Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

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Chief Executive Officer, E.L. Rothschild

Since June 2002, Lady de Rothschild has been the Chief Executive of E.L. Rothschild LLC, a private investment company. She is also the Founder and CEO of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, a charity devoted to advancing economic and social inclusion.

E.L. Rothschild invests in media, asset management, luxury consumer goods and real estate worldwide. Holdings include The Economist Group (UK), Bronfman/E L Rothschild (US), R Chocolate London, real estate and financial instruments. Lady de Rothschild is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Estee Lauder Companies (and Chair of the Nominating and Board Affairs Committee), serving since December 2000, and was a Board member of The Economist Newspaper Limited (member of the Audit Committee) from October 2002-2017. She is a member of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (and the Executive Committee), the McCain Institute for International Leadership and the ERANDA Rothschild Foundation (de Rothschild family foundation).

In addition to being a keynote speaker at various public events (CNBC, Bloomberg), Lady de Rothschild has been a featured speaker for the United Nations, the World Bank, Conference of Montreal, the OECD, the British Academy, The Economist’s World In series, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, Tsinghua and Peking University, and the Royal Society of the United Services. Her opinion pieces have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian and The Daily Beast. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In October 2007, Lady de Rothschild was awarded the Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. She graduated Magna cum Laude and Beta Kappa from Pomona College in Claremont, CA (1976) and from Columbia University School of Law, NYC (1980) with a Juris Doctor with honors.

Nancy Davis

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Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Quadratic Capital Management

Nancy Davis founded Quadratic Capital Management in 2013 and is the portfolio manager for The Quadratic Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Hedge ETF (ticker: IVOL).

Ms. Davis began her career at Goldman Sachs where she spent nearly ten years, the last seven at the proprietary trading group where she rose to become the Head of Credit, Derivatives and OTC Trading. Prior to starting Quadratic, she served as a portfolio manager at Highbridge where she managed $500 million of capital in a derivatives-only portfolio. She later served in a senior executive role at AllianceBernstein.

Ms. Davis writes and speaks frequently about markets and investing. She has been published in Institutional Investor, Absolute Return and Financial News, and has contributed papers to two books. She has been interviewed by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, New York Magazine and Le Figaro. Ms. Davis has also appeared on CNBC, CNN, Reuters, Sina, and Bloomberg.

Alper Daglioglu

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Managing Director & Head of Global investment Manager Analysis, Morgan Stanley

Alper Daglioglu is a managing director at Morgan Stanley and currently heads the Global Investment Manager Analysis (GIMA) group, which is responsible for all manager research and due diligence efforts on traditional and alternative investment strategies. Previously, he was the head of manager research for alternative investment strategies within Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Prior to that, Mr. Daglioglu was the Chief Investment Officer for Morgan Stanley Managed Futures. Prior to that role, he was a Senior Analyst at the Product Origination Group within Morgan Stanley Managed Futures Department. In addition to his responsibilities within Managed Futures Department, Mr. Daglioglu was also the lead investment analyst for Global Macro and Managed Futures strategies within Morgan Stanley Graystone Research Group. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Galatasaray University and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management. He was awarded a full merit scholarship and research assistantship at the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets during his graduate studies. In this capacity, he worked with various major financial institutions in performance monitoring, asset allocation and statistical analysis projects and specialized on alternative approaches to risk assessment for hedge funds and managed futures. Mr. Daglioglu wrote and published numerous research papers on alternative investments. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst charterholder.

Ambassador Ryan Crocker

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Diplomat in Residence, Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University

Ryan Crocker is a Diplomat in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, for the academic year 2017-2018. He is on a leave of absence from Texas A&M where he is an executive professor at Texas A&M University where he served as dean of the Bush School of Government & Public Service until August 2016. He also has had appointments as the James Schlesinger Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and the first Kissinger Senior Fellow at Yale University.

He retired from the Foreign Service in April 2009 after a career of over 37 years but was recalled to active duty by President Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in 2011. He has served as U.S. Ambassador six times: Afghanistan (2011-2012), Iraq (2007-2009), Pakistan (2004-2007), Syria (1998-2001), Kuwait (1994-1997), and Lebanon (1990-1993). He has also served as the International Affairs Advisor at the national War College, where he joined the faculty in 2003. From May to August 2003, he was in Baghdad as the first Director of Governance for the Coalition Provisional Authority and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from August 2001 and May 2003. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1971, he also has had assignments in Iran, Qatar, Iraq and Egypt, as well as Washington. He was assigned to the American Embassy in Beirut during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the bombings of the embassy in the Marine barracks in 1983.

