Speaker | NY22

Dan Ariely

Co-Founder, Irrational Capital; James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University

Dan Ariely is a co-Founder of Irrational Capital and a leading behavioral economist, author, and entrepreneur, and a James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. For the past five years, Dan and the Irrational Capital team have researched the connection between deep elements of corporate culture and their impact on the ultimate measure of future equity performance for public companies – stock price.

Dan’s groundbreaking work in behavioral economics has led to the publication of several New York Times bestsellers including Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. He contributes a regular column to The Wall Street Journal, “Ask Ariely,” and has delivered numerous TED Talks with over 10 million downloads.

Dan has been involved in a wide range of successful commercial ventures and is also a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

Carlos Domingo

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Securitize

Securitize's mission is to disrupt, improve and democratize access to the capital markets. Leveraging blockchain technology, Securitize is the only end-to-end solution enabling companies to tokenize assets, raise capital, compliantly onboard investors, manage shareholders, and enable liquidity, all on one digital platform. Securize's all-in-one platform is comprised of Securitize Transfer (the only of the top 10 stock transfer agents to tokenize shares), Securitize iD (an identify verification passport for digital assets), Securitize Markets (a registered broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System), and Securitize Capital (one of the first digital asset management firms and a registered investment advisor).

In addition to leading Securitize, Carlos is a co-founder and Managing Partner of SPiCE VC, the first truly liquid, inclusive and transparent tokenized venture capital firm on the blockchain. He is also the author of Everything You Wanted to Know About Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and 8/ockchain but Were Afraid to Ask. Carlos is a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from blockchain to digitization, Web3 to regulation and the long tail of more liquid capital markets.

Prior to co-founding Securitize, Carlos was Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer at Dubai-based telecom "du". Before that, he served as President and CEO of Research and Development, as well as CEO of New Business and Innovation, at the Spanish telecom Telefonica. He has also been CEO, CTO, or a board member at numerous additional tech startups in both the U.S. and Japan.

Carlos holds a PhD and Bachelor's Degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, a Master's Degree in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.

Carlos speaks English, Spanish and Japanese and is based in Miami, Florida.

Dr. Noubar Afeyan

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Pioneering

Dr. Noubar Afeyan is founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a company that creates bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. An entrepreneur and biochemical engineer, Dr. Afeyan holds more than 100 patents and has co-founded more than 70 life science and technology startups during his 35-year career. He is co-founder and chairman of the board of Moderna, the pioneering messenger RNA company addressing the global COVID-19 pandemic through life-saving vaccines, and chairs the boards of several private and public companies.

Noubar entered biotechnology during its emergence as an academic field and industry, completing his doctoral work in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987. He was a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management from 2000 to 2016, a lecturer at Harvard Business School until 2020, and he currently serves as a member of the MIT Corporation. He teaches and speaks around the world on topics ranging from entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic development to biological engineering, new medicines, and renewable energy. In 2022, Noubar was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Afeyan has received multiple awards for his passionate advocacy of the contributions of immigrants to economic and scientific progress. He is the co-founder of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity and a number of other philanthropic projects focused on Armenia.

John Wu

President, Ava Labs

John Wu is President of Ava Labs, an Andresseen Horowitz backed technology company building the next-generation blockchain platform: Avalanche. John’s objective is to open up financial services and products to all. In this role, he leverages his expertise from over 20 years as a fintech executive and technology investor to create a blockchain-enabled solution for originating, issuing, and trading financial assets.

John was previously CEO of the SharesPost Digital Assets Group, enabling compliant token trading of private shares and funds. Prior to that, he was a technology investor and the founder of Sureview Capital, a global hedge fund backed by the Blackstone Group.

John began his investment career at Tiger Management, before managing a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital.

