Peter Schiff

Chief Economist & Global Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital

Peter Schiff is the Chief Economist & Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital, a division of Alliance Global Partners, an SEC-Registered Investment Adviser and a full service broker/dealer. He is one of the few widely known economists and investment professionals to have warned about the 2008 financial crisis before it began. His renown grew widely as a result of his forceful commentary on the U.S. stock market, the problems with the U.S. economy, the bubble in the real estate market, the value of gold, the fallacies of cryptocurrencies, and potential weakness of the U.S. dollar. He is a widely followed opponent of debt-fueled growth policies and activist central banks. He is a strong advocate for free market economics and is known for his advocacy for emerging market and commodity-focused investments.

Mr. Schiff has been quoted hundreds of times in leading news outlets around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Die Zeit, Tokyo Shinbun, South China Morning Post, Investor’s Business Daily, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He regularly appears on CNBC, CNN, The BBC, Al Jazeera, Fox News, and Fox Business Network. His best-selling book, “Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse” was published by Wiley & Sons in February of 2007. His 2010 illustrated economics primer “How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes” has been translated in over 10 languages, won the 2011 Corrine book publishing award in Germany, and served as the basis for an animated educational series produced by the Motion Picture Institute (MPI). His fourth book, “The Real Crash – America’s Coming Bankruptcy” was published by St. Martin’s Press in May of 2012.

Mr. Schiff began his investment career as a financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Brothers, after having earned a degree in finance and accounting from U.C. Berkeley in 1987. A financial professional for more than twenty years, he joined Euro Pacific in 1996 and served as its President until December 2010, when he became CEO. An expert on money, economic theory, and international investing, he is a highly sought after speaker at conferences and symposia around the world. He served as an economic advisor to the 2008 Ron Paul presidential campaign and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2010. He resides Puerto Rico and Connecticut with his wife Lauren and two young children, as well as his son from a prior marriage. He and holds FINRA Series 4, 7, 24, 27, 53, 55, 63 & 65 registrations.

Erik Schatzker

Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg TV

Erik Schatzker is an editor-at-large with Bloomberg Television in New York, where he specializes in long-form interviews, enterprise reporting and special events.

Schatzker developed and hosts Bloomberg’s Front Row series of in-depth conversations with the most powerful, interesting and influential figures in finance — a dynamic cast of characters that ranges from innovation icon Cathie Wood to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Since joining Bloomberg TV in 2007, he has reported from across the globe and gained exclusive access to heads of state and business leaders for stories on camera and in print. Schatzker landed the first interview with Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after his release from detention in the now-infamous Riyadh Ritz-Carlton and played a key role in Bloomberg’s definitive coverage of the market-shaking collapse of investment firm Archegos. He also contributes regularly to Bloomberg Businessweek.

Previously, Schatzker was a reporter, editor, bureau chief and manager at Bloomberg News, where his coverage of Lucent, the onetime tech darling, and Refco, the failed commodity broker, won journalism awards.

A Canadian, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in history and began his career with the South Pacific Mail in Santiago, Chile.

AJ Scaramucci

Founder & Managing Partner, Kyber Capital

AJ Scaramucci is a Founder & Managing Partner at the SALT. Previously AJ was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence alongside Dr. Peter Diamandis building Cellularity, an allogeneic cellular therapies company focused on cancer immunotherapy (NASDAQ: CELU). AJ was also a Managing Director at ABG (successor of Tony Blair Associates) where he focused on advising and financing late stage technology companies like Hims & Hers, JUST, and SpaceX. Prior to that AJ held roles at Google, Tesla, Planetary Resources, Sinovation Ventures, HubSpot, and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sandro Salsano

President, Salsano Group

President Salsano Group, a private conglomerate investing in global real estate, private equity and technology. Chairman of Salsano Family Office and Chairman of Salsano Shahani Foundation, improving kids education in Latin America. Named by Forbes the Warren Buffett of Central America, nominated by World Economic Forum as Young Global Leader. Chairman of Global Dignity and Academy of Global Teacher Prize. Bocconi University graduate, also studied at Harvard, Oxford and Princeton University.

