Michael Gamson is a senior managing director at Freepoint Commodities, specializing in energy trading. He is a prominent philanthropist, serving on the Board of Directors at Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University) and the Board of Governors at Hillel International (Houston, TX). With his wife Barbara Gamson, he has endowed state-of-the-art physics laboratories at Yeshiva College in memory of his father, Dr. Bernard W. Gamson, a chemical engineer and former president and CEO of Martin Marietta Aluminum who died in 2000. The Gamsons are joint philanthropists and art collectors recognized as ARTnews Top 200 Collectors. He has been honored at Yeshiva University events, including the 2014 Hanukkah Convocation and dinners, and has hosted fundraising events for the Birthright Israel Foundation.