After just ten days in the job, Anthony Scaramucci, well-known in the hedge funds industry as the founder of Skybridge Capital, has exited his short-lived role as President Donald Trump’s communications director.
After a tumultuous week marked by infighting within President Trump’s team, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Monday: “Antony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director. Scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.”
Scaramucci’s short tenure was marred by press interviews in which he used four letter words to describe other members of the White House team, exposing the vicious infighting within the team.
Scaramucci began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he worked from 1989 to 1996, when he left to launch Oscar Capital Management, and then founded Skybridge Capital in 2005. In January this year the sale of Skybridge Capital was announced, along with the announcement that Skybridge’s SALT conference would become a standalone event.
Scaramucci has yet to announce his next move, although it is highly unlikely to be low-profile, given his recent track record.
