Asher Edelman

Asher EdelmanAsher Edelman started his Wall Street career in 1961, and eight years later, he formed Mack, Bushnell and Edelman, functioning as the company's chief executive officer. Asher Edelman's Wall Street endeavors included derivatives trading, investment banking and money management. Edelman gained further notoriety when, in 1988, he taught a Columbia Business School course called "Corporate Raiding: The Art of War", using the identically-named Sun Tzu book.

Edelman moved to Switzerland in 1988, founding an art museum near Lausanne in Pully. His museum, the FAE Musee d'Art Contemporain exhibited the first Mapplethorpe retrospective in Europe, and also showed works by Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Halley and Basquiat. In 2002, he created Edelman Arts Inc., which deals in impressionistic and post-war art. Edelman is also president and founder of Art Assure Ltd, founded in 2010, which places, purchases, lends and price-guarantees auctioned art.

Asher Edelman has served and continues to serve on many art institutes' board of trustees; he was once Chairman of the Board of Brooklyn's Academy of Music, Vice Chairman of both the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and the American Ballet Theater, Prix de Lausanne board member, and many others. Currently, he is serving on the boards of Bard College and The Studio School.