London Gala 2007

100 WOMEN IN HEDGE FUNDS INAUGURAL LONDON GALA CELEBRATING MENTORING Royal Courts of Justice, London June 13th, 2007

Photograph of Industry Honorees with 100 Women in Hedge Funds London From left to right: Olivia Bernard, Anne Popkin, Kristen Fox, Gay Huey Evans, Michael Hintze, Amanda Pullinger, Kristen Eshak, Effie Anagnostopoulos, Heather Lockhart

100 Women in Hedge Funds' inaugural London Gala raised £400,000 ($800,000) for 100 Women in Hedge Funds' UK Charity of the Year, The Prince's Trust.

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Gay Huey Evans received the 100 Women in Hedge Funds' European Industry Leadership award. Huey Evans is President of Tribeca Global Management (Europe), Citi Alternative Investment's hedge fund platform. She is a risk management expert who worked for many years in senior positions at Bankers Trust and chaired the International Swaps and Dealers Association from 1994 to 1998 before heading the markets division at the UK's Financial Services Authority for seven years. More recently, she has helped build out Tribeca into a premier multi-strategy hedge fund platform within Citigroup.

Michael Hintze, who is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CQS, received the 100 Women in Hedge Funds' European Effecting Change award for his philanthropic activity. Hintze established CQS in 1999 and the firm, one of the largest hedge funds in Europe, now manages over US$6 billion. Over the last several years, the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation has made awards to educational and health programmes, and the Arts, including The Prince's Trust, The Prince's Foundation, Trinity Hospice, The Evelina Children's Trust, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Sculpture Galleries, the Vatican Museums' Pauline Chapel and the University of Sydney.

For further details of the event, please read the press release (PDF).

About The Prince's Trust:

The Prince's Trust was founded in 1976 by The Prince of Wales. The Prince's Trust is dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged young people in the UK and helps them to overcome barriers and get their lives back on track. Through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance, it helps 14-30 year-olds to realize their potential and transform their lives.

There are more than one million young people not in education, employment or training. The Trust focuses its efforts on young people who struggle at school, are in or leaving care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law. The Trust has become the UK's leading youth charity, offering a range of opportunities including training, personal development, business start up support, mentoring and advice.

The Prince's Trust supported 41,680 young people last year. They included: 12,770 who were at risk of exclusion from school, 8,960 through personal development courses, 12,150 young entrepreneurs through business start-up support, and 3,445 through grant to get into jobs, education or training.

Women's Leadership Group: influential women making a difference

The Prince's Trust Women's Leadership Group is an innovative fundraising initiative with a dedicated committee of leading, influential women committed to raising funds to help young women get their lives back on track.

Of the 40,000 young people The Trust helps each year only 15,000 will be young women. Their mission is to involve more people in the Trust's work and to motivate female supporters to help them help more disadvantaged young women than ever before.

The Women's Leadership Group aims to:

• encourage more young women to join Prince's Trust programmes
• bring together successful, dedicated women who are prepared to commit funding and time
• celebrate the achievements of young women, providing an opportunity to network with like-minded people at the same time

Their target is to raise £1 million over the next three years to help young people get their lives working.

For more information, please visit www.princes-trust.org.uk.