He is chairman of Hanson Family Holdings, a private company which owns businesses in the fields of logistics, investment banking, news media, and chemicals.
[citation needed] Educated at Eton and St Peter's College, Oxford, Hanson's first job was as an assistant keeper of reptiles at the Windsor Safari Park.
[1] In the 1980s, Hanson joined N M Rothschild & Sons, then went to work for his father,[citation needed] who was created a life peer in 1983.
In 1998 he founded Hanson Capital, a group of financial services companies aiming to capitalise on his worldwide network of relationships with major investors.
[1] He eventually married the Russian model Masha Markova, at the time half his age, and moved to Los Angeles.