Richard Samuel Elman

Richard Elman
Born Richard Samuel Elman
Occupation Chairman & CEO of Noble Group Limited
Years active 1986–present
Known for Founding the Noble Group[1]
Net worth Increase US $2 billion (August 2014)[2]

Richard Samuel Elman (born 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, a Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) backed technology commercialiser and incubator with focuses in biomedical devices, advanced materials and computational algorithms.[3] He wears an amber bead bracelet on his wrist for good luck and is afraid to take it off.[4]

Early life

Born to a barrister father and a mother who made woman's clothes, Elman first arrived in Asia during the mid-1960s from the UK. At the age of 15, he started work as a labourer in a scrap metal yard sorting out non-ferrous scrap metal.[5][6] In 1968, he spent 10 years in Hong Kong with Phibro as Regional Director of Asia operations, including two years in New York as a Board Director.

Career

In the early 1970s, he founded his first company, Metal Ore Asia, in Hong Kong.

In 1972, he sold Metal Ore Asia to commodities-trading giant Philipp Brothers Ltd (Phibro).[7]

In 1986, with $100,000 of his own money, he started the Noble Group.[5]

In 1997, due to lacklustre trading of the company in Hong Kong, the company was listed on the Singapore Exchange and has over 35,000 shareholders globally, with corporate presence across five continents with over 15,000 employees, embracing 70 nationalities.[8][9]

Personal Life

Elman is currently married to his third wife, Mary, and has 4 children.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Board of Directors - Noble Group". Thisisnoble.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Richard Elman". Forbes.
  3. ↑ "About Us - Clearbridge Accelerator". Clearbridgeaccelerator.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Richard Elman finds Noble Group successor". South China Morning Post. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Richard Elman, Founder and CEO, Noble Group". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Noble founder Elman turns scrap into gold". Reuters. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Hong Kong Taipan Rebuffed by China Digs Into U.S. Natural Gas". Bloomberg. November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Assif Shameen: How Noble Group reinvented itself". Theedgesingapore.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ "London Metal Exchange: Richard Elman". Lme.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/hong-kong-taipan-rebuffed-by-china-digs-into-u-s-natural-gas.html
  11. ↑ http://hk.asiatatler.com/500list/richard-elman/stories