Darius Przydzial

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, ConsenSys

Darius Przydzial, CFA, CQF, is an Entrepreneur in Residence at ConsenSys, who co-founded Fund Foundry and is managing the buildout of software services designed exclusively for the digital asset management industry. Mr. Przydzial is a blockchain specialist with 4 years of activities spanning research, mining, trading, coding, and smart contract security auditing. He has deep expertise in decentralized exchanges, stablecoins, token economics, and consensus mechanisms. He also actively advises projects across ConsenSys’ venture production studio, including Token Foundry, Ventures, research, and business development.

Prior to ConsenSys, Mr. Przydzial spent 12 years in the hedge fund industry, including Fortress Investment Group $7B Global Macro fund, Woodbine Capital Advisors $3.5B Global Macro fund, SAC Capital $16B fund, and J.P. Morgan. His experience focused primarily on risk management and algorithmic strategies research.

Before J.P. Morgan, Mr. Przydzial was an Advanced System Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp. for 6 years, where he worked on top-secret development programs related to the B2 Stealth Bomber and Naval Radar Weapons Systems.

Mr. Przydzial holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Przydzial holds a Master of Science in Networking from University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and the Certificate in Quantitative Finance designations.

Jeff Premer

Chief Executive Officer, Director & Founder, Vaultex

Jeffrey Premer, CEO, Director and founder of Vaultex Pte. Ltd., a regulated security token and asset exchange and Manager and co-founder of ICO Capital Management Pte Ltd (“ICM”), a Singapore based private advisory firm and business development company.

Mr. Premer has extensive experience in finance and capital planning, software and hardware development, supply chain management, telecom services, satellite and fixed line trunking infrastructure, active and passive mobile network rollouts and power plant infrastructure development. Mr. Premer also has deep knowledge of all aspects of running a startup, including financing, team building, enabling strategic alliances, marketing, enterprise scaling and investor relations. Mr. Premer is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese, which he studied at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

In addition to his roles at ICM, Mr. Premer is also President and co-founder of Baryon, Inc., a technology company startup with a focus on commercialization of disruptive energy efficiency technologies. Such technologies include applications that leverage thermodynamic energy savings realized through the Maisotsenko Cycle.

From 2017-2018, he served as Chief Strategy Officer and advisor to the CEO for Isotropic Systems, a technology company developing the world's first commercial application of transformation optics for millimeter wave RF antennas.

Prior to holding these roles, Mr. Premer was a founding director of Baryon Energy. Mr. Premer led the signing of a 500MW build operate and transfer wind project in Myanmar, and other smaller renewable projects throughout Southeast Asia. Mr. Premer also founded Meson Partners Ltd., a telecom tower services provider in Myanmar, of which he is still a director. Meson Partners installed thousands of telecom tower power systems across Myanmar. Meson also provides various O&M and managed services to telecom tower owners and operators across the country.

Mr. Premer was also a founding director of Sky Fiber Incorporated, the first large scale satellite capacity customer of O3B Networks, Ltd. (now a division of SES Networks). Sky Fiber was the first major customer to sign a framework agreement as a reseller of the revolutionary O3B network.

Mr. Premer has headed Diversitech Manufacturing in China which grew to over 50 million USD in revenues per annum in 5 years and is now known as Apollo Tools and Apollo Precision Tools. He also headed both Diversitech Labs in China and Aeon Digital Labs, which developed the first commercial set top box supporting real time encoding/decoding in Windows Media Video D1 or better format. Prior to those ventures, Mr. Premer founded and led Asia Specific Enterprises Ltd. in Taiwan, which under his leadership, experienced 8 years of solid growth in the 90's.

While holding the above roles, Mr. Premer has advised many companies, venture funds and family offices in Asia since 1992.

Katia Porzecanski

Reporter, Bloomberg

Katia Porzecanski has been a reporter for Bloomberg News in New York since 2011. In her current role, she breaks news and writes feature stories about U.S. hedge fund firms and investing. She previously covered emerging markets for five years, focusing on credit and foreign exchange markets in Latin America. Before joining Bloomberg, she worked as a junior economist at a research firm in Buenos Aires. Porzecanski has a BA in economics from Tufts University.

Gary S. Pinkus

Chairman of North America, McKinsey & Company

Gary Pinkus is the Chairman for McKinsey & Company in North America. He was previously the Managing Partner for the firm in North America, and before that led McKinsey’s office for the Western United States. He is also a former global leader of McKinsey’s Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice, which he helped cofound more than a decade ago.

He serves clients across multiple industries and topics, including leading companies in private equity, healthcare, oil & gas, and commercial vehicles.

Gary joined McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles in 1987 as a business analyst and came to the firm's San Francisco Office in 1992. Over the course of his career, he has worked for Dole Fresh Fruit in Honduras; Bear Stearns' Mergers and Acquisitions Group in New York; and in McKinsey's Houston, Mexico City, Sydney, and Zurich offices. In addition to his client work, Gary has been a member of the firm’s Shareholders Council (Board of Directors) for almost a decade, and now chairs the Risk, Audit, and Governance Committee.

Gary also serves on the board of the California Academy of Sciences. He is a prior member of the boards of the San Francisco Opera, the Menlo School, ReSurge (formerly Interplast), the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the California Business Roundtable, and the Investment Committee for the Woodside School Foundation.

Gary earned his B.A. in English and Quantitative Economics with Distinction from Stanford University and his M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Mary, have been married for 29 years and have four children (ages 16 through 23); they also have three dogs. They live in Woodside, California.

Brock Pierce

Chairman, The Bitcoin Foundation

Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses. He's been credited with pioneering the market for digital currency and has raised more than $5B for companies he has founded. Pierce is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether, and Mastercoin (first ICO).

Block.one was created in 2017 and has sold over $4B tokens in the EOS crowdsale making it the largest ever. Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 and is the first sector-focused venture fund that invests solely in Blockchain technology companies. Blockchain Capital has made more than 100 investments in the sector across its four funds

Pierce is an early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale. He is the founder of IMI Exchange, the world’s leading digital currency marketplace for games, with annual sales exceeding $1B and investors such as Goldman Sachs, which was sold in 2016 for more than $100M. Pierce founded ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers, which was acquired by Tencent in 2012. He founded IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games, achieving revenues exceeding $100 million in 2006 and sold in 2007. Pierce is also a co-founder GoCoin, Blade Payments, Five Delta (sold NASDAQ: SRAX), Xfire 2.0, Playsino, Evertune, GamesTV, and D.E.N. He also advises for companies like Airswap, Bancor, BitGo, BitGuild, BlockV, Bloq, DNA, Element Group, Metronome, Shyft, and tZERO.

Pierce is frequent lecturer at Singularity University and has spoken at the Milken Global Conference, Mobile World Congress, Wired, INK, Stanford University, USC, and UCLA.

He has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Rolling Stone.

Commander Erick Peterson

Navy Seal (Ret.)

Upon graduation from CSU in 1992, Commander Peterson was accepted to Officer’s Candidate School (OCS) for various Naval Officer careers, refusing them all until he was accepted to OSC – Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. He graduated in 1998 and was assigned to SEAL Team FIVE from 1999-2003, completing 3 deployments in 4 years to Asia and the Pacific. He then spent 1 year in Germany with the Naval Special Warfare Unit TWO.

He served as Task Unit Commander at SEAL Team TEN from 2006-2008, completing 2 deployments to Iraq. In 2010, he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Combined Forces Special Operations Command.

Upon completion of that tour, he was assigned to SEAL Team THREE as Executive Officer from 2011-2013, deploying with Team THREE as the Deputy Commander of the Crisis Response Element in the Persian Gulf area.

In 2013, he returned to Germany, reporting to Special Operations Command Europe, where he served as Current Operations Officer and after 18 months, as the NATO Response Force Special Operations Chief of Staff.

His decorations include the Bronze Star with Valor, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and various other personal, unit and service decorations.

After completing 8 deployments, Commander Peterson requested, and received treatment, at the Intrepid Spirit Center in Camp Pendleton, CA from 09 July 2018 to 10 August 2018. While at Camp Pendleton, he was fortunate enough to stay at the Fisher House for all 4 weeks of treatment.

