Michael Dick

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Founder & Chief Executive Officer, C2A Security

With over 25 years of senior level leadership experience, Michael Dick brings a unique perspective to the challenges faced by automotive companies. Previously, Michael was a co-founder of NDS, which was acquired by Cisco for $5BN in 2012. He served as Vice President of Service Delivery for five years, drawing on his skills as a pioneer in embedded, network and content security. He has global experience working on large scale systems that protected billions of dollars of content for customers including BSkyB, Foxtel, Star TV, Sky Italia, Direct TV and others.

In 2016 he formed C2A Security, a trusted end-to-end automotive cybersecurity solutions provider. The company’s embedded cybersecurity solutions and cybersecurity lifecycle management platform empower the automotive industry with visibility and control over the bespoke solutions needed to protect today’s and tomorrow’s connected vehicles. With market neutrality, complete fluency in the needs of the automotive industry and ease of integration, C2A is redefining the automotive cybersecurity ecosystem. His leadership has taken the company through its Series A funding round, securing investment from More Ventures, OurCrowd and Maniv Mobility.

Yakir Machluf

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Mobility Lead, OurCrowd

Yakir joined the OurCrowd Business Development team as the Mobility Lead. Taking on OurCrowd’s mobility portfolio and management of mobility related scouting relationships with multi-national corporations. Prior to his role in OurCrowd, Yakir worked for a Tier1 supplier to the automotive industry, where he worked closely with boutique OEMs and Formula1 teams. Other past roles include working for the Israeli Ministry of Interior, creating financial models for municipal development through smart city implementation and automotive journalism for leading Israeli magazines. Yakir holds a BA and an MA from the Hebrew University in Business and Urban Planning.

Alec Ellision

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Chairman, OurCrowd US

Alec Ellison serves as Chairman of OurCrowd’s US business and also serves on the firm’s OurCrowd Advisory Board. He joined OurCrowd after a nearly 30-year career in investment banking focused on the technology sector. Alec was formerly a Vice Chairman of Jefferies LLC, the long time head of the firm’s Technology Investment Banking Group, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He joined Jefferies as part of the firm’s 2003 acquisition of Broadview International, where he was President. After retiring from Jefferies, he founded Outvest Capital to pursue a proprietary public investing strategy capitalizing on how the accelerating rate of technological change impacts companies across all industries. Alec has been deeply involved in the Israeli technology scene since 1996 and the broader VC world since the mid-80’s through his banking activities. He is South Carolina native and holds a BA from Yale (summa cum laude) and an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Steve Krausz

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Managing Partner, U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)

A former NASA and IT executive, Steve is the managing partner of U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), one of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms. With a primary focus in security and “big data” software, he has led USVP’s investments in many of Silicon Valley’s leading startups. He has served on the board of the Woodside Priory, and as Treasurer of the National Venture Capital Association, and currently serves on the boards of the World Affairs Council, Stanford GSB Trust and DAPER. Steve earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Oliver Stone

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Screenwriter

Academy Award winning Oliver Stone has written and directed over 20 full-length feature films, among them some of the most influential and iconic films of the last decades. Some have been at deep odds with conventional myth—films such as “Platoon” (1986), the first of three Vietnam films; “Born on the Fourth of July” (1989); “JFK” (1991); “Natural Born Killers” (1994); and “Nixon” (1995).

Stone’s films have often reached wide, international audiences and have had significant cultural impact. These include “Salvador” (1985), deeply critical of the U.S. Government’s involvement in Central America; “Wall Street” (1987), an exposé of America’s new capitalism; “World Trade Center” (2006), a true story of 2 (of only 20) 9/11 survivors; “The Doors” (1991), a poetic look at the 1960s and Jim Morrison’s ecstatic music; and “Snowden” (2016), the international story of a recent American whistleblower.

His other films include “Any Given Sunday” (1999), an unconventional view of the world of American sports; an epic historical drama “Alexander” (2004), and “Alexander—The Ultimate Cut” (2014); “W.” a satirical view of former U.S. President, George W. Bush; and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (2010) a realistic sequel about the 2008 financial crash and Gordon Gekko’s fate after prison.

In a series of crime-related films, Stone has, in addition to “Natural Born Killers,” made “U Turn” (1997) and “Savages” (2012), both dark in tone and humor.

His written screenplays, though not directed, gave him an early taste of the difficulty of his ideas. An uproar greeted “Midnight Express” (1979) and only grew with “Scarface” (1983). He also wrote “Year of the Dragon” (1985) and “Conan the Barbarian” (1982). He has produced or co-produced a dozen films, including “The People vs. Larry Flynt” (1996), “Joy Luck Club” (1993), and “Reversal of Fortune” (1990).

His documentaries include three on Fidel Castro -- “Comandante” (2003), “Looking for Fidel” (2004), and “Castro in Winter” (2012); one on South America, “South of the Border” (2009), prominently featuring Hugo Chavez and six other Presidents in a continent undergoing huge social changes; and “Persona Non Grata” (2003) on Israel-Palestine relations.

His later documentaries include “The Untold History of the United States” (Showtime, 2012), a monumental 12-hour interrogation of the conventional, triumphalist narrative of U.S. History, “The Putin Interviews” (Showtime, 2017), a four-part conversation with the Russian President, and the upcoming “JFK: Destiny Betrayed” (2021).

Stone was born September 15, 1946 in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam in 1967-68 and was decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam, he completed his undergraduate studies at New York University Film School in 1971. He worked as a taxi driver, merchant mariner, advertising salesman, and production assistant.

Noah Kerner

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Chief Executive Officer, Acorns

Noah is CEO of Acorns. Born in New York City’s east village, Noah Kerner got involved with Acorns two months after launch as an adviser, investor, board director and then CEO.

His background is colorful: 3X entrepreneur, Co-author of "Chasing Cool” with the former CEO of Barneys, and former DJ for Jennifer Lopez...all before 30. Noah built the leading millennial creative agency, Noise. Before being acquired by Engine, Noise developed hundreds of products and marketing campaigns for this generation including Facebook’s first application, the first credit card to reward responsibility rather than spending for Chase, Vice's music site Noisey, and the top branded game in the App Store. Noah was featured as a "Top 30 Under 30" in Billboard Magazine, a Fast Company "Innovation Agent," and one of AdWeek's "Top 20 under 40." He also advises and invests in a variety of fast-growing startups, including WeWork, where he served as the first Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer. Passionate about educating today’s youth, Noah has lectured on entrepreneurialism and media at NYU, UCLA, Stanford, and Columbia and currently serves on the Board of VH1's Save The Music Foundation. Noah is a graduate of Cornell University where he studied Psychology and Economics.

Nathalie Molina Niño

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Builder Capitalist,

Nathalie Molina Niño is an entrepreneur, builder capitalist (at ) and tech globalization veteran focused on high-growth businesses that benefit women and the planet. She is the author of LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs (Penguin Random House, Tarcher Perigee) and serves as a Venture Partner at Connectivity Capital Partners. Molina Niño launched her first tech startup at the age of twenty and is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies of Barnard College at Columbia University.

She spent 15 years advising organizations such as Disney, Microsoft, MTV, Mattel, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During that time she co-led the launch and growth of a multinational technology globalization business with Lionbridge (NASDAQ: LIOX) into a $100M operation in 30+ countries.

Molina Niño advises the WOCstar FundFullCycle, and BlueIO. She serves on the advisory board of the National Institute for Reproductive HealthWE NYC (Women Entrepreneurs NYC) and Vote, Run, Lead, was honored with Schneps’ inaugural Women of Wall Street Awards for her influence in banking and finance and was named among People Magazine’s 2019 most powerful Latinas. Prior to founding her previous venture, BRAVA Investments, Molina Niño launched Nely Galán’s education venture, Self-Made, and stepped in as CRO of PowerToFly, the fastest growing hiring platform for women in tech and beyond.

Gary Hall

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Partner, Siebert Williams Shank & Co.

Gary Hall is a Partner with Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (the nation's largest minority-owned investment bank) and a Partner with American Triple I Partners (an infrastructure private-equity firm). He formerly was an investment banker with JPMorgan, an attorney with

Gardner, Carton and Douglas (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP), a White House Fellow assigned to the U.S. Department of Treasury, and worked in Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration.

Mr. Hall serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Chicago Harris Public Policy School’s Center for Municipal Finance and the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Council. He is a trustee with the National Recreation Foundation and Las Trampas (an organization that supports adults with developmental disabilities). Hall is slated to join the SIFMA Board on November 1, 2020 and is the immediate past Chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.

Hall received a B.B.A. in Finance from Howard University and J.D. from the University of Notre Dame.

Hector Negroni

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Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Credit

Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. His efforts have provided financing for tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure and essential government services. Prior to forming Foundation, he was the head of municipal trading at Goldman Sachs and before joining Goldman, he worked at Société Générale, Lazard Fréres and Citigroup in a variety of leadership roles. Hector sits on the advisory boards of NAST’s National Institute of Public Finance and the Milken Institute Program for Excellence and Equity in Public Finance. Hector earned a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Morgan Housel

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Partner, The Collaborative Fund

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

Mishal Kanoo

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Chairman, The Kanoo Group

Mr. Mishal Kanoo is one of the most iconic business figures in the Middle East and has a reputation as a futurist and strategist with a strong track record in forecasting economic developments in the region. Mr. Kanoo currently serves as the Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest, longest running and independent family-owned groups of companies in the Gulf region. Furthermore, he is a professional and motivational speaker, writes articles for local and regional media, is published in business journals on a regular basis, and holds chief positions as Chairman/Director of various reputable companies, including AXA Insurance Gulf, Gulf Capital, KHK & Partners Limited, Dalma Capital, Johnson Arabia LLC and KAAF Investments.

Mishal Kanoo tries to help people reach their professional dreams. The excitement of helping others achieve their goals, both big or small, is what drives him. Playing a role in bettering people's lives is a great instigator for doing what he does. Kanoo has been investing on a personal and company level since 1991.

Mishal Kanoo adheres to family values and ideals in pursuit of quality and excellence. Over the years, the Kanoo family has always been associated with the progress and development of the entire region combined with a sense of philanthropy.

Mishal grew up in the United Arab Emirates and finished his early schooling in Dubai. Thereafter he obtained two MBAs, one in finance from the University of St. Thomas, in Texas, and one from the American University of Sharjah. He began his professional career within the family business before going to university to get his first Master’s Degree. He then worked as an auditor outside his family business with Arthur Andersen in Dubai, before Re-joining The Kanoo Group in 1997 as the Deputy Chairman.

Michelle A. Williams

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Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michelle A. Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, is Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. Prior to becoming Dean, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School and Program Leader of the Population Health and Health Disparities Research Programs at Harvard’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Center. Dean Williams previously had a distinguished career at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her scientific work places special emphasis in the areas of reproductive, perinatal, pediatric, and molecular epidemiology. Dean Williams has published over 450 scientific articles. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. The Dean has a master’s in civil engineering from Tufts University and master’s and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School.

Michèle Flournoy

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Co-Founder & Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and Co-Founder, former Chief Executive Officer, and now Chair of Center for a New American Security (CNAS).

Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012. She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations.

Michèle serves on the boards of CNAS, Booz Allen Hamilton, Amida Technology Solutions, The Mission Continues, and CARE. She serves on the advisory boards of The Leadership Council for Women in National Security, Sesame Workshop, Intel, and PIMCO. She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affair, a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, and a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the CIA Director’s External Advisory Board and the Defense Policy Board.

Michèle earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master’s from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.

Michael Schmidt

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Correspondent, The New York Times

Michael S. Schmidt is a Washington correspondent for The Times who covers national security and federal investigations. He was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 — one for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues and the other for coverage of President Donald Trump and his campaign’s ties to Russia.