Thomas Tull

Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Tulco

Thomas Tull is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tulco, LLC, a private holding company that partners with companies employing cutting-edge ideas and technology in under-innovated industries. Sector agonistic, investments range from FIGS, the healthcare apparel company that uses data science and machine learning, to Acrisure, the leading insurance broker in the U.S. He is also the founder of the Tull Investment Group, a private fund that invests in startup and early-stage technology companies, including Colossal, IL MAKIAGE, Genies, Pinterest, Zoox and Oculus Rift. Previously, Thomas was the founder, CEO and Chairman of Legendary Entertainment, the film company that produced blockbusters including The Dark Knight trilogy, 300 and The Hangover franchise.

Outside of his investment work, Thomas is an active philanthropist and founder of the Tull Family Foundation, which supports causes focused on education, medical and scientific research, and conservation. He is also a member of the MIT School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council and a Visiting Innovation Scholar, and a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, Yellowstone Forever, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Thomas is part of the ownership group of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College.

Akbar Thobhani

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, sFOX

Akbar Thobhani is the co-founder and CEO of sFOX, a full-service crypto prime broker bringing together liquidity, best price execution, dark pool access, treasury management, custody and settlement services all together in one trading platform and API. Prior to co-founding sFOX, Thobhani served as Head of Growth & Business Development at Airbnb, where he managed payments for over 190 countries.

With vast experience in trading and payments, Thobani has developed several platform solutions for companies like ITG, Boku, and Stamps.com. He started his career as a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Thobhani earned his MBA from MIT, where he started mining bitcoins before it was popular.

Tracy Stuart, CFA

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner, Corbin Capital Partners

Tracy serves as the Chief Executive Officer and is a Managing Partner of Corbin Capital Partners, a New York-based independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy and opportunistic credit investing for institutional investors and high-net-worth clients globally. As of July 1, 2022, Corbin has $8.27 billion in AUM.

With over 30 years of industry experience, Tracy is responsible for management of the firm and is a member of Corbin’s Multi-Strategy Investment Committee, Credit Investment Committee, and Operating Committee. Before joining Corbin in 2004, Tracy was Managing Director and Head of the Global Multi-Manager Strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, a Managing Director at BARRA/RogersCaseyStrategic Consulting Group, a consultant at Wilshire Associates, Inc. and a financial analyst at SEI Corporation. Tracy graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Economics, received her M.I.M. from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and was awarded the CFA charter in 1992.

Tracy’s currently a Board member of Save the Children and chairs the Investment Committee. Former Board involvement includes High Water Women and Shepherd’s Inc. Recently Tracy has become an Advisory Committee Member of No Labels, a group committed to bipartisanship by bringing Congressional Democrats and Republicans together.

Rahul Singhvi

Chief Executive Officer, Resilience

Rahul Singhvi is a global leader in the Life Sciences industry and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of National Resilience, Inc.

Most recently, Rahul was an Operating Partner at Flagship Pioneering, a Boston-based life sciences innovation firm where he was responsible for founding and operating companies launched from Flagship’s innovation foundry, Flagship labs. Before joining Flagship, Rahul was the Chief Operating Officer of Takeda’s Vaccine Business Unit where he was responsible for worldwide vaccine CMC and manufacturing operations. During his six-year tenure at Takeda, the vaccine business grew to over 500 employees and created an industry leading late-stage pipeline of vaccine candidates against dengue, norovirus, and zika. Before Takeda, Rahul was President and CEO of Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) where he transformed the company from a specialty pharmaceutical business to a vaccine development company with vaccine candidates against influenza (funded by BARDA) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Rahul’s professional career began at Merck & Co in 1994, where he held several positions in R&D and manufacturing.

Rahul serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the anti-microbial resistance research group at the Singapore MIT Advance Research and Technology program. He is a mentor instructor in the Undergraduate Projects Opportunity Program (UPOP) at MIT and is a visiting lecturer at the University College London (UCL).

Dr. Singhvi graduated as the top ranked chemical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and obtained both his M.S. and Sc.D. chemical engineering degrees from MIT. He received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.

