SALT Talks

Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Manna Tree Partners, a private equity company focused on growth equity investments in companies that will revolutionize the food supply chain.

In the COVID era, health and wellness can save your life. Only 12% of the United States population is metabolically healthy, and the Middle East has the highest rates of diabetes globally. “I don’t think we fully understood the linkages between human health and a poor diet until the last five years.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Daniel Okrent is the prize-winning author of six books, most recently The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. He was also the corporate Editor-at-Large at Time Inc., and was the first public editor of The New York Times. 

Daniel’s latest book covers the false science of eugenics, a set of practices aimed to “improve” the genetic quality of the human population. “It seems to me that we as a species need somebody to look down on. I don’t know why that’s the case.” Daniel also discusses the blanket term “whiteness” and how its expansion seems to be based on familiarity with a race or culture. 

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Shelley Zalis is the Chief Executive Officer of The Female Quotient, a female-owned business committed to advancing equality. At the current rate of progress, it will take over 200 years to close the global gender pay gap and over 100 years to close the overall gender gap. Since 2013, Shelley has been working full-time to catalyze equality.

How do we enact meaningful change? “We need to rewrite policies with better parental leave policies, healthcare policies and mobility policies.” Pledges are great and well-meaning, but action is needed like that of Salesforce.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Peter Mallouk is the President of Creative Planning, which provides comprehensive wealth management services to its clients. Peter is a pioneer of the Independent RIA model, with clients in all 50 U.S. states and abroad.

Turning to active vs. passive management, he notes that the latter has indeed outperformed the former since 1980. “Large tech companies make up almost a fourth of the S&P 500,” he explains. Should their performance change, it will have a profound effect on passive management’s appeal, and there may be a move away from yield-oriented assets to alternative assets.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Jim McCann is the Founder & Executive Chairman of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc., which he grew into one of the world’s leading floral and gourmet gifting companies. The company’s namesake was the result of a well-timed purchase during the 800-number craze.

Jim ran St. John’s Home for Boys, a group home for teenage boys, for fourteen years. He also worked multiple side jobs: covering odd shifts at a clothing store, flipping houses and bartending. Jim had the opportunity to buy his first flower shop for $10,000 just after he had sold a building in Brooklyn for $10,000, a serendipitous event he couldn’t say no to.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security correspondent and CNN Newsroom anchor. In his latest book, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World, Sciutto looks at how a provocative approach to foreign relations, made famous by Richard Nixon, is today employed by President Trump on the world stage.

Trump’s mindset around America's relationship with other nations is understood in one word: transactional. “Trump's view of the world with adversaries and allies is ‘What are you doing for me? What are you doing for us?’” This has often led to extremely narrow points of view on issues where President Trump doesn’t see the big picture as it relates to broader alliances. We see this playing out with China. Tensions have escalated sharply under the Trump administration with a trade war and attacks on industries like Huawei and TikTok.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Alan Patricof is the founder of Apax Partners, leading global private equity advisory firm, and co-founder of Greycroft, a venture capital firm focusing on investments in the internet and mobile markets.

With a 50-plus year career in venture capital, Alan Patricof has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Ben Huneke is a Managing Director and Head of the Investments Solutions Group of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.  

His responsibilities include product development, marketing and distribution of investment products. These include annuities and insurance, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, private debt, equity and real estate funds, as well as individual equities, fixed income, and structured products.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Douglas Monticciolo is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder of Brevet Capital Management, a leader in helping government agencies to solve complex problems. Doug has now been leading Brevet for over 20 years.

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a significant opportunity for Brevet’s finance-as-a-service model. As a result of the CARES Act, Doug is partnering with research and development companies to manufacture potentially game-changing point-of-care tests.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Stephanie Link is the chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower, a national wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices, as well as 401(k) consulting and cash management services to corporations.

In this conversation, Stephanie discusses how the economic fallout from a pandemic is uniquely different from previous crises like the 2008 recession where financial institutions were responsible for much of the disaster. Lessons learned from the Federal Reserve are being put to use this time around. Chairman Jerome Powell has proven comfortable providing aggressive quantitative easing to support a pandemic-ravaged economy.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.