Asher Barry Edelman (born 1939) is an American financier. He graduated from Bard College, went to work for Halle and Stieglitz and became the youngest (24 yrs old) New York Stock Exchange approved office manager. He founded Mack, Bushnell & Edelman, and served as CEO. Edelman’s Wall Street businesses included investment banking, money management, and derivatives trading. In 1988, he taught a course called "Corporate Raiding – The Art of War" at Columbia Business School, using as his textbook Sun Tzu's The Art of War. The character of Gordon Gekko in Wall Street was based in part on Edelman.

In 1988, he moved to Switzerland and founded a contemporary art museum. In 2002, he created the company Edelman Arts Inc, a dealer in Impressionism through Post War art, which also represents contemporary artists. Edelman is the founder and president of ArtAssure Ltd., an art finance firm founded in 2010, which places art at auction, lends, purchases and guarantees the price of art at auction.