As Chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) from 2001-2004, Mr. Viola's decisive leadership, guidance, and untiring efforts were credited with leading NYMEX's reopening following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. So well just have a nice conversation here. Its a very enjoyable year. You were always very good at mathematics. I was always pretty good at mathematics. You have to study leadership in combat situations. He was a truck driver. My dad hadnt been there since. But our close, most closely contacted the officers that we had most close contact withour instructors and our tactical officers and trainersthey were all Vietnam. Very fascinating, thats a great question. In 2017, a buyer was in contract to buy the home from Viola for $80 million, The Real . Now, my roommate is a person you should interview for this. Mr. Viola, who was recognized in 2021 by Sports Business Journal for his advocacy in diverse and inclusive hiring, is one of four team owners on the NHL's Executive Inclusion Council to combat racism and accelerate diversity. Viola splurged on real estate with stock sale proceeds, buying a beachfront Florida condo and spending $108 million on Arizona's tallest skyscraper. [2] No fake news here. We had a gentleman who was a war hero. It had to be temptingI mean tempting literally, but it had to temptyou had to look at it and think, Wow, Im going to go back, and Im going to go through this rigorous schedule, and theyre going to go off and have fun, and play, and listen to rock and roll, and. And so two or three fundamental challenges then faced the Academy. It was a training, basic training location. REGISTERED AGENTS INC. Vincent Viola, age 86, of Brooklyn passed away Saturday, January 11, 2020. FloridaPanthers.com is the official Web site of the Florida Panthers. They were called, the term was used, Are you cool on honor? And I found this out later on as the scandal evolvedand. Most all of themI dont remember any that wasnt. Viola is a West Point graduate who founded the highly profitable high-frequency trading firm Virtu Financial Inc in 2008, Trump's transition team said in a statement on Monday. Branch of THREE BROTHERS FAMILY OFFICE LLC (New York (US)) Agent Name. Find Vincent Viola's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading online directory for contact information. He took illthis is before his heart attack, though. My management leadership operation, dare I say, capacity, capability, is bounded in the skills around platoon leadership. So Ill give you an example, From the 101st Airborne to the Trading Floor. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is slated to undergo surgery on his throwin elbow Feb. 22 with Dr. Keith Meister performing the procedure. People, soldiers dont judge other soldiers. Vincent Viola and 2 Pierrepont Street (Getty, Google Maps) Tenants at 2 Pierrepont Street, a Brooklyn Heights rental building, filed a lawsuit against . The protection of civil liberties was being focused upon. I think there was my company, A4, and one other company that didnt have anyone in it questioned. Ill neverI was startled, because I thought that this was a monolith, and I quickly realized that every individual cadets interpretation of duty and honor or country started from a very, very different perspective of what those words meant and how they internalized them. Vincent Viola was born August 13, 1933 in Brooklyn, NY. The Delaware attorneys for both sides Jeffrey Gorris for the pension fund and Matthew Stachel for Virtu declined to comment. Well, these drill rolls actually existed, and they were physical lists on paper, and these cadets, many cadets would sit down and just put checks down next to peoples names if they even thought they mightve ever cheated. I had to actually leave Fort Campbell, and I took a compassionate reassignment to Fort Hamilton in New York Cityactually, Fort Dix, and I got assigned to Fort Hamilton. Youre learning your craft because you must learn your craft, and the other thing here is youre executing the tenets of your craft every day. Vincent Viola is the former Chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and is one of the nation's foremost leaders in electronic trading.He is currently the Executive Chairman of Virtu Financial. So one of the things you had to do after Plebe Summer, just to go back, is you had to memorize the drill roll for each class in your company. I cameI was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and a very, very parochial, if not insulated, Italian-American neighborhood. [22][23][24] Viola founded a technology company, Rowan Technology Solutions, to support cadet education in the areas of military history, military science, and leadership. A few had very committed, intellectually grounded reasons for participating in these protests. I was young, but I had this sense like, I want to go there if, when Im 18, I can. But that was probably a bit sort of romantic in my assessment or a bit nostalgic in assessment. You said osmotic, but sort of how didwhat were the core elements that you took away from here that led you to feel that you were a leader, not only in the world of the Army, but out in the civilian world, too, where youve had enormous success, and where you have taken some of what youve learned and applied it to the outside world? He actually commanded the forces during an operation up in the central highlands near the Cambodian and Laos borderit was 197071called Operation Ripcord. And I remember reading an article in the daily news about the landing of the Marines in Vietnam, and even as a young person, sensing that this wasnt as grand a mission set as maybe World War II was. So were you investigatedwas every cadet investigated for their commitment? Theyre so committed, generally speaking, to them, so even when I was getting ready to leave and had put in to resign, I had more than one senior officer come to me and say, If you stabilize your family or your dad and mom are actually able to move with you, Ill help you get an assignment and pick up on your