|
Gary A. Tanaka (born June 23, 1943, in Hunt, Idaho) is a Japanese-American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar. Tanaka was born during World War II in the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho. He graduated from MIT, then earned a PhD degree at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom with a dissertation on the mathematics of the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in a fluid flowing over a solid surface. He lives in London with his wife and two children in a house which was once Dwight D. Eisenhower's wartime headquarters. Tanaka has two adult sons, Mark Tanaka, who is also a fund manager, most recently of Sanno Point Capital Management and Michael Tanaka, a notable businessman based in the UK. Tanaka was perhaps best known for his donation of £27m to Imperial College, which resulted in construction of the Tanaka Building in 2004, designed by the international architecture, planning and design studio Foster and Partners. The building houses Imperial College Business School, and combines the business school's facilities with a new front entrance for the College. In August 2008, the Business School at Imperial College London was renamed from "Tanaka Business School" to "Imperial College Business School" because the old name did not strongly emphasise its association with the College. The school's accommodation was subsequently named "the Tanaka Building".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_20-8-2008-11-23-23 )〕 An alternative speculation is that the college changed the name of the school to distance itself from Tanaka's fraudulent activities.〔(London Student, "Tanaka No More" (September 15, 2008) )〕 ==Fraud trial== Tanaka was tried in 2008 in New York for a $20m fraud against customers of the Amerindo investment company he ran with Alberto Vilar. In November 2008 he was found guilty of conspiracy, securities fraud and investment adviser fraud, ()〔(''Los Angeles Times'' (September 30, 2008) )〕 and he was sentenced to five years in jail in early 2010.〔http://live.cgcu.net/news/2073〕 The case is still under appeal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary A. Tanaka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|