Richard Elman, a past Forbes Asia Businessman of the Year, represented Noble Group.
The agricultural divisions of two big trading firms, Glencore and Noble Group, were caught with their trousers down and lost money.
The globetrotter has worked in five continents in different sectors: as agricultural commodities trader for Noble Group, Asia's largest diversified commodities trading company, in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Since retiring from the banking giant in 2005, Eldon has served as the chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority, an independent director of Noble Group and senior advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Of course, Asia-Pacific already had a publicly traded model for such a behemoth in Noble Group--No. 539 on the Global 2000 and home to the 2009 FORBES ASIA Businessman of the Year, its executive chairman, Richard Elman.
"Their gearing is way higher than anybody else in the space they're operating in, " says rbs analyst Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, noting that sometime rival Noble Group, out of Hong Kong, is barely above one times equity, and that that's the sector's second-highest next to Olam.
Their Helicon Double Layer Thruster uses radio waves to ionise one of the inert, or noble gases - a group which includes krypton, xenon and argon.
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Larry Noble, executive director of the campaign-finance watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics, told The Associated Press that it "matters symbolically" if the Bushes have let contributors stay in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Ivan was designed by a group of Soviet physicists lead by Igor Kurchatov and Noble prize winner Andrey Sakharov.
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The 12 members of the task-and-finish group, who include Hay Festival director Peter Florence, Lord Elis-Thomas AM and BBC broadcaster Roy Noble, are looking at nine topics.
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