Sasha Favelukis

Co-Founder, CoPlace

Sasha (Alexander) Favelukis is an investor and innovator who has been disrupting the financial investments space for more than 20 years. Favelukis is currently a Co-Founder of CoPlace, an investment and advisory firm that focuses on activating distressed areas by revitalizing their local communities and business ecosystems.

CoPlace’s mission is to transform communities while generating positive ROI and propelling economic growth. Favelukis and his team have completed multiple socially and economically impactful CoPlace projects, which have received awards and garnered international attention from industry, governmental, and academic groups.

Favelukis’ work with CoPlace has allowed him to truly fulfill his lifelong mantra, “Live With Purpose,” and CoPlace’s success has motivated investment funds, developers, and municipalities to seek out Favelukis and his team members as advisors. Since 2008, Favelukis has helped facilitate over $250 million in private real estate investment transactions.

Favelukis believes that community-driven development creates positive social impacts for residents and builds long-term ROI for investors. He is focused on creating environments in which each resident owns their responsibility to their community and tries to develop their best self.

Christopher Dupuy

Managing Director, Rockefeller Capital Management

Chris Dupuy is a Managing Director for Rockefeller Capital Management and serves as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Rockefeller Private Wealth, based in the firm’s San Francisco Hub.

Chris joined Rockefeller in 2018 from Focus Financial Partners, where he was a Managing Director and President of Focus Independence.

Prior to joining Focus in 2014, Dupuy spent 29 years with Merrill Lynch. Beginning as a Financial Advisor in the 1980’s, Chris rose to senior leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, including National Sales Manager for Merrill’s 700 branches in the United States and Latin America. Chris would go on to become Chief Operating Officer of Merrill Lynch’s Americas Bank Group, Managing Director of the Merrill Lynch Global Investment Solutions businesses worldwide, and concluded his time at Merrill Lynch overseeing the firm’s Private Banking, International Private Client and Wealth Management business units in California and throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Chris and his wife Diane reside in the Bay Area and have two grown daughters. He is a graduate of James Madison University.

Robert Duggan

Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager, SkyBridge

Robert W. Duggan, CFA, is a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at SkyBridge Capital. As Senior Portfolio Manager, Mr. Duggan has oversight of the firm’s discretionary portfolios and institutional separate accounts. He is also a member of the Portfolio Allocation and Real Estate Investment committees. Mr. Duggan’s responsibilities include portfolio management, manager sourcing, research and due diligence across a wide variety of alternative investment strategies. Prior to joining SkyBridge in June 2010, Mr. Duggan performed the same function in the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments (CAI). Before joining CAI, he was a senior analyst at International Asset Management (IAM), where he was responsible for sourcing and monitoring the firm’s US based hedge fund investments across a broad range of investment strategies. Prior to IAM, Mr. Duggan held research analyst roles at Northern Trust Global Advisors and Alpha Investment Management.

Mr. Duggan received a B.A. in Economics from Fordham University and is a CFA charterholder.

David Dredge

Chief Investment Officer, Convex Strategies

Mr. David Dredge is Chief Investment Officer of Convex Strategies Pte Ltd, and previously CIO of Convex Strategies at both City Financial Investment Company Pte Ltd, and Fortress Investment Group Singapore Pte Ltd. Prior to joining Fortress, he was Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Artradis Fund Management in Singapore from 2009-2011 where he was responsible for the fixed income aspects of their volatility based portfolio.

Mr Dredge is a long time Asian Financial Market participant, having originally come to the region in 1987 with Bank of America. He spent the next four and a half years performing various trading roles in Singapore, Jakarta, Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong during a critical period of market development and deregulation. Subsequently, Mr Dredge built and ran innovative Emerging Market Trading and Sales businesses for Bankers Trust through the 1990s and ABN Amro/RBS until stepping out of the banking side of the business.

Mr Dredge graduated from University of Utah with a degree in Finance, and completed an MBA at the University of California, Berkeley. David continues to be involved in market development activities, sitting as a main committee member of the Singapore Foreign Exchange Markets Committee (SFEMC), having previously served roles as the Main Committee Vice Chairman and as the Chair of the Market Development Sub-Committee.

