy.
A former French navy officer, Degorce was at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, where he worked with Lansdowne partners Peter Davis and Stuart Roden, before joining Hohn to help start TCI in 2004.
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