Abby Miller Levy

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Primetime Partners

Abby has spent her career helping businesses and consumer brands grow as an operator, entrepreneur and advisor, most notably in the wellness sector. Prior to Primetime Partners, Abby was an executive at SoulCycle, where she oversaw business development and revenue growth outside the consumer studio business, with an emphasis on building new digital products as the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Growth. Abby has also been a Founder herself, teaming with Arianna Huffington to launch Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company focused on employee productivity and wellness. Abby served as President of Thrive Global and remains on the Thrive Board. Abby began her career at McKinsey & Company then led product development at OXO International. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

Pat LaVecchia

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Oasis Pro

Pat is CEO of Oasis Pro, Inc. and Oasis Pro Markets LLC, the first US-regulated alternative trading system (“ATS”) authorized to allow its Subscribers to trade digital (“blockchain”) securities and make payment for those digital securities in digital cash. Pat also had a global leadership role with the highly regarded decentralized finance platform, MakerDAO Foundation. He brings to Oasis Pro a deep track record of success in both traditional finance and DeFi/Blockchain and has the leadership, knowledge base, and deep industry experiences to bridge the Regulatory Compliance and Blockchain verticals.

Over his 25+ year career as a CEO and investment banker, he has successfully led a number of companies and spearheaded over $20 billion of financing, acquisitions and/or sale of well over 150 companies across a variety of industries including technology, fintech, and blockchain.

Pat is a recognized digital assets thought leader. He is a member of the Forbes Finance Council and a published and contributing author of Forbes. He is a frequent speaker/panelist at conferences and webcasts, and a television contributor on Bloomberg, CNBC Crypto, TD Ameritrade, Fintech TV, etc., and has been quoted in publications such as Bloomberg, WSJ, NY Times, Reuters, and Financial Times. He was highlighted in a fireside chat with Xapo Bank’s Maverick Series on crypto/digital assets.

Tony Florence

Managing General Partner, Technology, NEA

Tony is a General Partner and head of NEA's technology investing practice, which is typically two thirds of NEA's funds. Tony focuses on investments in the software and internet sectors with emphasis on SaaS and marketplace ecommerce companies. In addition, he is actively involved in NEA’s investing activities in China and Europe. Tony has led investments in Care.com (NYSE: CRCM), Cvent (NYSE: CVT), Appian (NYSE: APPN), Moda Operandi, Quidsi/Diapers.com (acquired by Amazon), Edmodo, EverFi (acquired by TPG), Casper, Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Raise.com, Jet.com (acquired by WalMart), Gilt (acquired by Hudson Bay), Goop, DataRobot, Duolingo, Letgo, and Wallapop. Tony has been featured on the Forbes Midas List of Top Investors for 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Prior to joining NEA, he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and was Head of Technology Banking in New York, and was a member of the North American Management Committee for investment banking. Tony spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley focused on the software and Internet sectors, and also worked with a number of NEA's companies in both IPOs and M&A transactions. Tony received an MBA and an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Seth Bannon

Founding Partner, Fifty Years

Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years. Seth has seeded a range of startups shaping the world for the better — companies like Upside Foods (culturing meat to eat), Solugen (engineering enzymes to produce industrial chemicals sustainably), and Astranis (small satellites to cover the Earth in Internet).

Seth is also the co-founder of Impact.Tech, a community of entrepreneurs combining purpose with profit, and was previously the founder & CEO of startup Amicus. A graduate of Y Combinator, Seth was named twice to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship.

An avid chess player, Seth can occasionally be found in parks around the world attempting to hustle chess hustlers.

Alex Band

Chief Investment Officer, Partners Capital

Alex Band joined Partners Capital in 2013 and is a Partner. He is the Chief Investment Officer and was previously Head of Public Equities, covering long only and long/short strategies. He is a member of the Global Investment Committee. Prior to joining Partners Capital, Alex was at Bain Capital, located in Boston and New York. He was a part of the global private equity group, responsible for investment due diligence, deal execution and portfolio management. Previously, Alex was a Consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco. Alex holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Biochemical Sciences.

Maneet Ahuja

Senior Editor & Founder, Iconoclast, Forbes

Maneet Ahuja is a Senior Editor at Forbes and holds the unique privilege of also being a past Forbes “30 Under 30” Honoree for media. She is author of “The Alpha Masters,” which sold over thirty-thousand copies and has been translated into five languages. Prior to joining Forbes, she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University while working on her second book, “The Techtonics,” which was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for one of the best business book proposals of the year. During her fellowship year, she also hosted Spotify’s “Megatrends” podcast, which nominated for Best Branded Podcast by Digiday.

