Legends from the Worlds of Screen, Stage and Sport to Attend BGC Charity Day on Tuesday, September 11
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Celebrities Including: WHOOPI GOLDBERG; ELI WALLACH; YOGI
BERRA; BOOMER ESIASON and Cast Members from THE SOPRANOS
will be joining leading international inter-dealer broker BGC for its 3rd
annual Charity Day on Tuesday, September 11th
at its downtown trading floor:
One Seaport Plaza, 19th Floor 199 Water Street, New York, NY 10038
Celebrity guests will join BGC’s brokers
conducting real, live trades with our clients. 100% of the commissions
raised in our global offices on the day will go to charities, including:
Blythedale Children’s Hospital; Books for Kids
Foundation; Cancer Research Institute; NARSAD Mental Health Research;
Project FIND, providing aid to the elderly in New York City and the
Wounded Warrior Project.
First on the trading floor will be former New York Jets’ FREEMAN MCNEIL at 9am, closely followed by baseball legend YOGI
BERRA, trading with BGC clients from 10am. At approximately 11am we
are proud to welcome HARRIET HARRIS of Desperate Housewives and
Frasier fame.
At around noon, TONY SIRICO of The Sopranos will come to
show his support for the Wounded Warrior Project, of which he is an
ambassador. We will also be privileged with the presence of several of
the brave service men and women supported by the charity.
At approximately 1pm, we’re delighted that WHOOPI
GOLDBERG will be with us, fresh from her first week at The View,
to support our fundraising efforts as will ELI WALLACH –
star of such films as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent
Seven and The Misfits.
During the afternoon, other celebrities will continue to assist with
trades at the BGC offices and raise money for these very worthy causes.
These include ROBERT FUNARO of The Sopranos. From the
sporting world: the former New York Jet and WFAN’s
newest presenter BOOMER ESIASON; ROY WHITE, formerly
of the NY Yankees; former NY Mets’ ED
KRANEPOOL and former NY Knicks’ EARL ‘THE
PEARL’ MONROE along with NY Giants’
lineman GREY RUEGAMER and the New York Red Bulls’ JOE VIDE.
Members of the media are invited to attend at any time during the day.
Facilities for television, radio and print journalists to cover these
events will be available in the BGC offices on the 19th
floor, including internet access and ISDN phone lines.
Due to security requirements please
indicate your interest as soon as possible, as all visitors will have to
pass through our building’s
security and badging procedures. Notes to Editors:
This media alert refers to activities in New York City. The BGC Charity
Day is global and growing each year. In London, guests from the worlds
of sport, film, television and music will be in BGC’s
offices supporting the day and assisting brokers in trades to raise
money for good causes. These guests include:
From the world of boxing: Joe Calzaghe; Steve Collins; John Conteh; Amie
Kahn; Frank Warren
From the world of racing: Frankie Dettori; AP McCoy; Sir Peter O’Sullevan;
Lester Piggott; Sir Michael Stoute
From the world of rugby: Martin Bayfield; Kyran Bracken; Zinzan Brooke;
David Cooke; Sean Fitzpatrick; Jeremy Guscott; Martin Johnson; Brian
Moore; Mickey Skinner
From the world of television and film: Rory Bremner; Chris Evans; Lisa
Faulkner; Jason Flemyng; Nigel Havers and Anthea Turner
From music, politics and sport: Princess George Galitzine; Duncan
Goodhew; Damon Hill; Michael Howard; Douglas Hurd; Nigel Mansell; Sir
Steve Redgrave; Sir Tim Rice
And many others.
Guests will be representing the following group of selected charities:
DebRA, Multiple Sclerosis, National Literacy Trust, Sparks, The Peter O’Sullevan
Trust, UK Youth, Walk The Walk – (united
against breast cancer), Well Child, Wooden Spoon, Bobby Moore Fund,
Chance to Shine, Chase, Honey Pot, Winston’s
Wish, The Paul Hunter Foundation, Barnardos.
In the PARIS office, BGC brokers will be joined by: Stéphane
Pasquier, winner of numerous Group races including the Prix de l’Arc
de Triomphe; ATP Top 20 tennis player Paul-Henri Mathieu and Julien
Benneteau who reached the semi-finals of the men’s
doubles at this year’s US Open.
Charities supported by BGC’s offices in Asia,
Australasia and Europe include: The Shane Warne Foundation, National
Breast Cancer Foundation, Children’s Cancer
Foundation, La Licorne and The Solidarity Fund (established to help
victims of the fires in Greece)
ABOUT BGC
BGC is a leading inter-dealer brokerage firm affiliated with Cantor
Fitzgerald, the company that suffered the heaviest loss of life during
the Twin Towers tragedy in New York on September 11th,
2001. BGC is proud to continue its legacy of fundraising on behalf of a
wide range of charitable causes. Last year’s
event raised £5m all of which was given to
charity.
BGC provides brokerage services to banks, brokerage houses and
investment banks in the wholesale fixed income, interest rate, foreign
exchange and derivatives markets worldwide, as well as market data and
analytics, and access to electronic trading services and technology
support from its affiliate eSpeed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPD), a leading
developer of electronic marketplaces and trading technology. eSpeed and
BGC earlier this year announced their intention to merge, forming a
world-class provider of voice and electronic brokerage services in the
global marketplace.
It has offices in London, New York, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Milan, Nyon,
Paris, Beijing (representative office), Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore,
Sydney, Tokyo Mexico City and Toronto.
For future enquiries about BGC please visit www.bgcpartners.com
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