User talk:Ozi Amanat

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Ozi Amanat – Harvard University Graduate talks about the importance of helping others, his respect for his family and his new career.

The Harvard University graduate focuses on the building of financial bridges to synergize good intentions with investing assets to benefit society. Ozi Amanat is a seasoned successful fund manager who helped his family build a financial trading and technology company named as one of the top 50 companies in the United States by Red Herring Magazine. For the past decade Mr. Amanat has focused on managing assets trading stocks, bonds, futures and global securities. Applying his business savvy to this work, he has succeeded in making astounding profits for both himself and his clients. Mr. Amanat committed himself to donating half of his trading profits to charitable causes. Because of his proven track record, as well as his humanitarian goals, he has been able to attract investors and philanthropists to his financial workings, simultaneously improving and enriching communities while making a great return on their capital. He believes in a simple philosophy: "To live is to add value to society, whether it is politics, medicine, law or business; the nature of the world dictates harmony and self worth in the building of bridges and the helping of those in need. This is at the heart of the matter of life. Managing money and turning it into huge profits for good people works its way back into society, making the world a better place."

Synergized businesses with brother Omar Amanat a U.S. businessman and entrepreneur. Named one of Wall Street's "Top Ten Most Influential Technologists" Mr Amanat was a pioneer in the electronic brokerage industry.^[1] He began his entrepreneurial career at Datek Online, one of the pioneers in online brokerage services which was sold to Ameritrade for $1.3 billion. He left Datek to co-found CyberBlock and co-designed the trading platform CyberTrader, which was acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000 for $488 million.^[2]

Most recently he was the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of Tradescape Corporation, a next-generation brokerage and technology firm that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was one of the largest electronic brokerage firms in the United States (by trading volume) in 2002 when he sold it to E*Trade for consideration worth $280 million, becoming E*Trade's largest shareholder.^[3] Tradescape was named as one of the "Top 50 Private Companies" in the United States by Red Herring Magazine.^[4]

Amanat attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business where he is part of the Wharton School's Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) faculty program. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Albert P. Einstein Technology award for outstanding corporate citizenship and sits on numerous boards including the Board of Trustees for the Harlem Youth Development Foundation, Human Rights Watch, is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Trustee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and was recently the Vice Chairman of the Acumen Fund, which was named one of the "5 Charities changing the face of Global Philanthropy" by Barron's. ^[5]

Amanat recently began to explore using the power of film to achieve social change and co-founded a $200 million feature film company with a mission to "make films that will change the world" and also helped to create and is a founding board member of a $1 billion new Hollywood studio/production and distribution venture that produces and distributes 12 Hollywood feature films per year.

He has been profiled in various media venues including Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and is a frequent public speaker. ^[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Amanat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Osman_Amanat