Amerindo Investment Advisors

Amerindo Investment Advisors was an investment advisory and asset management firm founded by Alberto Vilar and Gary Tanaka, known for investing in technology, internet, telecommunications, and selectively in biotechnology and health sciences. The firm became prominent during the dot-com era for managing portfolios focused on emerging growth companies rather than for developing healthcare products itself. It was registered as an investment adviser with offices in New York, San Francisco, and London, and affiliated entities in the UK and Panama were also referenced in regulatory proceedings. The firm later collapsed amid SEC enforcement action and criminal proceedings involving its founders, and it is best characterized as a defunct financial services firm rather than a biotech or healthcare operating company.