Yan Pritzker

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer, Swan

Yan is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin. He spent the last twenty years as an engineer and product and technology leader for early stage startups. In 2012, he was the co-founding CTO a Reverb.com, which was acquired by Etsy for $275M in 2019. While he was exposed to Bitcoin early in 2011, Yan didn't take it seriously until 2016, when he began to research it on a daily basis. By 2018, he decided that it was the most important thing he could be working on, and left Reverb to start consulting for Bitcoin related companies, prior to launching Swan together with Cory Klippsten in 2019. Yan is the author of the book Inventing Bitcoin, the best technical book for beginners.

Vijay Boyapati

Author, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

Vijay Boyapati was born and raised in Australia and moved to the United States to do a PhD in Computer Science. He never started the PhD, but took a job offer instead and ended up at a small startup called Google. After leaving the much bigger Google, in 2007, Vijay spent a year campaigning in the 2008 Presidential election, helping to raise millions of dollars for Ron Paul.

After becoming disillusioned by the political process, Vijay decided to continue to seek change through technology. Discovering Bitcoin in 2011, Vijay quickly went down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. With a background in Austrian economics he spent years thinking about the economic framework within which Bitcoin's value proposition could be understood. His thinking on the economics of Bitcoin culminated in an article called the Bullish Case for Bitcoin which is one of the most read articles on Bitcoin after Satoshi Nakamoto's Whitepaper and it has been translated into 20 different languages. The article is often cited as the most useful resource to give to newcomers who are attempting to understand Bitcoin.

Kamar Jaffer

Counsel, Allen & Overy

Kamar Jaffer is a counsel in Allen & Overy’s Middle East Funds and Asset Management Group with 15 years of experience. She helps clients structure and establish investment funds including Shari’a compliant funds. She acts for fund managers, SWFs, institutional investors, family offices and corporates on fund establishment and investment into funds across a range of asset classes including private equity, venture capital, technology, infrastructure and real estate. Her funds experience is complemented by her transactional experience on co-investments, cross-border M&A and joint ventures.

Prior to joining A&O, Kamar was Head of Legal, MENA & Turkey at PineBridge Investments, a global multi-asset class manager, providing cross-jurisdictional legal advice on private equity, real estate and distribution of financial products. This in-house experience has provided her with unique and first hand perspective on the structuring, regulatory aspects, marketing and closing of investment funds (including negotiations with key investors) and co-investments. Prior to moving to the Middle East, Kamar worked for a global law firm in London.

Kamar is passionate about emerging markets and has, with senior industry executives, led podcasts exploring reinvigorating the MENA economy by focusing on mid-caps and SMEs and the role of private equity in emerging markets. She has also edited publications including Euromoney’s “Investing in Emerging and Frontier Markets”.

Kamar is a member of A&O’s Middle East Diversity & Inclusion Committee and leads the gender initiative.

Dr. Yossi Bahagon

Founder & Manager, Clalit Health Services' Digital Health Division

Dr. Bahagon is a clinically active family physician, a serial entrepreneur, and a global key opinion leader in digital health.

Dr. Bahagon founded and managed Clalit Health Services' (CHS) digital health division. CHS is the second largest Health Maintenance Organization in the world. CHS's digital activity led the digital transformation of the Israeli healthcare system and became a global benchmark for nationwide digital health deployments. It serves today millions of patients, in tens of millions of interactions monthly.

Dr. Bahagon has also been a founding team member of several successful digital health companies and co-founded Qure Ventures – Israel's first digital health focused fund.

Dr. Bahagon serves as a special advisor for the World Health Organization, as well as an Advisory Board member of Best Buy Health and Almirall Pharmaceuticals and a mentor at Microsoft's Think-Next Accelerator and Biocat's Digital Health Accelerator.

