Chairman, Winnick & Co.

Winnick founded Winnick & Co. in 1985. The company works with entrepreneurs and early-stage businesses in industries such as sports, digital media, technology, financial services, health care and real estate. Winnick & Co. is the founder and provider of seed capital to iCrete, which provides real-time information systems that help ready-mixed concrete producers generate insights to improve business processes. Winnick & Co. was also a founder, largest shareholder and principal investor in Global Crossing. The company raised more than $20 billion to build the first integrated fiber optic network, a 130,000-mile global IP-based system that connected continents and countries globally.

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