Shannon Saccocia

Chief Investment Officer, Boston Private Wealth

Shannon Saccocia is the chief investment officer at Boston Private, a leading provider of fully integrated wealth management, trust, and private and commercial banking services.

Ms. Saccocia is responsible for setting the overall investment strategy for the firm. She oversees asset allocation, research, portfolio management, external manager search and selection, portfolio implementation, trading, and investment risk management functions. She also works closely with both the business development team and the wealth advisor team to help construct and deliver customized wealth management solutions to meet clients’ specific needs. In her capacity as chief investment officer, she is a member of the firm’s executive team, as well as the Investment Policy Committee, and Asset Allocation Working Group.

Previously, Ms. Saccocia was the director of Manager Search and Selection for Silver Bridge Advisors, which was acquired by Banyan Partners in 2013. Boston Private Wealth acquired Banyan Partners in 2014. Prior to joining Silver Bridge, she worked at State Street Corporation, providing performance and attribution analysis for institutional investors.

Ms. Saccocia holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Investment Management Analyst® professional. She is also a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society, the CFA Institute, and the Investment Management Consultants Association. She earned a BA in economics and history from Brandeis University.

Ms. Saccocia is an official contributor to CNBC's “Halftime Report” and is regularly featured in the financial media. She resides in the Boston area with her husband and two children.

Riccardo Sabatini

Chief Technology Officer, Orionis Biosciences

Riccardo Sabatini is a world renown scientist and entrepreneur specialized in numerical modeling of complex system, ranging from material science, financial markets, computational genomics and drug design. In the past he's served as director of FoodCAST, EU research project on food commodity markets forecasting; founding member of Aiida and Quantum ESPRESSO, the largest open source suite for quantum modeling of materials; lead research scientist for Human Longevity, Silicon Valley unicorn working at the intersection of genomics and artificial intelligence. Active supporter of high impact projects, he’s co-founder of the Refugees Action HUB center at MIT, educational effort of MIT targeting displaced population around the world; chairman of the G7 for artificial intelligence; board member of the Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei; advisor and supporter of the Human Code Foundation, charity focusing on scientific dissemination; angel investor and BoA of leading startups working in AI. Speaker at international events and conferences, including TED and WEF. Author in top ranking scientific journals, consultant for Fortune500 companies, inventor of several patents in biotech and IT, angel investor and board member for some groundbreaking startups in the field of artificial intelligence. Today he’s working on how to solve drug design at genomic scale with his company, Orionis Biosciences.

Stephanie Ruhle

Anchor, MSNBC; Correspondent, NBC News

Stephanie Ruhle anchors “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” at 9 a.m. ET and “MSNBC Live with Velshi & Ruhle” at 1 p.m. ET on weekdays. Ruhle also appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “TODAY,” and NBCNews.com. Since joining MSNBC, Ruhle has interviewed numerous high-profile newsmakers and influential politicians.

Previously, Ruhle served as anchor and managing editor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where she co-hosted Bloomberg <GO>, Bloomberg TV’s flagship morning show featuring global thought leaders across business, tech and media.

Prior to Bloomberg, Ruhle worked at Deutsche Bank, serving as a Managing Director in Global Markets Senior Relationship Management. Ruhle began her career at Credit Suisse, where she was the highest-producing credit derivatives salesperson in the U.S.

In 2015, Ruhle produced and hosted the documentary Haiti: Open For Business?, which sheds light on the country five years after it was hit by a devastating earthquake and explores its viability as the next emerging market. Ruhle also participated in a short-form documentary, Sharkland: A Mission Blue & Fusion Expedition, which brings attention to the plight of sharks and the urgent needs to conserve our oceans.

Ruhle plays an active role in women’s leadership development, having founded the Corporate Investment Bank Women’s Network and co-chaired Women on Wall Street. Ruhle is a member of the board of trustees for Girls Inc. NYC and in 2016 was honored as one of their Women of the Year. Ruhle currently sits on the board and advises for "React To Film," an issue-based documentary film series, and formerly served on the corporate councils of iMentor and The White House Project.

Ruhle received a bachelor’s degree in International Business from Lehigh University and resides in New York City with her husband Andy Hubbard and their 3 children, Harrison, Reese and Drew.

