SALT Talks

Matt Salloway is an international business executive, venture capitalist, investor and attorney. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of GSI Ventures, a top 50 Global Family Office, with a focus on venture capital and portfolio market expansion into the MENA region.

Matt is also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SIP Global Partners (“SIP”), an independent, cross-border venture capital firm anchored by a top global corporate. Based in Japan, the US, and the Middle East, SIP targets market-expansion and value-add investments in high-growth US technology startups. It invests primarily in US companies driving the "Global Connected Economy" in sectors such as AR/VR/XR, artificial intelligence, machine learning, edge computing, digital media, network infrastructure (5G) and enterprise software.  

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Seke Ballard is the Founder & CEO of Good Tree Capital, a financial technology firm that grants loans to vetted, licensed cannabis companies. 

After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Seke spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer working with small businesses in the Republic of Georgia. After leaving the Peace Corps, Seke earned his MBA from Harvard University and subsequently spent years working for Procter & Gamble and Amazon. In 2015, Seke started Good Tree Capital, based upon his proprietary loan algorithm and with a goal of balancing available economic opportunities for qualified borrowers.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Jason Cummins is the Head of Research and Chief US Economist. In his role, he develops the firm's outlook for the economy, politics and markets, advises the traders on portfolio management, and manages the global research team. 

Jason serves as a trustee on the boards of The Brookings Institution (executive committee) and The Peterson Institute for International Economics (executive committee), and is a member of the Investment Committee of Swarthmore College. He was Chairman of the US Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, a government-appointed panel that advises on debt management, market structure, and financial developments. Formerly, Jason was a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, where he led the macro forecasting team.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Ryan Williams is the founder of the technology-enabled investment platform Cadre. Cadre is an online marketplace that provides institutions and individuals access to previously inaccessible quality real estate and alternative investment opportunities. As Chief Executive Officer of Cadre, Ryan has raised more than $130mm of corporate capital backed by investors such as Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Ford Foundation, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, and others.

At the time of filming, Cadre Cash had just been launched. Investors on Cadre’s real estate investment platform can earn an annualized 3% reward on their cash, 4x higher than leading banks and 60x the national average. “This is all part of our mission to provide more individual investors with greater access to financial products that drive their futures forward.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Russell Read is a Group Managing Partner for the C Change Group of investment funds, companies, and advisors, dedicated to materially transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of natural resources around the globe.

In addition, Dr. Read serves as Senior Advisor to MSCI with respect to crafting solutions for the global asset owner community. Prior to C Change, he was Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, the Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC), and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS).

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Jeb Bush is the 43rd governor of the State of Florida, serving from 1999 through 2007. He was the third Republican elected to the state’s highest office and the first Republican in the state’s history to be reelected. He was most recently a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Governor Bush offers his views on the current discord in American society and where he sees paths forward.

With Baby Boomers aging, younger generations have taken the reins of American culture. There is an erosion of shared identity that has led to more conflict and antagonism among people and their politics. "It's bigger than the current occupant of the White House. I think it is a cultural phenomenon." Gen Z and millennials will likely spark a change akin to other major American movements like the civil rights movement and the 19th century's Second Great Awakening. 

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Stuart Leckie  is the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association and was Chairman of the CFA Institute Advisory Council on Standards and Financial Market Integrity. He is the author of books titled "Investment Funds in China" and "Pension Funds in China".

Hong Kong adopted the Mandatory Provident Fund in the 1990s that required residents to put money away monthly towards a retirement savings account. The Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association was created to address many of the questions surrounding the new program and offer guidance and expertise. 

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Stuart Stevens is the author of seven previous books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief, and K Street. For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation's toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College; and UCLA film school. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Lawrence Rocks received his Master of Science in Chemistry from Purdue University, and his Doctor of Science from Technische Hochschule Vienna, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in German in the field of analytical chemistry. He authored two books, The Energy Crisis (1972) and Developing Your Chemistry Fundamentals and Fuels for Tomorrow, with the former proving influential in creating the United States Department of Energy.

In the immediate future, our dependency on oil will remain constant. Technology needs to advance around extraction and storage before we can look at dialing down our consumption. However, oil and natural gas will likely never fully go away. Instead, we’ll learn how to use both more efficiently and only for industries that truly require the resource.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm focused on providing seed and early-stage funding to technology companies, and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of the new book, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness. 

Investors should be writing out their ideas more frequently. When you’re writing, ideas that may have seemed logical and fantastical in your mind may actually turn out to be disjointed and nonsensical. Only through the logic-inducing process of writing can investors make more sound financial decisions.

There is also no one-size-fits-all description of a successful investor. However, two principles govern their potential for success: patience and the ability to put up with uncertainty. In finance, soft skills like these often get swept under the rug because they’re immediately measurable in charts or returns.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.