Matthew Roszak

Chairman & Co-Founder, Bloq

Matthew Roszak is a leading blockchain investor, entrepreneur and advocate. Mr. Roszak is chairman and co-founder of Bloq, a blockchain technology company and the creators of Metronome, a next generation cryptocurrency. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchainenabled technology, with a portfolio of market leading companies including: Binance, Block.One, Blockstream, Civic, Genaro, Orchid, Polymath, Rivetz, Spacechain, tZERO and Qtum.

Mr. Roszak serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry — and the founder of the Token Alliance, an industry-led initiative developing best practices and standards for the responsible issuance of tokens. In addition, Mr. Roszak serves on the board of BitGive, a nonprofit foundation that improves philanthropic impact with blockchain technology. Mr. Roszak is also the founder of the Chicago Blockchain Center, a public-private partnership with the State of Illinois, CME Group, DRW and Lightbank. Mr. Roszak was a producer of the industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.

Mr. Roszak is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified as an expert before U.S. Congress and spoken at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Mr. Roszak has presented at TEDx, been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Financial Times. In addition, Mr. Roszak has been a keynote speaker at fintech conferences worldwide, including Money20/20, CES and Consensus.

Kelly Rodriques

Chief Executive Officer, Forge

Kelly has more than 26 years of FinTech experience and has been an investor in more than 25 venture-backed firms.

He was a founding investor of mFoundry, the leading provider of mobile banking that was acquired by Fidelity Information Systems in 2013. Most recently, he served as CEO of PENSCO, one of the nation’s leading alternative asset custodians, which was sold to Opus Bank in 2017.

Rodriques has also served as the operating partner of Ignition Capital, and CEO and chairman of Totality -- acquired by Verizon in 2006.

Rodriques has also been managing partner of Operative Capital, a SanFrancisco-based Fintech venture firm.

Rony Rodriguez, CPA

Partner, CohnReznick

Rony Rodriguez, CPA, is a tax partner at CohnReznick and is a member of the Commercial Real Estate and Financial Services Industry Practices. Rony has more than 17 years of diversified public accounting experience with an extensive background in advising real estate clients, including private equity real estate funds, as well as private and public Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Rony has assisted his clients with a variety of tax issues, including entity structuring, REIT qualification, REIT conversions, acquisition and sale of REIT shares/properties, and unrelated business taxable income (UBTI). In addition to his real estate experience, Rony has an extensive background in working with investment partnerships consisting of hedge funds and private equity funds. His experience includes consulting on operational, transactional, and tax issues in the financial services industry.

Justin Rockefeller

Global Director of Family Offices & Foundations, Addepar

Justin Rockefeller is Global Director of Family Offices and Foundations at Addepar, a financial technology and services company empowering leading investment management firms to spend more time on what matters most: investing, building relationships, and growing their business. Justin cofounded and chairs The ImPact, a membership network of family enterprises (family offices, foundations, and businesses) that are committed to making investments with measurable social impact. The ImPact provides families with the knowledge and network they need to make more impact investments more effectively, and uses sophisticated technology for data aggregation, analytics, and reporting to shift the narrative of impact investing from one of inputs (dollars committed) to outcomes (impact created). Its purpose is to improve the probability and pace of solving social problems by increasing the flow of capital to investments generating measurable social impact. Since2009, Justin has served on the investment committee (and for nine years the board) of Rockefeller Brothers Fund; he helped steer the private foundation towards mission-aligned investing of its endowment. Justin received a B.A. from Princeton University, and lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.

Greg Richter

Chief Executive Officer, Medalist Partners

Greg Richter is the CEO of Medalist Partners, Co-Head of Structured Credit & Asset Finance, Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager for various Medalist funds. Prior to forming Medalist, Mr. Richter co-founded and led the Structured Credit and Asset Finance business within Candlewood Investment Group. Prior, Mr. Richter worked at Credit Suisse as a portfolio manager heading their structured credit effort. Prior, Mr. Richter was Head of Credit Suisse’s Specialty Finance Group, based in New York where he was responsible for the combined Global Asset Finance Capital Markets and the Specialty Finance Banking Group and a member of the Fixed Income Operating Committee. The Global Asset Finance Capital Markets division was responsible for all securitization activity in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Emerging and structured and originated a wide array of securitized products. In addition to running Credit Suisse’s ABS/CDO trading/syndicate effort, Mr. Richter also headed the Asset Backed Securities Home Equity (ABSHE) shelf which bought and packaged mortgage loans. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Richter spent 15 years at Prudential Securities in New York where most recently, he was Managing Director and served as the head of Trading and Syndicate for all structured products. Mr. Richter holds a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

