Richard Samuel Elman (born May 3, 1940) is a British businessman, the founder and Chairman of Singapore-listed, Hong Kong–based, Noble Group Limited.
[2] Richard Elman was born to a barrister father, Peter, and a mother, Frances (née Tuckman), who made women's clothes.
Elman moved from the UK to the US (marrying, for the first time, in 1962, in San Jose), then to Asia, in the 1960s.
[3][4] He worked as Regional Director of Asia operations for Phibro for ten years.
[1] In the early 1970s, he founded his first company, Metal Ore Asia, in Hong Kong.