Highly Respected Industry Specialist Malcolm Berber joins RM Sotheby’s as a Full-Time Senior Consultant

With over 50 years of industry experience, Malcolm Barber is a giant of the collector car industry, having held senior global roles within leading auction houses

• After a 30-year hiatus, Barber returns to Sotheby’s, some 53 years after he first joined the business, when he rose to the role of Head of the International Car Department and Managing Director of Operations at Sotheby’s salesroom in Amsterdam
• During that period, he sold the first Ferrari 250 GTO to be sold at auction for a then world-record price, as well as conducting the first ever collector car auction in Monaco
• Barber has been Managing Director of The Bonhams Group and Group CEO, Co-Chairman of Bonhams and more recently as CEO of Bonhams Asia
• Further information on all of RM Sotheby’s specialist teams can be found at rmsothebys.com

LONDON, ENGLAND – February 27, 2024 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – RM Sotheby’s is delighted to announce that Malcolm Barber has joined the business on a full-time basis as a senior consultant, providing his extensive expertise across global operations.

Malcolm is a well-known character throughout the industry, with an unrivalled five-decade career which has seen him lead businesses, achieve world-firsts and world records, and conduct some of the most important auctions of fine art and classic motor cars across the globe. He is, without a doubt, one of the most recognised and highly respected personalities within the collector car market.

In many respects, today’s announcement is something of a home-coming for Malcolm. His career began when he joined Sotheby’s in 1970, after which he joined the Car department in 1975 and, in 1980, was appointed Department Director. In 1986, he became the first auctioneer to organise a car sale in Monaco, and, two years later, he assumed the roles of Head of the International Car Department and Managing Director of Operations at Sotheby’s salesroom in Amsterdam. In 1995, Barber left Sotheby’s to join Brooks Auctioneers as Group Managing Director before becoming Managing Director of Bonhams in 2000. He was CEO of Bonhams and Butterfields USA from 2003, running the general and fine art auction business as well as Motor Cars in the USA, before returning to the UK in 2015 as Co-Chairman alongside Robert Brooks, and then CEO Asia from 2020 to 2022.

A respected auctioneer, he has led auctions across the globe, achieving many record-breaking successes. Among many career highlights, Malcolm sold…