Carol E. Reiley

Chief Executive Officer, Stealth Healthcare Company

Carol Reiley is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and an active advocate for diversity/bias in AI. Her purpose in life is to save the world, one robot at a time. She's been named the Mother of Robots and over the past 20 years has worked in a breadth of robotics applications ranging from healthcare (Intuitive Surgical) to space (Lockheed Martin) to underwater to self-driving cars. She is currently CEO of a healthcare startup, a creative advisor of the San Francisco Symphony, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics. She previously cofounded and was President of drive.ai where she led partnerships with Lyft and Grab, helped build team of 8 to 150+ employees, and raised over $77M. She also founded Tinkerbelle Labs for low cost healthcare as well as Squishybotz for educational robotics. She is a published children's book author on the 1st growth mindset which has sold over 20K copies, was on the 1st female engineer on the MAKE magazine cover, and the youngest member on the IEEE Robotics and Engineering Board. She previously was an instructor at Johns Hopkins and led a robot outreach event for over 1000+ low-income students in the Baltimore/DC area. She did her undergraduate in computer engineering from Santa Clara University and graduate work in CS at Johns Hopkins University and has published dozens of papers and holds eight patents.She is an advocate for underrepresented groups in technology as well as speaking out about Bias in AI. She's been profiled in WSJ, NY Times, MIT Tech Review, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and Wired and is recognized by Forbes, Inc Magazine, and Quartz as one of the top founders in Artificial Intelligence. She and her husband were named by MIT tech review as the AI power couple. They live in Los Altos and have one daughter.

Margaret Ren

Chairman, Asia Pacific Corporate & Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Ms. Margaret Ren is Chairman of Asia Pacific Corporate and Investment Banking, and Chairman of China, for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Ms. Ren is one of the most experienced China bankers, with more than 25 years of industry experience. She has extensive knowledge, and deep relationships with, the Chinese financial and corporate sectors, and has led many landmark transactions across Greater China.

She is one of the pioneer Chinese investment bankers who first took Chinese companies to the international capital markets; she is the first Mainland Chinese woman to become a senior executive in investment banking of a major Wall Street firm.

Ms. Ren was named among the Top 50 most powerful business women in Asia by Forbes in 2013, and the 100 most influential women in finance by Financial News in 2009.

She joined BofA Merrill Lynch from BNP Paribas, where she was chairman for Corporate Finance, Greater China.

Ms. Ren was a medical doctor graduated from Shanghai Medical University. She holds a Master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management of MIT.

Alex Rampell

General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on financial services. He serves on the board of Branch, Brightside, Descript, Divvy, Earnin, FlyHomes, Loft, Mercury, PeerStreet, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Mega Corp, Transferwise, and Very Good Security.

Alex additionally led the firm's investments in OpenDoor ($OPEN), Plaid, Quantopian (acquired by Robinhood), and Rival (acquired by LiveNation).

Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013).

He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.

Sean Rad

Founder, Tinder

Sean Rad is Founder of Tinder, a global platform that has brought the world closer together by creating more than 20 billion new connections in 196 countries.

Paul Rabil

Co-Founder, Premier Lacrosse League

Paul Rabil is a professional lacrosse player and co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League – a new professional lacrosse league launched in October 2018, with 160 of the best players in the world and a major media rights deal with NBC Sports Group.

Paul's lacrosse career began when his next-door neighbor gave him his backup equipment to tryout for the local rec team. Since then, Paul has gone on to influence the sport at every level, winning championships and MVP’s twice in the NCAA’s, multiple times in professional outdoor and indoor lacrosse, as well as becoming a two-time World Lacrosse Champion with Team USA.

Off the field, Paul’s leveraged his sophistication in media and tech to build a robust multi-channel influencer network. Anchored by his YouTube channel with 165,000+ subscribers and an Instagram account with 330,000+ followers, Paul utilizes each platform’s unique tools to connect with audiences around the world, telling his story through the lens of lacrosse. In 2017, SportTechie awarded Paul as “Most Tech-Savvy Athlete on the Planet”, and in 2018, the Cynopsis Sports Media Awards named Paul the 2018 “Best Athlete in a Web Series”.

In 2017, Paul launched the award-winning Suiting Up Podcast, which is an interview-style show that hosts the top athletes, entrepreneurs, and entertainers in the world, discussing their journey while disclosing tips to listeners. The podcast has over 1,000,000 downloads and was featured as the #1 New and Noteworthy podcast by Apple Podcasts. Podcast guests have included Bill Belichick, Venus Williams, Drew Brees, Gary Vaynerchuck, Scott Galloway, and Adam Grant.

Named a “Top 40 Most Entrepreneurial Athlete” by Entrepreneur Magazine, Paul has also found success as a business owner and investor, acquiring capital and operating Rabil Events and Rabil Ventures.

In 2011, Paul started the Paul Rabil Foundation (PRF), with the mission of helping children with learning differences, by creating programs and partnerships through sport and scholarship. Having grown up with Auditory Processing Disorder and ADHD, Paul looked to sports to help build confidence, skill and interpersonal skills, saying “the crossover between athletics and academics was critical to my growth and broader achievement”.

Amanda Pullinger

Chief Executive Officer, 100 Women in Finance

Ms. Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance (previously 100 Women in Hedge Funds). She leads a small staff team and manages over 500 volunteer practitioners globally, overseeing the operations of the organization, which now has over 15,000 members in 23 locations.

Ms. Pullinger is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds.

Ms. Pullinger is currently on the Boards of the HALO Trust (USA), the American Friends of The National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation and serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She is also Vice Chair of the Women’s Network Forum and Vice President of The Brasenose Society. Previously, she served as Chairman of the Board of The HALO Trust (www.halotrust.org) and on the Boards of SkillForce, NYU Cancer Institute and Girls’ Prep, and was on the founding Board of 100 Women in Finance, serving as its President for two years. She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Ms. Pullinger graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.

Darius Przydzial

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, ConsenSys

Darius Przydzial, CFA, CQF, is an Entrepreneur in Residence at ConsenSys, who co-founded Fund Foundry and is managing the buildout of software services designed exclusively for the digital asset management industry. Mr. Przydzial is a blockchain specialist with 4 years of activities spanning research, mining, trading, coding, and smart contract security auditing. He has deep expertise in decentralized exchanges, stablecoins, token economics, and consensus mechanisms. He also actively advises projects across ConsenSys’ venture production studio, including Token Foundry, Ventures, research, and business development.

Prior to ConsenSys, Mr. Przydzial spent 12 years in the hedge fund industry, including Fortress Investment Group $7B Global Macro fund, Woodbine Capital Advisors $3.5B Global Macro fund, SAC Capital $16B fund, and J.P. Morgan. His experience focused primarily on risk management and algorithmic strategies research.

Before J.P. Morgan, Mr. Przydzial was an Advanced System Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp. for 6 years, where he worked on top-secret development programs related to the B2 Stealth Bomber and Naval Radar Weapons Systems.

Mr. Przydzial holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Przydzial holds a Master of Science in Networking from University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and the Certificate in Quantitative Finance designations.

Jeff Premer

Chief Executive Officer, Director & Founder, Vaultex

Jeffrey Premer, CEO, Director and founder of Vaultex Pte. Ltd., a regulated security token and asset exchange and Manager and co-founder of ICO Capital Management Pte Ltd (“ICM”), a Singapore based private advisory firm and business development company.

Mr. Premer has extensive experience in finance and capital planning, software and hardware development, supply chain management, telecom services, satellite and fixed line trunking infrastructure, active and passive mobile network rollouts and power plant infrastructure development. Mr. Premer also has deep knowledge of all aspects of running a startup, including financing, team building, enabling strategic alliances, marketing, enterprise scaling and investor relations. Mr. Premer is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese, which he studied at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

In addition to his roles at ICM, Mr. Premer is also President and co-founder of Baryon, Inc., a technology company startup with a focus on commercialization of disruptive energy efficiency technologies. Such technologies include applications that leverage thermodynamic energy savings realized through the Maisotsenko Cycle.

From 2017-2018, he served as Chief Strategy Officer and advisor to the CEO for Isotropic Systems, a technology company developing the world's first commercial application of transformation optics for millimeter wave RF antennas.

Prior to holding these roles, Mr. Premer was a founding director of Baryon Energy. Mr. Premer led the signing of a 500MW build operate and transfer wind project in Myanmar, and other smaller renewable projects throughout Southeast Asia. Mr. Premer also founded Meson Partners Ltd., a telecom tower services provider in Myanmar, of which he is still a director. Meson Partners installed thousands of telecom tower power systems across Myanmar. Meson also provides various O&M and managed services to telecom tower owners and operators across the country.

