Jack Otter

Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones Wealth & Asset Management

Jack Otter has served as editor of Barrons.com and interim editor in chief of Barron’s, and he led the 2016 launch of Barron’s Next, a site aimed at millennials. Through regular appearances on Fox Business news and Barrons.com video, he has served as the face of Barron’s. He is the author of Worth It…Not Worth It: Simple and Profitable Answers to Life’s Tough Financial Questions (Hachette). Before coming to Barron’s, he was executive editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com, and he has 18 years of experience as a business journalist, having been features editor of SmartMoney magazine and a columnist at Newsday. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, O magazine, Men’s Health, and The New Yorker. He has appeared on NBC's Today, CBS This Morning, CNN, CNBC, and Fox. He lives in Pelham, NY with his wife and three children.

Jack L. Oliver III

Managing Partner, Dock Square Capital; Attorney & Practice Group Leader, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Jack Oliver works across the highest levels of international and national politics, government, technology, finance and business to provide senior relationship management and unparalleled insights at the intersection of public policy, communications, innovation and commerce. Jack develops relationships with Fortune 100 companies, financial sponsors and governmental actors across the globe.

Currently, Jack is a Managing Partner of Dock Square Capital LLC, a merchant bank based in Miami, Florida with Governor Bush and serves as an Attorney and Practice Group Leader of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, an international law firm with more than 1500 lawyers. Additionally, he is a Senior Advisor to companies including 8vc, Palantir Technologies, Open-Gov, Addepar, Leeo, and Rubicon Global.

Jack served as Senior Advisor to Barclays for 13 years providing counsel for top clients across investment banking and capital markets management on cross-boarder and national transactions. He served for two years as Co-Chairman of the ONE Campaign, an organization founded by U2's Bono and supported by the Gates Foundation with the mission to raise public awareness about global poverty and disease in developing countries. He is a member of the Robin Hood Foundation Leadership Council; a member of the Council of Foreign Relations; on the National Leadership Council of Communities in Schools; an Advisory Council member of the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University; a Member of the External Advisory Board of the Washington University Gephardt Institute for Public Service; an Advisory Member of the Leadership Council at the Danforth Plant Science Center; a Member of the National Leadership Committee of the George W. Bush Foundation; and former Director for the Legacy Educational Foundation and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jack is also on the Board of Directors for two companies: E-Health Corporation and Gateway Blend.

Jack is actively involved at the highest levels of national and Missouri politics. Jack served as National Finance Vice-Chairman for Bush-Cheney 04 and Victory 2004 managing the campaign’s national operations and was principal in the campaign’s leadership. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Republican National Committee where he oversaw all day-to-day operations and management in policy, communications, and strategy during the 2002 National election cycles, which resulted in historic Republican gains in both the House and Senate. In 2000, Jack served as National Finance Director for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and managed a fundraising effort that shattered all previous presidential fundraising records. In 2016, Jack was the National Co-Chair of Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign.

Jack received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He and his wife Rachel are the proud parents of Kate, Henry, and Lilly.

Matt Orsagh

Director, Capital Markets Policy, CFA Institute

Matthew Orsagh has worked for more than a decade in the field of global corporate governance. In 2008, he was named one of the “Rising Stars of Corporate Governance” by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. His expertise is in the area of corporate governance and disclosure best practices, ESG, shareowner rights, short-termism, and financial regulation.

At CFA Institute, Mr. Orsagh writes about and speaks to audiences about pressing issues in global market integrity and corporate governance. He leads projects aimed at fostering greater transparency and accountability in global financial markets, promulgates CFA Institute’s Capital Markets Policy Group corporate disclosure positions, policies, and standards; and coordinates and supports related public awareness activities.

Previously, Mr. Orsagh worked as a research analyst at Governance Metrics International, where he evaluated the corporate governance of hundreds of international publicly-traded companies and prepared detailed reports assessing firms’ corporate governance strengths and weaknesses based on quantitative ratings. He trained analysts in the importance of corporate governance, the intricacies of corporate governance ratings, and spoke on behalf of the firm to small groups and conference audiences. Earlier in his career, he served as a senior analyst for Noonan Russo Communications, where he managed investor relations accounts for international biotechnology companies, and developed strategic investor relations plans in coordination with company executives.

Mr. Orsagh holds an MBA degree in Finance from Georgia State University and a BA degree in Communications and English from the University of Notre Dame.