Jack Ross

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Waterfall Asset Management

Jack Ross is a managing partner and co-founder of Waterfall Asset Management. Mr. Ross has over 30 years of ABS and structured credit experience, having completed some of the earliest ABS issues at Drexel Burnham Lambert and co-founded Merrill Lynch’s ABS Group with Tom Capasse. Mr. Ross subsequently managed International Real Estate Debt at Merrill Lynch and founded Licent Capital, a specialty broker/dealer for intellectual property securitization. Mr. Ross began his career as a CPA with Laventhol & Horwath and received a B.S. from the University of Buffalo in 1978 and his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.

David Rosenblum

Managing Partner, Prophet Capital

David Rosenblum joined Prophet Capital as a Managing Partner in 2009. Mr. Rosenblum began his career at Goldman Sachs as a junior trader in the Mortgage Department in 1992. For the next fifteen years, he structured and traded a wide variety of mortgage-backed securities. In 2005, Mr. Rosenblum was named head of Prime Residential Structured Mortgage Trading, with responsibility for the Agency CMO, Mortgage Derivatives and Non-Agency Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities businesses. In 2006, Mr. Rosenblum changed roles to head up the Collateralized Loan Obligation group. In early 2008, after two years running Goldman’s CLO business, Mr. Rosenblum left the securities division to join Goldman Sachs Asset Management as head of Structured Credit Portfolio Management. In this role, he built portfolios of distressed RMBS, CMBS and CLO securities. In December 2008, Mr. Rosenblum was additionally asked to be the sole GSAM professional dedicated to help implement and manage the U.S. Federal Reserve’s US$1.25 trillion Agency MBS Mortgage Purchase Program. He continued in both of these roles until his departure from GSAM in June 2009. Mr. Rosenblum earned a B.A. degree in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Amherst College in 1992.

Matthew Roszak

Chairman & Co-Founder, Bloq

Matthew Roszak is a leading blockchain investor, entrepreneur and advocate. Mr. Roszak is chairman and co-founder of Bloq, a blockchain technology company and the creators of Metronome, a next generation cryptocurrency. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchainenabled technology, with a portfolio of market leading companies including: Binance, Block.One, Blockstream, Civic, Genaro, Orchid, Polymath, Rivetz, Spacechain, tZERO and Qtum.

Mr. Roszak serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry — and the founder of the Token Alliance, an industry-led initiative developing best practices and standards for the responsible issuance of tokens. In addition, Mr. Roszak serves on the board of BitGive, a nonprofit foundation that improves philanthropic impact with blockchain technology. Mr. Roszak is also the founder of the Chicago Blockchain Center, a public-private partnership with the State of Illinois, CME Group, DRW and Lightbank. Mr. Roszak was a producer of the industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.

Mr. Roszak is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified as an expert before U.S. Congress and spoken at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Mr. Roszak has presented at TEDx, been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Financial Times. In addition, Mr. Roszak has been a keynote speaker at fintech conferences worldwide, including Money20/20, CES and Consensus.

Kelly Rodriques

Chief Executive Officer, Forge

Kelly has more than 26 years of FinTech experience and has been an investor in more than 25 venture-backed firms.

He was a founding investor of mFoundry, the leading provider of mobile banking that was acquired by Fidelity Information Systems in 2013. Most recently, he served as CEO of PENSCO, one of the nation’s leading alternative asset custodians, which was sold to Opus Bank in 2017.

Rodriques has also served as the operating partner of Ignition Capital, and CEO and chairman of Totality -- acquired by Verizon in 2006.

Rodriques has also been managing partner of Operative Capital, a SanFrancisco-based Fintech venture firm.

Rony Rodriguez, CPA

Partner, CohnReznick

Rony Rodriguez, CPA, is a tax partner at CohnReznick and is a member of the Commercial Real Estate and Financial Services Industry Practices. Rony has more than 17 years of diversified public accounting experience with an extensive background in advising real estate clients, including private equity real estate funds, as well as private and public Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Rony has assisted his clients with a variety of tax issues, including entity structuring, REIT qualification, REIT conversions, acquisition and sale of REIT shares/properties, and unrelated business taxable income (UBTI). In addition to his real estate experience, Rony has an extensive background in working with investment partnerships consisting of hedge funds and private equity funds. His experience includes consulting on operational, transactional, and tax issues in the financial services industry.

