Anthony Scaramucci

Scaramucci was raised in a working-class Italian family on Long Island, New York, where his father was a construction worker. In his book Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole he recalled working odd jobs to pay for college, with his father also contributing to his schooling.⁠[1]

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Tufts University and then a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.⁠[2][1]

Soon after law school, in 1989, Scaramucci took an investment banking job at Goldman SachsGoldman SachsGoldman Sachs is an American financial services group headquartered in New York whose businesses include investment banking, securities trading, asset management, and wealth management. It traces its origins to the commercial paper business Marcus Goldman founded in 1869; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 under the ticker GS and became a bank holding company in 2008. David Solomon serves as chairman and chief executive officer.Open the full entry; he was fired about a year later and was eventually rehired in the firm’s sales department. He wrote in his book: “I owe thousands of dollars in student loan debt, and I just got fired from Goldman Sachs.”⁠[1]

He later served as a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs.⁠[3]

He then co-founded the investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Brett S. Messing, who later became president of SkyBridge, was also a partner at Oscar Capital Management.⁠[2]

In 2005 Scaramucci founded the alternative investment firm SkyBridge Capital. The firm is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and invests across hedge funds, private equity, public equity and digital assets.⁠[2]

In June 2010 SkyBridge acquired the Hedge Fund Management Group of Citigroup Alternative Investments. Raymond Nolte, who had been the group’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer, joined SkyBridge and later became a senior partner and co-chief investment officer.⁠[2]

After the 2008 market crash, Wall Street firms had canceled their Las Vegas conferences and SkyBridge itself was on the verge of bankruptcy when Scaramucci decided to hold a conference anyway. SALT debuted on May 13, 2009, at the Encore hotel in Las Vegas, with Michael Milken and Wesley Clark as keynote speakers and about 460 attendees.⁠[4]

In 2014 Scaramucci joined Fox Business Network as a contributor; that year he announced at SALT that he had bought the rights to Wall Street Week, the PBS investment program formerly hosted by Louis Rukeyser.⁠[5][4]

To relaunch the show he initially bought airtime from Fox affiliates, and for about a year it aired on Sunday mornings on Fox-owned stations in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. On March 18, 2016, Fox Business Network’s version of Wall Street Week premiered with Scaramucci and Gary Kaminsky as co-hosts; the SkyBridge affiliate SkyBridge Media LLC produced the series.⁠[5]

In 2017 Scaramucci announced that he was selling SkyBridge to a Chinese firm; before the announcement the company had nearly $12 billion in assets.⁠[1]

In June 2017 he was named chief strategy officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and in July 2017 he briefly served as White House Communications Director.⁠[3]

Because the sale had not closed, Scaramucci still hosted SALT in May 2017, and the 2018 event was canceled; after the sale was called off, he brought SALT back in 2019.⁠[4]

In April 2022 SALT hosted the inaugural Crypto Bahamas in partnership with the crypto exchange FTXFTXFTX was a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang that operated FTX.com, moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to the Bahamas in 2021 and was valued at $32 billion in January 2022. In November 2022 it filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection amid a liquidity crisis, and Bankman-Fried was later convicted of fraud and related charges. Its reorganization plan took effect in January 2025, after which the FTX Recovery Trust began paying creditors in stages.Open the full entry.⁠[6]

In September 2022 Sam Bankman-FriedSam Bankman-FriedSam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the crypto hedge fund Alameda Research. After FTX collapsed in November 2022, he was charged in the United States with misappropriating customer funds; in November 2023 a jury found him guilty on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, in March 2024 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit about $11 billion, and in 2026 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected his appeal.Open the full entry and Scaramucci announced that FTX Ventures would acquire a 30% stake in SkyBridge, without disclosing financial terms; Scaramucci said at the time that the investment fit his vision for SkyBridge over the coming decade. A few months later FTX filed for bankruptcy.⁠[7]

In November 2024 FTX sued Scaramucci and SkyBridge in the Delaware bankruptcy court, one of 23 recovery suits it filed that day. FTX alleged that Bankman-Fried put $67 million into SkyBridge ventures in 2022, that these investments “offered little to no benefit,” and that SkyBridge’s assets under management had fallen from a peak of $9 billion in 2015 to $2.2 billion; it sought to recover more than $100 million. A representative for Scaramucci declined to comment. These are the plaintiff’s allegations at the pleading stage.⁠[7]

On August 19, 2025, SkyBridge announced a plan with Tokeny and its parent company Apex Group to tokenize $300 million of two of its hedge funds, Digital Macro Master Fund Ltd and Legion Strategies Ltd, on the Avalanche blockchain using the ERC-3643 standard. Speaking as founder and CEO of SkyBridge Capital, Scaramucci said the move “represents a significant step forward in modernizing the alternative investment landscape.”⁠[8]

On October 14, 2026, SALT announced the speakers and agenda for the second SALT London, held November 3–4, 2026, at The Chancery Rosewood in Mayfair, London. Presented by PaywardPaywardPayward (Payward, Inc.) is the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, founded in July 2011 by Jesse Powell and others and incorporated in Wyoming, United States. Its flagship is Kraken, and its other businesses include the futures brokerage NinjaTrader, the tokenized equities platform xStocks and the index company CF Benchmarks; it serves more than 190 jurisdictions and has been led since October 2024 by co-CEOs Arjun Sethi and Dave Ripley.Open the full entry, the invitation-only event was to convene about 500 attendees and included a conversation between SALT Chairman Scaramucci and former MI6 chief Sir Richard Moore. Scaramucci said: “London is one of the world’s most influential financial centers.”⁠[9]

Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, which he leads together with Brett S. Messing, partner, president and co-chief investment officer, and Raymond Nolte, senior partner and co-chief investment officer.⁠[2]

He is also chairman of SALT, whose chief executive officer is John Darsie.⁠[10]

Scaramucci’s books include The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole and Trump: The Blue-Collar President; Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole was a 2016 Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is a U.S. news publication founded in 1889, with a focus on business, finance and economics. It is published by Dow Jones, part of News Corp.Open the full entry best seller.⁠[3]

Scaramucci is a member of the Council on Foreign RelationsCouncil on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a nonpartisan, independent U.S. membership organization and think tank founded in 1921 and based in New York, which has published Foreign Affairs since 1922 and takes no institutional positions on policy; Michael Froman has been its 15th president since 2023.Open the full entry and serves as vice chair of the Kennedy CenterKennedy CenterThe Kennedy Center (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) is the national performing arts center in Washington, D.C., designated by Congress in 1964 as a “living memorial” to President John F. Kennedy and opened in 1971; after Donald Trump became chairman of its board in 2025, moves to rename it and close it for renovation became the subject of litigation.Open the full entry Corporate Fund Board, a board member of The Brain Tumor Foundation and of Business Executives for National Security, and a trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee.⁠[3]

In 2011 he received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year – New York” award in the financial services category.⁠[3]

SkyBridge Capital: Official website: https://www.skybridge.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

SALT: Official website: https://www.salt.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[10]

X: Public account: https://x.com/Scaramucci (opens in a new window).⁠[3]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anscaramucci/ (opens in a new window).⁠[3]