Angela Matheny

Director, Investment Staff & Head, Diverse Manager Equity, Crewcial Partners

Angela Matheny joined Crewcial Partners in July 2016. She and the firm’s CIO co-manage the investment team to ensure internal processes are efficient while managing the firm’s manager selection process and the systematic process that helps best ideas that are constructed into portfolios. Angela also continues to drive the firm’s manager diversity initiative to attract and source diverse asset managers while monitoring protocol and the internal vetting process of women and diverse asset managers.

Angela facilitates the constant communication between Crewcial Partners and fund managers as the firm continues to build a robust pipeline of what it believes is a largely under-followed segment of the asset manager community marketplace. Angela also acts as a conduit in sourcing diverse managers when recommendations or introductions are made by clients and/or board members. She frequently attends emerging manager/diverse manager conferences returning with best practices while networking and learning about industry-wide issues and the inclusive approach many institutions may take to include diverse managers in their searches.

Angela received a Master of Public Administration at Metropolitan College of New York. She also earned a Certificate in Human Resources Management from VillaNova University, which included studies in diversity and inclusion. Angela’s Bachelor’s degree is in Psychology from Bernard Baruch College of New York. She also serves on York College’s (CUNY) foundation board.

Brian Stelter

Anchor, Reliable Sources, CNN

Brian Stelter is the anchor of "Reliable Sources," which examines the week's top media stories every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. ET on CNN/U.S, and the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. Stelter reports for CNN Media, and writes a nightly e-newsletter.

Prior to joining CNN in November 2013, Stelter was a media reporter at The New York Times. Starting in 2007, he covered television and digital media for the Business Day and Arts section of the newspaper. He was also a lead contributor to the "Media Decoder" blog.

In January 2004, while he was still a freshman in college, Stelter created TV Newser, a blog dedicated to coverage of the television news industry. He sold it to Mediabistro.com in July 2004, but continued to edit and write for the blog during the next three years until he graduated college and joined The New York Times.

Stelter published The New York Times best-selling book, Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV (2013), about the competitive world of morning news shows. He is a consultant on Apple's drama “The Morning Show,” which is inspired by his book.

He was featured in the 2011 documentary, "Page One: Inside the New York Times", directed by Andrew Rossi. He was also named to Forbes Magazine's "30 Under 30: Media" for three consecutive years.

Stelter graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Journalism from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2007. He is on the board of Baltimore Student Media, a nonprofit that publishes Towson's independent student newspaper, The Towerlight.

Brad Thor

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author

Brad is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty thrillers, including: NEAR DARK, BACKLASH (One of Suspense Magazine‘s Best Books of the Year), SPYMASTER (“One of the all-time best thriller novels” – The Washington Times), THE LAST PATRIOT (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association), BLOWBACK (One of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” – NPR), and THE LIONS OF LUCERNE (“One of the best political thrillers ever” – Barnes & Noble).

Brad has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX and CNN (among others) to discuss terrorism, as well as how closely his novels of international intrigue parallel the real threats facing the world today.

Brad has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell Unit. He has also lectured to law enforcement organizations on over-the-horizon/future threats, and has been a keynote speaker for the National Tactical Officers Association annual conference.

In 2008, Brad shadowed a Black Ops team in Afghanistan to research his thriller, The Apostle.

Brad graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California where he studied creative writing, film, and television production. Prior to becoming a novelist, Brad was the award-winning creator, producer, writer and host of the critically acclaimed national public television series, Traveling Lite.

Boaz Weinstein

Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Saba Capital Management

Boaz Weinstein is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, L.P. (“Saba”), a $3.2 billion credit hedge fund based in NYC. Mr. Weinstein founded Saba in 2009 as a lift-out of the Deutsche Bank proprietary credit trading group he started in 1998. At Saba, Mr. Weinstein leads a team of 33 professionals, with the senior members having worked together for 15 years.