Born in Spokane, Washington, he grew up in an Air Force family, attending schools in Morocco, Canada and Turkey, as well as the U.S. He received a B.A. in English in 1971 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2001 from Whitman College (Washington). He also holds an honorary Doctorate in National Security Affairs from the National Defense University (2010), honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Gonzaga University (2009) and Seton Hall University (2012), as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the American University of Afghanistan (2013). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Association of American Ambassadors. In August 2013, he was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve on the Broadcasting Board of Governors which oversees all U.S. government-supported civilian international media. He is also on the Board of Directors for Mercy Corps International and is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Ambassador Crocker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 2009. His other awards include the Presidential Distinguished and Meritorious Service Awards, the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2008 and 2012), the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service (1997 and 2008), and for Distinguished Public Service (2012), the Award for Valor and the American Foreign Service Association Rivkin Award for creative dissent. He received the National Clandestine Service’s Donovan Award in 2009 and the Director of Central Intelligence’s Director’s Award in 2012. In 2011, he was awarded the Marshall Medal by the Association of the United States Army. In January 2002, he was sent to Afghanistan to reopen the American Embassy in Kabul. He subsequently received the Robert C. Frasure Memorial Award for “exceptional courage and leadership” in Afghanistan. In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the Foreign Service. In May 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the establishment of the Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Expeditionary Diplomacy. In July 2012, he was named an Honorary Marine, the 75th civilian so honored in the history of the corps.

Jeff Cox

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Finance Editor, CNBC

Jeff Cox is Finance Editor for CNBC.com. He is a veteran journalist with a career that spans 32 years as both an editor and writer. At CNBC, he helps coordinate daily market and economy coverage and is the site's chief Federal Reserve correspondent, splitting time between corporate headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. and the Washington, D.C. beat. In addition to his duties for the site, he has been a guest many times on CNBC TV and appears on radio shows airing across the country. Outside of CNBC, he is the co-author, with veteran financial advisor Peter Tanous, of two books: "Debt, Deficits and the Demise of the American Economy" and "The 30-Minute Millionaire."

Alfonso Costa, Jr.

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Deupty Chief of Staff to Secretary Ben Carson, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Alfonso Costa Jr. currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Ben Carson at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In his role, Mr. Costa is responsible for advising the Secretary and overseeing all policy (including regarding Opportunity Zones) carried out by the Department. Mr. Costa represents and leads HUD on the Federal government's Opportunity Zone Council ("White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council") chaired by Secretary Carson. The Council focuses on inter-agency collaboration, targeting of existing resources and programs, and external stakeholder engagement. Prior to joining HUD, Mr. Costa served as Vice President of Acquisitions for a real estate investment & development firm, Director of Policy for the U.S.A. First Political Action Committee, as well as a Teach For America (TFA) corps member. Mr. Costa earned his juris doctor from Harvard Law School, master's degree from the University of Oxford, and bachelor's degree from Yale University.

Kimberly Commins-Tzoumakas

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Chief Executive Officer, 21st Century Oncology

Kim Commins-Tzoumakas, J.D., was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for 21st Century Oncology in 2018. Since 2014, she served as part of the leadership team for the company working closely with the equity owners and bond holders to transform the company. Prior to 21st Century Oncology, Ms. Commins-Tzoumakas has over 20 years of health care leadership expertise, including working as part of a team with national health care companies faced with financial and regulatory challenges.

She has also advised boards on strategic partnering, growth and sale opportunities. She has served as a counselor and advisor to several non-profit and for-profit boards throughout her career.

Rudy Cline-Thomas

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Founder & Managing Partner, Mastry

Rudy Cline-Thomas is the founder and managing partner of Mastry, Inc., a company that specializes in identifying technology, retail, media and investment opportunities for partners which include Fortune 500 companies, early stage start-ups and professional athletes. Mastry has also invested in over 40 companies including LimeBike, Allbirds, Uber, GOAT, Stance, Thrive Global, TSM (Solomid), Zoom and Casper to name a few.

Rudy has partnered with Bloomberg to create The Annual Players Technology Summit, which brings together top leaders in the technology, venture capital and sports communities to discuss tech investing, trends, partnerships and future sports/tech initiatives.

