MESSAGE 18: JON HARTLEY

Jon Hartley

Economics Researcher, Writer and Policy Advisor

Question:  As a leader, what is your message to Americans who are frightened about the future due to the Coronavirus?

Message: Optimism. Things will get better. There have been many disasters in history, including many pandemics. Every time these rare disasters occur, societies recover and grow stronger.

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Jon Hartley is an economics writer and researcher with interests in macroeconomics, finance, and sports analytics.  Jon has been a regular economics contributor for Forbes and The Huffington Post and has had other writings appear in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, and USA Today among many other outlets.

Jon has also appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, Bloomberg, and NBC. He was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 Law & Policy list, the 2017 Wharton 40 Under 40 list and is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

Jon has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Associate and as a Quantitative Investment Strategies Client Portfolio Management Senior Analyst, as a Dallas Cowboys Statistical Analyst and in various policy roles at the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Jon graduated from University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with Honors and from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with an M.B.A. specializing in finance and business economics in addition to being a M.P.P. candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

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MESSAGE 14: ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

Anthony Scaramucci

Founder and Co-Managing Partner, SkyBridge

Question:  As a leader, what is your message to Americans who are frightened about the future due to the Coronavirus?

Message: I started a series with Justin Higgins, ‘America Will Be Back!, Messages from leaders to Americans experiencing COVID-19 adversity.’

My message is to stay brave, put things in perspective, be resilient, and wake up everyday with a gratitude list. It will help you out a lot.

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Anthony Scaramucci is Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SkyBridge focusing on marketing and business development. Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Mr. Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001. Earlier, he was a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.

In 2016, Mr. Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year – New York” Award in the Financial Services category.

Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), vice chair of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board, a board member of both The Brain Tumor Foundation and Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a Trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He was a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2012.

He is the author of three books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, and Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole, a 2016 Wall Street Journal best seller.

In November 2016, Mr. Scaramucci was named to President-Elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he was named the Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for a period in July 2017.

Mr. Scaramucci received a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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Video and Photo: Courtesy Anthony Scaramucci

MESSAGE 9: KEVIN MALONE

Kevin Malone

Head of Business Development, North America, ISI Emerging Markets

Question:  As a leader, what is your message to Americans who are frightened about the future due to the Coronavirus?

Message: First and foremost, it's OK to feel fear. I, like just about everyone, have felt a certain level of it over the last few weeks, especially at the onset of this situation. Fear is the first in a series of emotions we inevitably go through when confronting a challenge. However, it's important to remember that fear is generally related to lack of control of the future as opposed to our present situation. What we do have control over is what we are choosing to do with this open-ended time Covid-19 has forced on us. 

The kind of emotional shift we're all going through should propel us to come out of this situation better than how we entered it. A genuine appreciation for life and its fragility, the importance of health and family, and the individual role we each play in determining the quality of the world we live in. As leaders, the same thing applies. Just as we must shift personally, so must business strategies. We must create adjustable paths that move in sync with this new reality and then turn those paths into new ideas.

We will get through this just as we have previous challenges, the key is for everyone to do our part in shaping the outcome and being about something bigger than ourselves. 

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Kevin Malone is the Head of Business Development for North America at ISI Emerging Markets, a firm that provides data and intelligence to global investors.

He co-founded and is a strategic advisor for NorthStar Consulting, a tourism and strategy implementation firm focused on the Caribbean market. He is also an executive member of Revenue Collective, a private membership organization for commercial growth operators.

Prior to this, Kevin worked in the macroeconomic research field as a Director of Business Development at Medley Global Advisors and Roubini Global Economics where he was of charge of new and existing business with hedge funds, asset managers and family offices. 

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Photo: Courtesy Kevin Malone