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SkyBridge is an alternative asset manager and SEC-registered investment adviser, investing across markets including hedge funds, private equity, public equity and digital assets.

Team

The SkyBridge team, led by Anthony Scaramucci, Brett Messing, and Ray Nolte, is organized into three major functions: Investments, Operations/Finance/Legal and Marketing/Business Development

FIRM LEADERSHIP

Anthony Scaramucci Anthony Scaramucci

Anthony Scaramucci

Founder and
Managing Partner

Brett S. Messing Brett S. Messing

Brett S. Messing

Partner, President and Co-Chief Investment Officer

Raymond Nolte Raymond Nolte

Raymond Nolte

Senior Partner and
Co-Chief Investment Officer

SENIOR INVESTMENT TEAM

Daniel Barile, CFA Daniel Barile, CFA

Daniel Barile, CFA

Partner, Senior Portfolio Manager

John Svolos John Svolos

John Svolos

Partner, Head of Research

Peter Martini Peter Martini

Peter Martini

Managing Director, Senior Investment Analyst

Marketing and Business Development Leadership
 

Jason Wright Jason Wright

Jason Wright

Senior Partner,
Global Head of Marketing

John Darsie John Darsie

John Darsie

Partner, Business Development; Managing Director, SALT

Operations, Legal and Compliance Leadership

Robert Phillips Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips

Partner,
Chief Financial Officer

Marie Noble Marie Noble

Marie Noble

Partner, General Counsel and
Chief Compliance Officer

Christopher Hutt Christopher Hutt

Christopher Hutt

Partner, Head of Hedge Fund
Administration and Operations

Eric Alper Eric Alper

Eric Alper

Partner, Deputy General Counsel, Head of Tax


In Memoriam
August 16, 1964 — June 11, 2023

Anthony Scaramucci

Founder and
Managing Partner

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.

Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.

In 2022, Scaramucci was ranked #47 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain. In 2016, he was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award.  Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a board member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. He is the author of five books.

Scaramucci served on President Donald J. Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, and in 2017 briefly served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank and White House Communications Director.

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.

Brett S. Messing

Partner, President and Co-Chief Investment Officer

Brett S. Messing is a Partner and the President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of SkyBridge Capital. He began his career at Goldman Sachs where he held various positions including Vice President and Co-Head of the Restricted Stock Group. Thereafter, he was a partner at Oscar Capital Management, which was acquired by Neuberger Berman, LLC. Following the successful integration of the business, Mr. Messing founded GPS Partners, a $2.5 billion hedge fund at its peak, which focused primarily in the energy infrastructure sector. Mr. Messing was the firm’s Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Thereafter, Mr. Messing worked for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villariagosa as Co-Chief Operating Officer responsible for economic and business policy. Mr. Messing served as a Senior Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at C40 Cities, a joint venture with the Clinton Climate Initiative. Mr. Messing is the co-author of The Forewarned Investor and contributed to Learning from the Global Financial Crisis – Creatively, Reliably and Sustainably, a compendium published by Stanford Business School. Mr. Messing received his A.B. from Brown University, magna cum laude, and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Raymond Nolte

Senior Partner and
Co-Chief Investment Officer

Ray Nolte is a Senior Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer of SkyBridge. He is also Co-Chairman of the Manager Selection and Portfolio Allocation Committees. Prior to SkyBridge’s acquisition of the Hedge Fund Management Group of Citigroup Alternative Investment, LLC (CAI) in June 2010, Mr. Nolte served as chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the CAI group as well as chairman of its Investment Committee. Earlier, Mr. Nolte worked at Deutsche Bank, where he served as the global head and CIO of the DB Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) Fund of Funds business, chairman of its investment committee and vice chairman of DB ARS and head of the Single Manager Hedge Fund business. Mr. Nolte started his career at Bankers Trust Company in 1983 and was named head of Global Portfolio Management in 1994. He launched the bank’s Fund of Funds group in 1996. Mr. Nolte earned a B.B.A. in Finance from George Washington University.

Daniel Barile, CFA

Partner, Senior Portfolio Manager

Daniel Barile, CFA is a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at SkyBridge Capital. Mr. Barile’s responsibilities include portfolio management, research and due diligence across a variety of alternative investment strategies, as well as new product research and development. Prior to joining SkyBridge in June 2010, Mr. Barile was a Vice President on the Hedge Fund Management Group investment team at Citi Alternative Investments.  Prior to joining Citi, Mr. Barile was an Associate Director covering financial institutions at Fitch Ratings. Mr. Barile started his career at Merrill Lynch in 2004.   Mr. Barile received a B.S. in Management with a concentration in Finance from Binghamton University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations.

