The name of Chris Hohn once struck fear in the hearts of company directors across the globe. The founder of UK hedge fund manager The Children’s Investment Fund Management entered the FN100 five years ago, but the activist investor pulled in his horns after 43% losses in 2008 and he dropped off the list last year. He has been deathly quiet of late, although Financial News has seen signs of him coming back. Will he be on the FN100 this year?

Hohn entered the FN100 in 17th place in 2005 after engineering the resignations of Rolf Breuer and Werner Seifert, chairman and chief executive of Deutsche Börse. He then fell to 60th place the following year after Euronext rebuffed his suggestions that it buy the German exchange before leaping into fourth place in 2007 after helping kick-start the biggest ever sale of a bank, ABN Amro.