Manny Weiss

Manny Weiss (Emmanuel Weiss) is the CEO of Marylebone Diversified LLP, a commodities trading advisor in the base metals business, London Metals Exchange futures and options market-making and brokerage.Advisors, Gateway Capital Group, accessed 24 october 2013.
==Early life==
Weiss was born in Brooklyn, New York.Weiss slated to retire as managing director of Marc Rich division. (Manny Weiss, Marc Rich and Company AG), American Metal Market, 8 July 1992, archived at Highbeam Research.
==Education==
Weiss has an MA from the City University of New York.Advisors, Gateway Capital Group, accessed 24 october 2013.
==Henry Jackson==
Weiss was a volunteer for US Senator Henry Jackson.Weiss slated to retire as managing director of Marc Rich division. (Manny Weiss, Marc Rich and Company AG), American Metal Market, 8 July 1992, archived at Highbeam Research. He worked intensely on getting the Jackson-Vanik Amendment though Congress in 1973.Robert Gordon Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, University of Washington Press, 2011, p.268.
==Philipp Brothers==
Weiss worked at Philipp Brothers early in his career.Weiss slated to retire as managing director of Marc Rich division. (Manny Weiss, Marc Rich and Company AG), American Metal Market, 8 July 1992, archived at Highbeam Research.
==Marc Rich & Co.==
Weiss was head of aluminum trading at Marc Rich & Co.Advisors, Gateway Capital Group, accessed 24 october 2013. 
Fortune reported in 1988:
::Now in his 30s, Weiss is a close friend and protege of Pinky Green. It was Weiss who did the firm's first metals deal, shortly after joining Marc Rich in 1975 as a teenage messenger in London. That year, while his boss vacationed, Weiss took charge of a telex from an East bloc country requesting zinc. He arranged the shipment, generating a fat profit.WHY MARC RICH IS RICHER THAN EVER The U.S. is offering a six-figure bounty for his capture, but that's just pocket money to the fugitive commodities trader who is nearing billionaire status in Europe., Fortune, 1 August 1988. 
In the mid-1980s, Weiss spearheaded a strategy by which Rich affiliate Clarendon Ltd paid US smelters to process cheap Jamaican alumina during a glut in the market, establishing contractual arrangements which proved immensely profitable once the market recovered.WHY MARC RICH IS RICHER THAN EVER The U.S. is offering a six-figure bounty for his capture, but that's just pocket money to the fugitive commodities trader who is nearing billionaire status in Europe., Fortune, 1 August 1988. 
Weiss later lost at least $25 million by shorting aluminum when the price dipped after the 1987 stock market crash only to recover the following year.WHY MARC RICH IS RICHER THAN EVER The U.S. is offering a six-figure bounty for his capture, but that's just pocket money to the fugitive commodities trader who is nearing billionaire status in Europe., Fortune, 1 August 1988.
He left the company in 1992.Weiss slated to retire as managing director of Marc Rich division. (Manny Weiss, Marc Rich and Company AG), American Metal Market, 8 July 1992, archived at Highbeam Research.
He subsequently founded Manro Haydan.Advisors, Gateway Capital Group, accessed 24 october 2013.
==Michael Gove==
In October 2011, the Telegraph reported that Michael Gove's private office had received a £5,000 donation from Manrows, a company of which Weiss was the only director.Holly Watt, Heidi Blake, Gove raised £30,000 in private donations from City financiers; Cash was secured 'to support Education Secretary's work as an MP, Daily Telegraph, 21 October 2011.
==Benjamin Netanyahu==
Weiss' name appeared on a list dubbed Netanyahu's Millionaires compiled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and team to map out potential donors.
==Affiliations==
*Henry M. Jackson Foundation - Board of Governers.Henry M. Jackson Foundation Board of Governors, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, accessed 24 October 2013.
*Jewish Human Rights Watch - founderJosh Jackman, Poverty charity’s boycott is like Nazi Germany, says new group, Jewish Chronicle, 19 February 2015
==Connections==
*Moshe Weiss - brother
*Dean Godson's biography of David Trimble includes a brief reference to 'the ever-bountiful and inspirational Manny Weiss and his family' in the acknowledgements.Dean Godson, Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, Harper Collins, 2004, p.xx.
==Notes==
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