Previously, Mr. Weinstein worked at Deutsche Bank for 11 years, the last 8 as Managing Director (a title he received at age 27). Throughout his career at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Weinstein had dual responsibility for proprietary trading and market making. In 2008, Mr. Weinstein was promoted to Co-Head of Global Credit Trading, overseeing a group of 650 investment professionals. He was also a member of the Global Markets Executive Committee.

Mr. Weinstein graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a BA in Philosophy. He achieved the title of National Master in chess at age 16.

William D. Cohan

Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair

William D. Cohan, a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street: Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World; House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street; and, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His book, The Price of Silence, about the Duke lacrosse scandal was published in April 2014 and was also a New York Times bestseller. His book, Why Wall Street Matters, was published by Random House in February 2017. His new book Four Friends, about what happened to four of his friends of from Andover, his high school, was published by Flatiron Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers, in July 2019. He is hard at work on his new book about the rise and fall of GE.

He is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. He also writes for ProPublica, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, The Nation, Fortune, and Politico. He previously wrote a bi-weekly opinion column for The New York Times, an opinion column for BloombergView, as well as for the Dealbook section of the New York Times. He is a non-staff, on-air contributor to CNBC and also appears regularly on CNN, on MSNBC and the BBC-TV. He has also appeared three times as a guest on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CBS This Morning as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs. He was formerly a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV.

He is a graduate of Phillips Academy (Andover), Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts and now lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.

Benjamin Huneke

Managing Director & Head, Investments Solutions Group, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Ben Huneke is a Managing Director and Head of the Investments Solutions Group of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. His responsibilities include product development, marketing and distribution of investment products. These include annuities and insurance, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, private debt, equity and real estate funds, as well as individual equities, fixed income, and structured products.

During his career at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Huneke has held previous roles including Head of Alternative Investments, Chief Operating Officer of Investment Products & Services and Head of Strategy and Business Management. He sits on the Morgan Stanley Securities Operating Committee as well as the firm’s Management Committee.

Ben also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Insured Retirement Institute, and sits on the board of the charitable organizations Invest in Others and the Expect Miracles Foundation.

He holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Badr Al Olama

Executive Director of Aerospace, Mubadala Investment Company

Badr is the Head of Mubadala Aerospace, where he oversees key portfolio assets including Strata Manufacturing PJSC (Strata), and Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park.

As the former Chief Executive Officer of Strata, Badr was instrumental in positioning the company as a global tier-one supplier to both Airbus and Boeing, forging strong and value-adding partnerships with leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

Badr has also played a key advisory role in the strategic development of Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park, a joint initiative between Mubadala and Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), which aims to establish a sustainable aerospace ecosystem in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates.

Nominated as a Young Global Leader for the Middle East and North Africa region by the World Economic Forum, Badr heads the organizing committee for the world’s first Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS), a joint initiative between the UAE Government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), which aims to transform and shape the future of manufacturing.

Badr is the Chairman of Sanad Group, Sand Aerotech, Sanad Capital, Sanad Powertech and Strata, and is a board member of the UAE Space Agency, as well as a member of the UAE Ministerial Council focused on the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Badr began his career as an advocate and legal consultant at Habib Al-Mulla & Company, currently known as Baker & McKenzie Habib Al-Mulla.

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Shari’a and Law from UAE University, and a Master of Law Degree from Harvard Law School, Harvard University.

Arjun Sethi

Co-Founder, Tribe Capital

Arjun Sethi is a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm built by engineers and scientists. Arjun sits on the board of Carta, Relativity, and Bolt. As a founder and operator, he has also been an active angel investor in over 100 companies, including Lyft, Opendoor, Gusto, and Front.

Prior to founding Tribe, Arjun was a partner at Social Capital, where he led the team investing in companies such as Slack, Cloud Kitchens, and Box. He also served on the executive team at Yahoo!, where he grew product usage to over 1 billion monthly active unique users. He joined Yahoo! as part of its acquisition of MessageMe, a messaging app he founded in 2012. Prior to that, Arjun founded Lolapps, a mobile gaming and apps company which he grew to 100 million monthly users and sold to Nexon.

