As of Friday, you can find him in the West Wing, but incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci spent his formative years in the Boston area.
Scaramucci, 53, graduated from Tufts University in Medford in 1986 and spent the next few years about 2 miles south at Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1989, according to publications from those institutions.
Scaramucci, known as ‘‘The Mooch,’’ is now a New York-based financier who founded and is a managing partner at SkyBridge Capital, an investment firm that manages or advises $11.4 billion in assets, its website says.
But he has maintained his connections to both of his Massachusetts alma maters.
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At Tufts, Scaramucci has served on the board of overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences and as a member of the university’s Beyond Boundaries campaign committee.
He also has been cochairman of the Tufts Financial Network, which was created to help Tufts students interested in finance careers to network with and receive mentoring from experienced professionals.
“Tufts has an excellent reputation with the finance community; we have some very high profile people who have gone to Tufts,” Scaramucci said in 2010. “The TFN reaches out to younger people and helps them network and create opportunities for themselves.”
That same year, he also spoke to students at Harvard Law, where he talked about his biggest regret from his time there, according to an account of the visit.
“I was very intimidated by Harvard Law School and thought I was in for massive annihilation, so I holed up in Langdell and spent too much time there,” Scaramucci said, referring to the law school library. “I wish I had spent more time meeting my classmates. I encourage students to spend time meeting each other.”
Scaramucci’s visit coincided with the release of the Oliver Stone film “Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps,” on which the entrepreneur had served as an adviser. He also briefly appears in the film as himself.
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Last year, Scaramucci visited Harvard Law for a 45-minute fireside chat, and he gave students a tip about their educations, according to a report of the speech.
“I have one piece of advice I want all of you to take with you when you leave this school: immediately quit acting like you went to Harvard Law School,” he told students. “The sooner you stop acting like a Harvard alumnus, the better off your career will be.”
Scaramucci spoke candidly about mistakes he had made as a young Harvard Law graduate, including putting prestige ahead of suitability when pursuing jobs. He encouraged students to pursue their passions.
“From age 12 to age 20,” he said, “there’s something you did that you were passionate about. . . . Working with your hands, writing, selling, etc. For me, my experience selling motorcycles in my uncle’s shop showed me . . . my passion [for sales]. So I tapped into that passion, and now I am doing what I love.”
He also expressed his appreciation to Harvard on Twitter last year:
.@Harvard_Law thanks for accepting me 30 years ago today on @ronaldreagan40 75th birthday it made all of the difference.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) February 6, 2016
As his star has grown on Wall Street, Scaramucci has been generous in his support of politicians, giving money to many prominent Democrats as well as to Republicans, a review of donation data shows.
In 2009, he gave $4,800 to Harry Reid, a Democrat who was then the Senate majority leader. In 2007, he made a $2,300 donation to Hillary Clinton and gave the same amount to Barack Obama, who went on to defeat Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and then to be elected president.
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But that same year, Scaramucci also gave to then-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, and he gave earlier to Republicans Rick Lazio and former president George W. Bush.
He attracted attention in 2010 when he told Obama — whose studies at Harvard Law overlapped with Scaramucci’s — that Wall Street bankers “felt like a pinata” being “whacked with a stick” by Obama.
That appearance attracted the attention of then-“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, who advised Scaramucci to “walk it off.”
Then, in 2012, Scaramucci raised money for Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the New York Times reported, and served as Romney’s finance cochairman.
Over the years, he has expressed some political views on Twitter that might not sit well with his new boss. In 2012, Scaramucci posted a tweet calling Hillary Clinton “incredibly competent.”
In late 2015, he tweeted a sentiment that appears to refer disparagingly to then-candidate Trump’s plan to build a wall along the US border with Mexico.
Despite Scaramucci’s past breaks with his boss, he made it clear today that he’s on board with the administration he’s joining.
“I think he’s got some of the best political instincts in the world, and perhaps in history,” Scaramucci said of Trump, going on to add, “He’s done a phenomenal job for the American people.”
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Jeremy C. Fox can be reached at jeremy.fox@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeremycfox.