Nicky Oppenheimer

South African businessman

Nicky Oppenheimer built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Nicky Oppenheimer as South African businessman.

Nicky Oppenheimer was born at South Africa in 1945. His recorded nationality is South Africa. He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as businessperson, banker and chairperson.

His recorded affiliations include De Beers and Diamond Trading Company.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

That the business was built from South Africa shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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