--- title: Anthony Scaramucci: What to Know About New White House Hire description: New York hedge fund executive Anthony Scaramucci has been named White House communications director. What to know as he steps into the role canonical: https://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-21T17:57:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:40:25.433Z article:section: Politics og:title: What to Know About New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci og:description: Sean Spicer, who disagreed with the hire, resigned as press secretary on Friday og:url: https://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt222aabf59326756e/6988d6b6cf40a87fa9c48a84/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Opening Day Of The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What to Know About New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci twitter:description: Sean Spicer, who disagreed with the hire, resigned as press secretary on Friday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt222aabf59326756e/6988d6b6cf40a87fa9c48a84/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What to Know About New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 21, 2017 5:57 PM UTC  Anthony Scaramucci, SkyBridge Capital founder, gestures as he speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2017. Anthony Scaramucci, SkyBridge Capital founder, gestures as he speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2017.Jason Alden—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 21, 2017 5:57 PM UTC New York hedge fund executive [Anthony Scaramucci](http://time.com/4868132/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-communications-director/) has been named White House communications director. The decision, controversial among White House staffers, caused White House Press Secretary [Sean Spicer](http://time.com/4868546/sean-spicer-resigns-anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) to resign from his post Friday morning. Here’s what to know about Scaramucci as he steps into his new role: ## He comes from Wall Street Scaramucci studied economics at Tufts University and graduated from Harvard Law School, before going on to work for Goldman Sachs, where he became a vice president in private wealth management. He later worked at Lehman Brothers and left in 2005 to launch [SkyBridge Capital](http://time.com/money/4547888/skybridge-capital-anthony-scaramucci/), a hedge fund investment firm. In January, he sold his stake in the company to RON Transatlantic and Chinese billionaire Chen Feng’s HNA Group — a decision that [raised questions](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/anthony-scaramucci-business-white-house.html) about potential conflicts of interest as he was considered for White House posts. ## He was a fundraiser and surrogate for the Trump campaign Scaramucci, who served on Trump’s presidential transition team, has been one of Trump’s biggest defenders, appearing frequently as a surrogate on cable TV shows both during and after the campaign. He said he was offered a White House job in January and sold his company, SkyBridge Capital, to work in the Trump administration, but “the job didn’t materialize.” He has since been vocal about his continued willingness to work for the White House. “I am ready to serve,” Scaramucci said in remarks at the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas in May, [according to Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-17/scaramucci-remains-loyal-to-trump-even-without-white-house-job). “And so to the extent the President needs me, I will be available to him.” ## His selection divided White House staffers Spicer had been acting as both press secretary and communications director at the White House since Mike Dubke resigned from the communications role in May. Sacaramucci was serving as senior vice president and chief strategy officer at the U.S. Export-Import Bank, when he was selected to take over the vacant communications director role. [Spicer resigned](http://time.com/4868546/sean-spicer-resigns-anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) on Friday morning in objection to Trump’s decision to hire Scaramucci as communications director. The appointment was also opposed by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon. Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, supported the choice of Scaramucci, the [New York _Times_ reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/us/politics/sean-spicer-resigns-as-white-house-press-secretary.html?smid=tw-share). “It’s been an honor & a privilege to serve @POTUS @realDonaldTrump & this amazing country. I will continue my service through August,” Spicer said in a tweet Friday afternoon. > [](https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/888454528550490114) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/"},"headline":"What to Know About New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci","datePublished":"2017-07-21T17:57:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:40:25.433Z","description":"Sean Spicer, who disagreed with the hire, resigned as press secretary on Friday","url":"https://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime","sean spicer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt222aabf59326756e/6988d6b6cf40a87fa9c48a84/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt222aabf59326756e/6988d6b6cf40a87fa9c48a84/anthony-scaramucci-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Opening Day Of The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017","caption":"Opening Day Of The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017","creditText":"Jason Alden—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/","name":"What to Know About New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci"}}]}] ```