Michael Hintze is the founder, Chief Executive and Senior Investment Officer of CQS, a USD9.4bn global multi-strategy asset management group.  He is also Chairman of the CQS Executive Committee.

Prior to establishing CQS in 1999, Michael was Managing Director in the Leveraged Funds Group at CSFB where he developed the strategy and management team for the CSFB Convertible & Quantitative Strategies Fund; which later became CQS Convertible & Quantitative Strategies Fund.  Before this Michael was Managing Director and European Head of Convertibles at CSFB, responsible for flow and proprietary trading, sales and research.

Before joining CSFB in 1996, Michael worked at Goldman Sachs for 12 years in a variety of roles including; Executive Director and Head of UK Trading and Head of European Emerging Markets Trading.  From 1984 to 1992 he established and built up Goldman’s Euro Convertible and European Warrants business in London. During this period he was also a Consultant for Goldman Sachs on the Markets Development Committee of the London Stock Exchange to report on new market structure (SETS) and was both Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Euro Convertible and European Warrants Committee of ISMA. In addition to these roles, Michael also represented Goldman Sachs on a number of other finance industry committees including several LSE committees and working parties and a number of SIB and OFT Reviews.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1984, Michael worked for Salomon Brothers, in New York, as a Fixed Income Trader trading Yankee Bonds after having completed the firm’s Graduate Training Program in 1982.

Michael began his career as an Electrical Design Engineer for Civil and Civic Pty Ltd in Australia and also served for three years in the Australian Army as a Captain in the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Michael has significant and wide-ranging philanthropic interests and to consolidate these, the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation was established. Since inception in 2005, almost 150 charities have received funding from the Foundation.  Major donations have, amongst others, provided funding to Trinity Hospice in south London, established the chair of International Security at the University of Sydney, enabled the restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican, sponsored two major galleries at the Victoria & Albert Museum and provided vital funding to the Old Vic Theatre in London. Michael is a Trustee of the National Gallery, The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the University of Sydney and the Wandsworth Museum. He also serves on the International Council of the V&A and is a Patron of the Arts of the Vatican Museums. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory in 2005 and in January 2008 was honoured as “Australian of the Year in the UK. In November 2009, Michael and his wife Dorothy received the Prince of Wales Award for Arts Philanthropy.

Michael is a fluent Russian speaker.  He holds a BSc in Physics and Pure Mathematics and a BEng in Electrical Engineering both from the University of Sydney.  He also holds an MSc in Acoustics from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from Harvard Business School.