Previously, Ahuja spent a decade in a variety of capacities at CNBC, most recently as Senior Editor and Co-Founder of Delivering Alpha, the network’s preeminent investor summit. In 2012, she launched CNBC’s coverage of startups and Silicon Valley with the network’s Disruptors series, leading to the formation of the CNBC Disruptors 50 Index. Previously, as CNBC’s Hedge Fund Specialist and a Producer on “Squawk Box,” she covered high-profile stories such as Lehman Brothers’ insolvency during the financial crisis and launched hedge fund coverage for the network in 2008.

Prior to joining CNBC in 2008, she was a part of the Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing team. She began her career on Wall Street in 2002 at age 17 in Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking division as a credit risk analyst.

Lovisa Afzelius

Origination Partner, Flagship Pioneering

Lovisa Afzelius is an origination partner at Flagship Pioneering. A computational scientist by training, she brings to Flagship two decades of leadership experience and a passion for data-driven drug discovery. Lovisa has served as CEO, co-founder, president, board chairman, and executive director, in emerging biotech and large pharma companies. She joined Flagship in early 2020, leading innovation as founding CEO of Alltrna as well as co-founder and CEO of Apriori Bio, FL72 and FL89.

Previously, Lovisa built and led Pfizer’s systems immunology function and served as executive director of clinical programs. In this role, she launched several Phase II studies across autoimmune indications and as a member of the Inflammation & Immunology Research Unit leadership team, Lovisa co-managed the portfolio from early target discovery to Phase II clinical trials across all immunological assets. In addition, she served on Pfizer’s Worldwide R&D Data Strategy Committee.

In 2017, Lovisa co-founded Elsa.science, a digital health company in the rheumatoid arthritis space where she serves as a board member. She also serves on the board of the Swedish New England Chamber of Commerce. Before moving to the US in 2013, Lovisa was CEO of BioChromix Pharma. She began her career at AstraZeneca as Project Director, Global In Vitro Metabolism Leader and Computational Chemist across cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Lovisa has received numerous accolades for her work: In 2022, she was named one of the Top Women in Biopharma by Endpoints. She was included in the top 100 “most influential persons under age 40 in Sweden” by Affärsvärlden, and awarded “scientist of tomorrow” at the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations’ 30th anniversary. Lovisa received the Rosenön Award for best thesis of the year within the field of pharmacodynamics/pharmacokinetics in Sweden.

Lovisa holds a PhD in computational chemistry from Uppsala University, a Master of Science in integrative pharmacology from Gothenburg University as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Jack Abraham

General Partner, Atomic

Jack Abraham is the Managing Partner and CEO of Atomic, and is a pioneer of Atomic's now popular studio fund model for exclusively investing in companies founded at the firm.

Through Atomic, Jack has founded 2 of the 10 fastest growing companies (based on a recent study of Silicon Valley startups) – Hims & Hers and Bungalow. Hims & Hers was the second fastest company to achieve a $1B valuation in US history and recently announced an intent go public at a $1.6B pre-money valuation with Oaktree’s SPAC just three years after launch.

Jack previously exited his first company Milo to eBay when he was 24 years old, and has been an investor in several companies that went on to achieve valuations in excess of $1B including Pinterest, Postmates (where he gave the founders the idea for the company), Uber and Flatiron Health.

Jack attended the Wharton School as a Joseph Wharton Scholar where he designed his own major in Technological Entrepreneurship.

Alaa Halawa

Executive Director & Co-Head of US Ventures, Mubadala Capital

Alaa Halawa is Executive Director and Co- Head of the San Francisco Mubadala Capital - Ventures office. Alaa focuses on investing in venture and early growth-stage companies at the intersection of life sciences and technology. Among other themes within life sciences investing, Alaa has concentrated on the following: how technology is enhancing the pharmaceutical industry, from drug discovery through clinical trials; and how technology - and in particular bio-informatics, artificial intelligence and machine learning - is enhancing disease diagnosis. Alaa joined Mubadala in 2009 where he worked on designing and implementing the strategy to develop a technology cluster in Abu Dhabi focusing on semiconductor research through partnerships with Silicon Valley companies and academic institutions. Alaa then moved to the Bay Area to support the transition of Executive Leadership in one of Mubadala's key assets in Silicon Valley, GlobalFoundries, where he worked on a series of strategic, corporate development and transformation initiatives. Alaa holds an MBA from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Jordan.

Nili Gilbert

Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct

Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, is the Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct, a leader in scaling carbon management into a global industry through climate investment, technology, and client advisory.

Nili is also Chair of the US$140+ Trillion Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s Advisory Panel of technical experts, Chairwoman of both the David Rockefeller Fund and the Synergos Institute Investment Committees, an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management, and a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group. Previously, she was Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Matarin Capital, which became one of the larger women-owned asset managers in the US.

