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Who is Howard Lutnick?

Lutnick, 64, is a billionaire known to be relentless in business. The son of a history teacher and a plastic artist, he grew up in a Jewed Jewish home in New York, and graduated from Economics at HaTaFord College in 1983.

Before being appointed Secretary of Commerce, Lutnick commanded the financial and investment bank singer Fitzgerald. He left the business direction for his children by joining the Trump administration.

Lutnick entered the company shortly after finishing college and soon became a pupil of the president, B. Gerald Singer. Singer and Lutnick met at their first job after graduation as a exchange rate broker at Nonan, Astley & Pierce, and the businessman saw potential in the young man.

In 1996, when singer was already sick, Lutnick went to court to determine the succession and prevent the company from moving to the businessman’s family-becoming president. At the head of singer Fitzgerald, Lutnick became an “influential figure of Wall Street,” according to Time magazine, and accumulated an estimated net equity of more than $ 2 billion ($ 10.6 billion).

Five years later, the current secretary lost his brother Gary and two thirds of his bank employees in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The firm had an office at the World Trade Center at the time and was hit directly by the tragedy. Therefore, he and the singer Fitzgerald became a symbol of American resilience.