18 Facts About Noam Gottesman

Noam Gottesman is a New York City-based, British-American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG Partners.

Noam Gottesman later entered the restaurant industry, investing in establishments including Eleven Madison Park in New York City.

Noam Gottesman was born in May 1961, to a Jewish family, the son of Israel Museum president Dov Noam Gottesman.

Noam Gottesman received a BA from Columbia University in 1986.

Noam Gottesman worked at the Goldman Sachs London office and became its executive director while managing global equity portfolios for their private client group.

Noam Gottesman left Goldman Sachs in 1995 with Pierre Lagrange and Jonathan Green to co-found GLG Partners.

Noam Gottesman went on to manage $24.6 billion and become a publicly traded entity on the New York Stock Exchange and had up to $24.6 billion in assets under management.

Noam 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.

Noam Gottesman is the CEO of the investment company TOMS Capital.

Noam Gottesman is a trustee at his alma mater Columbia University and as board member at the Tate Gallery Foundation.

Noam Gottesman is on the Chairman's Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the international council of the Museum of Modern Art.

Noam Gottesman has sat on the board of trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital of since 2017 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, and Shuko, which New York Magazine voted the "Best Sushi in New York".

Noam Gottesman owns Nomad, and the eponymous investment vehicle named "Nomad" that he cofounded, which purchased Iglo Group, purveyor of Birds Eye Frozen Products.

Noam Gottesman comes from a family of art collectors, and is among the 200 most notable collectors according to ARTnews.

Noam Gottesman owns pieces by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol.

In 2015, Noam Gottesman married Bianca Duenas, director of sales for fashion designer Reed Krakoff.

In July 2019, Noam Gottesman was accused of illegally carving out a personal driveway in front of his Greenwich Village townhouse.

The New York Department of Buildings later issued a statement acknowledging that there was a pre-existing curb cut and loading dock at the building before it was converted into a home, and that Noam Gottesman had received plan approval in 2011 to keep the curb cut and a fold-up garage door.