Management Team

Mr. Lutnick oversaw the separation of BGC Partners from Cantor Fitzgerald in 2004.  Since then, BGC has been one of the 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.

Several innovative businesses and technologies have been developed under Mr. Lutnick’s leadership, including eSpeed, a leading electronic marketplace and trading technology platform for the world's capital markets. Spun off from Cantor in an initial public offering in 1999, eSpeed merged with BGC in April 2008 to form BGC Partners Inc., a world-class provider of voice and electronic brokerage services in the global marketplace.

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 of Cantor Fitzgerald 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.

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Formerly a senior executive of Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed, he has had significant experience building financial businesses. Mr. Amaitis played a key role in the recovery of Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed after the devastation on September 11, 2001 and in the re-building of its voice brokerage business, which became BGC and was separated from Cantor Fitzgerald in 2004.
After nearly two decades in the fixed income market, Mr. Amaitis joined Cantor Fitzgerald in New York in 1995 as Senior Managing Director and moved to London in 1996 to oversee European operations. He drove the rapid and successful expansion of Cantor Fitzgerald International into a wide range of businesses - among them interest rate derivatives, cross currency trading and basis trading. He also secured the firm's membership in a variety of exchanges and clearing houses, all aimed at providing a better service to the marketplace.

When Cantor Fitzgerald spun off its trading technology company, eSpeed in an initial public offering in December 1999, Mr. Amaitis became Executive Managing Director of eSpeed's international operations. Mr. Amaitis served as eSpeed's Vice Chairman, until its merger with BGC Partners in 2008.

Mr. Amaitis is a strong supporter of various charities around the world and is actively involved with a number of fund raising events. He has focused his energies on raising money for, and awareness of, children’s charities for disabled and disadvantaged children.
In the UK, Mr. Amaitis recently became a Trustee on the Board of the St. Paul’s Cathedral Foundation, a charity that raises funds for, and make grants to, the Cathedral for its maintenance, restoration, repair and conservation and the furtherance of its educational and musical work.

In the United States, he is on the board of the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a charity devoted to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis, and has involved the Wall Street community in the Foundation's fund raising events. Mr. Amaitis is also an ambassador for The Shane Warne Foundation in Australia, which distributes monies to a number of registered charities worldwide.

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Mr. Lynn began his career in capital markets in 1980 when he joined Paul E Schweder Miller & Co. as a UK Equity dealer. He was then appointed Associate Director in charge of broking at Purcell Graham Incorporated. In 1989 he joined Cantor Fitzgerald as a Bund broker, moving up to lead the Eurobond desk before assuming his first senior management role. 

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Prior to its merger with BGC, Mr. Merkel was also a Director of eSpeed, and before this was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of eSpeed from June 1999. Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Merkel was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Goldman Sachs & Co., dedicated to the J. Aron Division. He began his career at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison.

Mr. Merkel graduated with a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received his law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law.

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Mr. Windeatt has over a decade of experience in financial markets and has been responsible for business management at BGC since 2001. He began his career in the financial markets at United Assurance which was followed by a move to Cantor Fitzgerald in 1997 where he held various positions in financial management. After the events of 11th September 2001, he was transferred to the front office, reporting to Shaun Lynn and engaging in the process of helping to rebuild the business. More recently, Mr. Windeatt has been a key member of the management team for Europe and Asia in helping to rapidly grow the business organically and through acquisition and now oversees global front office business operations.

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Mr. West brings to BGC over 25 years of experience in the global financial markets, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Here Mr. West was responsible for financial management, controllership, and reporting at Thomas Weisel. Earlier, he served as Global Controller and Managing Director of Barclays Global Investors and in a number of increasingly senior positions at Salomon Smith Barney, including Controller of the firm's global equity business unit. Prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney, Mr. West was a member of the audit staff of Deloitte & Touche LLP, focused on clients in the financial services industry.

Mr. West is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a degree in Business Administration from the Miami University of Ohio.

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Mr. Norton joined BGC in May 2004. His key role is to ensure BGC's clients and brokers have access to the best technical expertise and support within the global financial marketplace.

He began his career in financial markets in 1984, trading Eurobonds for Smith Barney, Harris Upham, followed by 11 years at Cantor Fitzgerald, managing businesses that broker European Government Bonds. His next move was to Head of Sales for eSpeed International in London, where he oversaw the introduction of eSpeed to the European financial markets.

In 1999 he became Global Head of Sales at eSpeed, where he drove the sales effort for eSpeed's Software Solutions and eSpeed's online initiatives and added new products to the eSpeed electronic trading platform.

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Prior to BGC Ms. Tierney was Chief Information Officer of eSpeed, having joined the company in February 2007. Upon the merger of eSpeed with BGC, in April 2008, she joined the management team of BGC Partners Inc.

Ms. Tierney previously held global product development, infrastructure, client service and operations management positions at Bloomberg, reporting directly to the CEO. She was responsible for software development of systems, applications, and the technology platform of Bloomberg television, radio, and multi-media services. Ms. Tierney received a B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering and a master’s in information systems from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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He is heavily involved in the expansion of various product areas including interest rate swaps, interest rate options, inflation swaps and cross currency swaps.

Mr. Clark joined Harlow Ueda Savage (which became Euro Brokers Ltd) in 1986, where he rose quickly through the ranks to become manager. After a five year spell between 1989 and 1994 at Marshalls where he rose to Director of the interest rate division, Mr. Clark returned to Euro Brokers in 1994 as Managing Director of Euro Brokers Finacor and became CEO of Euro Brokers and a Director of Maxcor, the NASDAQ listed company, taking on responsibility for the running of all operations in Europe and Asia. He also sat on the board for Euro Brokers' parent company, Maxcor Financial.

