Collin Reno

Senior Vice President, Gersh

Collin Reno comes to Gersh after 25 years as SVP at WMA/WME. Along his journey as an agent, he took a brief detour into production and development for Dick Clark Productions where he oversaw the development and sales of more than two dozen programs before rejoining the agency. Post the merger between WMA and Endeavor, Reno became a partner and co-head of WME’s Alternative TV Department. His experience and knowledge of business trends have helped him thrive across the Venn diagram of subgenres in the field; having represented leading production companies, producers, authors, directors, and talent.

A small sample of the shows Reno has been involved in packaging are The Biggest Loser, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, The Weakest Link, American Ninja Warrior, Celebrity Rehab, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, The Agent, Coaching Bad, Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge, Famously Single, CNN’s The 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s; Couples Therapy, A Little Late with Lilly Singh, Strange Texas for Paramount +, Immoral Compass for Quibi, along with countless comedy and event specials branching over broadcast, cable and the streaming platforms as with Adam Sandler’s 100% Fresh for Netflix.

Reno will be based in LA until transitioning to spearhead the expansion of the Alternative Department in the New York

Romain Nouzareth

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SATO Technologies Corp.

Romain is a seasoned tech entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience running technology companies.

He co-founded SATO in 2017, a responsible ₿itcoin miner which went public in 2021 under the ticker $SATO on the TSX.V in Canada and in the US, for now, under the ticker OTCQB:CCPU.F - More on www.bysato.com

Romain is a French/American living in Manhattan for almost 20 years and frequently speaks at events about Bitcoin and the new economy.

He is active on Twitter with the handle @RomainBTC and LinkedIn @rn212

Rob Massey

Partner & Global Tax Leader, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Rob Massey has over 20 years of professional experience in tax consulting for technology companies. Since 2013, he has focused on blockchain, digital assets, cryptocurrency and tokenization.  He serves companies throughout the blockchain ecosystem inclusive of investors, miners, staking providers, payment processing, wallet hosting, exchanges, hedge funds, tokenization and protocol development.  Rob leads Deloitte’s blockchain efforts in tax for the global firm.

Rob’s blockchain expertise spans the comprehensive tax considerations of blockchain enabled transactions and the analysis of the tax impacts of tokenization and digital asset transactions across various business models and industries.

Mike Marzelli

Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Michael is an Audit & Assurance partner in the financial services audit practice and a leader in Deloitte’s Blockchain and Digital Asset audit practice. He has more than 15 years of experience serving a wide range of clients from emerging growth companies to large multi-national organizations in New York, Hong Kong and San Francisco in both an audit and advisory capacity. He has broad experience serving clients in the securities, banking, fintech and digital asset space, focusing on audit and assurance methodologies, tools and technology. He understands the complexities faced by companies engaging in the blockchain and digital asset space, from start-ups to mature enterprises, and focuses on bringing the right advice and counsel to clients when building and scaling blockchain and digital asset based businesses.

Nicole Loftus

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Pop Venture

From just an idea, Nicole Loftus built a company that disrupted a $20 billion-dollar industry and became #8 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Nicole saw the positive impact that growing, well-funded businesses have on a community and yet she found the funding system to be inadequate. Nicole decided to change the game.

After years of hard work and millions spent, Nicole’s vision for a better system is now a reality. Pop Venture is a fund that gives everyone access to investing in entrepreneurs, fueling innovations and upskilling jobs.

Pop Venture activates millions of first-time investors, creating a new source of capital. Pop Venture gives founders equal access to funding regardless of their location, gender or race. Pop Venture is an inclusive, full participation system.

To operate the Pop Venture Funds, Nicole and the Pop team built the first founder- driven, comprehensive diligence software that will save entrepreneurs time, protect their proprietary information and improve chances of raising capital by 85%.

Nicole believes Pop Venture is how we recover economically and emotionally as a united country, creating solutions, equality and the renewed American Dream.

