[Past Event] Atlas Global Economic Update Presented By Worth

Bob Diamond Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Merchant Capital Bob Diamond is Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital, a global financial services investment firm with offices in New York and London. Atlas brings its deep operating experience and extensive industry relationships to optimize business and financial performance.  Atlas currently manages investments across the US and Europe through its private equity fund and has recently launched a credit platform focused on sub-investment grade and distressed corporate credit.  Mr. Diamond was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Barclays plc.  Before that he held a variety of senior executive positions at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Diamond holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colby College in Maine and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, and was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut and Doctor of Laws from Colby College.

Larry Kantor Operating Partner, Atlas Merchant Capital Mr. Kantor is an Operating Partner at Atlas Merchant Capital and is based in New York. Mr. Kantor is currently a member of the Investment Committee at Betterment, an online wealth management company with AUM of over $30 billion. Previously, Mr. Kantor served as an Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow at Harvard University, and prior to that, spent over 10 years as a Managing Director and Head of Research at Barclays Capital. Prior to joining Barclays Capital, Mr. Kantor was the Head of Foreign Exchange Strategy and Chief European Economist at J.P. Morgan. Before J.P. Morgan, he was a Chief Economist and strategist at Normandy Asset Management. Mr. Kantor also served as an Economist at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Lehigh University. Mr. Kantor is a member of the boards of Economic Mobility Pathways, a nonprofit that helps low-income families get out and stay out of poverty, and of Ideas42, a nonprofit that uses behavioral science to solve global social problems. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Ohio State University.