Amy Nauiokas

Amy Nauiokas is the founder and CEO of Archer Gray, a media production, finance, and investment company, and the founder and president of Anthemis Group, the digital financial services investment and advisory firm. Until 2008, she was the CEO of Barclays Stockbrokers.

Wall Street career

Nauiokas worked at Bankers Trust and Bear Stearns before joining Cantor Fitzgerald in 2000. She was a senior managing director at Cantor in September 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, where the firm was based.^[1] The attacks claimed the lives of 658 Cantor employees, and Nauiokas, 28, was soon appointed corporate spokesperson by CEO Howard Lutnick. By the time she left in 2004 (bound for Barclays Capital), she was Cantor's senior managing director and director of global marketing, investor relations, and human resources.^[2] At Barclays Capital, Nauiokas was the head of eCommerce.^[2] She remained in that position until 2006, when she became CEO of Barclays Stockbrokers.

Anthemis

After leaving Barclays Stockbrokers in 2008, Nauiokas co-founded Nauiokas Park, a venture capital firm focused on disruptive financial technologies.^[3] Nauiokas Park's portfolio included companies like Zoopla and Seedcamp.^[3] The firm was sold to the Anthemis Group in fall 2010. Since then, Anthemis has developed a portfolio of financial technology investments that includes The Climate Corporation (sold to Monsanto for $930 million in 2013) and Simple Bank (sold to BBVA for $117 million in 2014), as well as an advisory business for established financial firms. In January 2015, Nauiokas returned to Anthemis as the company's president.

Archer Gray

In 2010, Nauiokas began exploring a longstanding interest in the arts, particularly film and theatre. She joined Smuggler Films as a partner, leading its development fund and serving as a creative advisor.^[4] Soon after, Nauiokas combined her interests in venture capital and the media arts by founding Archer Gray, a media production, finance, and venture investment company.

Media Production

Archer Gray's early Broadway theater projects included the musical Once, the comedy Seminar, and the drama Dead Accounts, and its early film projects included Greetings from Tim Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was released in October 2013 by Lionsgate Films. Once earned eight Tony Awards, and both Seminar and Dead Accounts opened to significant critical acclaim; both Greetings from Tim Buckley and Inevitable Defeat received positive reviews, with Inevitable Defeat earning an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating that the film's 27 reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Inevitable Defeat was screened in January 2014 at the White House by First Lady Michelle Obama, who labeled it one of her favorite films of the year.^[5]

In April 2013, Nauiokas brought on Anne Carey to serve as Archer Gray's president of production.^[4] Since then, Archer Gray has completed production on two more films: Little Accidents, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and The Diary of a Teenage Girl.^[6][7] Archer Gray has another film, Ten Thousand Saints, in post-production, and is currently shooting Mr. Holmes, a mystery starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney.^[8]

Personal life

Nauiokas graduated from Dickinson College in 1994 with a B.A. in International Studies.^[9] She went on to earn a master's degree in International Business from Columbia University.^[9] She is a trustee of Dickinson, a member of the New Markets Women's Advisory Board at Credit Suisse, and board chair of Make-A-Wish International.^[10] Nauiokas also founded her own charitable organization, the Bubble Foundation, in 2010.^[11] Bubble offers exercise and nutrition programming to low-income children in New York City charter schools.^[11] Nauiokas is married to Harry Harrison, an executive at Barclays Bank. She was previously married to James Connolly, an artist and chef.^[12] Her family divides their time between London and Washington Depot, Connecticut, where they own the Washington Equestrian Center.^[12]

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