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Omar Amanat

About Omar Amanat

Omar Amanat is a noted technologist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and entertainment financier. By age 29, he had experienced more than most people do in a lifetime. He survived the World Trade Center crash and the dot-com crash and went on to sell his company, Tradescape, for $280 million.

After excelling at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business, Mr. Amanat developed a trading platform prototype with CyberTrader founder Philip Berber. Their platform was acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000 for $488 million. It was then that Mr. Amanat founded his own company, Tradescape, the first of its kind to provide investors a direct connection to stock exchange networks. Before its sale in 2002, the Tradescape Corporation was processing over 10% of NASDAQ’s daily trading volume and named one of the top 50 private companies in the United States.

For his part in developing several important innovations in the electronic brokerage industry, Mr. Amanat was named one of Wall Street’s “Top 10 Most Influential Technologists” by Fortune Magazine. However, his contributions extend beyond technology and shrewd business know-how. As a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle, he actively serves as a board member for the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the Rubin Museum of Art (NY). He is on the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch and Malaria No More. Mr. Amanat also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Acumen Fund, a progressive capital fund for the poor that was described by Barron's as one of the five charities changing the face of global philanthropy.

Mr. Amanat is also making important developments in media, most notably as the premier financier for Bridges TV, the first American station dedicated to social empathy between Muslim and non-Muslim worlds. He has also founded and financed several production and distribution companies, with plans to create over twenty feature films in the next five years. He is also part of a majority partnership with a new $1 billion Hollywood production studio. For these reasons and more, Omar Amanat is a significant agent of technological and social evolution.