Laura Doss-Hertz

Co-Founder, SkySource

Laura Doss-Hertz is the co-founder of Skysource, the Grand Prize winner of The Water Abundance XPRIZE. In partnership with her husband David Hertz FAIA, they created Skysource, a social impact enterprise focused on creating deployable atmospheric water solutions that address all aspects of global water issues.

Before starting Skysource, Doss-Hertz ran her own Advertising and Lifestyle Photography business and worked as a Photojournalist for The Detroit News, The New York Times Company, The Miami Herald, and Associated Press.

Doss-Hertz also serves on the board of The Bay Foundation, Venice Community Healing Gardens, Watts Tech Garden at LAUSD Edwin Markham Middle School in Watts, and The LA Mission Rooftop Garden Project.

Additionally, Doss-Hertz is a storyteller, an environmentalist, a humanitarian and a concerned citizen with the goal to educate and inspire others to leave this planet a better place.

Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian

Director, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian is the director of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. His career in the U.S. Foreign Service spanned the administrations of eight presidents from John F. Kennedy to William J. Clinton. Djerejian is a leading expert on national security, foreign policy, and the complex political, security, economic, religious and ethnic issues of the Middle East and South Asia. He has played key roles in the Arab-Israeli peace process and regional conflict resolution. He is the author of “Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East.”

Prior to his nomination as U.S. ambassador to Israel, he served both President George H.W. Bush and President Clinton as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs and President Ronald Reagan and President Bush as U.S. ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic. He was special assistant to President Reagan and deputy press secretary for foreign affairs in the White House.

Djerejian’s assignments in the Foreign Service included political officer in Beirut, Lebanon, and Casablanca, Morocco; deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Jordan; and consul general in Bordeaux, France. He headed the political section in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the critical period in U.S.-Soviet relations marked by the invasion of Afghanistan. He served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant in the Republic of Korea following his graduation from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Georgetown, as well as a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Middlebury College.

Djerejian has been awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award; the Department of State’s Distinguished Honor Award; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; the Anti-Defamation League’s Moral Statesman Award; the Award for Humanitarian Diplomacy from Netanya Academic College in Israel; the National Order of the Cedar, bestowed by President Émile Lahoud of Lebanon; the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, bestowed by King Mohammed VI of Morocco; and the Order of Honor, bestowed by President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia. He is also a recipient of the Association of Rice Alumni’s Gold Medal for his service to the university. Djerejian is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

At the request of Secretary of State Colin Powell, Djerejian chaired the congressionally mandated bipartisan Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World. He also served as senior advisor to the Iraq Study Group (ISG), a bipartisan panel mandated by Congress to assess the situation in Iraq. The Baker Institute was an organizing sponsor of the ISG.

Djerejian is married to the former Françoise Andrée Liliane Marie Haelters. They have a son, Gregory Peter Djerejian; a daughter, Francesca Natalia Djerejian; and two grandchildren, Isabel Alessandra Djerejian and Sebastian Edward Djerejian.

Derek Devens, CFA

Managing Director & Senior Portfolio Manager, Option Group, Neuberger Berman

Derek Devens, CFA, joined the firm in 2016. Derek is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Option Group. Prior to Neuberger Berman, Derek was responsible for both Research and Portfolio Management at Horizon Kinetics. Derek was a member of the Investment Committee and responsible for co-managing the Kinetics Alternative Income Fund and various separate account strategies. Prior to Horizon Kinetics, Derek was a Vice President with Goldman Sachs’ Global Manager Strategies Group where he was responsible for conducting investment manager research. Previously, Derek was a fixed income portfolio manager at both Fischer Francis Trees & Watts as well as Bond Logistix. He received a BS in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from New York University. He has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Terrence Dempsey

Product Manager, Fidelity Digital Assets

Terrence Dempsey is Product Manager at Fidelity Digital AssetsSM, which provides enterprise-grade digital asset solutions for institutional investors.

Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Terrence spent nearly 5 years as the operations lead for the Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC) at Digital Currency Group’s asset management arm, Grayscale Investments. Terrence has also spent time in various trading and capital markets roles at SecondMarket prior to its sale to Nasdaq.