Mr. Premer was also a founding director of Sky Fiber Incorporated, the first large scale satellite capacity customer of O3B Networks, Ltd. (now a division of SES Networks). Sky Fiber was the first major customer to sign a framework agreement as a reseller of the revolutionary O3B network.

Mr. Premer has headed Diversitech Manufacturing in China which grew to over 50 million USD in revenues per annum in 5 years and is now known as Apollo Tools and Apollo Precision Tools. He also headed both Diversitech Labs in China and Aeon Digital Labs, which developed the first commercial set top box supporting real time encoding/decoding in Windows Media Video D1 or better format. Prior to those ventures, Mr. Premer founded and led Asia Specific Enterprises Ltd. in Taiwan, which under his leadership, experienced 8 years of solid growth in the 90's.

While holding the above roles, Mr. Premer has advised many companies, venture funds and family offices in Asia since 1992.

Katia Porzecanski

Reporter, Bloomberg

Katia Porzecanski has been a reporter for Bloomberg News in New York since 2011. In her current role, she breaks news and writes feature stories about U.S. hedge fund firms and investing. She previously covered emerging markets for five years, focusing on credit and foreign exchange markets in Latin America. Before joining Bloomberg, she worked as a junior economist at a research firm in Buenos Aires. Porzecanski has a BA in economics from Tufts University.

Gary S. Pinkus

Chairman of North America, McKinsey & Company

Gary Pinkus is the Chairman for McKinsey & Company in North America. He was previously the Managing Partner for the firm in North America, and before that led McKinsey’s office for the Western United States. He is also a former global leader of McKinsey’s Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice, which he helped cofound more than a decade ago.

He serves clients across multiple industries and topics, including leading companies in private equity, healthcare, oil & gas, and commercial vehicles.

Gary joined McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles in 1987 as a business analyst and came to the firm's San Francisco Office in 1992. Over the course of his career, he has worked for Dole Fresh Fruit in Honduras; Bear Stearns' Mergers and Acquisitions Group in New York; and in McKinsey's Houston, Mexico City, Sydney, and Zurich offices. In addition to his client work, Gary has been a member of the firm’s Shareholders Council (Board of Directors) for almost a decade, and now chairs the Risk, Audit, and Governance Committee.

Gary also serves on the board of the California Academy of Sciences. He is a prior member of the boards of the San Francisco Opera, the Menlo School, ReSurge (formerly Interplast), the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the California Business Roundtable, and the Investment Committee for the Woodside School Foundation.

Gary earned his B.A. in English and Quantitative Economics with Distinction from Stanford University and his M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Mary, have been married for 29 years and have four children (ages 16 through 23); they also have three dogs. They live in Woodside, California.

Brock Pierce

Chairman, The Bitcoin Foundation

Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses. He's been credited with pioneering the market for digital currency and has raised more than $5B for companies he has founded. Pierce is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether, and Mastercoin (first ICO).

Block.one was created in 2017 and has sold over $4B tokens in the EOS crowdsale making it the largest ever. Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 and is the first sector-focused venture fund that invests solely in Blockchain technology companies. Blockchain Capital has made more than 100 investments in the sector across its four funds

Pierce is an early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale. He is the founder of IMI Exchange, the world’s leading digital currency marketplace for games, with annual sales exceeding $1B and investors such as Goldman Sachs, which was sold in 2016 for more than $100M. Pierce founded ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers, which was acquired by Tencent in 2012. He founded IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games, achieving revenues exceeding $100 million in 2006 and sold in 2007. Pierce is also a co-founder GoCoin, Blade Payments, Five Delta (sold NASDAQ: SRAX), Xfire 2.0, Playsino, Evertune, GamesTV, and D.E.N. He also advises for companies like Airswap, Bancor, BitGo, BitGuild, BlockV, Bloq, DNA, Element Group, Metronome, Shyft, and tZERO.

Pierce is frequent lecturer at Singularity University and has spoken at the Milken Global Conference, Mobile World Congress, Wired, INK, Stanford University, USC, and UCLA.

He has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, and Rolling Stone.

Commander Erick Peterson

Navy Seal (Ret.)

