Arturo Elizondo

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Clara Foods

Arturo is the founder and CEO of biotech food company, Clara Foods, based in Silicon Valley. Prior to founding Clara in 2014, Arturo served under Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Credit Suisse. He has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30, the 2019 Person of the Year by the National Hispanic Institute, and one of 10 Latinos who inspire the United States by BBC World News. Arturo hails from Laredo, Texas, and grew up living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. He holds a degree in Government & Comparative Politics from Harvard University.

Patrick Dyson

Partner & Global Head of Telecom, GoldenTree Asset Management

Pat Dyson is a Partner and Global Head of Telecom at GoldenTree Asset Management and is a member of GoldenTree’s Distressed Committee.

Prior to joining GoldenTree, Mr. Dyson was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at UBS O’Connor where he was managing their $1 billion credit focused hedge fund, and focused on identifying, researching and managing investments in all credit products. Mr. Dyson spent several years on the sell side, primarily at Credit Suisse, and during each of his last five years at Credit Suisse was ranked First by Institutional Investor in his sector. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College and J.D. from the William and Mary School of Law, where he served as a member of the Law Review. Mr. Dyson is Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Hewitt School in New York and he also serves on the William and Mary School of Law Foundation Board.

Noel Pacarro Brown

Investing with Impact Director & Financial Advisor, Conscious Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley

Noel Pacarro Brown joined Morgan Stanley in 2007, as the lead of The Conscious Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley, where she guides the collective effort of her team to help families, foundations, and founders advance the mission of their money and create purposeful lives and legacies.

Noel has been recognized on the Forbes Lists for Top Women Advisors, Top Nextgen Advisors, Best in State Advisors, and as a Top Advisor by Working Mother Magazine.

Noel is a proud advocate of Investing with Impact. Her work can be found on podcasts, across national blogs and industry publications. She served as co-host of the Better Money Show, a podcast broadcast by XRAY.fm which highlights people who are driving capital to drive change, and throughout the year she can be found presenting on stage at national conferences (2017: Forbes Top Advisor Summit in Las Vegas, IMCA Focus on NextGen Conference in San Francisco, 2018: MMI/Morningstar Sustainability Conference in Chicago, 2019: Investments & Wealth Institute Annual Conference in Las Vegas, UN Sustainable Investing Conference in NYC).

At Morgan Stanley Noel is part of the Women Without Limits initiative, serves as co-chair of the National Consulting Group Advisory Council, and was named to the MAKERS class of 2018. She also serves on the board for the Investment & Wealth Institute® (formerly IMCA®); a global professional association, advanced education provider, and standards body for financial advisors, investment consultants, and wealth managers who embrace excellence and ethics.

Noel grew up on Oahu, and graduated from Punahou School. She attended Wellesley College before graduating with Honors from Brown University, and holds a Masters in Teaching from Pacific University. Noel spends her free time with her husband Cameron, their two children, and two dogs.

Steven Boyd

Founder & Managing Partner, Armistice

Steven Boyd is the Founder and Managing Partner of Armistice. Prior to Armistice, Steve was a Senior Research Analyst at Senator Investment Group since the firm’s launch in 2008. Before Senator, he was an Associate at York Capital, focusing primarily on investments in consumer and healthcare equities. Previously, Steve worked as an Analyst at SAB Capital Management, a value-oriented long/short equity hedge fund. Steven began his career as an Analyst at McKinsey & Company. He received a B.S. in Economics (with a concentration in Finance) as well as a B.A. in Political Science from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Bodley

Editor-in-Chief, TheStreet Crypto

Michael Bodley is a veteran financial journalist leading up cryptocurrency coverage for TheStreet.com as editor-in-chief of TheStreet Crypto and its flagship premium newsletter, Crypto Investor. Previously, Bodley worked for industry publication Hedge Fund Alert, where he developed a deep roster of both buy- and sell-side sources. His work has been published in publications including The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, NBC News, USA Today and The Washington Post.

Tim Harrington

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, BattleFin

Tim is a co-founder and CEO of BattleFin Group Inc. BattleFin is a venture capital backed technology company focused on bringing alternative data to the world through its’ Ensemble© platform. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to founding Battle, Tim was the President and a Partner at Lion’s Path Capital, a hedge fund incubator where he allocated capital to 30 fundamental and systematic portfolio managers since the launch in 2009. From January 2006 until 2009, Mr. Harrington was a Portfolio Manager at J.P. Morgan Ventures where he managed a portfolio of Global Technology, Media & Telecom Investments. From February 2002 until January 2006 he was a Telecom & Media Portfolio Manager at Sigma Capital, a subsidiary of SAC Capital. Mr. Harrington graduated from Columbia College in 1998. He was a member of the Columbia University Judiciary Board as well as a member of the varsity crew team.