Nili is a member of the TED Vision Council and her TED Talk on climate finance has received nearly 2 million views. She has been honored among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance, as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, LinkedIn “TopVoice” in Finance, Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Securities Professionals, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek “One to Watch.” She is a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

Nili received her BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, her MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was a Toigo Fellow, and she has completed programs in leadership and sustainability at Oxford and Stanford Universities.

Gaurab Chakrabarti

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Solugen

Gaurab is the co-founder and CEO of Solugen. As a physician-scientist, Gaurab took an oath to first do no harm—and for him, that goes beyond patients or medicine. So in 2016, he started Solugen to decarbonize the chemicals industry, one of the most damaging for people and the Earth. Gaurab believes in using biology in unconventional ways to solve incredibly complex problems and is building a world-class team to join him on the journey.

Gaurab studied computational neuroscience as an undergraduate at Brown University and received his MD & PhD in cancer biology and enzymology at the University of Texas. He is an author or co-author on more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and patents, and he is a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Industry and Manufacturing.

Jeff Assaf

Senior Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, ICG Advisors

J. Jeffrey Assaf is a Senior Managing Director as well as the Chief Investment Officer and Investment Committee Chairman of ICG Advisors. In addition to setting the firm’s strategic direction and managing client relationships, Mr. Assaf supervises all portfolio construction and modeling. Prior to founding ICG in 2009, Mr. Assaf was a Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns and Head of its Investment Consulting Group from 1996 to 2008. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Assaf was a Senior Vice President at Oppenheimer & Co. where he founded the Oppenheimer Consulting Group. He is a graduate of University of California, Irvine (B.A., Psychology) and University of Southern California (M.B.A., Emphasis in Finance). Mr. Assaf serves on the Boards of Directors for several non-profit organizations.

Ryan Mollett

Global Head of Distressed & Corporate Special Situations, Angelo Gordon

Ryan Mollett joined Angelo Gordon in 2019 as the Global Head of Distressed & Corporate Special Situations and is a member of the firm’s Partnership Advisory Board. He is the Portfolio Manager of AG Credit Solutions Fund, CSF Annex Dislocation Funds, Corporate Credit Opportunities Fund, Essential Housing Fund, and related accounts, and oversees the Angelo Gordon teams in the U.S. and Europe focused on distressed debt and special situations opportunities.

Prior to joining Angelo Gordon, Ryan was a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and a senior investment professional and investment committee member of GSO Capital Partners’ Global Distressed Investment Team, including as a Joint Portfolio Manager of GSO’s Capital Solutions Funds, Credit Alpha Funds and the Special Situations Funds, as well as GSO Community Development Capital Group LP. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2011, Ryan was a Director at BlackRock where he was a Portfolio Manager and Senior Research Analyst. Before that, he was a trader at First New York Securities, and a consultant with Gemini Realty Advisors.

Ryan received a B.A. in History from Princeton University where he was Captain of the 2001 National Championship Lacrosse Team and received 1st Team All-American and Academic All-American honors. He received his MBA in Finance and Investment Management from Yale University and currently sits on the Board of the Yale School of Management International Center for Finance. He also serves on the Board of the Boys’ Latin School of Maryland and is a member of the Athletic Advisory Council at Greenwich Country Day School.

Dan Vene

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, iCapital

Dan is Co-Founder and one of the Managing Partners of iCapital, where he leads enterprise-level platform integration with banks, asset managers, wirehouses, and other large-scale organizations. He is also a member of the company’s Operating Committee and Investment Committee. Prior to founding iCapital, Dan was head of private real estate capital raising at Fir Tree Partners, a $12.5 billion AUM multi- strategy investment firm. He was also a partner at Eaton Partners, where he was responsible for real estate and real asset fund origination, structuring, and distribution. Dan previously was Founder and CEO of Earnings.com, a leading financial database and aggregator of corporate events, which was acquired by Thomson Financial in 2001. He received a BS degree in finance and marketing from Cornell University. Dan also serves as a board member of the IPA (Institute for Portfolio Alternatives) and a member of the Pension Real Estate Association and NCREIF. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses as well as an FSA license.

Mike Arougheti

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President, Ares

Mr. Arougheti is a Co-Founder of Ares and the Chief Executive Officer and President, as well as a Director of Ares Management Corporation. He is a member of the Ares Executive Management Committee, the Ares Enterprise Risk Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Ares Charitable Foundation. He additionally serves as Co-Chairman of Ares Capital Corporation ("ARCC"), Co-Chairman of Ares Acquisition Corporation ("AAC") and as a director of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation ("ACRE"). Mr. Arougheti also is a member of the Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending and Pathfinder Investment Committees, the Ares Equity Income Opportunity Strategy Portfolio Review Committee and the Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2004, Mr. Arougheti was employed by Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC") from 2001 to 2004, where he was a Managing Partner of the Principal Finance Group of RBC Capital Partners and a member of the firm's Mezzanine Investment Committee. Mr. Arougheti oversaw an investment team that originated, managed and monitored a diverse portfolio of middle-market leveraged loans, senior and junior subordinated debt, preferred equity and common stock and warrants on behalf of RBC and other third-party institutional investors. Mr. Arougheti joined RBC in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was a Principal and an Investment Committee member, responsible for originating, structuring and executing leveraged transactions across a broad range of products and asset classes. Prior to joining Indosuez in 1994, Mr. Arougheti worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he was a member of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Mr. Arougheti also serves on the board of directors of Operation HOPE, a not-for-profit organization focused on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities through education and empowerment. Additionally, Mr. Arougheti is a member of the PATH Organization Leadership Council. Mr. Arougheti received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics, cum laude, from Yale University.