Rudy Cline-Thomas is on the Advisory Boards of Pacific Pro Football, Inc., WOCstar Fund, and Global Communities. Rudy is also a Board Member of the Business Advisory Council for Providence College. Rudy works and resides in New York City.

Liz Claman

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Anchor, Fox Business Network

Liz Claman joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as an anchor in October 2007. She anchors Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman (weekdays 3-4PM/ET).

Her October debut on FBN included an exclusive interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO and legendary investor Warren Buffett. Throughout her tenure at FBN, Claman has conducted exclusive interviews with every U.S. Treasury Secretary from John Snow to Paul O’Neill, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner and Jack Lew. Claman has brought a roster of business leaders including JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, Google/Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates to Fox Business viewers as well as world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.

Prior to joining FBN, Claman served as an anchor at CNBC, most recently anchoring Morning Call and Wake Up Call, Market Watch, and Today’s Business. During her time at CNBC, Claman landed the first one-hour live one-on-one interview with Warren Buffett. Before CNBC, Claman, a two-time Emmy Award winner, served as an anchor and reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV (NBC). She was also a contributing correspondent for NBC’s syndicated daytime program RealLife. Prior to that, she anchored a two-hour daily talk show, The Morning Exchange for WEWS-TV (ABC) in Cleveland. She received an Emmy for her work on The Morning Exchange.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Sorbonne in Paris, Claman began her on-air career at WSYX-TV (ABC) in Columbus, OH as a reporter and later a weekend anchor. Earlier, she was a news associate for KCBS-TV (CBS) in Los Angeles where she was the youngest person in the station’s history to win a local Emmy Award for Best Spot News Producer. Claman is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Theatre Wing and is a Tony Award voter. She is an active fundraiser for Building Homes for Heroes, an organization that builds mortgage-free homes for severely wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. She has completed 7 triathlons and one New York City marathon.

Emily Musil Church

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Executive Director, Global Learning XPRIZE

Emily Musil Church is a strategist and thought leader combining the worlds of research, innovation, and global development. Dr. Church is the Executive Director of the Global Learning XPRIZE, and also works on education and outreach for the Foundation.

Prior to joining XPRIZE, she spent over a decade in academia where as a professor she specialized in African history, human rights, and women’s global issues.

Dr. Church has a Ph.D. and M.A. from UCLA, and a B.A. from Drew University. She won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and has conducted in-depth research in over a dozen countries on three continents. She serves on the OECD’s Senior Advisory Group for Blended Finance and the Advisory Board of the Center for Technology & Workforce Solutions.

Emidio Checcone

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Portfolio Manager, Equities, DoubleLine

Mr. Checcone joined DoubleLine in 2014. He previously spent six years at Huber Capital Management, where he was a Principal and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Checcone also worked for six years at PRIMECAP Management Company, where he was a Principal and Financial Analyst.

He received his BA in Social Studies from Harvard College, as well as a JD-MBA from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a CFA charterholder.

Charles E. Carnegie, CFA

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Portfolio Manager, Context Capital Management

Mr. Carnegie started his career at Context and was with the firm until 2008. He rejoined Context in 2015 from Hutchin Hill Capital Management, where he was a Senior Credit Analyst and Trader focused on credit and relative value opportunities including convertible, high yield and distressed corporate bonds and convertible arbitrage. Previously, Mr. Carnegie worked at Graham Capital Management, where he worked in a similar role, and prior to Graham, Mr. Carnegie was a Director and Credit Analyst at Knight Capital Group. 

Jane Buchan, PhD, CAIA

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Chief Executive Officer & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Martlet Asset Management

Jane is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Martlet Asset Management responsible for firm strategy, organization and performance. Martlet Asset Management, is an independently owned hedge fund based in Newport Beach. The firm is focused on delivering diversifying investment return solutions based on structural market anomalies. The firms strategies include alternative risk premia and liquid strategies.

Jane began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group where she was trained in quantitative fixed income portfolio management. She has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. After her academic career, she co-founded and led Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), a Fund of Hedge Funds focused on institutional investors for 18 years. Under her leadership first as CEO of PAAMCO and then co-CEO of PAAMCO Prisma, the firm grew to $32 billion AUM placing it third globally in the league tables by the time of her retirement in July 2018 (HFM InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club).

She recently served as chairwoman of the board for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Master of Financial Engineering Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has thirty-three years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.

