Background
Vilar earned an economics degree from Washington and Jefferson College, a liberal arts college in Washington, PA. He then earned a master's degree in economics at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. In 1979, along with Gary Tanaka, he founded Amerindo Investment Advisors, an investment advisory firm based in San Francisco and New York, with offices in London. In 1981, Vilar made his first $1 million. Amerindo's main investment activities were in technology funds, and that sector was the most severely affected by the stock market crash of 2000.
He has served on the Washington & Jefferson College Board of Trustees.
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