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About Omar Amanat
For his innumerable contributions to the electronic brokerage industry, Omar Amanat was named one of Wall Street’s “Top 10 Most Influential Technologists” by Fortune Magazine. This title is fitting, since Mr. Amanat is responsible for several important developments and has proven himself a savvy businessman and innovator in numerous arenas.
After honing his business skills at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business, Mr. Amanat worked with Philip Berber, the founder of CyberTrader, to develop a trading platform that was eventually bought by Charles Schwab for $488 million. He began his career at Datek Online, which was sold for $1.3 billion to Ameritrade. Mr. Amanat then went on to found his own company, Tradescape, which was the first in the industry to directly connect investors with all nine Electronic Communications Networks and other stock exchanges. Tradescape processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was named one of the top 50 privately owned companies in the United States. In 2002, Mr. Amanat sold Tradescape to the financial services company E*Trade for $280 million, making him by far their largest shareholder.
Omar Amanat has also made recent advancement as a film and television financier. Since surviving the crash of the World Trade Center and observing the world post-9/11, he has been committed to the ways in which film and television can create social change and global understanding. He was the initial financier for Bridges TV, the first American TV station dedicated to building bridges between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. He has also founded several film production/distribution companies, which will finance over 20 feature films in the next five years. He is also part of a majority partnership and a board member of a new $1 billion Hollywood production and distribution studio.
A genuine philanthropist, Mr. Amanat has engaged in numerous activities as both a businessman and public speaker. He served as Vice Chairman of the Board for the Acumen Fund, an international capital fund for the poor that has been described as one of five charities changing the face of global philanthropy. He is a board member of the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, and has extensive involvement with international organizations including the Human Rights Watch and Malaria No More. Mr. Amanat is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle.
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