Sean O’Sullivan

Managing Partner, SOSV

Sean O’Sullivan is managing partner of SOSV, a venture capital firm with over $990 million in assets under management (AUM). SOSV specializes in programs for very early stage, deep-tech startups and is one of the most active venture investors in the world, with more than 1,000 companies in its portfolio.

O’Sullivan’s first company, MapInfo, grew to a $200 million revenue public company with over 1,000 employees, and popularized street mapping on computers. His first internet company, NetCentric, developed many concepts in internet computing, and he is credited as the co-creator of the term “cloud computing”. O’Sullivan founded JumpStart International, a leading humanitarian organization in conflict zones and oversaw 3,500 staff at the height of the Iraq conflict.

SOSV runs the world’s most active startup development programs in hardware (HAX), life sciences (IndieBio), Asia cross-border startups (Chinaccelerator/MOX) and blockchain (dlab).

O’Sullivan received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Southern California. Alongside serving as the founder of the O’Sullivan Foundation, he was the founding funder of Coderdojo (a global network of coding clubs that more than 50,000 kids attend every week) and is a principal donor to Khan Academy (used by more than 75 million students monthly). O’Sullivan is on the board of Khan Academy, Sun Genomics, the Tyndall Institute, the Autism Impact Fund, the Brain Foundation, and a number of private companies.

Grover Norquist

President, Americans for Tax Reform

Grover Norquist (Twitter: @GroverNorquist) is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate.

ATR organizes the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to the American people to oppose all net tax increases. In the 115th Congress, 212 House members and 45 Senators have taken the pledge.

Norquist chairs the Washington, DC - based Wednesday Meeting, a weekly gathering of more than 150 elected officials, political activists, and movement leaders. The meeting started in 1993 and takes place in ATR's conference room. There are now 48 similar center-right meetings in 40 states.

Ray Nolte

Partner & Co-Chief Investment Officer, SkyBridge

Mr. Nolte is Co-Managing Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of SkyBridge and serves as Chairman of the Investment, Manager Selection and Portfolio Allocation Committees. Prior to this role, Mr. Nolte was the CEO of the Hedge Fund Management Group at Citigroup Alternative Investments, the Fund’s previous investment adviser until July 2010, where he was also Chairman of the Group’s Investment Committee and Group CIO. Before joining CAI in September of 2005, he worked at Deutsche Bank (1999 – 2005) and Bankers Trust Company from 1983 until the firm was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. At Deutsche Asset Management, Mr. Nolte held roles as the Global Head and CIO of the DB Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) Fund of Funds business, the Chairman of its Investment Committee, Vice Chairman of DB ARS as well as Head of the Single Manager Hedge Fund business. In late 1996, Mr. Nolte started the Bankers Trust Fund of Funds business and launched the Topiary family of funds, which grew to $7bn in assets under management when he left in 2005. The business was comprised of several multi-manager, multi-strategy funds as well as single strategy funds and separate accounts.

He started his career at Bankers Trust Company in 1983 in the foreign exchange and foreign fixed income sales and trading business before moving to the capital markets and derivatives business. In 1994 he was named the head of the Global Portfolio Management business which was responsible for the discretionary management of global balanced client portfolios.

Mr. Nolte received his B.B.A. in Finance from George Washington University.

Dang Nguyen

Managing Director, Central Funding Group & Alternative Assets Group, RBC Capital Markets

Dang Nguyen joined RBC Capital Markets in February 2011 to lead the hedge fund due diligence / risk team in RBC AAG. Prior to joining RBC, was a Senior Research Analyst at the institutional fund of hedge fund, EIM Management (USA) where he led the research effort for the event driven space. Before joining EIM, Dang was the Senior Event Driven/Special Situations Analyst at Savannah-Baltimore Capital Management. Prior to that Dang was a Senior Research Analyst for Event Driven/Special Situations investments at Ore Hill Partners and was a Principal at Dickstein Partners. He was also a Global Risk Arbitrage analyst at SAC Capital & Soros Fund and started his career in finance at RBC as an Equity Derivatives Analyst. Dang graduated from Harvard in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics.

In addition to working with the AAG clients to ensure that the portfolios are in compliance with risk guidelines, he provides market color and discusses funds strategies with clients given that the AAG group has exposure to over 900 funds.