Justin Rockefeller

Global Director of Family Offices & Foundations, Addepar

Justin Rockefeller is Global Director of Family Offices and Foundations at Addepar, a financial technology and services company empowering leading investment management firms to spend more time on what matters most: investing, building relationships, and growing their business. Justin cofounded and chairs The ImPact, a membership network of family enterprises (family offices, foundations, and businesses) that are committed to making investments with measurable social impact. The ImPact provides families with the knowledge and network they need to make more impact investments more effectively, and uses sophisticated technology for data aggregation, analytics, and reporting to shift the narrative of impact investing from one of inputs (dollars committed) to outcomes (impact created). Its purpose is to improve the probability and pace of solving social problems by increasing the flow of capital to investments generating measurable social impact. Since2009, Justin has served on the investment committee (and for nine years the board) of Rockefeller Brothers Fund; he helped steer the private foundation towards mission-aligned investing of its endowment. Justin received a B.A. from Princeton University, and lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.

Greg Richter

Chief Executive Officer, Medalist Partners

Greg Richter is the CEO of Medalist Partners, Co-Head of Structured Credit & Asset Finance, Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager for various Medalist funds. Prior to forming Medalist, Mr. Richter co-founded and led the Structured Credit and Asset Finance business within Candlewood Investment Group. Prior, Mr. Richter worked at Credit Suisse as a portfolio manager heading their structured credit effort. Prior, Mr. Richter was Head of Credit Suisse’s Specialty Finance Group, based in New York where he was responsible for the combined Global Asset Finance Capital Markets and the Specialty Finance Banking Group and a member of the Fixed Income Operating Committee. The Global Asset Finance Capital Markets division was responsible for all securitization activity in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Emerging and structured and originated a wide array of securitized products. In addition to running Credit Suisse’s ABS/CDO trading/syndicate effort, Mr. Richter also headed the Asset Backed Securities Home Equity (ABSHE) shelf which bought and packaged mortgage loans. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Richter spent 15 years at Prudential Securities in New York where most recently, he was Managing Director and served as the head of Trading and Syndicate for all structured products. Mr. Richter holds a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

Carol E. Reiley

Chief Executive Officer, Stealth Healthcare Company

Carol Reiley is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and an active advocate for diversity/bias in AI. Her purpose in life is to save the world, one robot at a time. She's been named the Mother of Robots and over the past 20 years has worked in a breadth of robotics applications ranging from healthcare (Intuitive Surgical) to space (Lockheed Martin) to underwater to self-driving cars. She is currently CEO of a healthcare startup, a creative advisor of the San Francisco Symphony, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics. She previously cofounded and was President of drive.ai where she led partnerships with Lyft and Grab, helped build team of 8 to 150+ employees, and raised over $77M. She also founded Tinkerbelle Labs for low cost healthcare as well as Squishybotz for educational robotics. She is a published children's book author on the 1st growth mindset which has sold over 20K copies, was on the 1st female engineer on the MAKE magazine cover, and the youngest member on the IEEE Robotics and Engineering Board. She previously was an instructor at Johns Hopkins and led a robot outreach event for over 1000+ low-income students in the Baltimore/DC area. She did her undergraduate in computer engineering from Santa Clara University and graduate work in CS at Johns Hopkins University and has published dozens of papers and holds eight patents.She is an advocate for underrepresented groups in technology as well as speaking out about Bias in AI. She's been profiled in WSJ, NY Times, MIT Tech Review, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and Wired and is recognized by Forbes, Inc Magazine, and Quartz as one of the top founders in Artificial Intelligence. She and her husband were named by MIT tech review as the AI power couple. They live in Los Altos and have one daughter.

Margaret Ren

Chairman, Asia Pacific Corporate & Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Ms. Margaret Ren is Chairman of Asia Pacific Corporate and Investment Banking, and Chairman of China, for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Ms. Ren is one of the most experienced China bankers, with more than 25 years of industry experience. She has extensive knowledge, and deep relationships with, the Chinese financial and corporate sectors, and has led many landmark transactions across Greater China.