For the past year, Michael’s coverage has focused on Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Mr. Trump's campaign and whether the president obstructed justice.

From 2012 to 2016, Michael covered the F.B.I., Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. Michael spent 2011 in Iraq chronicling the last year of the American occupation. From 2007 to 2010, he covered doping and off-the-field issues for the sports section. He started his career at the Times in 2005 as a clerk on the foreign desk.

Michael has broken several high profile stories. Among them was that former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, wrote a series of memos on how the president asked for his loyalty and tried to interfere with the F.B.I.'s investigations. Mr. Mueller was appointed after those disclosures. Michael was first to reveal the fact that Hillary Clinton exclusively relied on a personal email account when she was secretary of state. In sports, he broke the stories that Sammy Sosa, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and wrote about the treatment of young baseball players in the Dominican Republic who were exploited by American investors and agents.

In 2017, Michael co-authored the stories that outlined how the former Fox News host, Bill O'Reilly, paid off a series of women who made sexual harassment allegations against him. For that coverage, he won the Livingston Award for national reporting, which recognizes the best work of journalists under the age of 35.

Michael is a graduate of Lafayette College.

Michael Saylor

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Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, MicroStrategy

Mr. Saylor is a technologist, entrepreneur, business executive, philanthropist, and best-selling author. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Office of MicroStrategy, Inc. Since co-founding the company at the age of 24, Mr. Saylor has built MicroStrategy into a global leader in business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. In 2012, he authored The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything, which earned a spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Mr. Saylor attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving an S.B. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and an S.B. in Science, Technology, and Society.

The Honorable Michael D. Tubbs

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Mayor of Stockton, California (2017-present)

On November 8, 2016, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton, California. Upon taking office in January 2017, Michael Tubbs became both Stockton’s youngest mayor and the city’s first African-American mayor. Michael Tubbs is also the youngest mayor in the history of the country representing a city with a population of over 100,000 residents.

Included in Fortune’s 2018 Top "40 under 40," Forbes' 2018 list of the “30 Under 30” and The Root's 100, Tubbs’ leadership, paired with an ambitious agenda, has received national recognition.

Mayor Michael Tubbs has secured over $20 million in philanthropic capital to launch the Stockton Scholars, a place-based scholarship that aims to triple the number of Stockton students entering and graduating from college. Mayor Tubbs also brought Advance Peace to Stockton, a data-driven program that works to reduce gun violence in communities. Additionally, with an innovative public-private partnership supported by a $1,000,000 seed grant from the Economic Security Project, Tubbs launched the nation’s first municipal level basic income pilot, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration.

Before becoming mayor, Michael Tubbs served as Stockton's District 6 City Councilmember. Elected at age 22 in 2013, he became one of the youngest City Councilmembers in the country. As a councilmember, Tubbs created the Reinvent South Stockton Coalition, championed the creation of the City’s Office of Violence Prevention and was part of the council that led the city out of bankruptcy as Chair of the Audit and Legislative Committee.

Mayor Tubbs graduated in 2012 from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree with honors. Tubbs has been a college course instructor for Aspire Public Schools and a Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Design and the Emerson Collective. Michael is a Stockton native and product of Stockton public schools.

Matthew Salloway

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Chief Executive Officer, GSI Ventures

Matthew Salloway is an international business executive, venture capitalist, investor, and film producer. He serves as the CEO of GSI Ventures (representing the core principles of “Growth”, “Sustainability”, and “Integrity”), a top global family office for a member of an international royal family.

Mr. Salloway is also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SIP Global Partners, an international performance venture fund investing in global technology companies. SIP Global Partners is anchored by a top five global technology company and has offices in New York and Tokyo.

In addition, Mr. Salloway is a successful film producer with some of his credits including Lee Daniels’ the Butler, starring Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker; The Ides of March, starring George Clooney and Ryan Gosling; Worth, starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci, and The War with Grandpa, starring Robert De Niro.

Mr. Salloway holds a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree.

