Amy Nauiokas is the founder and CEO of Anthemis Group, a digital financial services investment firm and the founder and CEO of Archer Gray, a media production company. She previously worked at

Cantor Fitzgerald Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is an American financial services firm that was founded in 1945. It specializes in institutional equity, fixed income sales and trading, and serving the middle market with investment banking services, prime brokerage, an ...

and Barclays Stockbrokers.

Wall Street career

Nauiokas was a senior managing director at Cantor in September 2001 when

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attacked the

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, where the firm was based. The attacks claimed the lives of 658 Cantor employees, and CEO

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appointed Nauiokas to the role of corporate spokesperson. In 2004, she left the firm for Barclays Capital. At the time of her departure, she was Cantor's director of global marketing, investor relations, and human resources.Lugo, Denise. "Out Takes: Amy Nauiokas." Investment Dealers Digest. July 19, 2004. At Barclays Capital, Nauiokas was the head of

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. 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

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firm focused on disruptive financial technologies.Dixon, Pascale. "Nauiokas Park Invests in Property Website Zoopla.co.uk." Business Wire. January 19, 2009. The firm was sold to the Anthemis Group in fall 2010, Anthemis' investments included

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, Simple Bank (sold to BBVA for $117 million in 2014), Payoff,

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(sold to Monsanto for $930 million in 2013), and

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(sold to

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for an undisclosed amount in 2016).

Archer Gray

In 2009, Nauiokas began independently financing and producing movies and plays, such as ''

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'' (winner of eight

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s) and ''

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''. In 2011, Nauiokas started Archer Gray to invest in media startups and in the development of film, television, and plays. Archer Gray has produced six feature films and four

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plays and invested in ten companies.

Filmography

* ''

Greetings from Tim Buckley ''Greetings from Tim Buckley'' is a 2012 American film directed by Daniel Algrant starring Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots. The film follows the journey Jeff Buckley took in grappling with the legacy of his late musician father, Tim, leading up to a ...

'' (2012) * ''

'' (2013) * ''

Ten Thousand Saints ''Ten Thousand Saints'' is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. It is based on the novel of the same name by Eleanor Henderson. The film stars Asa Butterfield as Jude Keffy-Horn, the protagon ...

'' (2015) * ''

The Diary of a Teenage Girl ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the hybrid novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner. It stars Bel Powley as a 15-year-old girl who becomes sexually active ...

'' (2015) * ''Mr Holmes'' (2015) * ''

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'' (2016) * ''

Can You Ever Forgive Me ''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' is a 2018 American biographical film directed by Marielle Heller and with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, based on the 2008 confessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel. Melissa McCarthy stars ...

,'' (2018) directed by

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and starring

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Personal life

Nauiokas graduated from

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

in 1994 with a B.A. in International Studies.Outstanding Young Alumni Award Citation. Dickinson College. May 2006
She received a master's degree in International Business from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She is a trustee of Dickinson and a member of the New Markets Women's Advisory Board at Credit Suisse. In 2010, Nauiokas launched Bubble Foundation to offer exercise and nutrition programming to low-income children in New York City charter schools.Hendrickson, V.L. "Putting 'Pop' in Nutrition." The Wall Street Journal. September 18, 2012

/ref> It later merged with

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. Nauiokas is married to Barclays banker Harry Harrison and was previously wed to James Connolly, an artist and chef.Leary, Ann. "Amy Nauiokas Trades Wall Street for a Horse Farm." Equestrian Quarterly. Spring 2013

/ref> Her family divides their time between New York City and Washington Depot, Connecticut, where they own an Equestrian facility, Equestrian Center.

References

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