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Ira Noviarti is President Director at PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk. In the past she held the position of Director-Ice Cream & Marketing Services at PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Indonesia.

Ira Leon Rennert (born 1934, Brooklyn, New York) is an American investor and businessman. Using junk bonds to finance his acquisitions of companies, often in bankruptcy, Rennert has amassed significant holdings in basic, cyclical industries, such as mining and metals, including lead smelters, coal mines, magnesium producers and vehicle assembly lines. Today he controls one of the nation’s largest privately held industrial empires, and his personal fortune is estimated to be $5.9 billion.

Background and education
Rennert is a graduate of Brooklyn College. He earned his master's degree from New York University's Stern School of Business, where he is currently on the Board of Overseers.
[Rennert house.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Ira Rennert's compound in Sagaponack, New York], as viewed from above

Early career
Rennert started his career as a credit analyst on Wall Street in 1956. He also served briefly as a salesman for a typewriting company and a stock brokerage, before launching his own business, I.L.Rennert & Co. in 1962 based at a Beaver Street office in Lower Manhattan. At this time he was censured by the NASD for operating with insufficient capital. This occurred again in 1963 and as a result, his license was revoked on November 29, 1964, effectively banning him from the securities industry. According to a company spokesman, Jon Goldberg:

'Due to market conditions, the firm found itself in violation of the net capital rule and Rennert raised capital and put it into the firm to bring it into compliance. However, the firm once more fell beneath the net-capital requirements and he shut the company down.'

Rennert was a consultant for the next eleven years (Who’s Who entry) and entered the private equity market. His role was to put together small leveraged buyouts of unwanted companies. In 1975 he bought a sewing machine maker, and a few years later purchased Covert Marine Inc. of Kansas City (forced into bankruptcy in 1992), followed later by a group of hardware stores and lumber companies. In the early 1980s he joined the board of Integrated Resources Inc, a company financed by Michael Milken where he learned the art of raising junk bonds to finance additional acquisitions.

Junk Bond Financing
Milken—as a bond trader for Drexel Burnham Lambert—was successful selling high-risk, high-yield bonds issued by struggling or undercapitalized companies. Before Milken, these were considered ‘junk’ and most investors avoided them, but it was Milken’s innovation that formed a strategy of using these junk bonds to provide capital for corporate raiders to conduct hostile company takeovers. Integrated Resources raised $2 billion in junk bonds financed by Milken but ultimately collapsed amid scandal and defaulted on $1 billion of bond debt in May 1989 (c.f. the 1991 book Den of Thieves about the junk bond scandal). As an outside board member, Rennert was not dragged down by the collapse and began to raise junk bonds on his own behalf to finance acquisitions for Renco.

Rennert's strategy for building Renco was to acquiring all the shares of struggling companies and to finance the acquisition by issuing junk bonds. Along the way, Rennert paid substantial dividends out of the business to himself. In a series of junk bond issues since 1995, Renco’s subsidiaries have borrowed an estimated $1.1 billion and transferred $322 million (29 percent) to Renco Group, according to documents filed with the SEC. Backed by blue-chip mutual funds and hedge funds such as John Hancock Funds LLC and Putnam Investment Management LLC, Rennert now didn’t have to invest much of his own money. His purchase of AM General in 1992 was bought with a down payment of just $10 million. In 1994, Fluor Corp. of Los Angeles sold Doe Run to Renco, with the latter paying $52 million in cash, and approximately $60 million in debt payable over an eight-year period. In 1997, Doe Run went on to pay $247 million for a similarly environmentally troubled lead smelting complex from the Peruvian government, as well as borrowing more money to service its Fluor debt. And in 1998, Doe Run sold $305 million in junk bonds for financing its Peruvian acquisition as well as more lead mines in Missouri (according to Doe Run filings with the SEC). Since 1998 most Renco financings have been bank debt.

WCI Steel
Rennert's first big deal came in 1988 when Renco bought a Warren (Ohio) steel company from its bankrupt parent, LTV Steel Co., for a price tag of $140 million, of which half was paid for with debt. This company then became WCI Steel Inc., and Rennert was able to ultimately sell bonds totalling $300 millon, paying $108 million of the proceeds as a dividend to Renco. Harbinger sold the business to Severstal, a steelmaker based in Russia, which was forced to shut down steel-making operations in the fall of 2008 because of the recession.

