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 mispriced growth companies that have the opportunity for exponential expansions of their customer and shareholder bases. Sterling has a strong background in capital markets theory and execution, and focuses on mathematically identifying mispriced companies, eliminating the risk that their future value occurs, and dealing with the capital markets appropriately so that our portfolio company’s current value appreciates to near their well-defined future value in preferably less than 12 months. We do this while minimizing dilution to current shareholders to synergistically avoid substantial value transfers away from current shareholders.

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.