Leslee Cowen

Management Committee Partner, Credit Funds, Fortress

Leslee N. Cowen is a Management Committee Partner of the Credit Funds of Fortress Investment Group where she co-heads the corporate debt and securities group and serves on the investment committee.  She is a member of the firm's management committee and diversity and inclusion committee.  In her role she focuses on special situations, public and private transactions across the capital structure.  Prior to joining Fortress in 2002, Ms. Cowen was at the Baupost Group where she was responsible for the acquisition of public and private distressed debt and equity securities, as well as the acquisition of non-performing loan portfolios.  Previously she was an associate at The Argentum Group.  Ms. Cowen began her career as an analyst at The Blackstone Group in the private equity and M&A groups.  She graduated with a B.S. degree magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sarah Sclarsic

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Voyager Ventures

Sarah Sclarsic is a Managing Partner at Voyager, a venture capital firm she co-founded that invests in early-stage climate technology companies. A long-time operator and investor in sustainability-oriented technology companies, Sarah cofounded Getaround in 2009, prior to work with pioneering biotechnology company Modern Meadow. She currently serves on the public boards of XL Fleet (NYSE: XL), Pivotal Investment Corporation (PICC.U) and an early-stage industrial process technology firm that remains in stealth.

Sarah graduated from Harvard College with a focus on bioethics and holds a Master’s degree from MIT, where she researched atmospheric carbon removal. She lives in New York.

Barry Ritholtz

Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Ritholtz Wealth Management

For 25 years, Barry Ritholtz has been working at the intersection of behavioral finance and data analytics. He is the Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of Ritholtz Wealth Management, managing $2.5 billion in client assets. The 8-year-old firm is one of the fastest-growing RIAs in America, and was named ETF Advisor of the Year, and was one of the Financial Times Top 300 Advisors.

He is the creator and host of Masters in Business, Bloomberg Radio’s most popular and longest running podcast. The show features 60-90 minute conversations with many of the most accomplished, fascinating people in the world of business and investing. MiB just celebrated its 7th year.

Ritholtz has been named one of the “15 Most Important Economic Journalists” in the United States, and has been called one of the “25 Most Dangerous People in Financial Media.” He publishes on all things finance at Bloomberg Opinion and BusinessWeek; from 2011-2016, was the personal finance columnist for The Washington Post.

His long-standing finance weblog, The Big Picture, has led to some calling him the “blogfather.” TBP generates half a million page views per month and has been covering everything investing-related since 2003. The blog has amassed over 250 million visitors.

Sreeni Prabhu

Managing Partner, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Group Chief Investment Officer, Angel Oak Capital Advisors

Sreeni is a co-founder, Managing Partner and Group Chief Investment Officer at Angel Oak Capital and is responsible for the overall investment strategy of the firm. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and President at Angel Oak Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE: AOMR).

Prior to Angel Oak, Sreeni was the Chief Investment Officer of the investment portfolio at Washington Mutual Bank in Seattle where he managed a $25 billion portfolio. He was also part of the macro asset strategy team at the bank. Sreeni previously worked for six years at SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, where he was responsible for investment strategies and served as Head Portfolio Manager for the $3 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities portfolio. He began his career at SunTrust in 1998 as a Bank Analyst focused on asset/liability management and liquidity strategies.

Sreeni holds a B.B.A. degree in Economics from Georgia College and State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Georgia State University.

Katherine Molnar, CFA

Chief Investment Officer, Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System