Environmental concerns
Rennert was awarded the The Awful Truth Man of Year Award in 1999 by filmmaker Michael Moore, based on a 1996 EPA Report which lists Magnesium Corporation of America as the top single polluting industrial facility in the United States and a second EPA report from the same year which lists Renco Group as the top most polluting parent company (based on total on-site and off-site releases). Doe Run Peru continues to elicit tremendous controversy and criticism. Despite over $100 million of investment in pollution reduction, the site remains heavily polluted and the impact on the local population is severe.

United States

For more detailed information, go to Doe Run Company.

The Renco Group's environmental record has been mixed. In 1998 the EPA placed Renco Group business holdings 10th on the nation's largest polluter list primarily because of emissions from US Magnesium in Utah (formerly MagCorp). (US Magnesium was purchased by Renco in 1989 in the year in which its emissions peaked at 119,000 tons per year.) By 1998, the year the Renco was placed on the EPA list, Renco had reduced emissions at US Magnesium by 50%. By 2005, the most recent year of data released by the EPA, emissions had been reduced by 97%. The suit claimed PCB-laced sludge and dust choked the plant's plumbing, wastewater ponds, landfill and ditches, where contaminants were 12 times the allowed limit for accidental release. The EPA suit, however, remained outstanding until October 2007 when a federal judge ruled against the EPA and the Justice Department and in favor of Renco and MagCorp / US Magnesium.

Today, U.S. Magnesium is the third largest magnesium producer in the world. US Magnesium’s environmental improvements and recent track record have been substantial and include a reduction of emissions by 90% since 2000 (97% since 1989). Also, the energy improvements in US Magnesium’s manufacturing process caused a net reduction of 100,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions. and won an MEP award in 2006 for Environmental Consciousness.

Another US unit of Renco also faced environmental issues in Herculaneum, Missouri and has made substantial improvements. Locals in Herculaneum claimed their children were suffering from lead poisoning traceable to toxic emissions coming from Renco's Doe Run lead smelting plant which had been in operations locally since 1892. In 2000, the EPA and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources tested area lead levels and ordered Doe Run to clean up locations where lead levels exceeded EPA standards. The La Oroya smelter began operations in 1922 and was operated for many years by the Peruvian government until it was sold to Doe Run in 1997.
The Blacksmith Institute has placed La Oroya on its list of ten most polluted places in the world, along with Chernobyl, Ukraine. In August 2007, it was reported that air levels of arsenic levels were 85 times more than the 'safe' level, cadmium 41 times, and lead 13 times more. Water levels of lead exceeded the 'safe' lead level (as established by the World Health Organisation) as well. A study by St. Louis University scientists found that 97 percent of children in La Oroya suffer from mental and physical deficiencies related to their exposure to polluted air. He also ranks #29 on the Jerusalem Post's list of the World's 50 Richest Jews.

Rennert and his wife Ingeborg have made many charitable donations to various organizations. They donated $5 million to establish the Wiesel Center at Boston University and $250,000 to the Lincoln Center. They also gave over $1 million to the World Trade Center Memorial and established the Rennert Entrepreneurial Institute of Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. They have endowed chairs at several different universities, including a chair in Jewish studies at Barnard College, a Chair in Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a Chair in Stem Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Ira Rennert Professorship of Business at Columbia University.
The Rennert family also funded the construction for a new mikvah at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, which was completed in May 2010.

Personal life

Family
Ira Rennert is married to Ingeborg Hanna Rennert. Ingeborg, a former airline ticket agent, is a convert to Judaism and serves as the Director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. They have three children:
*Tamara Rennert Winn
*Yonina Rennert Davidson
*Ari Rennert

Rennert is a member of the orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue where he is also honorary chairman.

Houses
Rennert caused controversy among his neighbors by building a beach front home in Sagaponack, New York considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house outraged locals, who claimed Rennert originally planned to use it as a spa, a hotel, or a religious retreat. Rennert denied such allegations, and the local paper later issued an apology.
Rennert named his home after the adjoining body of water, Fairfield Pond. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure convert|63|acre|m2. The buildings, which total over convert|110000|sqft|m2, including the convert|66000|sqft|m2|sing=on main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a convert|91|ft|m|sing=on long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, and a $150,000 hot tub. Its property taxes in 2007 were $397,559.00. Based on these taxes, the home is currently valued at $198 million making it the most valuable home in the United States.
Besides his house in Sagaponack, Rennert owns a duplex apartment on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, a home in Israel, and a Gulfstream V jet.