Terrence holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Marist College.

Clayton DeGiacinto

Founder & Managing Partner, Axonic Capital

Mr. DeGiacinto is the Founder and Managing Partner of Axonic Capital LLC, a $2.6 billion independent investment management firm focused on structured credit and systematic fixed income opportunities. He serves as the Chief Investment Officer for the firm’s investment funds and commercial lending business.

Prior to founding Axonic Capital LLC in 2010, Mr. DeGiacinto was responsible for building out the mortgage investment platform at Tower Research Capital and was the Senior Portfolio Manager for Split Level LLC, the predecessor fund to the Axonic Credit Opportunities Funds. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. DeGiacinto was Vice President in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Group at Goldman Sachs.

He previously served as an Army Ranger and Captain in the US Army 25th Infantry Division from 1995 to 2000. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Board of Directors of Team Rubicon, Inc.

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Chief Executive Officer, E.L. Rothschild

Since June 2002, Lady de Rothschild has been the Chief Executive of E.L. Rothschild LLC, a private investment company. She is also the Founder and CEO of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, a charity devoted to advancing economic and social inclusion.

E.L. Rothschild invests in media, asset management, luxury consumer goods and real estate worldwide. Holdings include The Economist Group (UK), Bronfman/E L Rothschild (US), R Chocolate London, real estate and financial instruments. Lady de Rothschild is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Estee Lauder Companies (and Chair of the Nominating and Board Affairs Committee), serving since December 2000, and was a Board member of The Economist Newspaper Limited (member of the Audit Committee) from October 2002-2017. She is a member of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (and the Executive Committee), the McCain Institute for International Leadership and the ERANDA Rothschild Foundation (de Rothschild family foundation).

In addition to being a keynote speaker at various public events (CNBC, Bloomberg), Lady de Rothschild has been a featured speaker for the United Nations, the World Bank, Conference of Montreal, the OECD, the British Academy, The Economist’s World In series, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, Tsinghua and Peking University, and the Royal Society of the United Services. Her opinion pieces have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian and The Daily Beast. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In October 2007, Lady de Rothschild was awarded the Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. She graduated Magna cum Laude and Beta Kappa from Pomona College in Claremont, CA (1976) and from Columbia University School of Law, NYC (1980) with a Juris Doctor with honors.

Nancy Davis

Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Quadratic Capital Management

Nancy Davis founded Quadratic Capital Management in 2013 and is the portfolio manager for The Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge ETF (ticker: IVOL).

Ms. Davis began her career at Goldman Sachs where she spent nearly ten years, the last seven at the proprietary trading group where she rose to become the Head of Credit, Derivatives and OTC Trading. Prior to starting Quadratic, she served as a portfolio manager at Highbridge where she managed $500 million of capital in a derivatives-only portfolio. She later served in a senior executive role at AllianceBernstein.

Ms. Davis writes and speaks frequently about markets and investing. She has been published in Institutional Investor, Absolute Return and Financial News, and has contributed papers to two books. She has been interviewed by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, New York Magazine and Le Figaro. Ms. Davis has also appeared on CNBC, CNN, Reuters, Sina, and Bloomberg.

Alper Daglioglu

Managing Director & Head of Global investment Manager Analysis, Morgan Stanley

Alper Daglioglu is a managing director at Morgan Stanley and currently heads the Global Investment Manager Analysis (GIMA) group, which is responsible for all manager research and due diligence efforts on traditional and alternative investment strategies. Previously, he was the head of manager research for alternative investment strategies within Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Prior to that, Mr. Daglioglu was the Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley Managed Futures. Prior to that role, he was a Senior Analyst at the Product Origination Group within Morgan Stanley Managed Futures Department. In addition to his responsibilities within Managed Futures Department, Mr. Daglioglu was also the lead investment analyst for Global Macro and Managed Futures strategies within Morgan Stanley Graystone Research Group. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Galatasaray University and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management. He was awarded a full merit scholarship and research assistantship at the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets during his graduate studies. In this capacity, he worked with various major financial institutions in performance monitoring, asset allocation and statistical analysis projects and specialized on alternative approaches to risk assessment for hedge funds and managed futures. Mr. Daglioglu wrote and published numerous research papers on alternative investments. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst charterholder.

