Gary Winnick

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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Mar 28 2011

A Contender Elbows In

A FEW weeks ago, Craig Susser, the former manager of the legendary Hollywood restaurant Dan Tana’s, interrupted a morning of paperwork to take a call from one of its regulars, the three-time Stanley Cup champion Junior Langlois.



One might also expect Dan Tana, who is 75, to be upset that his ex-employee — in another ritual of the restaurant business — rallied investors for his new place, including the billionaire Gary Winnick and the producer Jerry Weintraub, from within Dan Tana’s ranks. Mr. Susser, 45, said he’d been led to believe he was the heir apparent to Mr. Tana, and was taken aback when Mr. Tana sold his place to a friend, Sonja Perencevic, in 2009.

(Read more via The New York Times.)

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