Margaret Vo Schaus

Chief Financial Officer, NASA

Margaret Vo Schaus was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30, 2021, to serve as NASA’s Chief Financial Officer. As Chief Financial Officer, Schaus ensures the financial health of the Agency and oversees all financial management, budget, strategic planning, and performance activities relating to NASA’s programs and operations. Schaus manages the Agency’s budget and financial operations, directs the preparation and submission of annual financial and budgetary reports, and coordinates Agency financial management activities with other federal agencies.

Prior to this appointment, Schaus was a career member of the Senior Executive Service. She has held numerous leadership roles within science and engineering organizations with responsibility for advancing research, development and demonstration programs; financial management; and business operations. She has served in positions at the Departments of Defense, Energy and Treasury, and at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Schaus has been recognized with several awards, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s

Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the Department of Energy’s Distinguished Career Service Award, and the Secretary of Energy’s Honor Award.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degrees from Stanford University in Science, Technology, and Society, as well as English, as well as a Master of Science degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Brett Redfearn

Founder, Panorama Financial Markets Advisory

Brett Redfearn is the Founder of Panorama Financial Markets Advisory, an advisory firm focused on helping innovators navigate strategic, regulatory and operational challenges in the evolving market structures of digital assets and equity securities. Brett is currently working with asset managers, broker-dealers and other fintech companies. He is also Senior Strategic Advisor and Chairman of the Advisory Board at Securitize, a leading regulated platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities.

Prior to PFMA, Brett headed Capital Markets for Coinbase, where he focused on building the emergent ecosystem for digital asset securities and overseeing the Coinbase exchange.

Between October 2017 and December 2020, Brett led the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets where he oversaw groundbreaking rulemakings and market initiatives across U.S. equities, options, fixed income, security-based swaps and digital asset securities

Mr. Redfearn joined the SEC after a 14-year career at J.P. Morgan, where he was, most recently, Global Head of Market Structure for the Corporate and Investment Bank across asset classes.

Mr. Redfearn has served on the boards of Bats Global Markets, BATS Exchange, the National Organization of Investment Professionals, the Chicago Stock Exchange and BIDS Trading.

Claudio Parrinello

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, PlanetWatch

Claudio is the CEO and Cofounder of PlanetWatch, which is building a global decentralized environmental data ecosystem by leveraging Web3 technologies and communities.

Claudio holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. He is a former research physicist, international consultant and manager @CERN, Geneva. An Italian national, he has lived and worked in the US as well as in several European countries. In 2012 he cofounded Terabee, a French startup developing innovative 3D sensing solutions. In 2016, Claudio started getting involved in the blockchain ecosystem. In 2017 he led a project delivering the first NFT standard for the EOS blockchain. Finally, in 2019 he got the idea underpinning PlanetWatch, by blending his passions for the environment, citizen science and advanced technologies. PlanetWatch has since become the only company in the blockchain ecosystem to be an official CERN Spin-Off. The company is often featured in CERN Knowledge Transfer reports and environmental publications.

Miles Nadal

Founder & Executive Chairman, Peerage Capital

Miles S Nadal is an International entrepreneur , Industrialist and philanthropist.

He is the founder and Executive Chairman of Peerage Capital, a leading North American business services and private investment firm focused on real estate services, real estate investment , self storage , wealth advisory, and asset management.

Operating across North America, Peerage is the single largest franchisee of Sotheby’s International Real Estate and includes a broad range of other North American real estate services companies operating in the residential resale and new construction marketing space .

Peerage uses a proprietary partnership model to build long-term relationships with successful entrepreneurs, accelerating their growth and allowing them to enhance and accelerate their long-term growth.

Peerage sells over $70 billion of residential real estate across 275 offices, with 7000 agents and employees.

The Peerage asset management business has over $10 billion of assets under management.

