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]
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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]
Michael Gove
In October 2011, the Telegraph reported that Michael Gove's private office had received a £5,000 donation from Manrows, a company of which Weiss was the only director.[5]
Benjamin Netanyahu
Weiss' name appeared on a list dubbed Netanyahu's Millionaires compiled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and team to map out potential donors.
Affiliations
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation - Board of Governers.[6]
- Jewish Human Rights Watch - founder[7]
Connections
- Moshe Weiss - brother
- Dean Godson's biography of David Trimble includes a brief reference to 'the ever-bountiful and inspirational Manny Weiss and his family' in the acknowledgements.[8]
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.
- ↑ Holly Watt, Heidi Blake, Gove raised £30,000 in private donations from City financiers; Cash was secured 'to support Education Secretary's work as an MP, Daily Telegraph, 21 October 2011.
- ↑ Henry M. Jackson Foundation Board of Governors, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, accessed 24 October 2013.
- ↑ Josh Jackman, Poverty charity’s boycott is like Nazi Germany, says new group, Jewish Chronicle, 19 February 2015
- ↑ Dean Godson, Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Collins, 2004, p.xx.
