Arnold Asa Saltzman (October 1, 1916 – January 2, 2014) was an American businessman, diplomat, art collector, and philanthropist, based in New York.
Saltzman was born on October 1, 1916, in Brooklyn, New York, to a Russian immigrant father, Isidore, and his wife Dora.
[2] His son, Eric Saltzman, served as a director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
[1] He then entered government service, working for the Roosevelt administration as a member of the National Industrial Mobilization Committee.
[6] In 1957, Premiere was acquired by Botany Mills, a Passaic, New Jersey manufacturer of textiles that was rapidly expanding and diversifying.
[16] Around 1970, Saltzman also headed a group that had a 24 percent interest in Trans Beacon Corporation, a movie distribution and theater operation that was a remnant of RKO Pictures.
[24] Still in business, Saltzman headed Vista Resources (which Seagrave had become), a diversified public company, until selling majority interest in it in 1989.
[25] He became chair of the Windsor Production Corporation, a privately held oil, real estate, and investment firm.
[25] In 1992, he was named by Kyrgyzstan, newly independent of the Soviet Union, as its representative in negotiations for natural-resource arrangements with American companies.
[32] The couple are reflected in the name of the Arnold and Joan Saltzman Fine Arts Building there, where he became chairman emeritus.
[20] In 2012, the library in Port Washington, New York, named its reading room after the couple following a large gift from the Saltzman Foundation.