Gal Krubiner

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Pagaya

Gal Krubiner has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a director since co-founding the Company in 2016. Mr. Krubiner has extensive experience in the investments and wealth management industry, with a specialization in innovative and sophisticated credit structured products. Prior to co-founding Pagaya, Gal focused on structuring and distributing sophisticated credit and asset-backed securities products with UBS AG from 2012 to 2016, as well as holding other positions specializing in investment, entrepreneurism, and financial markets. He holds a B.A. in Applied Science, Economics & Statistics from Tel Aviv University.

Stephanie Lynch

Co-Founder & Managing Partner-Elect, Global Endowment Management (GEM)

Stephanie is a co-founder and managing partner-elect of GEM. Previously, she was CIO at The Duke Endowment, the $3.3 billion family foundation of James B. Duke. She has also served as a portfolio manager at INVESCO Capital Management and Trade Street Investment Services. Stephanie is currently a trustee for The Thacher School and is a member of the investment committee for the Baby J Fund, a private foundation supporting research for pediatric cancers. She previously served as trustee of the Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation, and was a director of Novant Asset Management Co. Stephanie earned her B.S. in Finance from Florida State University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Rosalind M. Hewsenian

Chief Investment Officer, Helmsley Charitable Trust

Roz Hewsenian currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer of the $7B Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The Trust is dedicated to healthcare and medical research.

Ms. Hewsenian has had a more than 40-year investment and business career and prior to her work at Helmsley, was CEO and a member of the Board of Clay Finlay LLC, a $2B global equity investment firm based in New York. Earlier, she was a Principal at Wilshire Associates in Santa Monica, CA for 21 years, where she served as a Managing Director, Senior Investment Consultant, and was a member of the Board. She was also the lead consultant to CalPERS and was instrumental in the strategic direction of its investment program, which achieved full funding on a market value basis during her work with the System. She also held investment and operating positions at Kraft General Foods and PepsiCo where, in 1982, she successfully installed one of the first 401K plans in the country.

Ms. Hewsenian currently serves on The Board of Directors of Partners Capital in the U.K., has served on The Foundation Financial Officers Group Board of Directors, and on the Investment Advisory Committee of Los Angeles Capital Management. She also was an advisor to The Investments Sub-Committee of the SUNY Oneonta College Foundation Board. Roz has an MBA in Finance, awarded with Distinction, from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. She earned a B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Oneonta and was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters in May 2017 by SUNY for her life’s work and service to the State University.

Paul Zummo, CFA

Chief Investment Officer, J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management

Mr. Zummo is Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management Hedge Fund & Alternative Credit Solutions and Head of the Research & Portfolio Management Group. Mr. Zummo is Chair of the JPMAAM Investment Committee and co-founded JPMAAM in 1994. Prior to that, Mr. Zummo served as the manager of retirement plan investments for the Interpublic Group of Companies from 1992 to 1994, where he was responsible for analysis, asset allocation, and manager selection. From 1990 to 1992, he worked at the former Chase organization as an investment analyst and consultant for institutional clients of the Chase Consulting Group. Mr. Zummo received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from New York University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.

Patrick Zhong

Founding General Partner, M31 Capital

Patrick Zhong has over 20 years of experience in VC, PE, and public equity. As the Founding Managing Partner of M31 Capital, he leads the firm's dedication to investing in next-generation companies with strong ties to China. M31 Capital has invested in industry leaders such as ByteDance, Grail, SuperMonkey, and others.

Prior to M31 Capital, Patrick served as Co-CEO of Giant Networks, a leading technology company in China, and Chief Investment Officer at Wanda Group, a global Fortune 500 company with major presence in real estate, entertainment, and sports. He also spent seven years as Senior Managing Director and Global Partner at Fosun Group, where he transformed the company into a global investment platform. Before returning to China, Patrick was an investor at Wellington Management where he made investments in the US and China and became a top institutional shareholder in Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba.com, Ctrip, Netease, and Focus Media, and a number of American leading growth companies.

Patrick holds an MBA from the University of Illinois and a bachelor's degree from China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He is also a CFA charter holder.