F. Helmut Weymar
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| F. Helmut Weymar | |
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| Occupation | Advisory Board |
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| Employer | Witherspoon Asset Management |
| Location | Princeton, NJ |
| Website | [1] |
F. Helmut Weymar is a member of the advisory board for Witherspoon Asset Managment. He is most well known for being the co-founder, former chairman and chief executive officer of Commodities Corp.
He is a founding member, inducted in 2005, of the Futures Industry Association's Futures Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 to commemorate outstanding contributions to the global futures and options community.[1]
Biography[edit]
Weymar got his start as manager of commodity economics at Nabisco, advising how to buy cocoa and other commodities.After four years there, he went off to found Commodities Corp. in 1969. It achieved success by investing its capital in the futures markets, and by being one of the first firms to apply complex math techniques to trading, a practice that is still used today. He has also been on the board and executive committee of National Futures Association and of the Futures Industry Association. [2]
Education[edit]
Weymar graduated from MIT in 1958 with degrees in business and engineering administration. He also received his Ph.D. in economics in 1965. His doctoral dissertation, "Dynamics of the World Cocoa Market," was published by MIT press in 1968 and earned the American Agricultural Economic Association’s award for the best published research that year.
References[edit]
- ↑ Futures Hall of Fame. FIA.
- ↑ id=120 Advisory Board, Witherspoon Asset Management. Witherspoon Asset Management.