career again. It was just amazingyou always feel as though youre part of the Army. And you have more privileges than youve ever had. You only put your minimum, five years and gone. The case is in Wilmington, DEs Chancery Court before Vice Chancellor Paul Fioravanti Jr. At the end of January, the court was notified that both sides are engaging on a schedule with the next update by the end of the month. I heard the County Commission gave former owner Wayne Huizenga the keys to the farm and those keys got turned over to the subsequent owners when they bought the team. And in the First Class year, then theres theseare they suspended out of the Academy? An entrepreneur, philanthropist, and veteran of the United States Army, Mr. Viola is a Brooklyn, N.Y. native and graduate of both the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and New York Law School. Horribly, horriblywell, its a strong feeling. My dad served in combat in World War II, many of my uncles did. Viola, former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange and owner of the Florida Panthers professional ice hockey team, hopes to multiply his money several times on the historic home he. The socialization of the anti-military and anti-war movement had trickled from the campuses to the high school hallways by the time 1969, 70, 71, that period. I think hewell, I dont know what you would call that. But how does that really translate? And they said to me, Vinny, you have to do this. I started law school in the evening, because basically my mother told me to, to be quite frank, and. The Sexual Revolution was abound. He resides in Jupiter, Fla. with his wife, Melissa Lautenberg Cifu, their daughter, Rachel, and son, Daniel. [14] Viola was also one of the two partners who launched EWT, LLC and Madison Tyler, LLC, two electric trading firms formerly based in Beverly Hills, CA and was able to use the electronic trading technique to his own personal gain making him one of the richest men in the world. If you havent interviewed the honor committee, the senior leaders of the honor committee of the class of 77Mike [E.] Ivy, Mike [Burnell] Henryoh goshI think Carl [Axel] Swansonyou need to sit and have hours around the honor scandal. Former President Trump nominated Vincent Viola to become Secretary of the Army in 2017. at Columbia Law School. He graduated from West Point in 1977 and New York Law School in 1983. Sure, sure. The persons on the floors who would grant the orders and run them from one broker to the next, and enter the order into a. It is a class that must be chronicled and studied at a granular level from a sociological and military perspective, because it camewe applied at probably the nadir of commitment to the military in the nation. P.O. How does that happen here? These freedoms are gifts. Some of the cadets that were indictedif I dare say that wordwere indignant. [8] He helped build the NYMEX while he served on the board of directors, as chairman of the Technology Committee, the Natural Gas Advisory Committee and the Facilities Committee, co-chairman of the Options Committee, vice chairman of NYMEX from 1993 to 1996, and chairman from March 2001 to March 2004. And the decision was madeand the right decision was madeto examine every paper and to see if, in fact, any papers that looked somewhat similar, to simply ask, call the cadets in and say, Did you collaborate? Could be transferred and translated into other worlds. Market-maker Virtu completed a series of. A definite weight was put on my class because of the honor scandal, and I remember my First Class summerI was a squad leader in the first detail at Beast Barrackshaving to watch approximately somewhere it seems like 50 or 60 of my classmates wear the same uniform every day different than what we were wearing. He was for several weeks President Donald Trump's nominee for United States Secretary of the Army, before withdrawing from consideration. Vincent Viola, a member of the USMA Class of 1977, recounts entering West Point at the end of the Vietnam War and details the cheating scandal of 1977. Yes. And I remember, in 1971, a young soldier from my neighborhood, who my family knew the family, got killed, and he was an infantryman. My dad took ill during my Yearling Year, and I was theI had become quickly the sole source of leadership in my family, and. 2017. This is what I wanted to ask you, and well close with this question cause we have to stop. Its the point where you ask yourself do you understand the importance of your role as a combat leader. Is that what happens next, or is the, I cant quite remember, but what I believe happened was they were expelled from the Corps, and the federal government, at the Department of Army level, reacted to the forces, the social and political forces that were bringing to bear on the construction, which challenged the idea that, in fact, the Academy had protected the honor code well enough so that it was functioning and being followed. A British financier has snapped up billionaire Vincent Viola's Upper East Side townhouse at 12. I remained a reserve officer for the next 13 years, and I always stoodI try to remain current as far as my officership, and in contact with classmates and other soldiers. We appreciate your gererosity! Im just trying to understand this. Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956) is an American billionaire businessman, and U.S. Army veteran. The problem was that the academy now had to make a decision around how to process these honor boards in a way that protected the principles of the honor code, and from an administrative and just execution perspective, was not overwhelmingas it did began to overwhelm. You always want, in your mindyeah, because if you come through here, you cant help but to be singular in your desire to serve. Mr. Viola and his wife, Teresa, have three sons - John, Michael, and Travis - and several grandchildren. Exactlywouldve shifted, then, before you actually completed your. Spring through Firstyeah. Well, I stood in the Reserves. Mr. Viola, 62, bought the property on East 69th Street and Fifth Avenue in 2005 for $20 million, according to PropertyShark records. And I was born in a neighborhood that was very close to Wall Street, and the generation before mecause Wall Street always had a demand, especially in those days, for pretty much cheap labor. March 23, 2021 11:15 AM. Vietnamization, actually, wouldve done some of that. So as would follow, the qualifications of my class were not as high as classes before and classes after. Now, where were you coming fromwhere did you grow up? [27] In January 2021, they sold their townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historical District for $25.5 million, setting a borough record. I think you teach leadership by living leadership. And it was a great point of honor for my grandfatherhe actually left the military as a noncommissioned officer of the Italian Army. These instructors you had at the time, they wereyou said some of them were Vietnam veterans. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. I think our class did feel shame and does feel shame, because I think our class, in some ways, bore an enormous unspoken responsibility. Public shareholders own whats known as Class A shares in Virtu. And I got absolutely no responses, and it was a pretty tough periodit was still a deep recession. According to Forbes, which ranks Violas current real time net worth as $3.4 billion, Viola used the money to splurge on real estate including the $10-million purchase of a pair of beachfront condos in Fort Lauderdales Auberge Beach Residences & Spa. Because now it had elevated past the control of the Corps, and it became a challenge to the administration of the Academy. Now, didare you the first to go to West Point in your family? [19] The choice was reported to be concerning to the nominated Secretary of Defense General James Mattis, who was reportedly not informed of the choice prior to the announcement, a position he would directly oversee, and was concerned about potential trading practices which were not yet fully investigated. I appliedI paid someone to write a resume. Im sure there were. Highly regarded by his peers, Cifu was recognized by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 as a leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer for buyouts and private equity transactions. She didnt have any skills, per se, except to be a housewife. Donald Trump appointed Viola to be Secretary of the Army in December 2016 but COPYRIGHT 2014 WEST POINT CENTER FOR ORAL HISTORY. It's the most . Viola was a former infantry officer who served in the 101st Airborne Division. When the distaste for the Army was at a peak. I mean thats really the immigrant story, isnt it, really? And you went to a public school, I take itis that right? And so there mustve been cadets who, rather than cheating or stealing themselves, were nonetheless implicated just because they were aware of the fact that it was going on down the hallway. Hes down at Fort Monroe now, I thinkis that right? Viola. You have an affirmative duty, if you see. If singularity in the computational world is the point at which speed to process information eclipses the information available which to process, theres a singularity around military ethos. Its the same thing herethis is extremelyin the end its a very insulated, but positively reaffirming, environment. What was your own attitude about the Vietnam War at the time? And you are taught here that you have a responsibility unlike any other profession, because when you are engaged in combat and you are firing upon an objective and maneuvering to take it, you are going with forethought to make decisions knowing that theres a great chance the person that you send forward to execute either fire or maneuver is not going to come back. If you are slightly potentialed to want to be hereslightly potentialed in your deepest personality to be selflessif you have the United States of America as part of your core identityyou have to understand that the rewards of selfless leadership are enormously infectious. Maybe because my family had grounded in me a deep love of the country and a deep love of service to the country, I saw through that. Now, my dilemma was my branch assignment, because my family really wanted me to stay close. And I remember more than a handful of my mathematics professors finishing the work with the boards with 15, 20, 25 minutes left in the class and describing a combat experience. In 1983, he graduated from New York Law School with a juris doctor degree. And I remember as a young man saying, Thats his life. [6][7][8] His father, an immigrant from Italy, worked as a truck driver after serving in the U.S. Army in the European theater of WWII. Net Worth: $2.8 Billion. And therefore, thats why the scandal happened. So there are somethere are a couple of capstones in that journey. Goodman wrote Viola "had a nasty temper, but [predecessor chairman Lou] Guttman says he didnt lose control of his emotions easily" and that "beneath the spit and polish he was still a tough guy from Brooklyn." If you believe that you cannot effectivelyeffectively, comprehensively, lead more than four persons other than yourself on a physical day-to-day level, then everything you ever wanted to know about anything, youve learned in platoon leadership. And with the idea that he was going to clean up the Academy from the scandal. Chair in Catholic Theology at Fordham University.[26]. So Im sure people probably didnt have it as an academic priority like, lets say, the social sciences paper that we had to write our first class year. They havent changed much, even til today, for hundreds of years, really. The San Francisco 49ers head into NFL free agency in a less-than-stellar salary cap situation. Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956) is an American billionaire businessman and U.S. Army veteran. Yes. Did your class feel shamed by this, you think? So what class are you, did you graduate with here at West Point? When you look back on that, you think, Gee, I wish that. 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