Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

 Howard W. Lutnick is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., one of the world’s premier financial services firms. One of a select group of primary dealers authorized to trade with the U.S. Federal Reserve, Cantor’s business portfolio includes institutional equity and fixed income sales and trading, investment banking and prime services, innovative ventures and initiatives in new marketplaces including CantorCO2e, Cantor Gaming, Cantor Insurance Group, and Cantor Exchange among others.

Mr. Lutnick also is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BGC Partners, Inc., one of the largest and fastest-growing inter-dealer brokers in the global capital markets.  BGC serves the world’s leading banks and investment banks in trading credit, rates, foreign exchange, and an array of other financial products.  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.

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 company’s 960 New York-based employees.  In addition to leading the rebuilding of Cantor's businesses under the most difficult of economic, professional and personal circumstances, Mr. Lutnick mobilized a number of initiatives to help the families of the firm's lost colleagues. Since pledging 25 percent of Cantor Fitzgerald's profits until 2006 to benefit the families of the employees who perished September 11, 2001, Cantor has provided over $180 million to help the families of the firm’s lost colleagues.  Each September 11th, 100% of Cantor’s and BGC’s global revenues have been donated to worthy causes, commemorating their employees who perished that day by helping 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, and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum Foundation.  Mr. Lutnick received the Department of the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest honor granted by the Navy to non-military personnel.