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Christine Moy

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Partner & Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Apollo Global Management

Christine Moy Christine is a Partner and Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Apollo Global Management, Inc. In this newly created position, Christine leads digital asset strategy across the firm, exploring more ways to apply blockchain technologies to Apollo’s business. She also plays a key role in Apollo’s strategy to invest in some of the most innovative digital asset companies and founders, with a specific focus on those transforming the financial services sector where Apollo can serve as a validator and enabler of new technologies. Previously, she was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan and led its Blockchain/Crypto/Metaverse program through initiatives in digital assets, tokenized payments, internet-of-things, decentralized identity, NFTs, and virtual worlds. She is a graduate of Brown University. Christine was named in Fortune’s The Ledger 40 Under 40 list of “the most impressive, young superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.”

Alfarida Mohammed

Senior Vice President of Compliance, FTX US

Alfarida is a Senior Vice President of Compliance at FTX.US focusing primarily on leading the cryptocurrency exchanges compliance program in the US. Prior to joining FTX.US, Alfarida worked at UBS in Compliance in Chicago, London and New York, most recently in the Asset management division. Alfarida has an undergraduate degree in Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London and graduated from BPP Law School, London in 2010.

Alfarida is passionate about creating true Equity and Inclusion in society and as such serves on the Greenwood Project Board, an organization that benefits diverse, underserved students as well as partner firms’ efforts towards enhanced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.

Joe McCann

Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Asymmetric

Joe McCann is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of Asymmetric, a modern-day crypto fund. Asymmetric is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Circle Inc., as well as the founders of FTX, Solana, Multicoin, Tiger Global, and many other reputable investors and entrepreneurs.

With nearly 22 years of experience working on Wall Street to Silicon Valley, and with skills ranging from systematic and quantitative trading to fundraising and running a venture-backed, open-source enterprise software company, the perspective McCann brings to technology and finance is rather unique. McCann is a frequent speaker on the global conference circuit, actively promoting emerging technologies and relevant business use cases to bring pragmatism to futurism.  

Most recently, McCann was a Senior Director at Microsoft in the Cloud and AI organization focusing on incubations, M&A, and startups. McCann also ran Quantitative and Systematic Trading for Cryptocurrencies at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund.  Prior to that McCann was the Founder and CEO of NodeSource, The Node.js Company, the most popular and widely adopted open source project of the last decade.  

McCann is also an advisor to a handful of companies like Dharma (a decentralized finance app on Ethereum, acquired by OpenSea) and Voltage (Bitcoin lightning nodes-as-a-service), and Zebec (a money-streaming protocol on Solana) and is frequently mentioned in publications ranging from TechCrunch to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.

Jeff Marrazzo

Co-Founder, Former Chief Executive Officer & Board Member, Spark Therapeutics

During a career that has spanned the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Jeff has tackled numerous scientific, medical, and healthcare system challenges to improve human health.

Over the course of 11 years, Jeff created and built Spark Therapeutics into the world’s first fully integrated, commercial gene therapy company – from an idea within the walls of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to a private, venture-backed start-up and a publicly traded biotech company, to an independent operating unit within Roche. Under Jeff’s leadership as co-founder and CEO, Spark developed and launched LUXTURNA® for a rare blinding disorder, the first gene therapy for a genetic disease in the United States. Spark also advanced gene therapies for hemophilia B and A into Phase 3, part of an R&D portfolio spanning 9 diseases. By the time Jeff departed Spark, the company had grown to more than 850 employees and was named #5 in Science magazine’s top employer list. While at Spark, Jeff raised $1 billion, including the 3rd best performing IPO of 2015, and established major partnerships with Pfizer and Novartis. He also spearheaded the creation of novel reimbursement models to ensure patient access to genetic medicines and developed Spark’s 1 million square foot site master plan in Philadelphia, spurring the region’s cell and gene therapy sector. Jeff’s successful orchestration of Spark’s $4.8 billion sale to Roche in 2019 (including gaining antitrust clearances) marked a 100-fold increase in the company’s market value over 6 years and delivered $750 million in financial returns to Spark’s atypical founding investor, CHOP.

