Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> July 10, 2000
DUNCAN SOUKUP is Managing Director of Acquisitor, Plc. He is also
president and chief executive officer of Lionheart Group, Inc. a US
based financial services holding company that he founded in 1994.
Subsidiaries of Lionheart Group manage or advise a number of hedge funds
as well as a number of (long-only) US Pension Fund accounts. From 1988
to 1994 Mr. Soukup served as a managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co.
Inc. where he established and ran the company's foreign Equity Research
and Sales department. Profile
TWST: Could you start us off with an introduction to Acquisitor,relevant history, some scene-setting context?
Mr. Soukup: Acquisitor is a publicly quoted acquisition company, a
hybrid LBO