RBC Alternative Assets Group has provided clients with structured and financing solutions for their hedge fund portfolios since 1997.

Jon Najarian

Co-Founder, Najarian Advisors

Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian was linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of contact sport – trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He became a member of the CBOE, NYSE, CME and CBOT and worked as a floor trader for some 25 years. In 1990 he founded Mercury Trading, a market-making firm at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), which he sold in 2004 to Citadel, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. In 2005 Jon co-founded optionMONSTER and tradeMONSTER. He partnered with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners in 2014 and they sold the firm to E*Trade for $750 million in September of 2016. Today, he is a professional investor, money manager and media analyst. Jon has earned a reputation in the industry as an options trading expert and pioneer. He developed and patented trading applications and algorithms used to identify unusual activity in stock, options, and futures markets. optionMONSTER, the options news and education site he co-founded, was described by Securities Industry News as “content king of the options business.” For years, tradeMONSTER was consistently rated “Best for Options Traders” by Barron’s and was the first online broker to deploy streaming, desktop-like trading in a web browser. Jon can be seen weekly on CNBC, where he is cast member of the “Halftime Report” and “Fast Money” shows. Jon and Pete invest in and work with start-ups via Rebellion Partners, a venture consulting firm they launched in 2015. In 2016, Jon and Pete co-founded Market Rebellion, a company focused on educating the individual investor.

Angelo Mozilo

Former Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Countrywide Financial

Angelo Mozilo started his career in the real estate industry as a young man in Bronx, New York. As a young man he showed a keen interest and understanding of the lending business and after years of managing offices for a regional lender, in 1969, founded Countrywide Funding Corporation with his partner David Loeb.

Angelo would stay with Countrywide for its longevity and retired as Chairman and CEO in 2008. As a well known and sought after leader, Angelo served on many industry-affiliated and professional boards; such as National Housing Endowment, Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, Homes for Working Families, The Home Depot, and many others throughout the years. Angelo served as President of the Mortgage Banker’s Association from 1991-1992 Among other awards and recognitions, Angelo was named to the National Home Builders Hall of Fame, received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, National Housing Person of the Year, Horatio Alger Award, Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and was recognized by the National Italian American Foundation for Humanitarian Service.

Angelo is a proud graduate of Mount Saint Michael Academy. He holds a BS from Fordham University and Honorary Doctorates from Pepperdine and Gonzaga University.

In retirement, Angelo mentors young entrepreneurs, speaks on leadership, is an active investor and serves as the Director of his family foundation whose primary mission is scholarship and medical care.

Dan Morehead

Chief Executive Officer, Pantera Capital

Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies.  He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson.  Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs.  Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Structural Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Pantera Capital is the first institutional investment firm focused exclusively on bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem.  Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States when bitcoin was at $65/BTC in 2013.  The firm subsequently launched the first exclusively-blockchain venture fund.  In 2017, Pantera was the first firm to offer an early-stage token fund.  Pantera Bitcoin Fund has returned over 66,100% in eight years and has returned billions to its investors.  Pantera manages $4.7bn across three strategies – passive, hedge, and venture – exclusively focused on bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem.

Stephen Moore

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Stephen Moore is a distinguished visiting fellow in economics at the Heritage Foundation, the largest private research institute in Washington, D.C.

He served as a senior economic advisor to the Donald Trump for President campaign where he helped write the Trump tax plan and worked on energy and budget issues for candidate Trump.

Moore is also a senior economic analyst with CNN, where he provides daily commentary on the economy, fiscal policy and politics. From 2014- 2017 he served as a Fox news contributor.

From 2005 to 2014 Moore served as the senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page and as a member of the Journal’s editorial board. He is still a regular contributor to the Journal’s editorial page.

He is a frequent lecturer to business, investment and university audiences around the world on the U.S. economic and political outlook in Washington, D.C.

From 1999-2004 Moore served as founder and President of the Club for Growth, a 25,000-member organization dedicated to helping elect free market, tax cutting candidates to Congress. In his tenure as president, the Club for Growth became one of the most influential and respected political organizations in the nation. In 2003-04 the Club for Growth raised nearly $22 million for Republican congressional and Senate candidates, making the Club the biggest single money raiser for Republican candidates outside the party itself.

In 2007 he received the Ronald Reagan “Great Communicator” award from the Republican party for his advancement of economic understanding.

Mr. Moore has served as a Senior Economist at the Joint Economic Committee under former Chairman Dick Armey of Texas. There, he advised Mr. Armey on budget, tax, and competitiveness issues. He was also an architect of the famous Armey flat tax proposal.

From 1983 through 1987, Mr. Moore served as the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. Mr Moore has worked for two presidential commissions. In 1988, he was a Special Consultant to the National Economic Commission. In 1987, he was Research director of President Reagan's commission on Privatization.

Mr. Moore is the author of 6 books. His latest book is “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.” His previous books include: “Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy” by Regnery. He is also author of “Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Taxes, Income and Wealth in America” published in 2012 by Encounter. His previous books include most recently Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain its Economic Superpower Status.“ That book was a finalist for the F.A. Hayek book award for advancing economic understanding. His books also include: “Its Getting Better All the Time: The 100 Greatest Trends of the Last Century,” and “Government: America’s Number One Growth Industry.”

Mr. Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds an MA in Economics from George Mason University. In 2010 he was awarded the University of Illinois alumni of the year.

Matt Miller

Managing Director, Securities Investing, Bayview

Mr. Miller joined Bayview in June 2012 to head all securities investing for the firm, and is based in Bayview’s New York office. At Bayview, his team invests across a broad range of securities, including legacy RMBS, credit risk transfer securities, CMBS, CLOs, and mortgage-related equities. Prior to joining Bayview, Mr. Miller worked in securitized products at Barclays Capital for four years, where he managed traders responsible for residential whole loan trading, commercial mortgage-backed securities trading, and asset-backed securities trading. The traders covered a wide range of products, including non-performing residential whole loans, newly originated commercial loans, liquid AAA credit cards, and commercial real estate collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Prior to Barclays, Mr. Miller worked in the mortgage department at Lehman Brothers for 11 years. Mr. Miller graduated from Dartmouth College as a triple major in Economics, Mathematics, and Biophysical Chemistry.

Brett Messing

Partner, President & Chief Operating Officer, SkyBridge

Brett S. Messing is a Partner and the President and Chief Operating Officer of SkyBridge. He began his career at Goldman Sachs where he held various positions including Vice President and Co-Head of the Restricted Stock Group. Thereafter, he was a partner at Oscar Capital Management, which was acquired by Neuberger Berman, LLC. Following the successful integration of the business, Mr. Messing founded GPS Partners, a $2.5 billion hedge fund at its peak, which focused primarily in the energy infrastructure sector. Mr. Messing was the firm’s Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Thereafter, Mr. Messing worked for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villariagosa as Co-Chief Operating Officer responsible for economic and business policy. Mr. Messing served as a Senior Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at C40 Cities, a joint venture with the Clinton Climate Initiative. Mr. Messing is the Terence M. Considine Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of The Forewarned Investor and contributed to Learning from the Global Financial Crisis - Creatively, Reliably and Sustainably, a compendium published by Stanford Business School. Mr. Messing received his A.B. from Brown University, magna cum laude, and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Mark McKenna

Managing Director, Founder & Global Head of Event Driven, BlackRock

Managing Director, Founder & Global Head of Event Driven, is responsible for managing BlackRock's event driven investing efforts within Active Equities (AE).

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Mr. McKenna was a Managing Director at Harvard Management Company (HMC) and co-founder of HMC's event driven fund. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. McKenna was Portfolio Manager of the event driven strategy at Caxton Associates, LLC. Previous to Caxton, Mr. McKenna spent five years at Salomon Smith Barney as a Vice President in mergers and acquisitions where he advised on over $100 billion in corporate change. Before graduate school, Mr. McKenna served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy's Nuclear Submarine Force, where he conducted strategic deterrent patrols onboard the USS Ohio and was a certified nuclear engineer by the Department of Naval Reactors.

Mr. McKenna earned an MBA, with distinction, from New York University and a B.E. in electrical engineering from New York Maritime College.

Amy C. McGarrity, CFA

Chief Investment Officer, Colorado PERA

Ms. McGarrity returned to Colorado PERA in March 2017, after working at William Blair as a Global Equity Product Specialist. Ms. McGarrity originally joined Colorado PERA in 2010, after the merger of the Denver Public Schools Retirement System, serving first as Senior Investment Officer, then as Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Prior to joining Colorado PERA, Ms. McGarrity held previous investment positions at Buck Consultants, Prima Capital Holding, William M. Mercer Investment Consulting, and Caxton Corporation. She is a graduate of University of Wyoming with a BS in Finance, and earned her MBA at Rider University. Ms. McGarrity has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Colorado. She is also a member of the PCAOB Investment Advisory Group, and the SEC’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee.

Michael McFaul

Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation (2012-2014)

Michael A. McFaul served as Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation from January, 2012, to February, 2014. Prior to becoming Ambassador, he served for three years as the special assistant to the President and senior director for Russia and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council.

McFaul is a professor of political science and a Hoover fellow at Stanford University. He is also director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).

He is the author and editor of several monographs including, Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can (2009); with Valerie Bunce and Katheryn Stoner-Weiss, eds., Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World (2009); with Anders Aslund, eds., Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough (2006); with Nikolai Petrov and Andrei

Ryabov, Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Postcommunist Political Reform (2004); with James Goldgeier, Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (2003); and Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (2001). Most recently, he wrote From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018), a New York Times best-selling inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present.

McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his Master of Arts degree in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations in 1991.

Bailey McCann

Senior News Editor, Opalesque

Bailey McCann is a financial journalist. She is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal Funds Report and is the Senior US Editor for the Opalesque Alternative Market Briefing, a daily newsletter covering alternative investments and Opalesque New Managers, a monthly publication focused on emerging hedge fund managers.

As a reporter, Bailey covers alternative investments, capital markets, institutional asset management, family offices and wealth management. Her byline has also appeared in Barrons, CIO Magazine, Citywire Professional Buyer, Citywire RIA, Institutional Investor, Middle Market Growth, Nikkei Asian Review, and elsewhere.

Bailey is the author of Tactical Portfolios: Strategies & Tactics for Investing in Hedge Funds & Liquid Alternatives, published by Wiley.

Jonathan McBride

Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, BlackRock

Jonathan McBride, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity and also a member of the firm's Global Operating Committee.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. McBride served as Director of the Presidential Personnel Office in the White House, a role he was appointed to in July 2013. He joined the administration as a Special Assistant to the President and the Deputy Director of the Presidential Personnel Office in August, 2009. In February, 2012 he was promoted to be a Deputy Assistant to the President. Prior to serving in the White House, Mr. McBride was the Chief Strategy Officer with Universum, a global Employer Branding company, and served as the company's most senior consultant to companies and agencies looking to attract and recruit top talent. In 2000, Mr. McBride co-founded Jungle Media Group. Jungle's magazines, websites, and live events served a variety of audiences including MBAs, JDs, college students, African American young professionals, and Hispanic young professionals. The content focused on the career lifestyle and informed its readers about how to best navigate current and future career moves. Mr. McBride also worked for Goldman Sachs from 1997 to 2000 and U.S. Senator Herb Kohl from 1992 to 1995.

Dr. Trevor Martin

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Mammoth Biosciences

Dr. Trevor Martin, co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, is leading the company on a mission to democratize access to the next generation of CRISPR tools for therapeutics and diagnostics. The Mammoth team, including fellow co-founder and CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, has built the world’s broadest CRISPR platform and the world’s first CRISPR-based diagnostics platform capable of detecting any RNA or DNA biomarker. Trevor kicked off his career in science at Princeton as an undergraduate - in his time there, he conducted independent research in quantitative biology and was ultimately awarded the top honor for his senior thesis in molecular biology. After Princeton, Trevor went on to complete his Ph.D. in Biology at Stanford University with a NSF fellowship, combining techniques from statistics and genetics and developing methods around mapping the determinants of quantitative traits in both humans and microbes. In addition to having developed and taught multiple graduate level courses in statistics at Stanford, Trevor has penned educational guides for university courses across the globe. His work has been featured in outlets like FiveThirtyEight and The Atlantic, and he has been the featured healthcare honoree on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2018.

Eric Marcotulli

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Elysium Health

Elysium Health co-founder and chief executive officer, graduated from Harvard Business School and joined Sequoia Capital as its youngest partner to lead growth investing in mobile technologies. While in Silicon Valley, Marcotulli realized that despite the significant, positive impact of new technologies on our understanding of health and disease, there remained a lack of innovation in the consumer-facing portion of the healthcare market beyond wearables and basic mobile apps. With a keen interest in aging research and its potential to have a profound impact on the most important areas of health, he wanted to create a company focused on developing compelling compounds found in nature that support long-term health.