Gordon Singer is a Partner at Elliott Management Corporation and Head of Elliott Management Corporation’s London office, Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited.
As the Head of the London office, Gordon Singer manages all of Elliott’s European equity, corporate and sovereign credit positions. Gordon also oversees interest rate and currency trading positions originating from the London office. Gordon Singer has been a member of Elliott Management Corporation’s Management Committee since 2007. Additionally, Gordon is a member of Elliott’s Risk, Valuation, and Compliance and Operational Risk Committees.
Prior to joining Elliott in 1998, Gordon Singer worked in the Investment Banking Analyst Programme at Lehman Brothers.
Gordon Singer graduated from Williams College and spent his junior year abroad at Exeter College at Oxford University. Prior to Williams, Gordon Singer attended public (i.e. state) high school in Tenafly New Jersey.
Gordon Singer is the Founder of RESTORE THE MUSIC UK, a UK registered charity that seeks to reinstate access to music for every child in primary and secondary schools across the UK. Gordon’s passion for music education emanates from the music provision he experienced at the state schools in suburban New Jersey where he was educated. Gordon Singer plays the acoustic and electric guitars as his primary instruments, and is also proficient at electric bass guitar and double bass. He additionally plays a variety of drum instruments including drum set, and electronic drums.
Paul Singer and his son Gordon are not household names ......Their £25 billion hedge fund Elliott Advisors is one of the world’s most tenacious activist investors.
Founded in 1977, Elliott Management Corporation is one of the oldest fund managers of its kind under continuous management. Elliott manages approximately $35 billion in assets under management. The firm employs over 450 people in offices in New York, elsewhere in the United States, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
Lehman Brothers
Analyst
London, UK
Lehman Brothers was a leading global financial services firm which ceased trading in 2008.
RESTORE THE MUSIC UK is a registered charity that seeks to reinstate access to music for every child in primary & secondary schools across London. The charity offers £10,000 – £20,000 grants to schools for the purchase of musical instruments & tuition, thereby re-establishing music as a birthright for every child. To date, the charity has funded 25 schools across 15 London boroughs.
Norwood is the largest Jewish charity in the UK supporting over 4,000 vulnerable children and their families, children with special educational needs and adults with learning disabilities and autism. Norwood has a multi-disciplinary team of practitioners and a family of services designed specifically to support these groups.
Grassroot Soccer is an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize youth in developing countries to overcome their greatest health challenges, live healthier, more productive lives, and be agents for change in their communities.
VH1 Save the Music partners with local communities and school districts to build sustainable music programmes. So far the charity has helped over 2,000 schools across The Americas. Programmes often include the donation of instruments, music technology and other equipment to jumpstart public school music programs. The charity also advocates music education to ensure music is part of education.
