SALT Talks

Dr. Vivek Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States from December 2014 to April 2017. 

As America’s Doctor, he called the nation’s attention to critical public health issues including the opioid epidemic, e-cigaretes and emotional health and wellbeing. Prior to serving in government, he conducted research on vaccine development and clinical trial participation and founded several organizations focused on HIV/AIDS education, rural health, physician advocacy and clinical trial optimization. 

He is the author of Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. After being sworn in, Dr. Murthy embarked on a listening tour to see what was affecting communities across the United States. He found that, regardless of occupation, location or economic status, there was a crisis of loneliness that was not being formally addressed. Anywhere from 22-50% of people suffer from loneliness, far more than the number of people currently living with diabetes. 

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

His Excellency Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi is the Director General of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), the central government hub supporting investment in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining ADIO, His Excellency held leadership roles at Emirates NBD, Mubadala and Citibank.

AgTech has long been a focus of the Abu Dhabi government. With the pandemic requiring countries to refocus on basics like food and pharmaceuticals, the Emirate has leaned even further into the burgeoning industry, attracting companies like US-based AeroFarms to set up local operations. “If anything, in core sectors that are fundamental to the stability of an economy, we’ve been very active.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

William Cohan is a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street. He is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and is hard at work on his new book about the rise and fall of GE. Bill led an unforgettable interview at SALT Las Vegas with Magic Johnson in 2014.

“People love to bask Wall Street,” frequently without fully recognizing what it is Wall Street does and how it keeps the economy going as we know it. Without Wall Street providing capital to businesses around the world, opportunities to create new companies and industries wouldn’t be possible. On the flip side, more needs to be done to support companies like mom-and-pop shops that cannot gain access to this capital, especially during economically distressing times.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Episode 2 includes an overview on the MORE Act, social justice reform and the possible results of the 2020 Presidential Election.

David Culver, Vice President of US Government and Stakeholder Relations for Canopy Growth Corporation.

Patrick Martin, Principal & Director of Midwest Public Strategies for Cozen O’Connor.

Erik Huey, President of Platinum Advisors.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Boaz Weinstein is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, a $3.2 billion credit hedge fund based in New York City. Saba was founded in 2009 as a liftout of the Deutsche Bank proprietary credit trading group he started in 1998. Boaz leads a team of 33 professionals, with the senior members having worked together for 15 years.

As a credit investor whose formative years were spent in volatile periods, Boaz was far more interested in finding ways to capture moments where you can own volatility. Prior to COVID, credit markets were ultra stable, even in equity markets. The team at Saba examined market volatility and found opportunities when credit spreads were overvalued, leading to gains in early and mid-2020.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Badr Al Olama is the Executive Director of Aerospace for Mubadala Investment Company, a global investment company with a mandate to create sustainable financial returns for Abu Dhabi. He oversees key portfolio assets including Strata Manufacturing, where he served as Chief Executive Officer at the age of 32, and Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park, a development supporting the establishment of a sustainable aerospace industry in the Emirate.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Nabyl Al Maskari is the Executive Chairman of Al Maskari Holding (AMH), a privately-owned holding company of the Al Maskari portfolio and controls the family's operating subsidiaries, joint venture companies, strategic partnerships, and private equity. AMH traces its foundation to 1968 with the establishment of the Al Maskaria Group in Abu Dhabi to engage in petroleum trading and oil field services.

Founded in 1971, the United Arab Emirates is the youngest country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). For comparison, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, celebrated its 90th Saudi National Day on the day of filming. The region has been characterized by its relationship with oil, but families like the Al Maskari are showing that it’s far more than a source of capital.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Michael Weisz is the Founder & President of Yieldstreet, an alternative investment platform focused on generating passive income streams for investors.

Gil Mandelzis is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Capitolis, the leading SaaS platform driving financial resource optimization for capital markets.

Post-financial crisis, we are seeing fewer, larger banks with more constraints on their capital, meaning there is abundant independent capital seeking out returns. With this comes the need for regulation, something that separates FinTech from other industries like ride sharing.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Brian Stelter is the anchor of “Reliable Sources,” which examines the week’s top media stories every Sunday at 11:00am ET on CNN. He’s also the network’s Chief Media Correspondent. His new book, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, tells the twisted story of the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News.

The internet changed how we interacted with the news. “It made us all our own publishers.” There’s an obvious benefit to a diverse ecosystem of thought, and bad-faith actors playing to extremes take advantage of it. Trump and his media outlets are then able to go out and tell a powerful, compelling story about the “deep state” and white victimhood, but in the end, “it doesn’t add up.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Ed Roman is the Managing Director of Hack VC, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, with the mission of democratizing access to top start-ups for investors. He is also the Founder of hack.summit(), the world’s largest blockchain event, which aims to support technology non-profits.

Hiring and investing during the COVID-19 pandemic may seem counter-intuitive, but tech unicorns like Slack, Square and GitHub we use today were borne out of crises. “The greatest challenge start-ups face is finding the right people.” Hire at a time when top-tier talent is most readily available. 

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.