Richard Samuel Elman (born May 3, 1940) is a British businessman, the founder and Chairman of Singapore-listed, Hong Kong–based, Noble Group Limited. He also serves as a Member of Board of Directors of Clearbridge Accelerator.[2]
Richard Elman | |
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| Born | Richard Samuel Elman May 3, 1940 Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Chairman & CEO of Noble Group Limited |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Known for | Founder of the Noble Group[1] |
Early life and education
editRichard Elman was born to a barrister father, Peter, and a mother, Frances (née Tuckman), who made women's clothes. At the age of 15, he started work as a labourer in a scrap metal yard sorting out non-ferrous scrap metal. Elman moved from the UK to the US (marrying, for the first time, in 1962, in San Jose), then to Asia, in the 1960s.[3][4] He worked as Regional Director of Asia operations for Phibro for ten years.[1]
Career
editIn the early 1970s, he founded his first company, Metal Ore Asia, in Hong Kong. He sold it to Phibro in 1972.[5] In 1986, with $100,000 of his own money, he started the Noble Group.[3] In 1997, the company was listed on the Singapore Exchange. In June 2016, he announced he would step down from his chairman position. That followed months during which Noble had been criticised for its accounting practices.[6]
Philanthropy
editIn October 2015, Elman endowed the "Elman Family Visiting Professorship in Jewish and Israeli Studies" at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Board of Directors - Noble Group". Thisisnoble.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ^ "About Us - Clearbridge Accelerator". Clearbridgeaccelerator.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ^ a b "Richard Elman, Founder and CEO, Noble Group". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ^ "Noble founder Elman turns scrap into gold". Reuters. April 27, 2008. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ^ "Hong Kong Taipan Rebuffed by China Digs Into U.S. Natural Gas". Bloomberg. November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ^ Watts, Jake Maxwell (June 3, 2016). "How Richard Elman's Noble Empire Crumbled". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ^ "Establishment of Israel and Jewish studies Chair". Consulate of Israel in Hong Kong & Macau. November 5, 2015.