Bruce Lipnick

Executive Producer, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Stage Access

Bruce is the founder and CEO of Stage Access, a streaming platform and production company for the performing arts featuring dance, opera, concerts, theater and documentary films. His extensive background as a film producer has included The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World 30th Anniversary Documentary; Yo-Yo Ma Performs Bach From the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens; The Extraordinary Journey of Fernando Bujones; La Frontera; The Heartbreaker; and Death of a Dynasty, starring Kevin Hart. Bruce also appeared in the award-winning films Three Days of the Condor and All The President's Men. He held an ownership stake in Monarch Business & Wealth Management, a firm representing internationally acclaimed entertainers and athletes including Justin Timberlake, Charlie Sheen, Anna Kournikova and Rob Gronkowski. 

Bruce previously enjoyed a long and distinguished financial services career as the founder, CEO and Chairman of Asset Alliance Corporation, an alternative investment management company with more than $7 billion under management. He is a pioneer in hedge fund portfolio management and launched the first 40 Act mutual fund. He received numerous industry awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Giving from Hedge Funds Care. Bruce helped launch and served on the board of SMArtX Advisory Solutions, a leading asset management technology platform with $50 billion under management.

A devoted patron of the arts, Bruce has proudly supported major performing arts institutions including New York City Ballet’s New Combinations Fund for the development of world premiere dance and music commissions, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, and The School of American Ballet in New York.

Steve Kovach

Technology Correspondent, CNBC

Steve Kovach is Technology Correspondent for CNBC covering Apple, Microsoft, E-sports and video games for the network.

Most recently, he served as Technology Editor for CNBC.com, where he managed technology coverage for CNBC Digital. Kovach joined CNBC in 2018 from Business Insider, where he was Senior Technology Correspondent. He has a dual degree in journalism and English from Syracuse University.

Follow Steve Kovach on Twitter at @stevekovach.

Tushar Jain

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Tushar Jain is a cofounder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, which is one of the largest and most established crypto-focused investment firms in the world. The firm manages billions in assets across liquid and illiquid strategies in the crypto markets, and is known for its high-conviction, thesis-driven investing.

Stefanie Ilgenfritz

Coverage Chief, Health & Science, The Wall Street Journal

Stefanie Ilgenfritz is the Coverage Chief for Health & Science and editorial director of The Future of Everything at The Wall Street Journal. She leads a team of reporters and editors who cover the hospital, health-insurance, pharmaceutical and medical-device industries, as well as medicine, science and innovation. Over more than 30 years with Dow Jones, she has helped shape prize-winning journalism, including a series on fraud and abuse in Medicare that won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2015, a series on the dysfunction in drug prices that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in explanatory reporting in 2016, and a probe of the pandemic’s impact on nursing homes that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in national reporting in 2021.

Meredith Lorenz Heimburger

Partner & Head of Impact, Global Endowment Management (GEM)

Meredith Lorenz Heimburger is a Partner and Head of Impact at Global Endowment Management. As Head of Impact, Meredith partners with GEM’s clients to align their investment programs with their values and mission.

Meredith and her team aim to meet these clients where they are to help them fulfill both their impact and investment objectives.

Prior to joining GEM in 2012, Meredith spent seven years with Teach For America. She served first as a classroom teacher and then as a member of the staff, leading the expansion of the organization’s presence in new and developing regions across the U.S.

Meredith is a trustee and chair of the finance committee for the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, which promotes sustainable solutions to human and environmental problems. She is also a member of the Davidson College Board of Visitors and a trustee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library Foundation. She is an active member of several organizations that focus on leveraging assets for positive impact, including The ImPact and The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW).

Meredith received her B.A. in English with a concentration in Gender Studies from Davidson College.

Zack Guzmán

Founder, Trustless Media; Host, Coinage

Zack Guzman is a crypto journalist and founder of the Meta/Bulletin newsletter "Crypto Uncomplicated." He was the creator of Yahoo Finance's "Crypto Corner" and host of Yahoo Finance's millennial money show "YFi PM." He previously worked as a multimedia reporter at CNBC covering startups and technology. His reporting has been featured across multiple platforms including the New York Post, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC, Entrepreneur and AOL. Before graduating from Harvard, he was selected by a committee of his peers and alumni to address graduating seniors, family, and faculty at Class Day with a comedic oration.

