| Revision as of 03:34, 11 August 2006 editJ araneo (talk | contribs)145 editsm reverted vandalism edits by barkleyparamus and reverted back to last edit by yanksox← Previous edit | Revision as of 13:28, 11 August 2006 edit undoBarkleyparamus (talk | contribs)35 editsNo edit summaryNext edit → | ||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
| He has been profiled in various media venues including ], ] and ], and is a frequent public speaker. | He has been profiled in various media venues including ], ] and ], and is a frequent public speaker. | ||
| I am not "vandalising Omar's wiki page". | |||
| I am just adding some valuable information about him. | |||
| I feel it is my duty to inform people about my past business experiences with Mr. Amanat and his companies Market XT and Tradescape. | |||
| For any questions, I can be reached at barkleyparamus@yahoo.com''' | |||
| Myself and 39 other traders worked for Market XT under Omar. He gave us promissory notes for profits made. 4 years later, we still haven't been paid. | |||
| I am owed close to $30,000. Market XT (of which Omar was CEO), owes the 40 traders a total of 1.4 million dollars. | |||
Revision as of 13:28, 11 August 2006
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. He began his entrepeneurial 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, the predecessor of CyberTrader, Inc., which was acquired by Charles Schwab in February 2000 for $488 million. Most recently he was the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of Tradescape Corporation, a next-generation brokerage and technology firm for professional investors, that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume and was the largest electronic brokerage firm in the United States by trading volume in 2002 when he sold to E*Trade for $280 million, becoming one of E*Trade's largest shareholders. Tradescape was named as one of the "Top 50 Private Companies" in the United States by Red Herring Magazine in 2001.
Amanat attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business where he is part of the Wharton School's Entrepeneur in Residence (EIR) 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, Trustee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org , is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations www.cfr.org and was recently the Vice Chair of the Acumen Fund www.acumenfund.org which was named one of the "5 Charities changing the face of Global Philanthropy" by Barron's.
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.
I am not "vandalising Omar's wiki page". I am just adding some valuable information about him.
I feel it is my duty to inform people about my past business experiences with Mr. Amanat and his companies Market XT and Tradescape.
For any questions, I can be reached at barkleyparamus@yahoo.com
Myself and 39 other traders worked for Market XT under Omar. He gave us promissory notes for profits made. 4 years later, we still haven't been paid. I am owed close to $30,000. Market XT (of which Omar was CEO), owes the 40 traders a total of 1.4 million dollars.