Ambassador Ryan Crocker

Diplomat in Residence, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University

Ryan Crocker is a Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, for the academic year 2017-2018. He is on a leave of absence from Texas A&M where he is an executive professor at Texas A&M University where he served as dean of the Bush School of Government & Public Service until August 2016. He also has had appointments as the James Schlesinger Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and the first Kissinger Senior Fellow at Yale University.

He retired from the Foreign Service in April 2009 after a career of over 37 years but was recalled to active duty by President Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in 2011. He has served as U.S. Ambassador six times: Afghanistan (2011-2012), Iraq (2007-2009), Pakistan (2004-2007), Syria (1998-2001), Kuwait (1994-1997), and Lebanon (1990-1993). He has also served as the International Affairs Advisor at the national War College, where he joined the faculty in 2003. From May to August 2003, he was in Baghdad as the first Director of Governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from August 2001 and May 2003. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1971, he also has had assignments in Iran, Qatar, Iraq and Egypt, as well as Washington. He was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the bombings of the embassy in the Marine barracks in 1983.

Born in Spokane, Washington, he grew up in an Air Force family, attending schools in Morocco, Canada and Turkey, as well as the U.S. He received a B.A. in English in 1971 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2001 from Whitman College (Washington). He also holds an honorary Doctorate in National Security Affairs from the National Defense University (2010), honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Gonzaga University (2009) and Seton Hall University (2012), as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the American University of Afghanistan (2013). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Association of American Ambassadors. In August 2013, he was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve on the Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees all U.S. government-supported civilian international media. He is also on the Board of Directors for Mercy Corps International and is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Ambassador Crocker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 2009. His other awards include the Presidential Distinguished and Meritorious Service Awards, the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2008 and 2012), the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service (1997 and 2008), and for Distinguished Public Service (2012), the Award for Valor and the American Foreign Service Association Rivkin Award for creative dissent. He received the National Clandestine Service’s Donovan Award in 2009 and the Director of Central Intelligence’s Director’s Award in 2012. In 2011, he was awarded the Marshall Medal by the Association of the United States Army. In January 2002, he was sent to Afghanistan to reopen the American Embassy in Kabul. He subsequently received the Robert C. Frasure Memorial Award for “exceptional courage and leadership” in Afghanistan. In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the Foreign Service. In May 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the establishment of the Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Expeditionary Diplomacy. In July 2012, he was named an Honorary Marine, the 75th civilian so honored in the history of the corps.

Jeff Cox

Finance Editor, CNBC

Jeff Cox is Finance Editor for CNBC.com. He is a veteran journalist with a career that spans 32 years as both an editor and writer. At CNBC, he helps coordinate daily market and economy coverage and is the site's chief Federal Reserve correspondent, splitting time between corporate headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. and the Washington, D.C. beat. In addition to his duties for the site, he has been a guest many times on CNBC TV and appears on radio shows airing across the country. Outside of CNBC, he is the co-author, with veteran financial advisor Peter Tanous, of two books: "Debt, Deficits and the Demise of the American Economy" and "The 30-Minute Millionaire."

Alfonso Costa, Jr.

Deupty Chief of Staff to Secretary Ben Carson, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Alfonso Costa Jr. currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Ben Carson at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In his role, Mr. Costa is responsible for advising the Secretary and overseeing all policy (including regarding Opportunity Zones) carried out by the Department. Mr. Costa represents and leads HUD on the Federal government's Opportunity Zone Council ("White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council") chaired by Secretary Carson. The Council focuses on inter-agency collaboration, targeting of existing resources and programs, and external stakeholder engagement. Prior to joining HUD, Mr. Costa served as Vice President of Acquisitions for a real estate investment & development firm, Director of Policy for the U.S.A. First Political Action Committee, as well as a Teach For America (TFA) corps member. Mr. Costa earned his juris doctor from Harvard Law School, master's degree from the University of Oxford, and bachelor's degree from Yale University.