Chris Fenton

President (2002-2018), DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group

For seventeen years, Chris Fenton served as president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group and GM of DMG North America, internationally orchestrating the creative and business activities of DMG—a multi-billion dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing. He has produced or supervised twenty-one films, grossing $2 billion in worldwide box-office. As an author, Fenton chronicled much of that work in FEEDING THE DRAGON: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business.

At present, he speaks regularly as a China expert and serves as CEO of Media Capital Technologies, having concluded a successful term as Senior Advisor to IDW Media Holdings focused on streamlining operations, expanding international business, and restructuring investments. Fenton also hosts US Congressional member delegations on diplomatic missions to China focused on trade, media, and investment. He is a Trustee of the US-Asia Institute and serves on several company boards. Fenton, a contributor for RealClearPolitics, The Federalist, and The Wrap, regularly appears on Bloomberg, Tucker Carlson, Fox Business, BBC, CNBC, Adam Carolla, Steve Bannon, and VOA.

Fenton, who holds a BS in Engineering from Cornell University, resides with his wife and two children in Manhattan Beach, CA.

Changpeng Zhao

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Binance

Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive track record of successful startups. He launched Binance in July 2017 and within 180 days, grew Binance into the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. An expert in blockchain and trading systems, CZ has built Binance into the leading blockchain ecosystem, comprised of Binance Exchange, Labs, Launchpad, Info, Academy, Research, Trust Wallet and Charity Foundation.

CZ is a Chinese-Canadian coder who spent his youth flipping burgers before studying at McGill University Montreal. He then spent time in Tokyo and New York, first building systems for matching trade orders, then developing software for Bloomberg's futures trading on Wall Street. In 2005, CZ quit his role as head of the Bloomberg Tradebook Futures Research & Development team and moved to Shanghai to start Fusion Systems. Soon thereafter, he learned about Bitcoin and joined Blockchain.info as Head of Technology.

Andrew M. Cuomo

56th Governor of the State of New York

Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011.

As Governor, Cuomo has fought for social, racial and economic justice for all New Yorkers. Under his leadership, New York passed marriage equality, a $15 minimum wage, the strongest paid family leave program in the nation, the strongest gun safety laws in the nation, equal rights for women, greater protections for immigrants, the largest investment in education in state history, landmark election reforms, and a first-in-the-nation Green New Deal for New York. He cut taxes for the middle class, implemented a permanent 2 percent property tax cap, put more New Yorkers to work than ever before, and became the first state in the nation to offer free college tuition for middle-class families. He got the state building again – taking on projects all across the state that had been stalled for decades, and using union labor every step of the way. And he led the during the COVID-19 crisis, steering New York from the highest infection rate in the country to the lowest.

Governor Cuomo is the Dean of the nation’s Democratic Governors, and currently serves as Chairman of the National Governors Association.

Prior to his election as Governor, Cuomo served as the 64th Attorney General of New York, where he fought discrimination in rental apartments, challenged corporate abuse of the middle class, and took on the big banks that were squandering billions of dollars in bail-out money.

From 1997-2001, Cuomo served as the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton, where he transformed the agency from a wasteful and inefficient bureaucracy to an effective driver of economic development and housing opportunities. His leadership as Secretary was a continuation of his lifelong fight to help the neediest and address homelessness, one of the most desperate situations of the time. Prior to joining HUD, Cuomo founded and led the Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged (HELP), a not-for-profit that set a national model for serving the homeless, and chaired the New York City Homeless Commission during Mayor David Dinkins’ administration.

Governor Cuomo’s lifetime of public service began after he graduated from law school, when he served as campaign manager and headed the Transition Committee for then-Governor-Elect Mario Cuomo in 1982. Working as an advisor to the Governor – while taking a salary of $1 a year – instilled in Cuomo the belief that government is the vehicle to bring about change, do justice, and make progress happen.

Born in Queens, New York City, Andrew Cuomo was the second child of Governor Mario Cuomo and Matilda Raffa Cuomo. His paternal grandparents, Andrea and Immaculato Cuomo, emigrated from Salerno, Italy to South Jamaica, Queens in the 1920s, where Andrea ran a small grocery story.

