Omar Amanat

Current

• Founder, CEO at Amanat Capital

Past

• Founder at Tradescape
• Co-designer at CyberTrader

Education

• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Connections

54 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Omar Amanat’s Summary

wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Amanat

Omar S. Amanat is 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-design the trading platform CyberTrader, which was acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000 for $488 million. [2] Most recently he was the founder of Tradescape Corporation, a next-generation brokerage firm that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was 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 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]

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]

Most recently, he 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 incuding the recent Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Babel.

Omar Amanat’s Specialties:

Founder of numerous financial service and media companies.

Omar Amanat’s Experience

• Founder, CEO

  Amanat Capital

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

  January 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  Venture Capital. Private Equity and Film Finance. Offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Dubai

• Founder

  Tradescape

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  April 1997 — June 2002 (5 years 3 months)

  Founded company, grew to largest daytrading firm in US sold to E*Trade April 2002 for $280 million.

• Co-designer

  CyberTrader

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SCHW; Financial Services industry)

  March 1996 — January 1997 (11 months)

  co-designed the trading platform Cybertrader which sold to Charles Schwab for $488 million on January 19th 2000.

Omar Amanat’s Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  1992 — 1995

• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

  1991 — 1995

Omar Amanat’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch