Matt Miller

Managing Director, Securities Investing, Bayview

Mr. Miller joined Bayview in June 2012 to head all securities investing for the firm, and is based in Bayview’s New York office. At Bayview, his team invests across a broad range of securities, including legacy RMBS, credit risk transfer securities, CMBS, CLOs, and mortgage-related equities. Prior to joining Bayview, Mr. Miller worked in securitized products at Barclays Capital for four years, where he managed traders responsible for residential whole loan trading, commercial mortgage-backed securities trading, and asset-backed securities trading. The traders covered a wide range of products, including non-performing residential whole loans, newly originated commercial loans, liquid AAA credit cards, and commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Prior to Barclays, Mr. Miller worked in the mortgage department at Lehman Brothers for 11 years. Mr. Miller graduated from Dartmouth College as a triple major in Economics, Mathematics, and Biophysical Chemistry.

Brett Messing

Partner, President & Chief Operating Officer, SkyBridge

Brett S. Messing is a Partner and the President and Chief Operating Officer of SkyBridge. He began his career at Goldman Sachs where he held various positions including Vice President and Co-Head of the Restricted Stock Group. Thereafter, he was a partner at Oscar Capital Management, which was acquired by Neuberger Berman, LLC. Following the successful integration of the business, Mr. Messing founded GPS Partners, a $2.5 billion hedge fund at its peak, which focused primarily in the energy infrastructure sector. Mr. Messing was the firm’s Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Thereafter, Mr. Messing worked for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villariagosa as Co-Chief Operating Officer responsible for economic and business policy. Mr. Messing served as a Senior Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at C40 Cities, a joint venture with the Clinton Climate Initiative. Mr. Messing is the Terence M. Considine Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of The Forewarned Investor and contributed to Learning from the Global Financial Crisis - Creatively, Reliably and Sustainably, a compendium published by Stanford Business School. Mr. Messing received his A.B. from Brown University, magna cum laude, and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Mark McKenna

Managing Director, Founder & Global Head of Event Driven, BlackRock

Managing Director, Founder & Global Head of Event Driven, is responsible for managing BlackRock's event driven investing efforts within Active Equities (AE).

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Mr. McKenna was a Managing Director at Harvard Management Company (HMC) and co-founder of HMC's event driven fund. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. McKenna was Portfolio Manager of the event driven strategy at Caxton Associates, LLC. Previous to Caxton, Mr. McKenna spent five years at Salomon Smith Barney as a Vice President in mergers and acquisitions where he advised on over $100 billion in corporate change. Before graduate school, Mr. McKenna served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy's Nuclear Submarine Force, where he conducted strategic deterrent patrols onboard the USS Ohio and was a certified nuclear engineer by the Department of Naval Reactors.

Mr. McKenna earned an MBA, with distinction, from New York University and a B.E. in electrical engineering from New York Maritime College.

Amy C. McGarrity, CFA

Chief Investment Officer, Colorado PERA

Ms. McGarrity returned to Colorado PERA in March 2017, after working at William Blair as a Global Equity Product Specialist. Ms. McGarrity originally joined Colorado PERA in 2010, after the merger of the Denver Public Schools Retirement System, serving first as Senior Investment Officer, then as Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Prior to joining Colorado PERA, Ms. McGarrity held previous investment positions at Buck Consultants, Prima Capital Holding, William M. Mercer Investment Consulting, and Caxton Corporation. She is a graduate of University of Wyoming with a BS in Finance, and earned her MBA at Rider University. Ms. McGarrity has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Colorado. She is also a member of the PCAOB Investment Advisory Group, and the SEC’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee.

Michael McFaul

Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation (2012-2014)

Michael A. McFaul served as Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation from January, 2012, to February, 2014. Prior to becoming Ambassador, he served for three years as the special assistant to the President and senior director for Russia and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council.

McFaul is a professor of political science and a Hoover fellow at Stanford University. He is also director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).

He is the author and editor of several monographs including, Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can (2009); with Valerie Bunce and Katheryn Stoner-Weiss, eds., Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (2009); with Anders Aslund, eds., Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough (2006); with Nikolai Petrov and Andrei

Ryabov, Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Postcommunist Political Reform (2004); with James Goldgeier, Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (2003); and Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (2001). Most recently, he wrote From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018), a New York Times best-selling inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present.

McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his Master of Arts degree in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations in 1991.

Bailey McCann

Senior News Editor, Opalesque

Bailey McCann is a financial journalist. She is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal Funds Report and is the Senior US Editor for the Opalesque Alternative Market Briefing, a daily newsletter covering alternative investments and Opalesque New Managers, a monthly publication focused on emerging hedge fund managers.

