- Born
- Nicknames
- The Mooch
- Scaramouch
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, an alternative investments firm with around $10 billion in assets under management.
Scaramucci is the author of three books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, and Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole, a 2016 Wall Street Journal best- seller. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001. Earlier, he was a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.
In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine's Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year - New York" Award in the Financial Services category. Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), vice chair of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board, a board member of both The Brain Tumor Foundation and Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a Trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He was a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2012.
In November 2016, he was named to President-Elect Trump's 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for a period in July 2017. Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.- IMDb Mini Biography By: AS
- SpousesDeidre Ball(July 11, 2014 - present) (2 children)Lisa Miranda(1988 - 2014) (divorced, 3 children)
- Appointed Communications Director under the Trump administration, selected Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House Press Secretary after Sean Spicer resigned as White House Press Secretary [July 21, 2017].
- Removed as White House Communications Director by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, eleven days after having been appointed Communications Director [July 31, 2017].
- Member of President-elect Donald Trump's Presidential Transition Team.
- Graduated from Tufts University w/ a B.A. in economics.
- Founder/managing partner, Skybridge Capital.
- [from an op-ed article, January 2016] Unbridled demagoguery has driven the GOP to an inflection point from which there is no turning back.
- What I don't like about Washington is people do not let you know how they feel. They're very nice to your face and then they take a shiv or a machete and they stab it in your back. I don't like it. I'm a Wall Street guy and I'm more of a front-stabbing person.
- [on his short tenure as communications director in the Trump cabinet, 2017] When you take a a job like that you know your expiration date is coming. I didn't think I was going to last too long, but I thought I would last longer than a carton of milk.
- Everyone goes into the Trump relationship wood chipper. You either come out on the other side with your dignity and your personal story intact or you're reformed as Trump's compost and you're fertilizer under his shoe.
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