Cutting My Own Path

<p>Known internationally as The Dean Of Risk Arbitrage <em>Guy Wyser-Pratte </em>is a force majeure of shareholder activism.</p><p>Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and an Austrian-Catholic mother Guy (Ghee) has lived a life shaped by history ambition and risk. From an idyllic childhood on the beaches of Cannes to narrowly escaping war-torn Europe his journey is one of resilience fortune and survival against all odds. His background as a US Marine Corps infantry officer foreshadows his ability to lead into a storm. </p><p>At just five years old Guy was moments from death while attempting to crawl to freedom through a hole in a fence to Switzerland from Occupied Annecy France. That near-death experience at the business end of a Nazi soldier's rifle forever imprinted on his memory-becomming a defining moment of his life: a lesson in the fragility of fate the necessity of taking risks when the stakes are highest and the courage to <strong>cut your own path.</strong></p><p></p><p>Every time I uncovered corporate misbehavior at the expense of shareholders I felt an immediate surge of purpose. I wasn't built to sit quietly and passively sweat out individual risk-arbitrage deals. That just wasn't me. By the 1990s I was actively going after managements in the United States that were failing their shareholders.</p><p>-Guy Wyser Pratte</p><p></p><p>There are men who follow the rules and there are men who rewrite them. Guy Wyser-Pratte has never been interested in the former.</p><p>-Brig. Gen. Thomas V. Draude</p><p></p><p>Guy P. Wyser-Pratte MBA is considered by many to be the founding father of shareholder activism. He is a U.S. Marine Corps Officer an award-winning and celebrated arbatrageur a fund manager with ~38% returns and sports a storied history of iconic disruptive mischief in the name of shareholder value. </p>