Marc Kirst

Chairman & CEO

Marc is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Amazing Group®, LLC which is focused on outstanding asset management and investment banking. He is President of Amazing Asset Management, Inc., Amazing Genomics, Inc., Amazing Security Group, Inc and Amazing Technology Inc.. Until late 2014, Marc was a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners in New York, focusing on the expansion of the U.S. and international institutional business of the firm’s quantitative U.S. equity asset management arm Guggenheim Transparent Value, LLC, presenting mainly to institutional consultants, pension funds, insurance companies, asset management companies and banks.

Between March 2011 and November 2013, Marc expanded the international institutional asset management business of Guggenheim Transparent Value, LLC from London, winning e.g. the first pension fund for the firm, creating the first German Spezialfonds, starting the first international license agreement with a major U.S. investment bank and opening the first separate management accounts for the company, covering CIOs and due diligence analysts etc. While in London, Marc had the FCA UK licenses for “Investment Management” and “Financial Regulation.”

Marc joined Guggenheim Partners in Hong Kong in early 2010 to expand mainly the firm’s Asian business. He held the HK SFC licenses Type 4 (Advising on Securities), Type 5 (Advising on Futures Contracts) and Type 9 (Asset Management).

During his prior eighteen years with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in Frankfurt and Monte Carlo, Marc focused on asset management and worked closely with the firm’s New York and London real estate investment banking departments, focusing on mainly U.S. commercial real estate transactions, including mandates for MGM Resorts International, Deutsche Bank (sale of their Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas) and Morgans Hotel Group among others.

In one of these transactions in 1995, Marc recommended investors to buy the Class-A office building “One Financial Square” (now „32 Old Slip“) in Manhattan when real estate values were still depressed. Marc and his investment banking colleague advised one interested group to increase their initial bid, and they made the highest bid with USD 135 million among 40 investors. The group sold the office building for USD 750+ million in 2007 which was one of the largest sales on record of an office tower in Lower Manhattan and at the peak of the real estate cycle before the 2008/2009 recession. Marc also advised, e.g., the management and board of Monte Carlo-based and Paris-listed hotel and casino company Société des Bains de Mer Monaco (SBM) in regard to potential international hotel and casino acquisitions as well as their strategic WYNN equity stake.

During his time at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., was a regular member of the firm’s recognitions clubs “Society of Eagles”, “Chairman’s Club”, “Falcon’s” and consistently the No. 1 advisor for a considerable amount of time before he left the Monte Carlo and Frankfurt offices. He received the U.S. FINRA Series 7 license in 1990.

Marc has a Diplom-Betriebswirt (BA) and was one of 25 students selected and sponsored by Daimler-Benz AG out of 2,700 applicants in 1987. He completed the mandatory German military service between 1986 and 1987.