Governor Cuomo is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School, and the proud father of three girls, Mariah, Cara, and Michaela.

Amal Dokhan

Chief Executive Officer, GEN Saudi

Amal is one of the early Innovation and Entrepreneurship educators and facilitators in the MENA region. She managed multiple startup and corporate accelerators in Saudi and beyond leading thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators to commercialize their ideas and access the market. Amal travelled the globe to learn the best practices in entrepreneurship, innovation and cultural transformation. Amal trained school students, university students, startups, corporate and government employees around the globe.

Amal uses story telling to reflect on her personal journey to convey the impact of embracing change, failure and resilience and the impact on the human journey to reach the aspired goals.

Amal have been featured multiple times in entrepreneurship middle east and participated in many regional conferences focused on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Alan Patricof

Co-Founder, Greycroft

With a 50-plus year career in venture capital, Alan has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution. Alan founded Apax Partners, leading global private equity advisory firm, and co-founded Greycroft, venture capital firm focusing on investments in the internet and mobile markets. He has helped build and foster the growth of numerous major global companies, including, among others, America Online, Office Depot, Cadence Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., Apple Computer, FORE Systems, NTL, IntraLinks, Audible, Axios, and Wondery.

Shelley Zalis

Chief Executive Officer, The Female Quotient

Shelley Zalis is a pioneer for online research and a champion of gender equality as the founder and CEO of The Female Quotient.

In 2000, she left the corporate world to launch OTX (Online Testing Exchange), which became one of the fastest growing research companies in the world. She sold OTX to Ipsos in 2010, and then led global innovation in more than 80 countries at Ipsos OTX.

Today, as CEO of The Female Quotient, Zalis works with Fortune 500 companies to advance gender equality. The FQ’s signature pop-up experience, the FQ Lounge, brings a Home of Equality to major conferences, companies and college campuses around the world. The FQ Lounge is the gathering place for leaders of all levels at events including the World Economic Forum, Cannes Lions and the Consumer Electronics Show. Through the destination-turned-movement, Zalis has connected more than 18,000 women in business and created the largest female-led community to transform workplace culture.

Zalis is also the co-founder of #SeeHer, a movement led by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to increase the accurate portrayal of women and girls in advertising and media. Likewise, she is on the Board of Directors for MAKERS, ColorComm and Dress for Success.

Ryan Williams

Founder, Executive Chairman & Co-Chair, Global Investment Committee, Cadre

Ryan A. Williams founded Cadre in 2014 to begin to level the playing field in commercial real estate investing, leveraging technology to provide institutions and individuals access to previously inaccessible real estate and alternative investment opportunities. The next-generation platform uniquely empowers individual investors to invest alongside institutions with lower minimums and fees than traditional private equity and offers first-of-its kind liquidity through a secondary trading market.

Ryan, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and serial entrepreneur, has founded and scaled multiple companies over the past fifteen years. More recently, he started investing in real estate as an undergraduate student at Harvard University.  Seeing the dislocation that resulted from the 2008 financial crisis, Ryan pooled funds from his classmates to acquire foreclosed homes in the Atlanta area, frequently working with previous owners to remain in their homes and eventually buy them back. This experience cemented in Ryan an ethos to “do well and do good.”

After graduating from Harvard, Ryan worked at Goldman Sachs in its technology, media, and telecom group, and then at The Blackstone Group in its real estate private equity division.

Ryan is regularly profiled as a top Founder and CEO. He was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine in 2019 and has written extensively about the urgent need for social and economic justice for all members of society. Cadre is dedicated to doing business with local operators from diverse backgrounds and with community and Black-owned banks. 

Ryan and his family live in Brooklyn.

Michael Weisz

Founder & President, YieldStreet

Michael Weisz is the Founder and President of YieldStreet. Michael is responsible for YieldStreet’s investment strategy and originator network and has overseen more than $900M in transactions over his career.