John Svolos

Partner, Head of Research

John F. Svolos is a Partner and Head of Research at SkyBridge Capital. He has extensive buy-side and sell-side experience with a focus on technology, having been a technology sector specialist at Merrill Lynch, an internet and technology analyst at Wells Capital Management, and most recently, a Managing Director at Oppenheimer, where he gained exposure to blockchain and crypto.  Mr. Svolos has met with hundreds of private and public technology companies over the course of decades and made numerous visits to technology supply chain facilities globally.  Mr. Svolos also has a legal background with experience in intellectual property and securities law. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, cum laude.

Peter Martini

Managing Director, Senior Investment Analyst

Peter Martini is a Managing Director and Senior Investment Analyst at SkyBridge. Previously, Mr. Martini was an Analyst on the Business and Operational Due Diligence Team, as well as a Product Manager and Portfolio Operations Associate, responsible for portfolio rebalancing operations. Prior to joining the firm in July 2014, he worked as an Operations Associate in the Alternative Investment group at Morgan Stanley supporting areas including operations, accounting and technology. Mr. Martini received a B.S. in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University.

Jason Wright

Senior Partner,
Global Head of Marketing

Jason Wright is a Senior Partner and Global Head of Marketing at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge, Mr. Wright was Managing Director of Business Development at Soleil Securities Group. Earlier, he served as Managing Director at SoundView Ventures from 2000 to 2003.

John Darsie

Partner, Business Development; Managing Director, SALT

John Darsie is a Partner and Head of Business Development at SkyBridge Capital and the Managing Director of SALT, a global thought leadership forum focused on investing and innovation. Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2015, he spent the first five years of his career at T3, a financial holding company focused on quantitative trading, proprietary trading and investment research. He also worked as a Director at Hightower Advisors, a leading Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firm. A native of North Carolina, John earned a B.B.A. in Finance & Information Systems from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

Robert Phillips

Partner,
Chief Financial Officer

Robert Phillips is a Partner and the Chief Financial Officer of SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in 2007, Mr. Phillips served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of two investment management companies: Lucerne Management, LLC and Coventry Capital, LLC. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a publicly held bio-pharmaceutical contract service organization where he was responsible for all finance, accounting, SEC reporting and investor relation functions. Mr. Phillips began his career as an auditor and spent 8 years with BDO Seidman, LLP, a national professional services firm which provides assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. Mr. Phillips earned a B.A. in Accounting from Upsala College and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Marie Noble

Partner, General Counsel and
Chief Compliance Officer

Marie Noble is a Partner, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at SkyBridge. Prior to joining SkyBridge in November 2010, Ms. Noble was an Associate General Counsel at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI), where she was lead counsel supporting various hedge fund platforms managed by Citi’s registered investment adviser. Ms. Noble joined Citi in 2006 after spending six years practicing corporate law in the New York and London Offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where her primary focus was on domestic and international securities transactions. Ms. Noble earned a B.A. Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bucknell University and a J.D. Cum Laude from Boston University, where she served as Note Editor on the Boston University Law Review.

Christopher Hutt

Partner, Head of Hedge Fund
Administration and Operations

Christopher Hutt is a Partner and the Head of Hedge Fund Administration and Operations at SkyBridge. Mr. Hutt is responsible for managing the operations for the SkyBridge product suite and is also the product manager for the fund of hedge fund products and managed accounts. Prior to joining SkyBridge, Mr. Hutt was Director of Hedge Fund Operations within the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI). Prior to joining CAI in 2004, he held various product management positions at Morgan Stanley & Co. and JPMorgan Chase over an eight year span. Mr. Hutt received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland.

Eric Alper

Partner, Deputy General Counsel, Head of Tax

Eric Alper is a Partner, Deputy General Counsel and Tax Director at SkyBridge. Mr. Alper, who joined SkyBridge in 2009, focuses on legal, operational and tax issues as well as new product development. Prior to joining SkyBridge, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at U Capital Group, LP, which was one of SkyBridge’s seeded hedge fund managers. Prior to U Capital, Mr. Alper was Chief Financial Officer at Weston Capital Management, Vice President of Hedge Fund Accounting at Ivy Asset Management and Vice President & Tax Counsel at Neuberger Berman. Earlier in his career, he worked for two multi-national corporations and two national public accounting firms specializing in tax law and accounting. Mr. Alper earned a B.B.A. with a concentration in Accounting from The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, a J.D. from The Washington College of Law at American University, and a LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. Eric is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant and attorney with the State of New York.