Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm (born 7 October 1959 in Oberursel) is a former German investment banker and hedgefund manager.
Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm was born on 7 October 1959 in Oberursel, a small town near Frankfurt, Germany.
His father was self made and had set up a large business including that of welding pipes and installing bathroom fittings, something that did not interest young Florian.
[5] Instead, Florian was influenced by his great uncle Josef Neckermann, a successful businessman at whose mansion the entire family would attend weekly gatherings every Sunday.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW), Homm described being impressed by his great uncle and with the idea of being wealthy.
[7] In 2005 he co-founded Absolute Capital Management Holdings (ACMH), a hedge-fund company incorporated in the Cayman Islands,[6] which was listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
[9] Homm again gained much media attention in 2007 when he demanded that the German telecommunications provider freenet AG be split up.
[10] On 25 February 2011, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed civil charges against Florian Homm and Todd M. Ficeto.
After an expert testified that the disease was at an early to intermediate stage and did not prevent incarceration, the Court of Cassation in Rome ruled on 9 January 2014 that he could be extradited.
[13] On 23 June 2014, Homm was released from prison in Italy, after a court ruled that the period he could be held for extradition had expired.
In 2012, as part of the planned publication of his book (English title: Rogue Financier), whose profit is being donated by Homm to the Liberia Renaissance Foundation – a Swiss charitable association aimed at improving the education and opportunities for advancement of Liberian school children –,[15] Florian Homm took part in interviews with the German publications Süddeutsche Zeitung,[16] Stern[17] and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung[18] on 7 November 2012, in which he described his rise, fall and new start.
On the same day, the Financial Times Deutschland[19] and the German economic magazine Wirtschaftswoche[20] published an interview in which he denied most of the accusations against him.
[29] Florian Homm is one of the founders of the global health initiative Maximum Impact Medicine,[30] dedicated to fighting life-threatening diseases in third world countries.