Ira D. Robbins is on the board of Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest NJ, Inc. and Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Valley National Bancorp, Member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Member of New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and Member-Leadership Council at Morris Habitat for Humanity. He received an undergraduate degree from Susquehanna University, an MBA from Pace University and an undergraduate degree from Aba Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Mr. Ira Holtzer is a Chief Technology Officer at Playtika Holding Corp. Mr. Holtzer was previously employed as a Chief Technology Officer by UMOO. He received his undergraduate degree from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

Mr. Ira Menkes is a Managing Director at Dominick & Dominick LLC.
Mr. Menkes was previously employed as Senior Vice President by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC.

Ira William McCollum is currently a Partner at SNR Denton Ltd.
He previously served as Vice Chairman at the House Republican Conference.
From 2013 to 2024, he was the Director at Dais Corp.
Prior to that, he worked as a Partner at Baker & Hostetler LLP from 2001 to 2007.
He also served as an Attorney for the State of Florida from 2007 to 2011.
Before his legal career, McCollum was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 2001.
He holds a graduate degree from the University of Florida.

Ira Eliot Ritter was the founder of Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. founded in 2004 where he held the title of Chairman from 2004 to 2012.
Currently, he holds the position of Director at Qualigen, Inc. since 2020, Director at Qualigen Therapeutics, Inc. since 2008, and Managing Partner at Stonehenge Partners LLC since 2010.
In the past, he held the position of Chairman at ONTV, Inc. from 1982 to 1985, Vice Chairman & President at Quality King Distributors, Inc. from 1992 to 2000, Chairman & President at Rockwood, Inc., Chairman at Rockwood Investments, Inc. from 1998 to 2001, and Independent Director at Unrivaled Brands, Inc. from 2020 to 2021.
He also served as a Director at Vitavis Laboratories, Inc., Martin Lawrence Galleries, Martin Lawrence Art Galleries, SCWorx Corp., and as a Commissioner at The California Prison Industry Authority.
He obtained an undergraduate degree from The California State University.

Ira Winkler is the founder of Secure Mentem, Inc. which was founded in 2012, where he holds the title of President.
Currently, he is an Advisor at Glilot Capital Investments GP Ltd.
since 2022.
In the past, he held positions such as Chairman at Information Systems Security Association, Inc., Technology Director at International Computer Security Association, Faculty Member at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Intelligence & Computer Systems Analyst at United States National Security Agency, and President at Internet Security Advisors Group, Inc. Mr. Winkler received his graduate degree from Bowie State University in 1989 and his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in 1984.

Ira Rosenfeld currently works at TForce Freight, Inc., as Director-Media Relations.

Ira is a Partner with Hyde Park Venture Partners and has been with the firm since its beginning in 2011, following a decade as a successful angel investor.
Ira is also a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he teaches entrepreneurship and tax strategy.
Ira has been actively investing in private companies for the past 20 years and has made over 125 venture capital and angel investments.
He currently serves on the boards of portfolio companies FourKites, ShipBob, Cove Markets, LandscapeHub, 2ndKitchen, PartySlate, and NestEgg, as well as a board observer at Leap.

Ira N.
Kalfus is currently working as the Medical Director at RedHill Biopharma Ltd.
He is also serving as the Chief Medical Officer at LifeSci Venture Partners and Attune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In the past, Dr. Kalfus held positions such as Chairman-Performance Improvement at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Medical Director at US Healthcare, Inc. and Aetna, Inc., Director at Anpath Group, Inc., Chief Medical Officer at Thar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Vice President-Medical Affairs at Lev Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Kalfus completed his undergraduate degree at The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York and obtained his doctorate degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc.

Ira N.
Shaw is currently a Partner at Landmark Realty Advisors LLC since 2019.
Previously, he worked as a Principal at CIBC World Markets Corp.
(Old) and as an Assistant Vice President at AEW Capital Management LP.
He completed his undergraduate degree at Haverford College and holds an MBA from Yale School of Management.

Ira Goldstone is currently the Chief Technology Officer & Vice President at Tribune Broadcasting Co., Inc. He completed his undergraduate degree at Emerson College.

