Franco Scalamandre

Franco Scalamandre is a Managing Director at Global Emerging Markets (www.gemny.com) and the President and Founder of Sterling Atlantic (www.statl.com). GEM was founded in 1991. The firm is a $3.4 billion alternative investment group that manages a diverse set of investment vehicles focused on emerging markets across the world. The partners have a century of collective experience and as a group have invested in 285 companies across 60 countries. Mr. Scalamandre has completed several of GEM’s notable investments, including Spyker’s SAAB acquisition from General Motors, first time investments in Canada, Korea, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, and others. Mr. Scalamandre has been involved in the global capital markets for 35 years. He is an expert on regional exchanges and cross-border transactions and has been the CEO of various financial companies for over 20 years. He has managed small businesses with international distribution and has financed hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate, early stage ventures, and large scale international infrastructure projects. Mr. Scalamandre founded Sterling Atlantic with Harpal Randhawa several years prior to Sarbanes Oxley with the initial investment thesis that US public markets were structurally impaired for small cap companies due to the companies’ inability to obtain meaningful research coverage. Mr. Randhawa is the founder of the GEM Group, Sabre Capital, and Antfactory Limited. Sterling Atlantic is currently investing primarily outside the United States and has significant inter-regional trading relationships and infrastructure projects in development in addition to its small and mid cap equity investments. Mr. Scalamandre is named after his grandfather Franco Scalamandre, the founder of Scalamandre Silks, Inc.