Kimberly Commins-Tzoumakas

Chief Executive Officer, 21st Century Oncology

Kim Commins-Tzoumakas, J.D., was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for 21st Century Oncology in 2018. Since 2014, she served as part of the leadership team for the company working closely with the equity owners and bond holders to transform the company. Prior to 21st Century Oncology, Ms. Commins-Tzoumakas has over 20 years of health care leadership expertise, including working as part of a team with national health care companies faced with financial and regulatory challenges.

She has also advised boards on strategic partnering, growth and sale opportunities. She has served as a counselor and advisor to several non-profit and for-profit boards throughout her career.

Rudy Cline-Thomas

Founder & Managing Partner, Mastry

Rudy Cline-Thomas is the founder and managing partner of Mastry, Inc., a company that specializes in identifying technology, retail, media and investment opportunities for partners which include Fortune 500 companies, early stage start-ups and professional athletes. Mastry has also invested in over 40 companies including LimeBike, Allbirds, Uber, GOAT, Stance, Thrive Global, TSM (Solomid), Zoom and Casper to name a few.

Rudy has partnered with Bloomberg to create The Annual Players Technology Summit, which brings together top leaders in the technology, venture capital and sports communities to discuss tech investing, trends, partnerships and future sports/tech initiatives.

Rudy Cline-Thomas is on the Advisory Boards of Pacific Pro Football, Inc., WOCstar Fund, and Global Communities. Rudy is also a Board Member of the Business Advisory Council for Providence College. Rudy works and resides in New York City.

Liz Claman

Anchor, Fox Business Network

Liz Claman joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as an anchor in October 2007. She anchors Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman (weekdays 3-4PM/ET).

Her October debut on FBN included an exclusive interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO and legendary investor Warren Buffett. Throughout her tenure at FBN, Claman has conducted exclusive interviews with every U.S. Treasury Secretary from John Snow to Paul O’Neill, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner and Jack Lew. Claman has brought a roster of business leaders including JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, Google/Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates to Fox Business viewers as well as world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.

Prior to joining FBN, Claman served as an anchor at CNBC, most recently anchoring Morning Call and Wake Up Call, Market Watch, and Today’s Business. During her time at CNBC, Claman landed the first one-hour live one-on-one interview with Warren Buffett. Before CNBC, Claman, a two-time Emmy Award winner, served as an anchor and reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV (NBC). She was also a contributing correspondent for NBC’s syndicated daytime program RealLife. Prior to that, she anchored a two-hour daily talk show, The Morning Exchange for WEWS-TV (ABC) in Cleveland. She received an Emmy for her work on The Morning Exchange.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Sorbonne in Paris, Claman began her on-air career at WSYX-TV (ABC) in Columbus, OH as a reporter and later a weekend anchor. Earlier, she was a news associate for KCBS-TV (CBS) in Los Angeles where she was the youngest person in the station’s history to win a local Emmy Award for Best Spot News Producer. Claman is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Theatre Wing and is a Tony Award voter. She is an active fundraiser for Building Homes for Heroes, an organization that builds mortgage-free homes for severely wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. She has completed 7 triathlons and one New York City marathon.

Emily Musil Church

Executive Director, Global Learning XPRIZE

Emily Musil Church is a strategist and thought leader combining the worlds of research, innovation, and global development. Dr. Church is the Executive Director of the Global Learning XPRIZE, and also works on education and outreach for the Foundation.

Prior to joining XPRIZE, she spent over a decade in academia where as a professor she specialized in African history, human rights, and women’s global issues.

Dr. Church has a Ph.D. and M.A. from UCLA, and a B.A. from Drew University. She won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and has conducted in-depth research in over a dozen countries on three continents. She serves on the OECD’s Senior Advisory Group for Blended Finance and the Advisory Board of the Center for Technology & Workforce Solutions.

Emidio Checcone

Portfolio Manager, Equities, DoubleLine

Mr. Checcone joined DoubleLine in 2014. He previously spent six years at Huber Capital Management, where he was a Principal and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Checcone also worked for six years at PRIMECAP Management Company, where he was a Principal and Financial Analyst.

He received his BA in Social Studies from Harvard College, as well as a JD-MBA from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a CFA charterholder.