Gary Winnick

Gary Winnick is an American financier best known for founding and being Chairman of Global Crossing between 1997 and 2002. He resigned from the company in 2002 just before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. He is a global philanthropist who has funded hospitals, museums, schools and college scholarships. The Winnick Family Foundation has funded scholarships at Stanford University, Cornell University, Brown University, Tufts University and LIU Post, and endowed a faculty position at Columbia University.As of April 1999, Winnick had amassed the fastest billion dollar fortune in history with $4.5 billion in 18 months from a $15 million investment in Global Crossing. He reached the mark faster than Jeff Bezos (4 years), Mark Zuckerberg (4 years) and Bill Gates (12 years).He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Winnick & Company, a Los Angeles-based private investment firm founded in 1985.