Howard William Lutnick (/ ˈlʌtnɪk /; born July 14, 1961 [1]) is an American businessman who is the current United States secretary of commerce and former chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Group. Lutnick succeeded Bernard Gerald Cantor as the head of Cantor Fitzgerald.

Sep 6, 2013 · Howard Lutnick became the media’s go-to talking head in those horrific days following 9/11. He was CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost a staggering 658 employees (including his younger...

Jan 29, 2025 · Cantor Fitzgerald CEO and Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick became visibly emotional at his confirmation hearing Wednesday as he recalled the more than 650 employees — including his...

Sep 11, 2016 · Howard Lutnick is the CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald. His company occupied the 101st to 105th floors of One World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, he lost his brother and 658...

Sep 3, 2011 · Howard W. Lutnick, one of the few at Cantor Fitzgerald to survive the Sept. 11 attacks, has rebuilt his company, and then some.

Sep 9, 2011 · None made it out alive. The firm's CEO, Howard Lutnick, who was not in the office, dedicated his life over the past decade to rebuilding his business with one mission in mind: Helping those...

Sep 4, 2006 · Cantor Fitzgerald is now growing fast, and that's probably because of a tough, hard decision Howard Lutnick took immediately after the attacks: he stopped the pay of all employees, living and...

Lutnick guided the rebuilding of Cantor Fitzgerald following the September 11, 2001 attacks, which claimed the lives of 658 of the firm’s 960 New York–based employees. Since then, Cantor has provided over $180 million to help the families of employees killed on that day.

Nov 22, 2024 · Lutnick, who was made co-chair of Trump’s transition team, raised eyebrows last month after he emerged from a 2.5-hour meeting with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic.

Sep 11, 2011 · Perhaps the only reason Cantor Fitzgerald's chief executive Howard W. Lutnick didn't perish during the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center is thanks to his young son....