Louis Reijtenbagh
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Louis Reijtenbagh | |
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| Born | July 18, 1946 |
| Alma mater | Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), Radboud Un.: Notable alumni |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and chief executive officer of The Plaza Group |
Louis Reijtenbagh (born July 18, 1946) is a Dutch businessman and investor, as well as a retired general practitioner.[1][2] He is the founder and chief executive officer of The Plaza Group (“Plaza”), a family office exclusively formed to manage the capital of its founder and his direct family members.[3]
Reijtenbagh was born in Den Ham, Overijssel.[4] He graduated from the Radboud University in Nijmegen, formerly Catholic University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), in 1975 with a degree in general medicine.[5][6] Reijtenbagh was awarded a scholarship under the Fulbright Program to study cardiology at Northwestern University in Chicago. During his studies Reijtenbagh voluntarily worked for the Acworth Leprosy Hospital in Mumbai. Reijtenbagh ran a general care practice in Almelo, Overijssel, from 1975 until 1990.[5]
Reijtenbagh has always had an interest in the financial markets. From his days as a student he has been actively involved and his investments have primarily focused on global macro and discretionary long/short investing. He founded Plaza in 1985 in the Netherlands to invest across various asset classes.[1] Reijtenbagh manages all activities since 1995 from Plaza's headquarters in Monaco.[7][8]
His name was included on a proxy card for Big Sky Energy which had interests on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan through a stake held in KoZhan, which is a petroleum firm developing the Morskoye, Karatal, Dauletally fields in the Atyrau Region, by the subsidiary Big Sky Energy Kazakhstan until Kazakhstan government ruled against Big Sky Energy and for the interests of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), which has been restructured within the Kazakh Trio Alexander Mashkevich, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov controlled Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) which controlled KoZhan from 2010 to 2015 but is now controlled by the Chen Huanlong associated Chinese firm Geo-Jade Petroleum Corporation.[5][9]
