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 |
 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.[3]
Early life
Born to a barrister father and a mother who made women's clothes, Elman moved to Asia from the UK in the 1960s. At the age of 15, he started work as a labourer in a scrap metal yard sorting out non-ferrous scrap metal.[4][5] He worked as Regional Director of Asia operations for Phibro for ten years.[1]
Career
In the early 1970s, he founded his first company, Metal Ore Asia, in Hong Kong. He sold it to Phibro in 1972.[6]
In 1986, with $100,000 of his own money, he started the Noble Group.[4] In 1997, due to lacklustre trading of the company on the Hong Kong exchange, the company was listed on the Singapore Exchange. It has over 35,000 shareholders globally, with offices in five continents and over 15,000 employees.[7][8]
References
- 1 2 "Board of Directors - Noble Group". Thisisnoble.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Richard Elman". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2015-07-31.
- ↑ "About Us - Clearbridge Accelerator". Clearbridgeaccelerator.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- 1 2 "Richard Elman, Founder and CEO, Noble Group". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Noble founder Elman turns scrap into gold". Reuters. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Hong Kong Taipan Rebuffed by China Digs Into U.S. Natural Gas". Bloomberg. November 8, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Assif Shameen: How Noble Group reinvented itself". Theedgesingapore.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ "London Metal Exchange: Richard Elman". Lme.com. Retrieved October 6, 2014.