Daniel Pinto is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive and Founding Partner of Stanhope Capital.

Daniel has considerable experience in investment management and merchant banking having advised prominent families, entrepreneurs, corporations, and governments for over 25 years. Prior to founding Stanhope Capital in 2004, he was a Senior Banker at UBS Warburg in London and Paris concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, and a member of the firm’s executive committee in France. He was also Chief Executive of a private equity fund backed by CVC Capital Partners.

Founder of the Independent Investment Management Initiative, a think tank comprised of the leading independent UK and European investment management firms. Daniel sits on several prominent boards including Château Margaux and S4 Capital Plc.

Daniel regularly contributes economic and financial editorials to leading newspapers. He is the author of ‘Capital Wars’ (Bloomsbury, 2014) which won the prestigious Prix Turgot and the HEC/Manpower Foundation prize.

Daniel holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in Economics from Sciences-Po Paris and an MSc in Finance from Université Paris-Dauphine.