She is one of the pioneer Chinese investment bankers who first took Chinese companies to the international capital markets; she is the first Mainland Chinese woman to become a senior executive in investment banking of a major Wall Street firm.

Ms. Ren was named among the Top 50 most powerful business women in Asia by Forbes in 2013, and the 100 most influential women in finance by Financial News in 2009.

She joined BofA Merrill Lynch from BNP Paribas, where she was chairman for Corporate Finance, Greater China.

Ms. Ren was a medical doctor graduated from Shanghai Medical University. She holds a Master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management of MIT.

Alex Rampell

General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on financial services. He serves on the board of Branch, Brightside, Descript, Divvy, Earnin, FlyHomes, Loft, Mercury, PeerStreet, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Mega Corp, Transferwise, and Very Good Security.

Alex additionally led the firm's investments in OpenDoor ($OPEN), Plaid, Quantopian (acquired by Robinhood), and Rival (acquired by LiveNation).

Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013).

He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.

Sean Rad

Founder, Tinder

Sean Rad is Founder of Tinder, a global platform that has brought the world closer together by creating more than 20 billion new connections in 196 countries.

Paul Rabil

Co-Founder, Premier Lacrosse League

Paul Rabil is a professional lacrosse player and co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League – a new professional lacrosse league launched in October 2018, with 160 of the best players in the world and a major media rights deal with NBC Sports Group.

Paul's lacrosse career began when his next-door neighbor gave him his backup equipment to tryout for the local rec team. Since then, Paul has gone on to influence the sport at every level, winning championships and MVP’s twice in the NCAA’s, multiple times in professional outdoor and indoor lacrosse, as well as becoming a two-time World Lacrosse Champion with Team USA.

Off the field, Paul’s leveraged his sophistication in media and tech to build a robust multi-channel influencer network. Anchored by his YouTube channel with 165,000+ subscribers and an Instagram account with 330,000+ followers, Paul utilizes each platform’s unique tools to connect with audiences around the world, telling his story through the lens of lacrosse. In 2017, SportTechie awarded Paul as “Most Tech-Savvy Athlete on the Planet”, and in 2018, the Cynopsis Sports Media Awards named Paul the 2018 “Best Athlete in a Web Series”.

In 2017, Paul launched the award-winning Suiting Up Podcast, which is an interview-style show that hosts the top athletes, entrepreneurs, and entertainers in the world, discussing their journey while disclosing tips to listeners. The podcast has over 1,000,000 downloads and was featured as the #1 New and Noteworthy podcast by Apple Podcasts. Podcast guests have included Bill Belichick, Venus Williams, Drew Brees, Gary Vaynerchuck, Scott Galloway, and Adam Grant.

Named a “Top 40 Most Entrepreneurial Athlete” by Entrepreneur Magazine, Paul has also found success as a business owner and investor, acquiring capital and operating Rabil Events and Rabil Ventures.

In 2011, Paul started the Paul Rabil Foundation (PRF), with the mission of helping children with learning differences, by creating programs and partnerships through sport and scholarship. Having grown up with Auditory Processing Disorder and ADHD, Paul looked to sports to help build confidence, skill and interpersonal skills, saying “the crossover between athletics and academics was critical to my growth and broader achievement”.

Amanda Pullinger

Chief Executive Officer, 100 Women in Finance

Ms. Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance (previously 100 Women in Hedge Funds). She leads a small staff team and manages over 500 volunteer practitioners globally, overseeing the operations of the organization, which now has over 15,000 members in 23 locations.

Ms. Pullinger is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds.

Ms. Pullinger is currently on the Boards of the HALO Trust (USA), the American Friends of The National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation and serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She is also Vice Chair of the Women’s Network Forum and Vice President of The Brasenose Society. Previously, she served as Chairman of the Board of The HALO Trust (www.halotrust.org) and on the Boards of SkillForce, NYU Cancer Institute and Girls’ Prep, and was on the founding Board of 100 Women in Finance, serving as its President for two years. She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Ms. Pullinger graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.