George Van Amson

George Van Amson Managing Director, Morgan Stanley.

He "does not speak Spanish. But he is fluent in the heady language of finance. And his facility has made the Goldman, Sachs & Co. senior international equities trader a vital point guard in one of the world's hottest capital markets: Latin America. In fact, last year Van Amson, 40, was crucial to several of his firm's most significant international transactions as changing economic and political forces made the Latin American market a primary target for institutional and private investors. The deals include Goldman Sachs' coordination of a $2.2 billion global secondary offering for Telefonos de Mexico, one of the largest international deals of the year.

Van Amson also was instrumental in an $863 million global equity offering for Grupo Televisa, the second-largest equity offering and the largest initial public offering ever for a Mexican company. Last March, he participated in a stock issue of 3.6 million shares for Sears, Roebuck and Co. of Mexico. The result: Goldman Sachs ranks as the leader for underwriting Latin American issues...

"Goldman Sachs' first and only African-American partner says that he has built his career over the last two decades by spending an enormous amount of energy in generating business and executing deals."


 * Emeriti Trustee, Columbia University

In 1986 he married Wendy Alicia Tempro.