In May 2005, he was instrumental in the successful merger of Euro Brokers into BGC, which created one of the largest and fastest expanding inter-dealer brokers in the world.

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Mr. Ruddell has over 20 years financial markets and managerial experience having previously worked for Prebon Yamane, Sanwa International Investment Banking and Kleinwort Benson Investment Banking. Having joined BGC in 2004, Mr. Ruddell currently manages a team of 100 brokers in London.

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Prior to his appointment as Executive Managing Director, North America for BGC, Mr. LaVecchia was Executive Managing Director, Director U.S. Operations for eSpeed, the leading provider of electronic trading technology for the global capital markets. This role entailed responsibility for all of the North American front-office, revenue generating operations.

Mr. LaVecchia has worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and its related businesses for over 15 years, including as Executive Managing Director for Cantor's international operations. Prior to this he was responsible for Cantor Fitzgerald's derivative and foreign exchange businesses in Europe and Asia and served as the liaison between Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed.

Mr. LaVecchia is a supporter of numerous local charities in New York, including the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, which works to help end domestic violence against children in their own homes, the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a charity devoted to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis, the Derek Jeter Turn 2 Foundation, which promotes healthy lifestyles amongst youth, and the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides rehabilitation and support to severely injured service men and women.

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Mr. Reihl served as Senior Audit Manager at Price Waterhouse LLP before serving as a Chief Financial Officer at Maxcor from 1983 to 1997, when he joined the board of directors at Euro Brokers. He was appointed CFO and Treasurer from August 1997 through November 1998 and Chief Operating Officer from November 2001 prior to the merger.

Mr. Reihl is a certified public accountant and received his B.A. degree in accounting from Elizabethtown College in 1974.

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Mr. Campbell joined BGC in January 2005, when he managed the merger, integration and re-branding of Maxcor Financial Group and its subsidiary divisions, which more than doubled the size of BGC's business in New York.

Mr. Campbell's 23 years’ experience in the inter-dealer fixed income broking market includes management and production. Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Campbell was the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of ICAP from 1989 to 2005. Mr. Campbell’s previous experience was as a Government Bond Broker for Garban from 1983 to 1989.

Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Holy Cross College and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.

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Over the span of his career, Mr. Trani has played a leading role in the development and subsequent globalization of the inter-dealer brokerage business, from its early beginnings in voice brokerage through to screen based trading and ultimately to the internet.

Mr. Trani formerly served as Chairman of the Specialty Firms Committee of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. and Chairman of the Corporate Bond Division of the Bond Market Association. A prominent figure in community affairs, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University Hospital as well as a member of the Board of the New York City Police and Firefighters Widows and Orphans Fund. He is also a member of the Cardinal's Committee of the Laity.

Mr. Trani holds both a BS and an MBA from New York University.

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Mr. Aubin began his broking career with Viel-Tradition Group in 1990. After trading futures and options for ten years between London and Paris, he was promoted to run the company's continental European operations, including Finacor Group and listed products worldwide before he joined BGC in 2005. Mr Aubin was instrumental in BGC’s rapid expansion in Continental Europe, including the acquisitions of ETC Pollak in 2005 and Aurel in 2006.

In 2008 Mr. Aubin moved to BGC's New York office as Global Head of Listed Products, with a responsibility to further develop BGC's voice and electronic broking services in listed products including equity derivatives, cash equity, futures and options on futures, and primary structured products.

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Mr. Weinstein is also responsible for the expansion and development of software solutions for eSpeed, one of BGC’s electronic broking brands, an electronic marketplace and trading technology provider for the world's capital markets. As such, he develops strategies to leverage BGC’s global technology infrastructure, portfolio of intellectual property and electronic trading expertise to allow customers to build electronic marketplaces and exchanges, enable real-time auctions, enhance debt issuance and customize trading interfaces.

Before joining Cantor Fitzgerald, he was the founder, president and chief executive officer of ILX Systems, a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation. He also managed a major division of Thomson Financial as president of the Sales and Trading Group.

Prior to founding ILX, he was chief information officer of E.F. Hutton with responsibility for global information systems and telecommunications. In addition, he was founder and chief executive officer of International Brokerage Information Systems, Inc. (IBIS), a subsidiary of the E.F. Hutton Group that provided information systems and services to the financial industry. He has also served as chairman of the SIA (Securities Industry Association) Information Management Committee and on the Advisory Board of SECTOR (Securities Industry Telecommunications Organization).

Mr. Weinstein received his bachelor of arts in philosophy from Columbia College in New York and his master’s in business administration in finance from New York University's Stern Graduate School of Business Administration.
He was the first recipient of the Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award which was presented by the Software and Information Industry Association at the World Financial Information Conference.

Mr. Weinstein has served as a director on the board of the New York Road Runners Foundation, which supports running programs for inner-city school children. An avid athlete, he has completed the New York City Marathon several times and the Westchester Triathlon.

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Mr. Webster has 24 years of capital markets experience in broking and management. He joined BGC in late 2004 from ICAP, where he was CEO for Asia Pacific and Middle East, based in Sydney.

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Mr. Spring has been engaged in inter-dealer broking for over 18 years, attaining the position of Deputy CEO, Asia Pacific for Prebon Yamane in 2000. His experience of working in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore gives him an in-depth understanding of the unique aspects of countries within the region.

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He is President of Aurel and President of ETC Pollak. Mr. Frank began his financial career with Merrill Lynch where he spent 12 years, culminating in his appointment as Managing Director of the Paris institutional branch. He was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns for two years and prior to that, was a Managing Director at BNP Paribas. In 1996, as Managing Partner, Mr. Frank started Aurel and joined the BGC group when Aurel was acquired by it in 2006.

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