Upon graduation from CSU in 1992, Commander Peterson was accepted to Officer’s Candidate School (OCS) for various Naval Officer careers, refusing them all until he was accepted to OSC – Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. He graduated in 1998 and was assigned to SEAL Team FIVE from 1999-2003, completing 3 deployments in 4 years to Asia and the Pacific. He then spent 1 year in Germany with the Naval Special Warfare Unit TWO.

He served as Task Unit Commander at SEAL Team TEN from 2006-2008, completing 2 deployments to Iraq. In 2010, he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Combined Forces Special Operations Command.

Upon completion of that tour, he was assigned to SEAL Team THREE as Executive Officer from 2011-2013, deploying with Team THREE as the Deputy Commander of the Crisis Response Element in the Persian Gulf area.

In 2013, he returned to Germany, reporting to Special Operations Command Europe, where he served as Current Operations Officer and after 18 months, as the NATO Response Force Special Operations Chief of Staff.

His decorations include the Bronze Star with Valor, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and various other personal, unit and service decorations.

After completing 8 deployments, Commander Peterson requested, and received treatment, at the Intrepid Spirit Center in Camp Pendleton, CA from 09 July 2018 to 10 August 2018. While at Camp Pendleton, he was fortunate enough to stay at the Fisher House for all 4 weeks of treatment.

Shirl Penney

Founder, Dynasty Financial Partners

Shirl Penney is the founder of Dynasty Financial Partners. He currently serves as President and CEO of Dynasty and is a member of the Board of Directors. Dynasty is a leading integrated platform services company for independent wealth management advisory firms. Shirl is a frequent speaker at industry events, often quoted in various financial publications, and was named to Investment News' 2015 list of 40 most influential people in wealth management under the age of 40. Shirl was also named to the 2016 inaugural list of Icons and Innovators in wealth management by Investment News.

Prior to Dynasty, Shirl worked at Citi Smith Barney in various leadership roles including director of private wealth management and head of executive financial services.

He is from Eastport, Maine, a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and currently lives in Saratoga Springs, New York with his wife Mary Ann and his two daughters. Shirl and his wife are active in various charitable causes with a focus on education, poverty, ALS, and veteran services.

Shirl is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Vinod Paul

Chief Operating Officer, Align

Vinod Paul brings over 20 years of in-depth financial services and technology experience to his role as Align’s Chief Operating Officer. Vinod’s responsibilities include the strategic development of Align’s Managed Services offerings, including oversight of Align Cybersecurity™, the company's comprehensive cybersecurity risk management solution. In his current role, Vinod is also responsible for managing senior client relationships with alternative asset managers, providing ongoing guidance with respect to industry best-practices and forward-looking trends in Managed Services.

Widely known as a luminary in the financial services sector, Vinod previously led and innovated a leading Global Managed IT Service provider in its customer-facing engagements, including service delivery and business development on a global basis. Over his 13 years as Managing Director, Vinod helped establish this firm as a premier Managed Service provider in the financial services space. Prior to that, Vinod was a director of technical services for Martin Progressive where he supervised an engineering staff supporting 6,000 customers, as well as a management and engineering consultant to IBM Global Services, Lucent Technologies, Tyco Submarine Systems and Penguin Putnam Publishing.

Vinod serves on the global board of directors for Help for Children/Hedge Funds Care, a worldwide nonprofit dedicated to supporting efforts to prevent and treat child abuse. He attended Rutgers University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences.

Trent Overholt

Chief Executive Officer, 14th Round

Trent’s specialty is launching and turning businesses around. As an operating exec, he combines strategy, team building and organizational design to drive clarity and alignment.

Trent started his career as a mechanical engineering graduate of the UCLA. He quickly turned his product design and problem solving skill set into a creative deal-making and management asset, building strategic plans and leading teams to drive high growth at the Rehrig Pacific Company to the tune of five hundred million dollars in annual revenue.

His success with Rehrig naturally led Trent to his next entrepreneurial endeavor: solving the complex strategic and organizational problems of start-ups and struggling legacy companies. Trent founded VMG Consultants & Advisors, effecting lasting cultural change and revenue trajectories for every business he advised.

Applying his 20 years of experience in product development, manufacturing and distribution to the cannabis industry, Trent joined dosist as Chief Revenue Officer to help successfully launch in a crowded market, and then founded an innovative consumer marketing platform for the largest on-demand delivery retailer in California, Eaze.

Today, Trent uses his knowledge of the traditional CPG playbook and experience in cannabis to capitalize on the industry’s biggest opportunities, leading 14th Round to a standout first year of audited financials.