Michael began his career at a $1.2 billion New York based credit fund, working his way to Vice President before co-founding his own fund in 2013. During his 10 years on the institutional side of the business, he grew frustrated that access to superior wealth creation opportunities was not accessible to individual investors. In 2015, he teamed with Milind Mehere to create YieldStreet.

When not working late you can find Michael spending time with wife and three kids or hosting dinners at his home in Long Island - bringing together friends and family from all backgrounds.

Chris Toomey

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management

Chris is a partner of a top NYC-based Private Wealth Management team managing ~$5 billion in client assets. Their clients include high net worth individuals, family offices, foundations and organizations, money management principals, institutional money managers, small cap banks, and offshore investors.

Chris primarily focuses on the asset allocation, alternative investments, and strategy implementation for their clients.

Chris began his career at JP Morgan’s Private bank and was there until 1998 when he then joined Lehman Brothers. Chris held various positions throughout the firm, transitioning from Portfolio Manager of LB Gov / Credit Portfolio to building out Lehman’s third party long only manager platform. As Senior Vice President, he was responsible for manager due diligence and often assisted in providing asset allocation and investment advice for private wealth clients. He joined Morgan Stanley Private Wealth in May 2008.

Chris has earned various distinctions including membership in Morgan Stanley’s President’s Club. He was recognized by Financial Times as one of the top 400 Advisors.and Forbes Shook Top Wealth Advisors. He has spoken at several conferences about alternative investments, including SALT, HedgeWorld, and the Investment Institute. He has also appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Fox Business News’ FBN:AM and Wall Street Week, and Reuters.

Chris is a Chartered Financial Analyst and earned his Bachelor of the Arts from Hamilton College.

Michael Sonnenshein

Chief Executive Officer, Grayscale

Michael Sonnenshein is the CEO at Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager. Under his leadership, the firm has grown to be the definitive leader in crypto investing, offering a wide range of investments including single-asset and diversified products. Michael is regularly featured on CNBC and Bloomberg and was honored in 2018 as one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street. Michael serves as a member of the Grayscale Board of Directors, CME Group Bitcoin Futures Council, and NYU Blockchain Association. Prior to joining Grayscale, Michael was a financial advisor at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions, and an analyst at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle‐market hedge funds and institutions. Michael earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and his Master of Business Administration from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Todd G. Sears

Founder & Principal, Out Leadership

Todd Sears is the Founder and Principal of Out Leadership, the global LGBT+ business advisory company that partners with the world’s most influential firms to build business opportunity, cultivate talent, and drive equality forward.

More than 430 global CEOs have engaged in Out Leadership’s work, and the organization counts more than 65 major companies as members. Thousands of LGBT+ and ally executives share insights and best practices at Out Leadership’s annual Summits in New York, London, Hong Kong and Sydney. Many more engage with its global talent initiatives including OutNEXT, the first global development program for the next generation of LGBT+ executives; OutWOMEN, its groundbreaking effort to connect and celebrate Out LBT+ women in business; and Quorum, the first effort to place senior LGBT+ executives on corporate boards.

A former investment banker, Todd specialized in wealth management at Merrill Lynch, creating the first national team of financial advisors on Wall Street focused on the LGBT+ community, which brought over $1.4 billion of new assets to the firm. Todd then moved into diversity leadership, as Head of Diversity & Strategic Initiatives at Merrill Lynch and then at Credit Suisse, where he served as Americas Head of Diversity and Inclusion.

A graduate of Duke University and Woodberry Forrest School, Todd is also an active philanthropist and community leader. He is the founding co-chair of Jeffrey Fashion Cares, a fundraiser supporting LGBT+ civil rights, youth and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, which has applied an innovative cost-structure to raise millions of dollars since its inception.

Todd serves on the non-profit boards of The Williams Institute of UCLA, The Palette Fund, and Lambda Legal. In 2014 he received Aid for AIDS International’s My Hero Award; in 2015 he received the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's Paula L. Ettelbrick Award for achievements in advancing LGBT attorneys.

Shannon Saccocia

Chief Investment Officer, Boston Private Wealth

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

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

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

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

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