As a reporter, Bailey covers alternative investments, capital markets, institutional asset management, family offices and wealth management. Her byline has also appeared in Barrons, CIO Magazine, Citywire Professional Buyer, Citywire RIA, Institutional Investor, Middle Market Growth, Nikkei Asian Review, and elsewhere.

Bailey is the author of Tactical Portfolios: Strategies & Tactics for Investing in Hedge Funds & Liquid Alternatives, published by Wiley.

Jonathan McBride

Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, BlackRock

Jonathan McBride, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity and also a member of the firm's Global Operating Committee.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. McBride served as Director of the Presidential Personnel Office in the White House, a role he was appointed to in July 2013. He joined the administration as a Special Assistant to the President and the Deputy Director of the Presidential Personnel Office in August, 2009. In February, 2012 he was promoted to be a Deputy Assistant to the President. Prior to serving in the White House, Mr. McBride was the Chief Strategy Officer with Universum, a global Employer Branding company, and served as the company's most senior consultant to companies and agencies looking to attract and recruit top talent. In 2000, Mr. McBride co-founded Jungle Media Group. Jungle's magazines, websites, and live events served a variety of audiences including MBAs, JDs, college students, African American young professionals, and Hispanic young professionals. The content focused on the career lifestyle and informed its readers about how to best navigate current and future career moves. Mr. McBride also worked for Goldman Sachs from 1997 to 2000 and U.S. Senator Herb Kohl from 1992 to 1995.

Dr. Trevor Martin

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Mammoth Biosciences

Dr. Trevor Martin, co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, is leading the company on a mission to democratize access to the next generation of CRISPR tools for therapeutics and diagnostics. The Mammoth team, including fellow co-founder and CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, has built the world’s broadest CRISPR platform and the world’s first CRISPR-based diagnostics platform capable of detecting any RNA or DNA biomarker. Trevor kicked off his career in science at Princeton as an undergraduate - in his time there, he conducted independent research in quantitative biology and was ultimately awarded the top honor for his senior thesis in molecular biology. After Princeton, Trevor went on to complete his Ph.D. in Biology at Stanford University with a NSF fellowship, combining techniques from statistics and genetics and developing methods around mapping the determinants of quantitative traits in both humans and microbes. In addition to having developed and taught multiple graduate level courses in statistics at Stanford, Trevor has penned educational guides for university courses across the globe. His work has been featured in outlets like FiveThirtyEight and The Atlantic, and he has been the featured healthcare honoree on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2018.

Eric Marcotulli

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Elysium Health

Elysium Health co-founder and chief executive officer, graduated from Harvard Business School and joined Sequoia Capital as its youngest partner to lead growth investing in mobile technologies. While in Silicon Valley, Marcotulli realized that despite the significant, positive impact of new technologies on our understanding of health and disease, there remained a lack of innovation in the consumer-facing portion of the healthcare market beyond wearables and basic mobile apps. With a keen interest in aging research and its potential to have a profound impact on the most important areas of health, he wanted to create a company focused on developing compelling compounds found in nature that support long-term health.

Mrinal Manohar

Chief Executive Officer, Casper Labs

Mrinal Manohar is the CEO of Casper Labs. Prior to this he was a principal and the Technology/Media/Telecom sector head at a ~$1b long only hedge fund, a private equity associate at Bain Capital in Boston and was an associate consultant at Bain and Company. He has an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and has been passionate about computer science ever since he began programming at age 11. He has been personally investing in the blockchain industry since 2012.

Joanne Lin

Principal, Newark Venture Partners

Joanne Lin is a Principal at Newark Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund that invests in Seed/Series A stage B2B technology companies. The inaugural $45M fund is backed by seven large corporate LPs (among others) including Audible.com, Prudential, RWJBarnabas, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, TD Bank, Panasonic and Dun & Bradstreet. The fund operates out of a private co-working space in downtown Newark where it also runs a 3-month pre-seed accelerator called NVP Labs. in addition to capital, it aims to provide its portfolio companies with strategic support, through its focus on sales strategy & execution and the support of over 500+ corporate mentors from the LP network. A core mission of the fund is to establish Newark as an emerging tech hub and has shown early success in recruiting companies to grow a presence in the city.

As Principal, Joanne leads the fund’s direct investment strategy focusing on the sourcing and diligence of potential deals and on-going portfolio management. As a female investor and woman of color, Joanne is an active supporter of diversity in tech and venture capital.

