What is Noam Gottesman's Net Worth?
Noam Gottesman is an Israeli-American businessman who has a net worth of $2 billion. Noam Gottesman made his first step towards riches in 1995 when he set up the London-based hedge fund GLG with two partners. Twelve years later, they took the company public in a reverse merger and in 2010 they sold it to Man Group for $1.6 billion. After the acquisition, Gottesman stepped down as CEO while still holding a significant share.
In addition, he has made some other investments and holds a contemporary art collection with works by Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Furthermore, he backs financially the Manhattan restaurant Eleven Madison Park. In 2008, he made several major deals. First, he sold a 14,700-square-foot mansion in London's Kensington neighborhood to steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, and then he bought a former ice factory for $34 million in downtown Manhattan, tore it down and built a 12,000-square-foot home.