Manny Weiss
Manny Weiss is the CEO of Marylebone Diversified LLP, a commodities trading advisor in the base metals business, London Metals Exchange futures and options market-making and brokerage.[1]
Early life
Weiss was born in Brooklyn, New York.[2]
Education
Weiss has an MA from the City University of New York.[1]
Henry Jackson
Weiss was a volunteer for US Senator Henry Jackson.[2] He worked intensely on getting the Jackson-Vanik Amendment though Congress in 1973.[3]
Philipp Brothers
Weiss worked at Philipp Brothers early in his career.[2]
Marc Rich & Co.
Weiss was head of aluminum trading at Marc Rich & Co..[1]
Fortune reported in 1988:
- Now in his 30s, Weiss is a close friend and protege of Pinky Green. It was Weiss who did the firm's first metals deal, shortly after joining Marc Rich in 1975 as a teenage messenger in London. That year, while his boss vacationed, Weiss took charge of a telex from an East bloc country requesting zinc. He arranged the shipment, generating a fat profit.[4]
In the mid-1980s, Weiss spearheaded a strategy by which Rich affiliate Clarendon Ltd paid US smelters to process cheap Jamaican alumina during a glut in the market, establishing contractual arrangements which proved immensely profitable once the market recovered.[4]
Weiss later lost at least $25 million by shorting aluminum when the price dipped after the 1987 stock market crash only to recover the following year.[4]
He left the company in 1992.[2]
He subsequently founded Manro Haydan.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Advisors, Gateway Capital Group, accessed 24 october 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Weiss slated to retire as managing director of Marc Rich division. (Manny Weiss, Marc Rich and Company AG), American Metal Market, 8 July 1992, archived at Highbeam Research.
- ↑ Robert Gordon Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2011, p.268.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 WHY MARC RICH IS RICHER THAN EVER The U.S. is offering a six-figure bounty for his capture, but that's just pocket money to the fugitive commodities trader who is nearing billionaire status in Europe., Fortune, 1 August 1988.
