Claude Littner (born 4 May 1949)[citation needed] is an American-born British business executive and the former chairman of Viglen, Powerleague, ASCO and Azzuri Communications.
Littner was born in New York City, to an American mother and an Austrian-Jewish father, who had fled the Nazis in the 1930s.
He was executive chairman of the international oilfield support services business ASCO from 2004 to 2007 and served as director of Norton Way Motors Ltd and Myeloma UK.
A non-executive director of Amstrad since June 2007, in 2009 Sugar resigned a majority of his UK company directorships, handing over his former management duties to Littner, including the chairman's post at Viglen.
Littner came to wider UK public recognition through his direct and confrontational style of job interviewing on The Apprentice.
On 27 April 2015, it was announced that Littner had replaced Nick Hewer as Alan Sugar's aide on the show.