Prior to joining Newark Venture Partners, Joanne was an education investor with University Ventures focusing on growth-stage companies transforming the higher education space. In this role, she leveraged 10 years of finance experience at JPMorgan, and past experience as a TeachForAmerica corps member. She was also co-founder of a Newark-based social enterprise aimed at expanding community access to digital manufacturing technology. Joanne has a M. Ed from Hunter College and a BA in Economics from Barnard. At home, she is the proud mother of a 1-year old son.

David Lyon

Managing Director, Neuberger Berman

David Lyon is a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman and Co-Head of the Private Credit business for NB Private Equity. He is a member of the Private Debt and Credit Opportunities Investment Committees. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman in 2014, he was the Director of Research at Ellis Lake Capital, a $500 million event-driven credit hedge fund based in New York. Before Ellis Lake, Mr. Lyon was one of three professionals responsible for the day to day management of the Credit Opportunities Group, a multi-billion dollar portfolio of credit and equity investments at D. E. Shaw. At D. E. Shaw, Mr. Lyon was also responsible for the private equity efforts in the Credit Opportunities Group and sat on several public and private company boards. Previously, Mr. Lyon was a Managing Director at The Cypress Group, a $3.5 billion private equity fund, where he was a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to Cypress, Mr. Lyon was one of five original professionals at Och-Ziff Capital Management and worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Lyon earned a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Joseph Lubin

Co-Founder, Ethereum

Joseph Lubin is a co-founder of blockchain computing platform Ethereum and the founder of Consensus Systems (ConsenSys), a blockchain venture studio. ConsenSys is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in the blockchain technology space, building developer tools, decentralized applications, and solutions for enterprises and governments that harness the power of Ethereum. Headquartered in New York, ConsenSys also has a global presence, employing top entrepreneurs, computer scientists, software developers, and experts in enterprise delivery worldwide.

Lubin graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab, at tomandandy music developing an autonomous music composition tool, and at private research firm Vision Applications Inc. building autonomous mobile robots.

As a software engineer and consultant, Lubin worked with eMagine on the Identrus project and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund with a partner. He held positions as Director of the New York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting, and VP of Technology in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. Through these posts, Lubin focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance.

Switching gears, Lubin moved to Kingston, Jamaica to work on projects in the music industry. Two years into his musical endeavors, Lubin co-founded the Ethereum Project and has been working on Ethereum and ConsenSys since January 2014.

Sunny Lu

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, VeChain

Sunny Lu is co-founder and CEO of VeChain, China's preeminent enterprise blockchain protocol. He is passionate in his belief in the disruptive power of new innovations like blockchain. Today, VeChain is working with a variety of enterprise and government clients worldwide to develop the full potential of this technology.

Sunny has over 15 years of management experience and technical expertise related to computer, network, and communications activities. Prior to co-founding VeChain, he served as CIO of Louis Vuitton China (part of LVMH Group) and has created and implemented large-scale IT and information security projects

Sunny was educated at Shanghai JiaoTong University, where he studied Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Lara Logan

Correspondent

Lara Logan's bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a reputation as one of the world's best foreign correspondents. She was named a full-time 60 Minutes correspondent in May 2012. In 2018, she concluded her 13-year tenure with the newsmagazine.

Logan was named CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent in February 2006 and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent in 2008, all while contributing to 60 Minutes beginning in 2005, and to 60 Minutes II since 2001. During her time with the network, she covered some of the biggest stories of our time, including the Iraq War, the Ebola crisis, and the rise of ISIS.

In February 2011, Logan was almost killed in Tahrir Square in Egypt during the revolution there. She was sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob of some 300 men while reporting a story for 60 Minutes on the Egyptian Revolution. She broke her silence about the brutal attack on 60 Minutes to draw attention to the plight of men and women, as well as female journalists covering war zones.

Logan has received multiple Emmy Awards, several Murrow awards, an Overseas Press Club Award, the Daniel Pearl Award, Glamour’s Woman of the Year Award and five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards, to name a few.

Chris Loeffler

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Caliber

Chris Loeffler is Co-Founder and CEO of Caliber. As CEO, Chris is responsible for oversight of acquisitions, strategic relationships and investment services including fund manager for Caliber’s private investment funds. With Loeffler at the helm, he has created an avenue offering investors direct access to build wealth through a diversified portfolio of commercial, hospitality and residential real estate assets. His leadership and forward-thinking innovation has helped Caliber to emerge as a full-service real estate investment firm with a private equity portfolio valued at over $400 million in assets under management across the Southwest.

