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Noam Gottesman
BornMay 1961 (1961-05) (age 63)
Israel
CitizenshipUnited States, United Kingdom
EducationColumbia University
OccupationHedge fund manager
Known forCo-founder of GLG Partners
Spouse(s)Geraldine Gottesman (divorced)
Bianca Dueñas (m. 2015)
Children5
ParentDov Gottesman

Noam Gottesman (born May 1961) is a New York City-based, British-American[2] businessman, former hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG Partners. He later entered the restaurant industry, investing in establishments including Eleven Madison Park in New York City. He is also the CEO of TOMS Capital. Gottesman has dual citizenship in the US and UK, and was listed on the 2020 Forbes 400 list of richest people in America, with a net worth of $2.4 billion.[3]

Early life and education

Gottesman was born in May 1961,[4] to a Jewish family,[5] the son of Israel Museum president Dov Gottesman.[6] He received a BA 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.[7] He left Goldman Sachs in 1995 with Pierre Lagrange and Jonathan Green to co-found GLG Partners.[8] 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.[9][10] Gottesman and his partners sold the company to the Man Group in October 2010 for $1.6 billion.[1][11][12] 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.

Philanthropy

He is a trustee at his alma mater Columbia University[13] and as board member at the Tate Gallery Foundation.[14] Gottesman is on the Chairman's Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art. He has sat on the Board of Trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital of since 2017 [15][16] Other activities include ownership of the restaurants Eleven Madison Park, which has been voted the number 1 restaurant in the world by The World's 50 Best Restaurants magazine publication,[17][18] and Shuko, which New York Magazine voted the "Best Sushi in New York".[19] He also owns Nomad, and the eponymous investment vehicle also named "Nomad" that he cofounded, which purchased Iglo Group, purveyor of Birds Eye Frozen Products.[20]

Personal life

Gottesman married Geraldine Gottesman and had four children. They later divorced.[8][21]

Gottesman comes from a family of art collectors,[22] and is among the 200 most notable collectors according to ARTnews.[23][24] He owns pieces by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol.[8]

In 2014, he was dating the actress Lucy Liu.[25] In 2015, Gottesman married Bianca Dueñas, director of sales for fashion designer Reed Krakoff.[26]

In July 2019, Gottesman was accused of illegally carving out a personal driveway in front of his Greenwich Village townhouse.[27] The accusations were first reported on the front page of the New York Daily News.[28]

References

  1. ^ a b c Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Noam Gottesman 29 January 2018
  2. ^ Parkinson, Gary (2006-02-27). "Trader in insider dealing case not coming back, says GLG". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
  3. ^ "Noam Gottesman". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  4. ^ "GLG Partners Limited". Companies House. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  5. ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of Noam Gottesman April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  6. ^ YNet News: "Lucy Liu visits Israel" by Ran Boker March 1, 2011
  7. ^ "Bloomberg Businessweek: Noam Gottesman". businessweek.com. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  8. ^ a b c "Forbes: The Worlds Billionaires: Noam Gottesman". forbes.com. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  9. ^ "GLG Partners, Inc". Nyse.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-02. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  10. ^ "A Public Hedge Fund With Good News to Report". The New York Times. 2008-02-06.
  11. ^ Ebrahimi, Helia (2010-05-17). "GLG takes .6bn Man Group dowry in hedge fund marriage". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  12. ^ "Peter Clarke". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
  13. ^ "Noam Gottesman". Retrieved March 29, 2012.[dead link]
  14. ^ "Tate Report 2007: Tate Britain and Tate Modern". tate.org.uk. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  15. ^ "Hospital Leadership - Board of Trustees". New York Presbyterian. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  16. ^ "Noam Gottesman and Bianca Duenas Wedding". Brides Magazine. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  17. ^ "No.1 Eleven Madison Park: NEW YORK, USA". The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  18. ^ Florence Fabricant (April 5, 2017). "Eleven Madison Park Tops List of World's 50 Best Restaurants". New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  19. ^ Adam Platt (April 25, 2017). "The Absolute Best Sushi in New York". Grub Street section of New York Magazine. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  20. ^ Michael Bow (April 21, 2015). "Nomad Foods tycoons swoop for Iglo-owned Birds Eye in €2.6bn deal". Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  21. ^ "London's 1000 most influential people 2011". Thisislondon.co.uk. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  22. ^ "Dov Gottesman19172011". ArtAsiaPacific. 2011-03-22. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  23. ^ [1] Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  24. ^ "Which Wall Streeters 'Run' The Art Market?". Dealbreaker.com. 2011-01-27. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  25. ^ "Lucy Liu's Billionaire Boyfriend "Has Israeli Bodyguards Follow Her Around" — Report | Wetpaint, Inc. | Wetpaint, Inc". Wetpaint.com. 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2015-09-19.
  26. ^ "Noam Gottesman". artnews. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  27. ^ Ray, Esha; Jacob, Ennica; Brown, Stephen Rex. "Billionaire insists he has legal parking spot on West Village street, infuriating neighbors who say he created a fake space for himself". nydailynews.com.
  28. ^ Bryant, Kenzie. "Billionaire Allegedly Makes Off With Free Illegal Parking Space". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
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