Arvind Gupta

Partner, Mayfield

Arvind Gupta co-leads Mayfield’s Human & Planetary Health practice whose mission is to invest in science based companies that could change history. Ranging from reinventing our food system to stopping climate change to novel therapeutics, Arvind was the first investor in breakout companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite, Catalog, Prellis and Memphis Meats.

As Founder of IndieBio, Arvind redefined the pace and possibilities of early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies in five years, defining human and planetary health, and growing the IndieBio portfolio into billions of dollars in value. Under his leadership, IndieBio expanded to New York and grew to fifteen investment professionals with a world renowned adjunct partner board. He now serves as Venture Advisor at IndieBio.

Arvind is the author of Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner, published by Twelve Books, a division of the Hachette Publishing Group. He was honored with the F50 Global Award for Impact in HealthTech Innovation. He is a frequent speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt, Slush, TedX and Future FoodTech. His work has been profiled in global media outlets such as Bloomberg News, Forbes, The Guardian UK, Neo.life, Nikkei News, Rotman, The Times of India, and CGTN in China. Arvind has been a guest lecturer at UCSF, MIT and Harvard and is a judge at the annual BIO conference startup stadium.

Prior to founding IndieBio, Arvind was Design Director at IDEO in Shanghai where he earned numerous international design awards and presented his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was also a BASE jumper and big wall climber and now fights professional grappling.

Arvind received his B.S. in Genetic Engineering from UCSB. He holds 8 patents.

Arvind is married to an Icelander and has two daughters.

Raj Gokal

Co-Founder, Solana

Raj Gokal is the co-founder of Solana. He previously was director of product at Omada Health, an entrepreneur-in-residence at Rock Health, the co-founder of Sano, a minimally invasive glucose sensor company, and an investor at General Catalyst Partners. Raj has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Regina Gannon

Managing Director, BlackRock Aladdin

Regina Fay Gannon is Managing Director and Co-Head of BlackRock’s Aladdin Client Engagement team in the Americas. She leads BlackRock’s largest pension fund, endowment, corporate treasury, and asset management client relationships across BlackRock’s Aladdin business. Her team is responsible for partnering and advising these clients across asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management, performance, and attribution. In addition, she is responsible for business development of new opportunities across all asset classes—including alternatives, ESG analytics, data/API strategy, and accounting solutions. Previously, Regina was the head of the Insurance Aladdin Client Engagement team.

She joined BlackRock from J.P. Morgan's Investor Services Division as the Head of New Business Development and Sales for Asset Managers. In this role, she was focused on managing and growing the firm's largest relationships across the derivatives clearing, prime brokerage, custody and fund services businesses. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Regina was Global Head of Client Relationship Management across fixed income and equities capital markets and trading within UBS Investment Bank; as well as a fixed income salesperson for emerging markets and high yield at Merrill Lynch.

Regina has a B.A. from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Vaughn Crowe

Managing Partner, Newark Venture Partners (NVP)

Vaughn Crowe is a Managing Partner of Newark Venture Partners (NVP), a global seed-stage investment firm, with a focus on B2B technology.  Prior to joining NVP, Vaughn served as Managing Director at Wesray Social Investments, the investment arm of Ray Chambers’s family office.  Vaughn was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey.  He has a degree from Colgate University and attended Harvard Business School for Executive Education.  Vaughn currently serves as Vice-Chair of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJ Barnabas Hospital, and the New Jersey State Investment Council, the governing body for the State's pension fund.  In his spare time, he likes to play golf, spend time with family, read, and listen to music.

