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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Howard W. Lutnick is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., one of the world’s leading financial services firms. A preeminent capital markets investment bank, Cantor is recognized for its strengths in the equity and fixed income capital markets, its global distribution model, and for its expanding presence as the leading independent middle market investment bank. Serving the marketplace with investment and merchant banking services including Cantor Commercial Real Estate and Cantor Prime Services, Cantor's new businesses also include gaming technology innovator Cantor Gaming, e-commerce and other ventures. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is one of 22 primary dealers authorized to trade U.S. government securities with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Mr. Lutnick also is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BGC Partners, Inc., a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial markets. BGC serves the world’s leading banks and investment banks in brokering credit, rates, foreign exchange, equities, and other asset classes. Newmark Knight Frank, a leading U.S. commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm serving corporate and instutional clients, is now a part of BGC. Mr. Lutnick earlier 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.
Mr. Lutnick guided the rebuilding of Cantor following the devastating September 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 658 of the firm’s 960 New York-based employees. Since then, Cantor has provided over $180 million to help the families of the firm’s colleagues who perished. Each year on their annual Charity Day, Cantor’s and BGC donate their entire global revenues to charitable causes, commemorating their employees who perished on 9/11 by reaching out to help others.
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 boards of Haverford College, the Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at Rockefeller University, Intrepid Museum Foundation, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum Foundation, and The Partnership for New York City. Mr. Lutnick received the Department of the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honor granted by the Navy to non-military personnel. Mr. Lutnick and his wife Allison have four children.
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