Richard elman noble group bio
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Richard elman noble group bio
Richard Samuel Elman
Richard Elman | |
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Born | Richard Samuel Elman (1940-05-03) May 3, 1940 (age 84) Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Chairman & CEO of Noble Group Limited |
Years active | 1986–present |
Known for | Founder of the Noble Group[1] |
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]
Early life and education
Richard 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 Ph