Ms. Molnar joined Fairfax County Retirement Systems in 2013 and currently serves as Chief Investment Officer of the Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System, a $1.8 billion plan. Her responsibilities include all aspects of portfolio management and oversight, including strategic and tactical asset and risk allocation, selection and supervision of external investment managers and risk management. From 2001 until 2012, Ms. Molnar was Vice President, Senior Research Analyst at AIG Investments’ Hedge Fund Solutions Group – both in London and New York. At AIG Investments, Ms. Molnar was responsible for due diligence procedures and research including: sourcing new managers, monitoring current hedge funds, analyzing portfolio risk and performance, making new investment recommendations to an investment committee as well as hedge fund asset allocation recommendations for portfolio construction. She was additionally responsible for portfolio reviews and overall asset allocation recommendations for external client portfolios. Previously, she was Vice President, Market Research Analyst at Citigroup Investments’ Alternative Investment Strategies group. Prior investment management experience includes positions at Paribas Asset Management as well as Trevor Stewart Burton & Jacobsen. Additionally, Ms. Molnar spent one year in Warsaw, Poland launching the first retail mutual funds available to the Polish market as well as two years in Frankfurt, Germany as an intern with J.P. Morgan. Ms. Molnar received a B.S. in Business Administration/Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a CFA charterholder.

Ryne Miller

General Counsel, FTX US

Ryne joins FTX.US from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where he was a Partner and Co-Head of its Commodities, Futures & Derivatives practice. He was formerly an attorney at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he served as legal counsel to Chairman Gary Gensler. Miller is an active participant in the American Bar Association's Derivatives and Futures Law Committee as well as the New York City Bar Association's Futures & Derivatives Regulation Committee. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Futures Industry Association's Law & Compliance Division.

Before that he worked as a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Steven P. Shreder in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. Ryne has a LL.M. from the New York University School of Law and a JD from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He has a bachelors degree in Economics from Oklahoma State University.

Hernán Luis y Prado

Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Workshops for Warriors

Hernán Luis y Prado served in the United States Navy for 15 years as a Hospital Corpsman and then as a Surface Warfare Officer. Hernán saw three combat tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is a graduate of the Navy Surface Warfare Officer School, where he completed the Chief Engineering Officer and Combat Systems Officer curricula. His personal decorations include the Navy Achievement Medal and Combat Action Ribbon, as well as various unit and service awards.

An accomplished businessman and civic leader, Hernán was recognized by the White House as a “Champion of Change” for Workshops for Warriors’ extensive efforts and notable achievements in helping veterans successfully transition from the military into advanced manufacturing careers.

In 2014, Hernán received the “Keith M. Turnham Humanitarian Award” in recognition of his military service and his continued commitment to serving the communities of San Diego. In 2015, Hernán was recognized by the California State Legislature as the “80th Assembly District for 2015 Veteran of the Year,” and more recently, “CEO of the Year” by the San Diego Business Journal in 2017.

Marc X. LoPresti

Co-Founder & Board Member, BattleFin

Marc is a Wall Street veteran with over 25 years’ experience in alternative investments and the asset management industry, having started his career on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange working for Lehman Brothers.  In addition to being founder and chair of LoPresti Law Group, PC (a boutique law firm focused exclusively on the alternative asset management industry), Marc is currently:

• Co-Founder & Managing Director, IDI Group (a global multi-family office focused on early-stage venture investments)

• Founder & Managing Director, IDI Advisory Group (a boutique merchant bank)

• Co-Founder & Board Member, BattleFin Group (a leading alternative data company)

• Chairman, Low Emissions Resources Group (a leading development-stage renewable energy company focused on hydrogen synthesis)

• Managing Director, The Strategic Funds (an alternative asset management firm focused on niche investment strategies)

Marc has also previously held the following positions:

• Executive Committee & Co-Founder, Ranger Global Real Estate Advisors, LLC (an SEC-registered investment advisor with $1b+ AUM)

• Management Committee, Alternative Capital Advisors (an SEC-registered multi-manager hedge fund investment advisor)

• Co-Founder & Managing Director, Structured Alternative Solutions, LLC (a unique shared-risk multi-manager hedge fund)

• Co-Founder & Managing Director, Moneta Management (a boutique investment vehicle and merchant bank)

Marc is also a recognized authority on securities laws, alternative investments, family offices and related topics appearing regularly on CNBC and other financial news networks including Bloomberg, Fox and international networks.  He is a frequent and sought-after speaker at conferences around the world (speaker CV available on request).  He graduated from New York Law School in 1997. 