Frank Chaparro

Director of News, The Block

Frank Chaparro covers the intersection of financial markets and cryptocurrency as Director of News for The Block. Since joining the publication in 2018 as its first reporter, he has played a key role in building The Block into a leader in financial journalism and research. He leads special projects, including The Block's flagship podcast, The Scoop. Prior to The Block, he held roles at Business Insider, NPR, and Nasdaq.

Alex Bornyakov

Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Alex Bornyakov is a Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine on IT industry development. His main goal in this position is to turn Ukraine into the largest IT Hub in European.

Among Alex’s projects is the introduction of a unique tax and legal space for the IT industry Diia.City. It combines favorable tax conditions with effective tools that allow companies to build a transparent corporate structure, attract foreign investment, and use additional mechanisms to protect intangible assets. Alex also places a great deal of emphasis on developing the Ukrainian startup ecosystem, as he aims to bring Ukraine to the TOP-5 countries with the highest number of startups per capita in Europe. As part of the support initiatives in this area, The IT Generation project was launched. It offers free training in IT specialties for switchers.

Alex has an MBA (University of New Brunswick), an MPA (Columbia University) and more than ten years of experience in IT management. He founded and managed a number of successful companies and startup incubators, including the American video monetization platform Adtelligent and the outsourcing company Intersog, which was included in the TOP-5 App Developers in Chicago according to Clutch. In 2015, he became Best CEO / COO - IT BIZ AWARDS 2015, and in 2016 he was included in the ranking of 25 trailblazing business leaders in Ukraine.

Cate Ambrose

Chief Executive Officer & Board Member, Global Private Capital Association (GPCA)

Cate Ambrose is CEO and Board Member of the Global Private Capital Association, an independent, non-profit membership organization. Members include 300+ fund managers, institutional investors, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, development finance institutions, and industry advisors who manage more than US$2t in assets across 130 countries.

Cate is a Steering Committee Member of the United Nations Institutional Investor Partnership for Sustainable Development (IIPSD) and on the Advisory Board of the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA). She is also a Board Member for Girls Write Now, a non-profit that mentors underserved young women in New York City.

Prior to joining GPCA (formerly EMPEA), Cate was President and Executive Director of LAVCA. Cate was also previously the Chief of Advocacy for the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, a United Nations initiative where she spearheaded the commission’s work on business regulation and property rights in Africa, MENA, Asia, and Latin America. Until 2005, Cate was Executive Director of Programs for The Economist Group.

Cate speaks and writes regularly on a range of topics related to public policy and private investment in Emerging Markets. She is a commentator on CNN En Español, Bloomberg, and Fox Business and a guest lecturer at The Wharton School. Cate holds an MPA in International Economic Policy from Columbia University and received her BA in Latin American studies from St. Lawrence University and the University of Madrid.

Khalida Ali

Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Vista Equity Partners

Khalida Ali joined Vista Equity Partners in 2019. Ms. Ali is responsible for developing and delivering the diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives for Vista Equity Partners.

Prior to joining Vista, Ms. Ali worked at Zendesk as Head of Diversity and Inclusion, where she was responsible for building inclusive and equitable business practices across 15 international offices. Before her time with Zendesk, Ms. Ali was Vice President and Chief of Staff for Bank of America’s Global Head of Campus Recruiting and Junior Talent Management, where she established operational, business management and budgetary procedures for a global team. Prior to Bank of America, Ms. Ali was a Manager of Diversity Analytics at NBCUniversal, where she focused on developing company-wide and business unit specific diversity and inclusion strategies by leveraging workforce analytics and industry trends. Ms. Ali began her career at Morgan Stanley.

In addition to her work at Vista, Ms. Ali sits on the boards of Friends of the Children Austin and The Urban Assembly.

Sonali Basak

Wall Street Correspondent, Bloomberg TV

Sonali Basak is the primary Wall Street correspondent for Bloomberg Television, covering the largest financial firms globally. Her industry-wide newsletter can be found on LinkedIn under her profile and she frequently writes for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. She graduated from Bucknell University, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism for her journalism master's and has her MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business. She covers a lot of crypto, too.