Arpad A. Busson (known as Arki; born 27 January 1962) is a London based French financier in hedge funds.
Busson was born in Africa. His father, Mr Pascal Busson, was a former African army officer and Algeria veteran, and later a dustman turned financier. His mother, Florence "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith, was an English former debutante. His parents met in Paris and named their son after the mysterious Hungarian-born banker Árpád Plesch (1889-1974), w...
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Arpad A. Busson (known as Arki; born 27 January 1962) is a London based French financier in hedge funds.
Busson was born in Africa. His father, Mr Pascal Busson, was a former African army officer and Algeria veteran, and later a dustman turned financier. His mother, Florence "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith, was an English former debutante. His parents met in Paris and named their son after the mysterious Hungarian-born banker Árpád Plesch (1889-1974), who was not only Florence Busson's stepfather (he was the second husband of her mother, Marysia Ulam Krauss Harcourt-Smith), but also her stepgrandfather (Plesch's first wife was his second wife's mother, Leonie Ulam). Plesch also was a mentor to Italy's richest man, the late head of Fiat, Gianni Agnelli. Busson's aunt, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, was a companion of Timothy Leary.
Growing up in Africa, some sources have suggested that Busson made early profits selling toothpicks door-to-door (which he denies), but he was educated in France and at...
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