Jane holds both a PhD and an MA in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. She earned a BA in Economics from Yale University. Jane has thirty-three years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.

John Bryant

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Chief Technology Officer, Options-IT

John Bryant was named Options CTO in November 2012 having first joined the company in mid-2008 as Head of Technology for Europe, where he oversaw the development of the European Momentum and Velocity low-latency market data product portfolios in addition to managing the company’s European data centre expansion program.

John has a wealth of experience in capital markets technologies including trading, market data, data applications and straight-through processing. He holds a joint bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from Liverpool University, holds a certification from the ITIL Foundation, and is a Prince II Practitioner.

Lesley Slaton Brown

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Chief Diversity Officer, HP Inc.

Lesley Slaton Brown is the Chief Diversity Officer at HP, Inc. With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Lesley has a unique ability to align and build strategy across organizations and drive business outcomes within corporations, start-ups and non-profits. Coupling her global marketing, branding, communications and diversity and inclusion experience, with a deep passion for social entrepreneur and leadership development, she has led key efforts to address the digital divide and build sustainable enterprise in Senegal, West Africa. Most recently, Lesley served as the Principal Investigator for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), “Go West” Computing Project. This project focused on broadening representation of women and minorities in computing education and careers.

Lesley was recently awarded the 2016 Woman of the Year in Technology by Silicon Valley’s Chapter of National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., in addition to the 2016 Multicultural Leadership Award by the National Diversity Council. Lesley was twice recognized by Black Enterprise as a Top Executive in Marketing and Advertising, Savoy Magazine as a Top Influential Woman in Corporate America and was featured in Diversity Journal’s Leaders Publication.

Lesley believes strongly in giving back to the community. As a former Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor, Charter Co-founder and Chairperson of Volunteer’s For Youth, Lesley has also sat on the Board of Directors for The Boise State University Foundation, Boise State University Alumni Association, and the Idaho Black History Museum.

Lesley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with an emphasis in Marketing from Boise State University. She was a NCAA Scholarship recipient where she lettered in Women’s Basketball. Lesley lives in Morgan Hill, CA, and works at HP Inc. headquarters in Palo Alto, CA

Bill Browder

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Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Hermitage Capital Management

William Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies.

In 2009 his Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was killed in a Moscow prison after uncovering and exposing a US$230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials. Because of their impunity in Russia, Browder has spent the last eight years conducting a global campaign to impose visa bans and asset freezes on individual human rights abusers, particularly those who played a role in Magnitsky’s false arrest, torture and death.

The USA was the first to impose these sanctions with the passage of the 2012 “Magnitsky Act.” A Global Magnitsky Bill, which broadens the scope of the US Magnitsky Act to human rights abusers around the world, was passed at the end of 2016. The UK passed a Magnitsky amendment in April 2017. Magnitsky legislation was passed in Estonia in December 2016, Canada in October 2017 and in Lithuania in November 2017. Similar legislation is being developed in Australia, France, Denmark, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Ukraine.

In February 2015 Browder published the New York Times bestseller, Red Notice, which recounts his experience in Russia and his ongoing fight for justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Scooter Braun

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Founder, SB Projects

Scooter Braun is one of the entertainment industry’s biggest entrepreneurs and innovators and the founder of SB Projects, a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures at the intersection of music, film, television, technology, brands, culture, and social good. Today, Braun has a roster of the top pop culture icons under his management, record label, and publishing companies that include Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Zac Brown Band, and Karlie Kloss, to name a few.

Braun has broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade and has expanded his reach by establishing a fund, which invests in some of the largest management, media, and rights companies in the industry. SB Projects houses a film and television production division and also continues to impact new verticals under its tech incubator, Silent Labs, which holds investments in Uber, Spotify, Songza, Casper, Waze, and Pinterest. In 2018, Braun announced new ventures including, Mythos Studios, that will develop franchise films and Good Story Entertainment, that will build out unscripted, live event and documentary spaces.

As Braun continues to expand SB Projects, he remains committed to the company’s founding philosophy of giving back and designs a philanthropic element for each new initiative. Braun serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of Pencils of Promise, a non-profit organization that builds schools in developing countries. He is also on the board of Fuck Cancer, an organization focused on prevention and early detection of cancer, which his wife Yael Braun co-founded. Braun, his clients, and his companies have – together – granted more wishes for Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation. In 2017, Braun proved to be the music industry’s ‘first-responder’ when he organized the One Love Manchester benefit concert and Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief telethon, within just months of one-another.

