Gary Winnick is an international financier and philanthropist with a global investment career spanning more than three decades. Gary Winnick is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Capital Group, a diversified private investment firm founded in 1985.
Pacific Capital Group is involved with private equity, restructuring and has invested in a select group of industries, such as material science, health care, real estate and telecommunications. He is also Chairman and Founder of advanced concrete technology company iCrete, LLC.
In 2006, Gary Winnick, concerned about issues of global warming and environmental change, created a new “green” company – iCrete. iCrete high-performance, low-impact advanced concrete technology is being used to build the Freedom Tower at One World Trade Center in New York City. Additional projects include Beekman Tower, designed by Frank Gehry, Eleven Times Square, and the Revel Casino in Atlantic City.
Gary Winnick serves on several nonprofit boards, including The Museum of Modern Art , The Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Hillel International. In 2001, UCLA’S Dashew International Center presented Mr. Winnick with the 2001 Jacoby International Award. That same year, he was awarded the Humanitarian Laureate Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In 2004, he received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University.
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In 1996 a man named Lod Cook called and asked to see me. I couldn’t imagine what he wanted to talk about but I knew very well who he was. Whenever a President of the United States – Democrat or Republican – visited Los Angeles, it was Lod they wanted to see first. Queen Elizabeth bestowed a knighthood…
