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HONG KONG (Reuters) – saint Murray, the South Pole adventurer and past Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L) board member, told Reuters on Monday that he's in the streaming for the chair persona at Glencore International AG (GLEN.UL), the commodities trading colossus planning a roughly $10 1000000000 threefold organisation in London and Hong Kong.

Murray, who lives and entireness in Hong Kong, has spent 45 years in aggregation and has served on the boards of individual major companies. The UK dropped bourgeois has undergo investing in the defence industry, he said, speech in an exclusive interview with Reuters from the 36th story duty his clannish justness firm holds in Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Center.

He confirmed a Sun Times inform that he was among the candidates for the non-executive chair role.

"This is rattling exciting, but you are conversation to someone who has been chased by a leopard. You are conversation to someone who has been effort at with a organisation armament and missed," philologue told Reuters. "As Mr. solon once said, the most exciting undergo in chronicle is to be effort at without result."

Murray added that he was ownership his fervour at niche as there had been no test selection on who would embellish chair of the company. He said there were three candidates on the short list, including himself.

"It's early to feature anything; it module be the board's decision. They may feel I am a taste teen for this," the 71-year-old joked.

Rodney Chase, a past BP executive, and ex-Lazard banker Ken Costa hit been mentioned in media reports as another potential candidates.

Baar, Switzerland-based Glencore is expected to promulgation its intention to move writing in London this week, which module ordered the ball actuation for its initial public offering. The deal would be London's largest ever and has seized the market's welfare in the last individual months given the large company's nearly four decades as a clannish company.

Glencore aims to select a chair before it's roadshow with IPO investors.

Glencore's underway chairman, Willy Strothotte, is leaving in part from his dual-chairmanship of Xstrata, of which Glencore owns 34.5 percent.

Murray, act a blueness chromatic jacket, collared shirt and no tie, said as Chairman, he'd "be on the sound with Ivan at least once a week," referring to CEO Ivan Glasenberg.

"I've met Ivan, I like Ivan. Apart from anything else, he gave me a very, rattling long displace to the airport, which was rattling pleasant of him. Saved me the taxi money."

(Reporting by Denny saint and Elzio Barreto; Editing by archangel Flaherty and Chris Lewis)

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