Ira M.
Fils is currently the Director at California Fish Grill LLC and the Chief Financial Officer at El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. He previously held the position of Chief Financial Officer, Secretary & Director at The Habit Restaurants LLC and The Habit Restaurants, Inc. He also worked as a Principal at The Walt Disney Co., American Restaurant Group, Inc., and Family Restaurants, Inc. Additionally, he served as the Chief Financial Officer at Rubio's Restaurants, Inc. and Vice President-Finance at SWH Mimi’s Cafe LLC.
Mr. Fils obtained his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of California, Irvine.

Ira Wong is currently working as the Medical Director at Chakshu Research, Inc. He previously worked as a Principal at The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. and Proctor Equipment Co.

Ira Kaplan is currently the Co-Chairman at the Cleveland Leadership Center.
Previously, he served as the President & Trustee at the Menorah Park Center for Senior Living.

Ira J.
Kroo is currently the President of 9291-9281 Québec, Inc. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer & Director of 152724 Canada, Inc. Kroo holds an MBA from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from McGill University.

Ira F.
Bormel is currently an Independent Director at Universal Security Instruments, Inc. since 2011.
He is also currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer at Berman Enterprises LP since 1999.
Previously, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Berman Enterprises LLC.

Ira Brill has worked as the Vice President-Communications at Foster Farms LLC since 2020.

Mr. Ira Simkhovitch, CFA MBA, is a Managing Director at Industry Ventures LLC.
Mr. Simkhovitch was previously employed as an Associate by AlpInvest Partners Blue Management LLC and a Senior Consultant by Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. He received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Ira F.
Jersey, Jr., is Senior Client Portfolio Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds in July 2015, Mr. Jersey was the Head of US Interest Rate Strategy at Credit Suisse.
He was also employed as a Managing Director by RBC Capital Markets, Inc., a Professor by The New School for Social Research, and an Associate by The Vanguard Group, Inc. He also served on the board at Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.
Mr. Jersey received his BA in Political Science and Broadcast Journalism from American University, his MA in International Studies (Finance) from the University of Birmingham, and his MA in Economics (Finance) from The New School.

Ira Tauber is currently the Director at Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce & Industry, a Member-Logistics Research Center at The Pennsylvania State University, a Member at Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, and a Co-President at TRIOSE, Inc. He is also a Member at Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management.
Tauber completed his undergraduate degree at Rutgers State University of New Jersey.

Ira Riklis has been the Chief Executive Officer of Lydia Security Monitoring, Inc. since 1989.

Ira Schimmel currently works at Ann Storck Center, Inc., as Member-Governing Board.

Ira Goldstein currently works at Jerry's Artarama N.C., Inc., as Vice President.

Ira Trivers currently works as a Director for the Chattanooga Jewish Welfare Federation.

Ira Friedman is currently an Independent External Director at Peninsula Group Ltd., Halman - Aldubi IEC Gemel Ltd., Forest Mutual Funds Ltd., and Vice President at Social Finance Israel.
Previously, she was the Chief Executive Officer at Fishman Tamir Pension Insurance Agency Ltd.
from 2007 to 2013.
She also served as an Independent External Director at Mordechai Aviv Taasiot Beniyah (1973) Ltd.
and KANAT–The Insurance Fund for Natural Risks in Agriculture Ltd.
from 2017 to 2020.
Ms. Friedman holds an undergraduate degree and an MBA from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mr. Ira Shiner is a Senior Associate at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Private Investments.
Prior to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Private Investments Mr. Mr. Ira is Senior Investment Analyst at Teachers' Private Capital.
Mr. Shiner joined the firm in 2011.
Previously, he was with Kensington.
Prior to joining Kensington, he worked in the Investment Banking division of CIBC World Markets where he completed mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance transactions in the real estate sector.
Mr. Shiner has a BBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and he has passed all three levels of the CFA Program and will be eligible for the CFA designation upon completion of the required work experience.

Ira Drayton Pruitt is a member of the American Bar Association, Alabama State Bar Association, and Tennessee Bar Association.
He is also the President of Gulf Coast Energy, Inc. Previously, he worked as the Director of Cyber Operations, Inc. Pruitt holds a doctorate degree from Livingstone College, an undergraduate degree from The University of Alabama, and a graduate degree from The University of Alabama.

Ira Machowsky currently works as an Executive Vice President at Federation Employment & Guidance Service, Inc.

Ira J.
Gelb currently works at Florida Atlantic University Foundation, Inc., as Director and Hospice by the Sea, Inc., as Director.