Shirl Penney

Founder, Dynasty Financial Partners

Shirl Penney is the founder of Dynasty Financial Partners. He currently serves as President and CEO of Dynasty and is a member of the Board of Directors. Dynasty is a leading integrated platform services company for independent wealth management advisory firms. Shirl is a frequent speaker at industry events, often quoted in various financial publications, and was named to Investment News' 2015 list of 40 most influential people in wealth management under the age of 40. Shirl was also named to the 2016 inaugural list of Icons and Innovators in wealth management by Investment News.

Prior to Dynasty, Shirl worked at Citi Smith Barney in various leadership roles including director of private wealth management and head of executive financial services.

He is from Eastport, Maine, a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York with his wife Mary Ann and his two daughters. Shirl and his wife are active in various charitable causes with a focus on education, poverty, ALS, and veteran services.

Shirl is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Vinod Paul

Chief Operating Officer, Align

Vinod Paul brings over 20 years of in-depth financial services and technology experience to his role as Align’s Chief Operating Officer. Vinod’s responsibilities include the strategic development of Align’s Managed Services offerings, including oversight of Align Cybersecurity™, the company's comprehensive cybersecurity risk management solution. In his current role, Vinod is also responsible for managing senior client relationships with alternative asset managers, providing ongoing guidance with respect to industry best-practices and forward-looking trends in Managed Services.

Widely known as a luminary in the financial services sector, Vinod previously led and innovated a leading Global Managed IT Service provider in its customer-facing engagements, including service delivery and business development on a global basis. Over his 13 years as Managing Director, Vinod helped establish this firm as a premier Managed Service provider in the financial services space. Prior to that, Vinod was a director of technical services for Martin Progressive where he supervised an engineering staff supporting 6,000 customers, as well as a management and engineering consultant to IBM Global Services, Lucent Technologies, Tyco Submarine Systems and Penguin Putnam Publishing.

Vinod serves on the global board of directors for Help for Children/Hedge Funds Care, a worldwide nonprofit dedicated to supporting efforts to prevent and treat child abuse. He attended Rutgers University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences.

Trent Overholt

Chief Executive Officer, 14th Round

Trent’s specialty is launching and turning businesses around. As an operating exec, he combines strategy, team building and organizational design to drive clarity and alignment.

Trent started his career as a mechanical engineering graduate of the UCLA. He quickly turned his product design and problem solving skill set into a creative deal-making and management asset, building strategic plans and leading teams to drive high growth at the Rehrig Pacific Company to the tune of five hundred million dollars in annual revenue.

His success with Rehrig naturally led Trent to his next entrepreneurial endeavor: solving the complex strategic and organizational problems of start-ups and struggling legacy companies. Trent founded VMG Consultants & Advisors, effecting lasting cultural change and revenue trajectories for every business he advised.

Applying his 20 years of experience in product development, manufacturing and distribution to the cannabis industry, Trent joined dosist as Chief Revenue Officer to help successfully launch in a crowded market, and then founded an innovative consumer marketing platform for the largest on-demand delivery retailer in California, Eaze.

Today, Trent uses his knowledge of the traditional CPG playbook and experience in cannabis to capitalize on the industry’s biggest opportunities, leading 14th Round to a standout first year of audited financials.

Jack Otter

Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones Wealth & Asset Management

Jack Otter has served as editor of Barrons.com and interim editor in chief of Barron’s, and he led the 2016 launch of Barron’s Next, a site aimed at millennials. Through regular appearances on Fox Business news and Barrons.com video, he has served as the face of Barron’s. He is the author of Worth It…Not Worth It: Simple and Profitable Answers to Life’s Tough Financial Questions (Hachette). Before coming to Barron’s, he was executive editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com, and he has 18 years of experience as a business journalist, having been features editor of SmartMoney magazine and a columnist at Newsday. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, O magazine, Men’s Health, and The New Yorker. He has appeared on NBC's Today, CBS This Morning, CNN, CNBC, and Fox. He lives in Pelham, NY with his wife and three children.

Jack L. Oliver III

Managing Partner, Dock Square Capital; Attorney & Practice Group Leader, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Jack Oliver works across the highest levels of international and national politics, government, technology, finance and business to provide senior relationship management and unparalleled insights at the intersection of public policy, communications, innovation and commerce. Jack develops relationships with Fortune 100 companies, financial sponsors and governmental actors across the globe.

Currently, Jack is a Managing Partner of Dock Square Capital LLC, a merchant bank based in Miami, Florida with Governor Bush and serves as an Attorney and Practice Group Leader of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, an international law firm with more than 1500 lawyers. Additionally, he is a Senior Advisor to companies including 8vc, Palantir Technologies, Open-Gov, Addepar, Leeo, and Rubicon Global.

Jack served as Senior Advisor to Barclays for 13 years providing counsel for top clients across investment banking and capital markets management on cross-boarder and national transactions. He served for two years as Co-Chairman of the ONE Campaign, an organization founded by U2's Bono and supported by the Gates Foundation with the mission to raise public awareness about global poverty and disease in developing countries. He is a member of the Robin Hood Foundation Leadership Council; a member of the Council of Foreign Relations; on the National Leadership Council of Communities in Schools; an Advisory Council member of the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University; a Member of the External Advisory Board of the Washington University Gephardt Institute for Public Service; an Advisory Member of the Leadership Council at the Danforth Plant Science Center; a Member of the National Leadership Committee of the George W. Bush Foundation; and former Director for the Legacy Educational Foundation and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jack is also on the Board of Directors for two companies: E-Health Corporation and Gateway Blend.

Jack is actively involved at the highest levels of national and Missouri politics. Jack served as National Finance Vice-Chairman for Bush-Cheney 04 and Victory 2004 managing the campaign’s national operations and was principal in the campaign’s leadership. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Republican National Committee where he oversaw all day-to-day operations and management in policy, communications, and strategy during the 2002 National election cycles, which resulted in historic Republican gains in both the House and Senate. In 2000, Jack served as National Finance Director for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and managed a fundraising effort that shattered all previous presidential fundraising records. In 2016, Jack was the National Co-Chair of Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign.

Jack received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He and his wife Rachel are the proud parents of Kate, Henry, and Lilly.

Matt Orsagh

Director, Capital Markets Policy, CFA Institute

Matthew Orsagh has worked for more than a decade in the field of global corporate governance. In 2008, he was named one of the “Rising Stars of Corporate Governance” by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. His expertise is in the area of corporate governance and disclosure best practices, ESG, shareowner rights, short-termism, and financial regulation.

At CFA Institute, Mr. Orsagh writes about and speaks to audiences about pressing issues in global market integrity and corporate governance. He leads projects aimed at fostering greater transparency and accountability in global financial markets, promulgates CFA Institute’s Capital Markets Policy Group corporate disclosure positions, policies, and standards; and coordinates and supports related public awareness activities.

Previously, Mr. Orsagh worked as a research analyst at Governance Metrics International, where he evaluated the corporate governance of hundreds of international publicly-traded companies and prepared detailed reports assessing firms’ corporate governance strengths and weaknesses based on quantitative ratings. He trained analysts in the importance of corporate governance, the intricacies of corporate governance ratings, and spoke on behalf of the firm to small groups and conference audiences. Earlier in his career, he served as a senior analyst for Noonan Russo Communications, where he managed investor relations accounts for international biotechnology companies, and developed strategic investor relations plans in coordination with company executives.

Mr. Orsagh holds an MBA degree in Finance from Georgia State University and a BA degree in Communications and English from the University of Notre Dame.

Sean O’Sullivan

Managing Partner, SOSV

Sean O’Sullivan is managing partner of SOSV, a venture capital firm with over $990 million in assets under management (AUM). SOSV specializes in programs for very early stage, deep-tech startups and is one of the most active venture investors in the world, with more than 1,000 companies in its portfolio.

O’Sullivan’s first company, MapInfo, grew to a $200 million revenue public company with over 1,000 employees, and popularized street mapping on computers. His first internet company, NetCentric, developed many concepts in internet computing, and he is credited as the co-creator of the term “cloud computing”. O’Sullivan founded JumpStart International, a leading humanitarian organization in conflict zones and oversaw 3,500 staff at the height of the Iraq conflict.

SOSV runs the world’s most active startup development programs in hardware (HAX), life sciences (IndieBio), Asia cross-border startups (Chinaccelerator/MOX) and blockchain (dlab).

