Anthony Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci (born January 6, 1964) is an American financier who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications from July 21 to July 31, 2017.

Scaramucci was born into an Italian-American family on January 6, 1964, on Long Island, New York, where he was raised in Port Washington.

He is the son of Marie DeFeo Scaramucci and Alexander Scaramucci, who was a construction worker.

His paternal grandfather, Alessandro Scaramucci, immigrated to the United States from Gualdo Tadino, Umbria.

He had a middle-class upbringing and was the first generation of his family to attend college.

He has an older brother, David, and a sister, Susan.

Scaramucci graduated in 1982 from Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in Port Washington, where he served as student council president.

He earned a B.A. in economics at Tufts University and a J.D. at Harvard Law School where he overlapped with future president Barack Obama, future deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein and future supreme court justice Neil Gorsuch, among others.

Scaramucci credits his time and education at Harvard Law School as a springboard for his career in finance.

Scaramucci has never practiced law and went to work at Goldman Sachs directly after graduating.

Scaramucci worked at Goldman Sachs's investment banking, equities, and private wealth management divisions between 1989 and 1996.

Scaramucci began his career at Goldman Sachs in 1989, in the Investment Banking division.

A year later he was fired, then rehired two months later in the Equities division.

In 1993, he became a vice president in the bank's Private Wealth Management division.

Scaramucci left Goldman in 1996 to launch Oscar Capital Management with his colleague Andrew Boszhardt.

In 2001, Oscar Capital was sold to Neuberger Berman, and upon Neuberger Berman's sale to Lehman Brothers in 2003, Scaramucci served as a managing director in the firm's Investment Management division.

After leaving Goldman Sachs, he founded Oscar Capital Management, and in 2005, he founded the investment firm SkyBridge Capital.

In 2005, Scaramucci founded SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investment firm.

In 2008, Scaramucci was a fundraiser for Obama's presidential campaign.

Scaramucci is the chairman of the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, or "SALT" Conference, launched in 2009.

SALT hosts its annual flagship event in Las Vegas and an international event in the Fall/Winter.

SALT has hosted large conferences in Singapore, Tokyo and, most recently, Abu Dhabi.

In September 2010, however, Scaramucci asked Obama at a CNBC event when he was going to "stop whacking Wall Street like a piñata."

Scaramucci has tweeted at various times that he has "always been for strong gun control laws" and that "Republicans should support gay marriage".

In 2011, Scaramucci received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award New York Award in the Financial Services category, and in 2016 was ranked #85 in Worth magazine's "Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance".

He served as the national finance co-chair for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

In May 2014, SkyBridge licensed the rights to Wall Street Week, a financial television news program formerly hosted by Louis Rukeyser on PBS.

Scaramucci hosted the show.

Skybridge's assets had dwindled to about $2 billion from a peak of $9 billion in 2015.

Broadcast rights were transferred to Fox Broadcasting Company in 2016.

On July 21, 2017, Scaramucci was appointed White House Communications Director.

Days into the job, Scaramucci provoked controversy after launching a strongly worded attack on members of the Trump administration in an interview with The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza that he believed was off the record.

Ten days after his appointment, he was dismissed by President Donald Trump, at the recommendation of the new White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly.

On January 17, 2017, SkyBridge announced a majority stake sale to RON Transatlantic EG and HNA Capital (U.S.) Holding, a Chinese conglomerate with close ties to China's Communist Party.

With the announcement, Scaramucci stepped down from his co-management role and ended his affiliation with SkyBridge and SALT.

In April 2018, it was announced that Scaramucci would be returning to SkyBridge after the deal with HNA Group had collapsed due to the lack of approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government committee.

He has since been critical of Trump in the media and voiced his support for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Investors lost about 30% of their value from the beginning of 2020 through March 2023, 39% in calendar 2022.

The fund had reduced the ability of investors to withdraw funds and reduced staffing.

Scaramucci supported the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.