Noam Gottesman

Noam Gottesman (born May 1961) is a British-American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist renowned for co-founding the hedge fund GLG Partners in 1995 and later establishing TOMS Capital LLC in 2012, while also serving as co-founder and co-chairman of Nomad Foods since 2014.

Gottesman, a 1986 graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, began his career in finance at Goldman Sachs International, where he served as an executive director managing global equity portfolios. He later joined Lehman Brothers International (Europe) as a managing director, during which time he co-founded GLG Partners as a division of the firm focused on long/short equity strategies. Under his leadership as co-CEO from 2005 to 2012 and earlier as CEO from 2000 to 2005, GLG expanded rapidly, went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2007, and was acquired by Man Group plc in 2010 for approximately $1.6 billion.

Noam Gottesman was born in May 1961 in Israel to a Jewish family renowned for its cultural and artistic engagements. His father, Dov Gottesman, was a renowned art collector and patron of the arts, serving as chairman of the Israel Museum's board from 1996, and president from 2001 until his death in 2011.