Loeffler is actively involved in Arizona’s civic/government/business community, serving as a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership and sharing insight into ways businesses can raise capital using Regulation A+.

Loeffler began his career as an auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP developing the Company’s business systems and received a BA in Accounting from California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo.

Andrew N. Liveris

Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company

Andrew N. Liveris is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company and director of DowDuPont. He previously served as Executive Chairman of DowDuPont. A recognized global business leader with more than 42 years at Dow, Liveris advocates the criticality of manufacturing worldwide. He is the author of Make It in America and was tapped by the current U.S. Administration to help identify new ways to spur innovation, revitalize the U.S. manufacturing sector and drive economic growth and prosperity as chair of the manufacturing council and a member of the apprenticeship of the future task force. Previously he served as Co-Chair of U.S. President Obama's Advanced Manufacturing Partnership steering committee and a member of the U.S. President’s Export Council. He was recently named Senior Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Governments Sovereign Wealth Fund, PIF. He sits on the Board of Directors f IBM, Worley Parsons and Saudi Aramco, on the advisory board of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and NEOM. He is the past Vice Chair of the Business Roundtable, an Executive Committee Member and past Chairman of the U.S. Business Council, and a member of the Concordia Leadership Council and the Australian government’s Industry Growth Centres Advisory Committee.

Corey Lewandowski

Former Campaign Manager for Donald J. Trump

Mr. Lewandowski currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Vice President Pence’s PAC, the Great America Committee. Prior to this role, he was both Chief Political Adviser and Campaign Manager to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. In those roles, he oversaw all aspects of a historic presidential campaign where Donald J. Trump won 38 Republican primaries and caucuses, and received more votes than any presidential candidate in the history of the Republican Party. Through Mr. Lewandowski’s leadership, Mr. Trump secured the Republican nomination for President of the United States while only spending a fraction of the money his competitors spent over the same period of time. Mr. Lewandowski is credited with running a skillfully disruptive political campaign and is often cited as a visionary on understanding the moods and pulse of the American people.

He previously served as the National Director of Voter Registration of Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. He was also the former East Coast Regional Director for both organizations and served as the AFP and AFPF State Director for New Hampshire, starting the chapters for these groups in 2008.

Prior to his tenure at AFP and AFP Foundation, Mr. Lewandowski served as Executive Director of the New England Seafood Producers’ Association (NESPA), representing the vast New England seafood interests to state and federal government officials.

Mr. Lewandowski worked as the Legislative Political Director, Northeast Region, for the Republican National Committee (RNC), as well as in senior positions with several Members of Congress.

Mr. Lewandowski has made numerous, regular appearances on Fox News, Fox Business, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS and CNN, as well as serving as a on-the-record spokesman to major print outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, the Boston Globe, and numerous other print and on-line publications. He was also named “Power Player of the Week” by Fox News Sunday for his contribution to the Trump campaign.

Mr. Lewandowski received his M.A in Political Science from American University, Washington, D.C., and his B.A in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts. He also attended the Naval War College.

Mr. Lewandowski lives in Windham, New Hampshire with his wife and their four children.

Howard Levkowitz

Managing Director, BlackRock; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock TCP Capital

Howard Levkowitz, Managing Director, is a member of Blackrock's Global Credit Platform and Chairman and CEO of BlackRock-TCP Capital Corp.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Levkowitz co-founded Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP), where he was a Managing Member and Chairman of the Management Committee. TCP with its more than $9 billion in committed capital was acquired by BlackRock in 2018. Prior to co-founding TCP, Mr. Levkowitz was an attorney with Dewey Ballantine LLP, specializing in real estate and insolvencies. He has served as a Director of both public and private companies and has also served on a number of formal and informal creditor committees.

Mr. Levkowitz is actively involved in a number of philanthropic activities, particularly in educational initiatives, and serves as an executive board member for two private schools.

Born in Tucson, Arizona, Mr. Levkowitz earned a B.A. in History (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Economics concentration in Finance (Magna Cum Laude) from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Southern California.

John Lettieri

President & Chief Executive Officer, Economic Innovation Group

John Lettieri is responsible for the executive leadership of the Economic Innovation Group, where he oversees the organization’s efforts to study and address regional inequality and the decline of economic dynamism in the United States. Mr. Lettieri’s work and commentary have been featured in a wide range of outlets, including The Atlantic, Fox News, The Hill, NPR, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among others. He has a B.A. in political science from Wake Forest University and serves on the Board of Regents at The Fund for American Studies, the Board of Directors of Lincoln Network, and the Board of Directors for Friends of the National Zoo.