Prior to Spark, Jeff helped build the first genetic benefit management company up to and through its acquisition by CVS Caremark. He also previously served as an advisor to former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, contributing to reforms in and the expansion of the state’s Medicaid program.

Jeff is a past member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and currently serves on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations, including Life Science Cares Philadelphia. Jeff has been named to the Bloomberg 50 list of people who changed global business and has been regularly featured in business news outlets on the topics of gene therapy and paying for cures.

Jeff holds multiple bachelor’s degrees in systems science and engineering and in economics from the University of Pennsylvania as well as multiple master’s degrees in business and public administration from Wharton and Harvard University, a dual degree program which he founded.

Cari Lodge

Managing Director & Head of Secondaries, Commonfund Capital

Cari B. Lodge is head of Secondaries and a member of the Investment Committee. Her responsibilities include oversight of due diligence, underwriting, manager selection and investment management for the firm’s private capital Primary, Secondary, Co-Investment and Distressed Capital Programs. Cari has over 20 years of secondaries experience and has closed over 325 secondary transactions for approximately $2.8 billion in total capital obligation. She began her career at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (which merged with Credit Suisse in 2000) as an Associate in Investment Banking. She spent 12 years with Credit Suisse’s Secondary Team, Strategic Partners, since its founding in 2000, and served as a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Commonfund Capital, Cari was at Tulane University’s Investment Management Office where she was responsible for overseeing the private equity and private real assets investments for the endowment. Cari is presently a member of the advisory board of several private capital limited partnerships. Cari is also a member of the Investment Committee of her alma mater, The Hotchkiss School. She received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in both Economics and Government and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Christina Lee

Managing Director, Oaktree Capital

Ms. Lee joined Oaktree’s Direct Lending team in 2009 and is primarily responsible for originating, underwriting and executing new investment opportunities. She sources new opportunities from financial sponsors and intermediaries in New York and Boston. In addition, Ms. Lee is responsible for monitoring existing portfolio investments until fully realized. Prior to joining Oaktree, she spent nearly two years as an analyst in the Leveraged Finance group at Citi. Ms. Lee received a B.S. degree in commerce with concentrations in finance and international business from the University of Virginia.

Chase Koch

President, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)

Chase Koch is the president of Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), a subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc. (Koch). KDT’s role is to partner with entrepreneurs who are creating a “could-be” world and driving continual transformation by investing in technology companies that disrupt and transform Koch’s core businesses and expand it into new platforms and capabilities.

In the summer of 1993, he began his career at Koch Industries at a feed yard in Syracuse, KS. Chase recalls that summer as a turning point in his life, learning important life lessons from manual labor and hard work. Following graduation from Texas A&M University in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in business marketing, he worked in Texas for a consulting firm. In 2003, he returned to Wichita as a financial analyst for Koch Equity Development Group.

In 2006, Chase joined Koch Nitrogen Company, serving in regional management and global supply positions. He later served in multiple leadership positions for both Koch Fertilizer, LLC and Koch Agronomic Services, LLC.

Chase serves as a board member of Koch Industries, Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation, and is the founder of Stand Together Ventures, a unique network of business leaders that focus on developing transformative and disruptive solutions which help break the barriers that stand in the way of unleashing human potential. Chase has also launched a new strategy within Stand Together, focused on using the power of music to help remove barriers and help people to improve their lives, including a new initiative called Stand Together Jam Together.

Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America, with estimated annual revenues that have exceeded $125 billion. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in industrial manufacturing, agriculture, building materials, glass, automotive components, refining, renewable energy, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, packaging, consumer products, electronics, enterprise software, data analytics, medical products, engineered technology, project services, recycling, supply chain and logistics, global commodities trading, and investments. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested nearly $150 billion in growth and improvements. With a presence in more than 70 countries, Koch companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about half of those in the United States.