Caitlin Long

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Avanti Bank & Trust

Caitlin Long is Founder & CEO of Avanti Bank & Trust. Ms. Long is a Bitcoin expert who previously spent 22 years in senior roles at Wall Street firms. She was a managing director who ran Morgan Stanley’s pension solutions business (2007-2016), held senior roles at Credit Suisse (1997-2007) and began her career at Salomon Brothers (1994-1997). From 2016-18 she jointly spearheaded a blockchain project for delivering market index data to Vanguard as chairman and president of Symbiont, an enterprise blockchain start-up. In 2017, after a flaw in a Wyoming law blocked her from donating appreciated bitcoin to endow a scholarship for female engineers at the University of Wyoming, she volunteered to help fix the statute. That led to her helping spearhead a multi-year initiative to make Wyoming, her native state, an oasis for blockchain companies in the US, where Wyoming has enacted 26 blockchain-enabling laws since 2018. Two Wyoming governors have appointed her to serve on the Wyoming Legislature's Blockchain Task Force / Blockchain Select Committee. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD, 1994), the Kennedy School of Government (MPP, 1994) and the University of Wyoming (BA, 1990).

Steve Kokinos

Chief Executive Officer, Algorand

Steve is the CEO of Algorand and responsible for overall business vision and strategy.

Steve is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and Executive Chairman of Fuze, where he was responsible for corporate strategy. Under his direction, the company transformed the way enterprises view collaboration as a key driver of business visibility, process improvement, and results. Today, Fuze has over 700 employees servicing over 1500 enterprise customers around the world.

Prior to Fuze, Steve was co-founder of BladeLogic, Inc., a recognized leader in the data center automation market with a Fortune 500 client list including GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, and Sprint, among others. Bladelogic held a successful IPO and was later acquired by BMC Software for ~$800M.

Prior to BladeLogic, Steve was co-founder and CEO of Web Yes, Inc., an early market leader in the Web hosting and application service provider arena that provided infrastructure services for Sun Microsystems, Netscape, and Lycos, among others. Web Yes was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999.

Alex Klokus

Founder & Managing Partner, Kyber Capital

Alex Klokus is a Founder and Managing Partner at the SALT Fund. Alex is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold both the media company Futurism and the sleep and wellness business Gravity.

Al Kim

Director of Investments, Helmsley Charitable Trust

Al Y. Kim is a Director of Investments at the Helmsley Charitable Trust. In this role, Al is responsible for helping lead the development and implementation of the overall investment strategy at the Trust, which entails thematic research, manager due diligence, and portfolio construction and execution across all segments of the investment program. Prior to Helmsley, Al was a Director in BlackRock’s OCIO business and a consultant at Wilshire Associates. Al has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California and has earned the CFA and CAIA designations.

Farouk Ferchichi

Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Envestnet

Mr. Ferchichi is a CDO 4.0 pioneer with proven success transforming businesses to create new data analytics products, markets, and business models that enhance customer experience, loyalty, and profitability. He currently serves as the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Envestnet after serving in similar roles for USAA and Toyota Financial Services. Mr. Ferchichi is committed to social responsibility and serves as Board Member for two Non-Profit organizations. He holds two undergraduate degrees in econometrics, business, and an MBA in Finance. Mr. Ferchichi has various publications and was featured in a 60 minutes’ Big Data documentary movie production.

Rupal J. Bhansali

Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager, International & Global Equities, Ariel Investments

Rupal Bhansali is chief investment officer and portfolio manager of Ariel’s international and global equity strategies. In this capacity, she oversees our global research effort and manages multi-billion dollar portfolios. She also co-manages our global concentrated strategy. Rupal joined Ariel in 2011 after 10 years with MacKay Shields where she was senior managing director, portfolio manager and head of international equities. Previously, she spent 5 years at Oppenheimer Capital, where she was responsible for international and global equity portfolios and was promoted to co-head of international equities. Additionally, Rupal has held various roles at other financial services firms since she began her career in 1989, including Soros Fund Management. In 2009, Forbes International Investment Report named her a “Global Guru,” in 2015, Barron’s recognized her as a “Global Contrarian,” and in 2017 PBS’s Consuelo Mack referred to her as an “unconventional thinker.” In January 2019, Rupal became the newest member of the prestigious Barron’s Investment Roundtable, which showcases “10 of Wall Street’s smartest investors.” She is a frequent guest on Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business News, and authored the book, Non-Consensus Investing: Being Right When Everyone Else Is Wrong. In 2020, Rupal obtained the FSA credential, awarded by the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) for professionals who understand the link between sustainability and financial performance. Rupal serves on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School, and the Board of Directors of the 100 Women in Finance Global Association. Fluent in several Indian languages including Hindi, Rupal earned a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and finance, as well as a Master of Commerce in international finance and banking from the University of Mumbai. She later earned an MBA in finance from the University of Rochester, where she was a Rotary Foundation Scholar.