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CAREER SUMMARY Educated at Ravenscroft School , Beckington , The Judd School , Tonbridge , and Mansfield College , Oxford , Hands started his career as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs . He left for Nomura in 1984 and made a fortune as Managing Director of its Principal Finance Group, with the purchase of a chain of UK pubs. In 2002, he founded Terra Firma Capital Partners , and has gained the reputation of being a "big hitter" in the city of London. Terra Firma has bought a big property portfolio in the UK and Germany (where they are the country's biggest landlord), ex UK Ministry Of Defence residential housing and motorway service stations. It is also the largest owner of cinemas in Europe, having taken control of the United Cinemas International and Odeon Cinemas chains. Other acquisitions have been of the ''where there's muck there's brass'' variety, such as the waste water company Waste Recycling Group . Hands and his wife Julia also own the Hand Picked Hotels chain of 14 country-house properties, which is run by Julia Hands. Guy and Julia Hands were estimated to be worth £200 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2007. Previously in the Sunday Times Rich List 2005 they had been estimated to be worth £175 million, placing them at position 281 in the list of the richest people in the United Kingdom . Hands' friends include William Hague , who was best man at his wedding, while his house in Kent , England was once presented to Winston Churchill . HONOURS AND APPOINTMENTS
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