Summary
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 career at Datek Online in 1996, which was sold (after Amanat left) to Ameritrade for $1.3 billion. He left Datek to co-design the trading platform CyberTrader, which Philip Berber sold to Charles Schwab in 2000 (after Amanat left) for $488 million. He then became the founder of Tradescape Corporation, a next-generation brokerage firm that processed over 10% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume when he sold it to E*Trade for consideration worth $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.
He was profiled as "the most powerful person in Hollywood you've never heard of" by The Wrap. He co-founded Groundswell Productions and became a highly influential shareholder of Summit Entertainment via a 20% stake in Peak Group Holdings LLC. Summit produced and distributed the "Twilight Saga," and "Hurt Locker." Peak sold Summit to Lions Gate for total consideration worth $912.5 million in 2012.
On February 7th 2014, Amanat's new company which he founded, Peak Hotels & Resorts Group Ltd purchased luxury hotel chain Amanresorts for $358 million.
Amanat attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business; and "Entrepreneur in Residence" (EIR) faculty program. He has sat boards including the Board of Trustees for Human Rights Watch, Malaria No More, the Harlem Youth Development Foundation, was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Trustee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and was Vice Chairman of the Acumen Fund, named one of "5 Charities changing the face of Global Philanthropy" by Barron's.
Specialties: Founder of multiple financial service, tech and media companies. Venture Capitalist and PE firm owner.
