Franco Scalamandre is the Managing Director and Founder of Sterling Atlantic.  Sterling Atlantic is a family office founded in 2006 with the goal of co-investing in undervalued growth companies that have the opportunity for exponential expansions of their customer and shareholder bases. Sterling Atlantic works with companies to clarify their capital markets message communicated to select shareholder groups and coinvests in financial support to achieve the companies short- and long-term goals. We utilize artificial intelligence to focus on company valuation and the connectivity between business, finance, economics, physics, and mathematics.

Franco Scalamandre was a Managing Director of a leading alternative investment firm and was responsible for many of its first-time investments, including Korea, Poland, Hungary, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, and investing in Spyker’s €875 million acquisition of SAAB from General Motors.

Mr. Scalamandre received his Bachelor of Arts degree Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in 1979.  His honors thesis topic was “Price Vacillation-A New Look at Marketability on the New York Stock Exchange” in which he completed a full scale computer model of exchange stock trading including an electronic specialist in order to analyze the effect of the specialist system on liquidity and pricing efficiency. 

He was awarded the Harvard Scholarship for "Academic Distinction of the Highest Achievement during the Academic Year."   Mr. Scalamandre is named after his grandfather Franco Scalamandre, the founder of Scalamandre Silks, Inc.