O’Sullivan received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Southern California. Alongside serving as the founder of the O’Sullivan Foundation, he was the founding funder of Coderdojo (a global network of coding clubs that more than 50,000 kids attend every week) and is a principal donor to Khan Academy (used by more than 75 million students monthly). O’Sullivan is on the board of Khan Academy, Sun Genomics, the Tyndall Institute, the Autism Impact Fund, the Brain Foundation, and a number of private companies.

Grover Norquist

President, Americans for Tax Reform

Grover Norquist (Twitter: @GroverNorquist) is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate.

ATR organizes the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to the American people to oppose all net tax increases. In the 115th Congress, 212 House members and 45 Senators have taken the pledge.

Norquist chairs the Washington, DC - based Wednesday Meeting, a weekly gathering of more than 150 elected officials, political activists, and movement leaders. The meeting started in 1993 and takes place in ATR's conference room. There are now 48 similar center-right meetings in 40 states.

Ray Nolte

Partner & Co-Chief Investment Officer, SkyBridge

Mr. Nolte is Co-Managing Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of SkyBridge and serves as Chairman of the Investment, Manager Selection and Portfolio Allocation Committees. Prior to this role, Mr. Nolte was the CEO of the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments, the Fund’s previous investment adviser until July 2010, where he was also Chairman of the Group’s Investment Committee and Group CIO. Before joining CAI in September of 2005, he worked at Deutsche Bank (1999 – 2005) and Bankers Trust Company from 1983 until the firm was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. At Deutsche Asset Management, Mr. Nolte held roles as the Global Head and CIO of the DB Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) Fund of Funds business, the Chairman of its Investment Committee, Vice Chairman of DB ARS as well as Head of the Single Manager Hedge Fund business. In late 1996, Mr. Nolte started the Bankers Trust Fund of Funds business and launched the Topiary family of funds, which grew to $7bn in assets under management when he left in 2005. The business was comprised of several multi-manager, multi-strategy funds as well as single strategy funds and separate accounts.

He started his career at Bankers Trust Company in 1983 in the foreign exchange and foreign fixed income sales and trading business before moving to the capital markets and derivatives business. In 1994 he was named the head of the Global Portfolio Management business which was responsible for the discretionary management of global balanced client portfolios.

Mr. Nolte received his B.B.A. in Finance from George Washington University.

Dang Nguyen

Managing Director, Central Funding Group & Alternative Assets Group, RBC Capital Markets

Dang Nguyen joined RBC Capital Markets in February 2011 to lead the hedge fund due diligence / risk team in RBC AAG. Prior to joining RBC, was a Senior Research Analyst at the institutional fund of hedge fund, EIM Management (USA) where he led the research effort for the event driven space. Before joining EIM, Dang was the Senior Event Driven/Special Situations Analyst at Savannah-Baltimore Capital Management. Prior to that Dang was a Senior Research Analyst for Event Driven/Special Situations investments at Ore Hill Partners and was a Principal at Dickstein Partners. He was also a Global Risk Arbitrage analyst at SAC Capital & Soros Fund and started his career in finance at RBC as an Equity Derivatives Analyst. Dang graduated from Harvard in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics.

In addition to working with the AAG clients to ensure that the portfolios are in compliance with risk guidelines, he provides market color and discusses funds strategies with clients given that the AAG group has exposure to over 900 funds.

RBC Alternative Assets Group has provided clients with structured and financing solutions for their hedge fund portfolios since 1997.

Jon Najarian

Co-Founder, Najarian Advisors

Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian was linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of contact sport – trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He became a member of the CBOE, NYSE, CME and CBOT and worked as a floor trader for some 25 years. In 1990 he founded Mercury Trading, a market-making firm at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which he sold in 2004 to Citadel, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. In 2005 Jon co-founded optionMONSTER and tradeMONSTER. He partnered with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners in 2014 and they sold the firm to E*Trade for $750 million in September of 2016. Today, he is a professional investor, money manager and media analyst. Jon has earned a reputation in the industry as an options trading expert and pioneer. He developed and patented trading applications and algorithms used to identify unusual activity in stock, options, and futures markets. optionMONSTER, the options news and education site he co-founded, was described by Securities Industry News as “content king of the options business.” For years, tradeMONSTER was consistently rated “Best for Options Traders” by Barron’s and was the first online broker to deploy streaming, desktop-like trading in a web browser. Jon can be seen weekly on CNBC, where he is cast member of the “Halftime Report” and “Fast Money” shows. Jon and Pete invest in and work with start-ups via Rebellion Partners, a venture consulting firm they launched in 2015. In 2016, Jon and Pete co-founded Market Rebellion, a company focused on educating the individual investor.

