Armand Grover Erpf[1] (December 8, 1897 – February 2, 1971) was an American investment banker, philanthropist, and art collector.
He was a senior partner at Loeb, Rhoades & Co., chairman of the Executive Committee of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, and helped finance the New York magazine.
He went to Germany in 1923 to conduct a survey of textile enterprises in Saxony, and in 1924 he joined a management engineering firm as statistician.
[9] In this capacity, Erpf played a significant role in the creation and financing of the Columbia Lectures in International Studies,[5] an educational television series that began in 1962 on Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation stations.
[12] For his interest in the arts and letters combined with a successful business career, Time magazine called him "Wall Street's closest approximation of Renaissance man" in 1962.
[3][17][18] His son, Tolomy Erpf, is a hedge fund manager and owns the Oceanus villa with his sister Cornelia on Mustique, where British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent his New Year holiday with his then-partner, Carrie Symonds, in 2020.
[19][20] He died of a heart attack on February 2, 1971, while working in his office at 42 Wall Street, leaving an estate worth $8 million.