Noam Gottesman

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Noam Gottesman
File:Noam Gottesman.jpg
Born May 1961
Israel
Residence New York City, US
Ethnicity Jewish
Citizenship United States, United Kingdom
Occupation hedge fund manager
Known for co-founder of GLG Partners
Net worth Increase US$ 1.8 billion (Sept 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Geraldine Gottesman (divorced)
Bianca Dueñas
Children Four
Parent(s) Dov Gottesman

Noam Gottesman (born May 1961) is a New York City-based, Israeli-American[2] businessman and former hedge fund manager and co-founder of GLG Partners. Gottesman has dual citizenship in the US and UK, and was listed on the April 2014 Forbes 400 list of richest people in America with a net worth of $2 billion.[1]

Early life and education

Gottesman was born in May 1961,[3] to a Jewish family,[4] the son of Israel Museum President Dov Gottesman.[5] He received a B.A. from Columbia University.[1]

Career

Gottesman worked at the Goldman Sachs London office and became its executive director while managing global equity portfolios for their private client group.[6] He left Goldman Sachs in 1995 with Pierre Lagrange and Jonathan Green to co-found GLG Partners.[7] The company went on to manage $24.6 billion and become a publicly traded entity on the New York Stock Exchange (November 2007) and had up to $24.6 billion in assets under management.[8][9] Gottesman and his partners sold the company to the Man Group in October 2010 for $1.6 billion.[1][10][11] Gottesman continued to serve as GLG's co-CEO until January 2012 when he became the non-executive Chairman for GLG’s business in the US.[citation needed]

Gottesman is the CEO of the investment company TOMS Capital.[7] Other activities include ownership of the restaurant Eleven Madison Park[7] trustee at his alma mater Columbia University[12] and board member at the Tate Gallery Foundation.[13]

Personal life

Gottesman married Geraldine Gottesman and had four children. They later divorced.[7][14][15] Gottesman comes from a family of art collectors[16] and is among the 200 most notable collectors according to ARTnews.[17][18] He owns pieces by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol.[7] In 2008, Gottesman sold his 14,700-square-foot mansion in London's Kensington neighborhood to billionaire steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.[19]

In 2014 he was dating the actress Lucy Liu[20] In 2015, Gottesman married Bianca Dueñas, director of sales for fashion designer Reed Krakoff.[21]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Noam Gottesman September 2013
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  4. ↑ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of Noam Gottesman April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  5. ↑ YNet News: "Lucy Liu visits Israel" by Ran Boker March 1, 2011
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  17. ↑ [1] Archived May 1, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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