David Schamis

Currently, David Ira Schamis is President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Hyperliquid Strategies, Inc. since 2025.
He is Director at South Street Securities LLC, Marsh, Berry & Co., Inc., South Street Securities Holdings, Inc., Ascensus Group Holdings, Inc., Cascadia Capital LLC, Proformex Inc, and Credicom Consumer Finance Bank SA. He serves as Director at Panmure Gordon Group Ltd. since 2017 and is a Trustee for the Village of Sands Point (New York).
He is Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Atlas Merchant Capital LLC since 2013.
Formerly, he was Chairman at Crump Insurance Services, Inc. and CGI JCF, Inc. from 2005 to 2011.
He was Independent Director at MF Global Holdings Ltd. in 2011 and at Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. He was Director at Symetra Financial Corp.
and First Symetra National Life Insurance Company of New York from 2004 to 2010.
He was Director at Fox-Pitt, Kelton Ltd. from 2005 to 2009.
He was Managing Director at J.C.
Flowers & Co. LLC from 2000 to 2014.
He was Non-Executive Director at Panmure Liberum & Co. Ltd. from 2017 to 2024.
He was Director at AqGen Ascensus, Inc., Vivabank SA, Concord Acquisition Corp., and Somerset Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. Education includes an undergraduate degree from Yale University, conferred in 1995.