Noam Gottesman

Noam Gottesman co-founded GLG Partners in London with Pierre Lagrange and Jonathan Green after leaving Goldman Sachs in 1995. GLG grew to become one of Europe's largest discretionary hedge funds, managing over $30 billion at its peak. When Man Group acquired GLG in 2010, Gottesman received substantial proceeds from the transaction. He subsequently established TOMS Capital Investment as a family office and personal investment vehicle. GLG's success demonstrated that a European-based, discretionary hedge fund could achieve scale comparable to US counterparts, and helped establish London as a major global hedge fund hub. Gottesman's entrepreneurial success in building GLG from scratch, combining his Goldman trading background with Lagrange's equity analysis skills, exemplified the generation of Goldman alumni who channeled their institutional training into building independent investment management businesses across the 1990s and 2000s.