Angelo Mozilo

Former Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Countrywide Financial

Angelo Mozilo started his career in the real estate industry as a young man in Bronx, New York. As a young man he showed a keen interest and understanding of the lending business and after years of managing offices for a regional lender, in 1969, founded Countrywide Funding Corporation with his partner David Loeb.

Angelo would stay with Countrywide for its longevity and retired as Chairman and CEO in 2008. As a well known and sought after leader, Angelo served on many industry-affiliated and professional boards; such as National Housing Endowment, Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, Homes for Working Families, The Home Depot, and many others throughout the years. Angelo served as President of the Mortgage Banker’s Association from 1991-1992 Among other awards and recognitions, Angelo was named to the National Home Builders Hall of Fame, received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, National Housing Person of the Year, Horatio Alger Award, Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and was recognized by the National Italian American Foundation for Humanitarian Service.

Angelo is a proud graduate of Mount Saint Michael Academy. He holds a BS from Fordham University and Honorary Doctorates from Pepperdine and Gonzaga University.

In retirement, Angelo mentors young entrepreneurs, speaks on leadership, is an active investor and serves as the Director of his family foundation whose primary mission is scholarship and medical care.

Dan Morehead

Chief Executive Officer, Pantera Capital

Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies.  He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson.  Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs.  Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Structural Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Pantera Capital is the first institutional investment firm focused exclusively on bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem.  Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States when bitcoin was at $65/BTC in 2013.  The firm subsequently launched the first exclusively-blockchain venture fund.  In 2017, Pantera was the first firm to offer an early-stage token fund.  Pantera Bitcoin Fund has returned over 66,100% in eight years and has returned billions to its investors.  Pantera manages $4.7bn across three strategies – passive, hedge, and venture – exclusively focused on bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem.

Stephen Moore

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Stephen Moore is a distinguished visiting fellow in economics at the Heritage Foundation, the largest private research institute in Washington, D.C.

He served as a senior economic advisor to the Donald Trump for President campaign where he helped write the Trump tax plan and worked on energy and budget issues for candidate Trump.

Moore is also a senior economic analyst with CNN, where he provides daily commentary on the economy, fiscal policy and politics. From 2014- 2017 he served as a Fox news contributor.

From 2005 to 2014 Moore served as the senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page and as a member of the Journal’s editorial board. He is still a regular contributor to the Journal’s editorial page.

He is a frequent lecturer to business, investment and university audiences around the world on the U.S. economic and political outlook in Washington, D.C.

From 1999-2004 Moore served as founder and President of the Club for Growth, a 25,000-member organization dedicated to helping elect free market, tax cutting candidates to Congress. In his tenure as president, the Club for Growth became one of the most influential and respected political organizations in the nation. In 2003-04 the Club for Growth raised nearly $22 million for Republican congressional and Senate candidates, making the Club the biggest single money raiser for Republican candidates outside the party itself.

In 2007 he received the Ronald Reagan “Great Communicator” award from the Republican party for his advancement of economic understanding.

Mr. Moore has served as a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic Committee under former Chairman Dick Armey of Texas. There, he advised Mr. Armey on budget, tax, and competitiveness issues. He was also an architect of the famous Armey flat tax proposal.

From 1983 through 1987, Mr. Moore served as the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. Mr Moore has worked for two presidential commissions. In 1988, he was a Special Consultant to the National Economic Commission. In 1987, he was Research director of President Reagan's commission on Privatization.

Mr. Moore is the author of 6 books. His latest book is “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.” His previous books include: “Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy” by Regnery. He is also author of “Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Taxes, Income and Wealth in America” published in 2012 by Encounter. His previous books include most recently Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain its Economic Superpower Status.“ That book was a finalist for the F.A. Hayek book award for advancing economic understanding. His books also include: “Its Getting Better All the Time: The 100 Greatest Trends of the Last Century,” and “Government: America’s Number One Growth Industry.”

Mr. Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds an MA in Economics from George Mason University. In 2010 he was awarded the University of Illinois alumni of the year.