John Farber

John Farber is the longtime chairman of ICC Industries, which trades basic and specialty chemicals. It also holds a controlling stake in Frutarom.In May 2018, Frutarom was sold to International Flavors & Fragrances for $7.1 billion.He started ICC Industries in 1952 as a chemical trading division of his father-in-law's textiles export-import firm, Leslie Kleyman Corporation.Farber and his family left Romania after his father's business was nationalized following World War II. He reacquired the company in the 1990s.Farber received his doctorate in polymer chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.