Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Howard W. Lutnick

Howard W. Lutnick is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., one of the world’s leading financial services firms.  Cantor’s business portfolio includes institutional equity and fixed income sales and trading, investment banking, private equity, and several innovative ventures and initiatives including CantorCO2e, Cantor Gaming, Cantor LifeMarkets, and Cantor Index among others.
 
Mr. Lutnick also is Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of BGC Partners, Inc., one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing inter-dealer brokers of financial instruments for global wholesale markets, counting the world’s top banks and investment banks as its customers. He also served as Chairman, President and CEO of eSpeed, Inc., a leader in electronic financial marketplaces and trading technology operating the world’s largest government bond markets, which merged with BGC in 2008.
In addition to his leadership of Cantor's businesses, Mr. Lutnick guided the rebuilding of the firm following the devastating September 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 658 of the company’s 960 New York-based employees. Through initiatives Mr. Lutnick mobilized, over $180 million has been provided to help the families of the firm’s lost colleagues. He served as an advocate for the families, hosting "town hall meetings" with family members and working with federal, state and local authorities on the families' behalf.

Mr. Lutnick graduated from Haverford College in 1983 with a degree in economics and joined Cantor Fitzgerald the same year.  He was named President and CEO in 1991 and Chairman in 1996.

He is a member of the Haverford College Board of Managers, Board of Directors of the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at Rockefeller University, Executive Committee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, Board of Directors of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, and Board of Trustees of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum Foundation.  He received the Department of the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honor granted by the Navy to non-military personnel.