Mark Mobius

Founder, Mobius Capital Partners

Dr. Mark Mobius is seen by many as the founder of the emerging markets asset class. He has a reputation as one of the most successful and influential managers over last 30 years. In May 2018, with two ex-colleagues, he launched Mobius Capital Partners. The firm utilises a highly specialised active investment approach with an emphasis on improving governance standards in Emerging and Frontier Market companies.

Prior to this, Dr. Mobius was employed at Franklin Templeton Investments for more than 30 years, most recently as Executive Chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group. During his tenure, the group expanded AUM from USD 100m to over USD 40bn and launched a number of emerging market and frontier funds focusing on Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. He is also an author of several books. His career and influence has earned him numerous industry awards.

He received his Ph.D. at MIT and has studied at Boston University, University of Wisconsin, Syracuse University, Kyoto University and the University of New Mexico.

Jocelyn Benson

43rd Secretary of State of Michigan

Jocelyn Benson is Michigan’s 43rd Secretary of State. In this role she is focused on ensuring elections are secure and accessible, and dramatically improving customer experiences for all who interact with our offices.

Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process, the first major book on the role of the secretary of state in enforcing election and campaign finance laws. She is also the Chair of Michigan’s Task Force on Women in Sports, created by Governor Whitmer in 2019 to advance opportunities for women in Michigan as athletes and sports leaders.

A graduate of Harvard Law School and expert on civil rights law, education law and election law, Benson served as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. When she was appointed dean at age 36, she became the youngest woman in U.S. history to lead a top-100, accredited law school. She continues to serve as vice chair of the advisory board for the Levin Center at Wayne Law, which she founded with former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin. Previously, Benson was an associate professor and associate director of Wayne Law’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.

Prior to her election, she served as CEO of the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE), a national nonprofit organization using the unifying power of sports to improve race relations.

Benson is co-founder and former president of Military Spouses of Michigan, a network dedicated to providing support and services to military spouses and their children.

In 2015, she became one of the youngest women in history to be inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Brad Raffensperger

29th Secretary of State of Georgia

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the CEO and owner of Tendon Systems, LLC. Tendon is a specialty contracting and engineering design firm with nearly 200 employees. The firm has operated in 35 different states. Raffensperger also owns and operates a specialty steel manufacturing plants based in Forsyth County.

Additionally, he served two terms in the Georgia General Assembly from 2015-2019.

Brad Raffensperger earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Western University and was awarded his MBA from Georgia State University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in over 30 states.

Brad and his wife, Tricia, have been married for 42 years and live in Johns Creek. Brad is a member of North Point Community Church.

Dante Disparte

Executive Vice President, Diem Association

Dante Disparte is the Executive Vice President of the Diem Association. Dante has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and head of Risk Cooperative. Dante also serves as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Advisory Council, the United States’ federal emergency response agency. He is a founding advisor of the Global Blockchain Business Council and a senior fellow with the Blockchain Trust Accelerator. Dante is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.

Michael Eric Dyson

Author, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. His 2019 New York Times bestselling nonfiction JAY-Z: Made in America is the recipient of two starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal and speaks on JAY-Z’s career and his role in making this nation what it is today. He is an author, a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, an MSNBC political analyst, a contributing editor at New Republic, the host of the Michael Eric Dyson Podcast Featuring Dr. Dan Ratner, an ordained Baptist minister for over 30 years, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1993.

Dr. Dyson has authored nearly twenty books on subjects such as the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 4, 1968, Malcolm X, Nas’s debut album Illmatic, Tupac, Marvin Gaye, and Hurricane Katrina’s devastating and long-lasting effects. He won two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-Fiction and the American Book Award in 2007 for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster.

Essence named Michael Eric Dyson one of the 40 most inspiring African Americans and Ebony listed him among the 100 most influential black Americans. He often speaks at universities and political conventions, but he is also known for his speaking engagements at union halls, prisons, classrooms, and churches. Throughout his career, Dr. Dyson has had a profound effect on American culture and thinking. His book, What Truth Sounds Like, continues the conversation started in his 2017 bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop, and was the winner of the 2018 Southern Books Prize for nonfiction. Follow Michael Eric Dyson on Twitter and Facebook.

