Anthony Scaramucci Keynote Speaker

Anthony Scaramucci is a global investor and financier, a lawyer, author and podcaster. He is best known for his short tenure as the White House Communications Director under President Trump.

He co-hosts ‘The Rest Is Politics: US’ with Katty Kay from the BBC.   Together, they explore the inner workings of the White House as well as taking a wider look at the complexities of US society and how they can shape the world’s most important economy.

Scaramucci is also the founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, an investment fund based in New York City. Previously, he co-founded Oscar Capital Management after leaving Goldman Sachs’ private wealth division. He is ranked as one of the most powerful people in global finance.  In 2011, Scaramucci received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award New York Award in the Financial Services category.

In 2016, Scaramucci was named in President-Elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. He went on to serve as the White House Communications Director in July 2017. He changed his views on Trump in 2019, criticising his attacks on women of colour as ‘racist and unacceptable’. In June 2020, he joined with other well-known Republicans to launch Right Side PAC. The group aimed to stop Trump’s re-election and supported his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.

He is the author of four books – Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul (2010), The Little Book of Hedge Funds: What You Need to Know About Hedge Funds but the Managers Won’t Tell You (2012),  Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure Into Success (2016) and Trump, the Blue-Collar President (2018)

He is a trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He was also a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2012.

Anthony is a native of Long Island, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.