Maurice Fischler Is New President of Antwerp Diamond Bourse
May 19, 11
(IDEX Online News) - Maurice Fischler has been elected president of the Beurs voor Diamanthandel - Antwerp Diamond Bourse (ADB) – at the biennial elections for half of its board members.
According to ADB statutes, biennial elections are held to replace six of the bourse's 12 serving board members. Board members Yves Diamant, Liran Horowitz, Jacky Korn, Kaushik Mehta and Jacky Roth were reelected. Avraham Pinchasi was elected to fill the seat of the late ADB President Artur Beller.
The ADB's new board is now Maurice Fischler, President; Jacques Roth, Vice President; Jacques Korn and Bernard Weinberg, Executive Directors. Members of the Board are: Yves Diamant, Liran Horovitz, Alain Majerczyk, Kaushik Mehta, David Pienica, Marcel Pruwer and Raphael Rubin.
Fischler, 62, has served on the bourse's board for the past six years. He is married with four children, two of whom work in the family-run Fischler Diamonds Company. He is the son of the late Bram Fischler, an Antwerp diamond industry icon who served as ADB president from 1985 until his death in the fall of 2003.
"With Maurice's appointment, the Antwerp Diamond Bourse has chosen an excellent diamantaire," WFDB president Avi Paz stated.