Liz Young

Director of Market Strategy, BNY Mellon Investment Management

Liz Young is Director of Market Strategy for BNY Mellon Investment Management. In this role, she works directly with the firm’s Chief Economist to formulate and deliver economic and market views to external audiences. She focuses on educating investors on current macroeconomic themes and their effects on capital markets. Liz is a CNBC Contributor, and is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post and other industry publications.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon in 2015, Liz was a Portfolio Analyst at Robert W. Baird responsible for manager due diligence for the firm’s recommended manager programs and discretionary model platform. Prior to that, she served as a Research Analyst at BMO Global Asset Management where she performed economic and market research for the firm’s Chief Market Strategist and Investment Strategy Committee. She has over 16 years of industry experience.

Liz earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as a Master of Business Administration from Marquette University. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of New York.

Joe Terranova

Chief Market Strategist, Virtus Investment Partners

Joe Terranova is the chief market strategist for Virtus Investment Partners, a position he was elevated to in 2009, after having started with the firm as chief alternatives strategist. In his current role, Mr. Terranova is involved with Virtus’ investment oversight function and represents Virtus as a client-facing thought leader, providing insight into the domestic and global investing landscape.

Mr. Terranova developed the Terranova US Quality Momentum Index (VTUSQM) which launched and began publicly pricing in August 2020. The index methodology, which seeks to provide systematic exposure to domestic large-cap companies exhibiting both quality and momentum characteristics, reflects the investing principles he has utilized to assess markets throughout his career.

Prior to joining Virtus, Terranova spent 18 years at MBF Clearing Corp., rising to the position of Director of Trading. He is perhaps best known for his risk management skills, honed while overseeing MBF’s proprietary trading operations during some of the most calamitous times for the U.S. markets, including the first Gulf War, the 1998 Asian Crisis, 9/11, and the collapse of Amaranth Advisors. During those times there was never a loss at MBF due to market anomalies.

Since 2008, Terranova has been a CNBC ensemble member, appearing regularly on the Halftime Report, Squawk Box and contributing financial content throughout the CNBC media and digital platforms.

Anthony Pompliano

Co-Founder & Partner, Morgan Creek Digital Assets

Anthony Pompliano, better known as Pomp, has invested over $100 million in early stage technology companies, including multiple unicorns. He is the host of The Pomp Podcast, one of the 10 most popular investing podcasts in the world, and writes a daily letter to over 100,000 investors each morning. Pomp previously co-founded Morgan Creek Digital and ran numerous product and growth teams at Facebook. He started his career serving as an Infantry Sergeant in the US Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Theresia Gouw

Founding Partner, Acrew Capital

Theresia Gouw was a co-founder and partner at Aspect Ventures. Prior to Aspect, Theresia was a Managing General Partner at Accel. Theresia has been fortunate to work with many successful companies through IPOs or acquisitions including: Forescout (FSCT), Imperva (IMPV), Trulia (TRLA), Hotel Tonight (AirBnB), Astro (Slack; WORK), LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Jasper Design (CDNS) and Kosmix (WMT).

As an entrepreneur, Theresia was founding VP of Business Development and Sales at Release Software, a venture-backed company that provided SaaS to enable digital rights management and payment technologies for the software industry. Earlier, she worked at Bain & Company and as a product manager at Silicon Graphics.

Theresia led early investments in Cato Networks, Deserve, Exabeam, The Muse, Crew, ShieldX, Observable, PredictHQ and Solv Health.

Theresia is a first generation immigrant and a passionate supporter of educational causes and increasing diversity in the tech industry. Theresia was named to Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women list, has been recognized 9 times on the Forbes Midas List, including 2020, was named one of the 40 most influential minds in tech by Time Magazine, as well as being named to the Carnegie Corporation’s annual Distinguished Immigrants list.