Richard Bradley

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Editor-in-Chief, Worth Group

Richard Bradley is Editor in Chief and Chief Content Officer of the Worth Group. A respected author, journalist, and speaker, Richard is responsible for the Worth Group’s editorial print, digital, broadcast, and radio content. He sets the overall direction of Worth’s editorial voice as the “authority on excellence” and leads the team that creates Worth content that is distributed through the company’s platforms and those of its partners. Richard leads the editorial direction of the Worth Group’s award-winning print magazine, Worth, which is published quarterly. He spearheads Worth’s flagship franchise, the Power 100, which is Worth’s authoritative look at the most influential people in global finance, and oversees the Worth Group’s aggressive expansion into content distribution across multiple platforms. Richard identifies and secures thought leaders to participate in Worth Group events—Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsome, FOX Business journalist Trish Regan, and many others—and structures and moderates discussions among them.

Richard’s previous experience includes roles as the executive editor of George, the political magazine founded by John F. Kennedy Jr.; 02138, a lifestyle magazine for Harvard alumni; and Regardie’s, a Washington business monthly. He is the author of three best-selling books: American Son, a memoir of John Kennedy and George; Harvard Rules, an exploration of Harvard University during an important time of its history; and The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of ’78. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard University, Richard has written for Boston, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Salon, Slate, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Monthly, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, and Vanity Fair, among others.

Peter Brack

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Founding Partner, Hypothesis Ventures

Peter Brack is a Founding Partner of Hypothesis Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on emerging ecosystems outside of Silicon Valley. Hypothesis aims to be the first venture firm with a dedicated Opportunity Zone vehicle.

Before his transition to venture investing, Peter was Chairman & CEO of a Hong Kong-listed public company, which he co-founded in 2003. One Media Group remains one of the largest content publishers in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Peter also co-founded Redgate Media Group, one of the most acquisitive Chinese media consolidators of the ‘00s, operating television, radio, advertising, and out-of-home media companies across the country. Redgate was acquired by a strategic investor in 2013.

Prior to co-founding Redgate Media Group and One Media Group, Peter was a senior executive at Time Warner in Asia, where oversaw Time Inc’s Asia operations.

Earlier, Peter was at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., where he helped to launch CNN and Cartoon Network across the Asia-Pacific region.

Peter is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has BA from Tulane University, studied at The American University of Paris, and has lived and worked in 5 countries.

David Bossie

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President, Citizens United

David N. Bossie has served as president of Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation since 2001. Beginning in August 2016, Bossie took a five month leave of absence to serve as Deputy Campaign Manager for Donald J. Trump for President. He was then named Deputy Executive Director for the Trump Presidential Transition Team.

In 2016, Bossie was ranked number two in Politico’s top 50 most influential people in American politics and was elected to serve as the Republican National Committeeman from Maryland. In 2010, under Bossie’s leadership Citizens United won a landmark First Amendment decision at the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The case, which saw the government assert during oral arguments that it had the Constitutional authority to ban political books, struck down two decades of unconstitutional restrictions on free speech.

As president of Citizens United Productions, Bossie has produced 25 documentaries since 2004. Bossie has co-produced six feature length films with Steve Bannon, most recently Torchbearer starring Phil Robertson in 2016. Some of Bossie’s other titles include Rocky Mountain Heist, hosted by Michelle Malkin, Occupy Unmasked featuring the late conservative icon Andrew Breitbart, Our Sacred Honor with Senator Rick Santorum, The Gift of Life with Governor Mike Huckabee, and the award-winning films on Pope John Paul, Nine Days That Changed The World and Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, hosted by Callista and Newt Gingrich.

Bossie is the former Chief Investigator for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. During Bill Clinton’s two terms as president, he led investigations ranging from the Whitewater land deal to the transfer of dual-use technology to China and to foreign fundraising in the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign. He has authored four books, including the best- selling Intelligence Failure: How Clinton’s National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11.

Born in Boston, Bossie attended the University of Maryland. He proudly served for 20 years as a volunteer firefighter in Montgomery County, Maryland where he resides with his wife, Susan, and their four children.

Citizens United was founded in 1988, and is the leading conservative advocacy group in the country with over 500,000 members and supporters. Through its films, op-eds, videos, and grassroots organizing, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security.