Marty Chavez

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Chief Information Officer (2014-2017), Goldman Sachs

R. Martin (“Marty”) Chavez is widely renowned as a trailblazer and leader who revolutionized the way that capital moves and works on Wall Street. Most recently, Marty served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. Marty was also a partner and member of the Goldman Sachs management committee.

Marty has achieved singular acclaim in the financial-services industry for his work on SecDB, an early platform that transformed the trading business into a software business. Far from the stereotype of a banker, Marty is a disrupter at heart. He was among the most senior Latinos on Wall Street, as well as the most senior openly gay executive at Goldman Sachs.

Beyond finance, Marty serves on the Board of Overseers of Harvard University (appointed President for the 2020-2021 academic year), the Stanford Medicine Board of Fellows, the Advisory Council of the Stanford Center on Longevity, the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study, Paige.AI, Recursion, Sema4, Santander, and the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Marty also serves as a key advisor to Abacus, a San Francisco-based AI startup developing approaches to deep learning. Marty resides in New York City and the Berkshires, and is the proud father of two.

Marlon Nichols

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Founding Managing Partner, MaC Venture Capital

Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly known as Cross Culture Ventures), which finds the entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America. He’s a former Kauffman Fellow and Investment Director at Intel Capital, with an extensive background in technology, private equity, media and entertainment. Marlon’s unique eye for global trends and shifts in consumer behavior has helped him capture many high-potential investments, which include Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity, Pipe, Wonderschool, and other companies that reflect overlooked markets. He serves on the board of directors for Ajua, Blavity, Finesse, Kauffman Fellows Program, LISNR, Ryff, Sote and Wonderschool. Marlon is the recipient of MVMT50’s SXSW 2018 Innovator of the Year award, a 2018 nominee of the ADCOLOR in Tech award, Digital Diversity’s Innovation & Inclusion Change Agent award, was named Pitchbook’s 25 Black Founders and VCs to Watch in 2018 and 2019, was a TechWeek 100 winner and was named one of Silicon Republic's 26 VC professionals spearheading change. He’s been featured on TechCrunch, Fortune, Blavity, and NBC, and is adjunct faculty in entrepreneurship and venture capital at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University.

Mark Stoleson

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Chief Executive Officer & Partner, Legatum

Mark Stoleson is the Chief Executive Officer and a Partner of Legatum, a global investment firm based in Dubai. Together with his three partners, Mark helped shape Legatum’s mission which is “to generate and allocate the capital and ideas that help people prosper”. Over the last 16 years Mark and his partners have worked together with an amazing team to execute on Legatum’s mission by building a world class investment fund while pioneering a number of high impact philanthropic endeavors.

Legatum’s investment business manages only the proprietary capital of its partners, with the majority invested in publicly traded equities in multiple markets around the world. Legatum maintains a very concentrated, high-conviction portfolio of only our best ideas, focusing on the financial services, consumer and technology sectors. With the approach of business owners, Legatum evaluates success by measuring growth in intrinsic value over years rather than share price performance over quarters, leading to an average holding period of over 3 years.

Legatum’s key philanthropic endeavors include the END Fund (the world’s leading privately funded de-worming campaign which has distributed over $1 billion in medicine and facilitated over 720 million treatments across 27 countries), the Freedom Fund (a leader in combatting human trafficking and modern day slavery with nearly 25,000 people directly liberated from slavery), Luminos (an accelerated learning platform for returning out of school children to the classroom with over 130,000 kids successfully back in school to date), The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT (focusing on the nexus between entrepreneurship and national prosperity and raising up a generation of entrepreneur leaders in low income countries), and the Legatum Institute Foundation in London (focusing on research and policy solutions that drive pathways from poverty to prosperity).

Prior to Legatum, Mark was a corporate finance and M&A attorney with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Dallas, Texas and Moscow, Russia. He earned a BA in International Relations from Occidental College and a JD-LLM from Duke University School of Law.

Mark is originally from Phoenix, Arizona. He currently lives in Dubai with Katherine, his wife of 24 years and their Hungarian Viszla “Libby”. Mark and Katherine have two grown sons who live in the US.