Lauren Kolodny

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Acrew Capital

Lauren is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Acrew Capital where she leads the firm’s fintech practice. Lauren led the 2016 Series A round in Chime. Other investments include Pie Insurance, Klar, La Haus, Divvy, Gusto, Papaya Payments, Creative Juice, Paceline, among others.

Previously, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. She also worked in product marketing at Google leading a number of launches for Google Workspace, including Google Drive. After seeing the early success of product-led growth in productivity, Lauren became extremely passionate about the opportunity for fintech to become more collaborative.

Lauren began her career building tech partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India. While there, she witnessed some of the earliest entrepreneurial activity around mobile money, and developed a strong belief in the opportunity for fintech to drive financial inclusion.

Lauren is a Trustee Emerita at Brown University where she served as the university’s youngest board member.

Lauren was featured on the 2021 Forbes Midas Brink List. Lauren has been recognized in publications such as WSJ’s 10 Women to Watch List, Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Venture Capital, and named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital (2016).

Jeffrey W. Ubben

Founder & Managing Partner, Inclusive Capital Partners

JEFFREY UBBEN is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inclusive Capital Partners (“In-Cap”). Mr. Ubben began his investing career at Fidelity Investments where he worked alongside legendary investor Peter Lynch and ran the Fidelity Value Fund. The Value Fund’s assets under management grew more than ten-fold during Ubben’s tenure as portfolio manager. In 2000, after five years at Blum Capital in San Francisco, Mr. Ubben founded ValueAct Capital (“VAC”) and pioneered concentrated, active value investing. During almost 17 years as sole portfolio manager of the VAC flagship fund, assets under management grew from approximately $65 million to more than $15 billion. While portfolio manager at VAC, Mr. Ubben served on more than 15 public company boards and generated net annual returns of 15% (the S&P 500’s annualized return was 5% over the same period). At In-Cap, Mr. Ubben seeks to make long-term equity investments in companies while working actively with managements and boards to responsibly and creatively address environmental and societal problems. Mr. Ubben serves on the boards of Duke University, the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy’s NatureVest and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. He has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dakin Sloss

Founder & General Partner, Prime Movers Lab

Dakin Sloss is Founder and General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. Over the course of the last decade, he has created billions of dollars of enterprise value including founding two breakthrough start-ups, OpenGov and Tachyus, investing in extraordinary early stage companies like Boom Supersonic, and coaching dozens of Prime Movers, founders who invent breakthrough scientific inventions to transform billions or lives. Dakin serves on the boards of Momentus, Heliogen, Covaxx, Tarana, and Carbon Capture.

Prior to Prime Movers Lab, he served as the founding CEO of Tachyus, where he built the leading prescriptive analytics company in the oil and gas industry. Before Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov, where as CEO he recruited the core team, secured millions in angel funding and venture capital, arranged the initial pilot partnerships, and launched the world’s most advanced smart government platform. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense, the premiere California open data and government watchdog non-profit.

Dakin earned a BS in Mathematics from Stanford University in 2011. In 2016, Dakin was recognized as the featured Forbes 30 Under 30 energy entrepreneur. In 2017, he was named as a San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40 honoree.

Joe Lonsdale

General Partner, 8VC

Joe Lonsdale is the founder and managing partner at 8VC, a US-based venture capital firm managing over five billion dollars in capital. In 2003, he founded Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR), a global software company known for its work supporting US and allied defense and intelligence. He is the founder and chairman of Addepar, which has over $4 trillion on its wealth management technology platform, as well as OpenGov. More recently, he founded Epirus, Affinity, National Resilience Bio, LIT, and other mission-driven technology businesses. He continues to found companies through the 8VC Build program.

As an investor, Joe was an early backer of companies like Anduril Industries, Oculus (acq. FB), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Oscar (NYSE:OSCR), Illumio, Wish (NASDAQ:WISH), JoyTunes, Blend (NYSE:BLND), Flexport, Joby Aviation (NYSE:JOBY), Orca Bio, Qualia, Synthego, RelateIQ (acq. CRM), Yugabyte, and others.

