Bloomberg – Paul Ruddock was eight when, on a visit to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, he came across a boarded-up room of sculpture casts. “I remember looking through a chink in the plywood, seeing Trajan’s Column, and just being blown away,” says Ruddock.
Today, Ruddock, 52, is co-founder and chief executive of London-based Lansdowne Partners Ltd. and the V&A’s chairman. He is worth 270 million pounds ($443 million) according to the Sunday Times Rich List, a figure he won’t disagree with. Lansdowne is one of Europe’s largest hedge-fund companies, with $14.4 billion under management, though, he says, it’s having “a tough year.”
