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About Omar Amanat
Due to his many accomplishments and industry-spanning contributions, Omar Amanat was named one of Wall Street’s “Top Ten Most Influential Technologists” by Fortune Magazine. By age 29, he had experienced more than many people do in a lifetime, and had already established himself as a frontrunner in the fields of business, technology, and philanthropy. The following accomplishments are mere highlights of a multi-faceted career that continues to prosper.
- Mr. Amanat excelled at the University of Northern Pennsylvania and The Wharton School of Business and began his entrepreneurial career at Datek Online, which was sold to Ameritrade for $1.3 billion.
- He collaborated with Philip Berber, the founder of CyberTrade, to create a trading platform prototype that was quickly acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000 for $488 million.
- Mr. Amanat founded his own electronic brokerage company, Tradescape, which was the first in the industry to provide investors with direct connectivity to stock exchanges.
- Tradescape was named one of the top 50 private companies and became an industry leader, processing over 10% of NASDAQ’s daily trading volume. In 2002, Mr. Amanat sold Tradescape to the financial service company E*Trade for $280 million, making him their largest shareholder to date.
- Omar Amanat survived the crash of the World Trade Center in 2001 and has been dedicated to bridging Muslim and non-Muslim cultures ever since. He was the premier financier for Bridges TV, the first American station with a specific mission to heal international relations through positive media images.
- His interest in media branched into film, and Mr. Amanat is founder or financier for several film production companies, one of which raised $205 million to produce over 20 feature films in the next five years. He is also a board member of a new $1 billion Hollywood production and distribution studio.
- Mr. Amanat is a member of the Gold Philanthropists Circle and participates in many humanitarian and community programs, including board member positions for the Rubin Museum of Art (NY), the Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch and Malaria No More. He has also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of 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.
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