Joe and his wife Tayler are active in a variety of philanthropic and institutional pursuits, including support for liberty in public policy, the classical arts, and healthcare innovation. In 2018, they founded the non-partisan Cicero Institute, which crafts and advances policies to promote transparent and accountable governance in over a dozen states. In 2021, Joe became a founding trustee of the University of Austin (UATX), a new university dedicated to restoring the pursuit of truth in higher education. He sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, and serves as an advisor to a range of other non-profit ventures.

Joe, Tayler, and their four daughters live in Austin, TX.

Octavius T. Reid, III

Senior Vice President, Morgan Stanley

Octavius T. (Ted) Reid, III is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Advisor with Morgan Stanley. Over the past 30 years, he has developed an area of focus, working with clients in the sports and entertainment industry. As a Morgan Stanley Global Sports and Entertainment Director, provides financial management services and helps guide many professionals through what can be an incredibly difficult space.

He’s been featured in many prominent periodicals, including Billboard, New Jersey Business and USA Today, where he was referred to as "Broker to the stars, athletes and their lawyers". He has also been on several television and radio shows, including CNBC and CNN. He serves on the Board of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and is a lifetime active member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. In 2002 he was inducted into the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association's Hall of Fame for his impact on the organization. He is on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

He has been a guest speaker for the National Basketball Association and National Football League Players Association.

He received his BA in Economics from Rutgers University and began his career with Morgan Stanley in 1986. He has also earned his Certified Investment Management Analyst Certification granted by the Investment Management Consultants Association, through the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Stacy L. Robinson

Financial Advisor & PIM Portfolio Manager, Wells Fargo

Stacy has been in the investment industry over twenty years. She joined Wells Fargo Advisors as a Financial Advisor, PIM Portfolio Manager September 2016. Prior to Wells Fargo Advisors Stacy was with Morgan Stanley for 17 years.

Stacy helps guide her clients through complex and sophisticated issues that come with their financial success, so they can focus on the people, institutions and activities that enrich their lives. She assists the organizations she works with in collaborative efforts in achieving their planned objectives.

She works with her clients to understand their goals, define risk, manage liabilities and proactively plan for their overall financial future. Stacy’s objective is to assist her clients in developing a balanced and comprehensive investment strategy that is tailored to their needs. Her focus on a client–centric wealth management process has spanned throughout her career.

Stacy’s practice is comprised of corporate executives, entrepreneurs, closely held business owners, retirees, athletes and entertainers. She and her team grow the practice through selective referrals. Her caring, commitment and attention to detail creates mutually fulfilling, multigenerational relationships.

Stacy graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Wealth Management Certified Professional (WMCP™). She continues to proactively pursue education and knowledge, to strategically analyze the evolving landscape to address her client’s interests.

Stacy is committed to serving her community and other communities throughout her network. She is a board member of Virtua Health, South Jersey’s largest health system. She was appointed to the Governance and Joint Venture Committees and has served on the Investment and Finance Committee for over 12 years. Stacy has been on CN8 Philadelphia Financial segments. She has been a member of a Philadelphia City Council Woman’s steering committee and served as a board member of the Evander Holyfield Foundation. She is a former ballet and modern dance performer and teacher. At her church, she served as a trustee, delivered financial literacy seminars, and serves as a young adult and youth advisor.

Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

Dr. Akilah Cadet

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Change Cadet

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet consulting firm, which offers a broad array of anti-racism and diversity services including strategic planning, crisis rebuilding, advising, executive coaching and facilitation. Cadet (her last name) is a French term that means soldier. As it's often an uphill battle for BIPOC, women, and underrepresented communities to achieve success and equity in the workplace, Change Cadet prepares soldiers of change to overcome these continuous battles so individuals and companies can thrive. Akilah has 15+ years of experience working in various organizations, with both private and public sector companies. She literally has all the degrees, lives in Oakland, CA, has a rare heart condition, and is a proud Beyoncé advocate.