Jameson is the Chief Strategy Officer at Compass Mining with deep energy, international trade & startup experience. His sole focus is now to strengthen the world's next financial system by building a world class platform to ensure everyone can mine bitcoin.
Miles S Nadal is an International entrepreneur , Industrialist and philanthropist.
He is the founder and Executive Chairman of Peerage Capital, a leading North American business services and private investment firm focused on real estate services, real estate investment , self storage , wealth advisory, and asset management.
Operating across North America, Peerage is the single largest franchisee of Sotheby’s International Real Estate and includes a broad range of other North American real estate services companies operating in the residential resale and new construction marketing space .
Peerage uses a proprietary partnership model to build long-term relationships with successful entrepreneurs, accelerating their growth and allowing them to enhance and accelerate their long-term growth.
Peerage sells over $70 billion of residential real estate across 275 offices, with 7000 agents and employees.
The Peerage asset management business has over $10 billion of assets under management.
Christine Moy Christine is a Partner and Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Apollo Global Management, Inc. In this newly created position, Christine leads digital asset strategy across the firm, exploring more ways to apply blockchain technologies to Apollo’s business. She also plays a key role in Apollo’s strategy to invest in some of the most innovative digital asset companies and founders, with a specific focus on those transforming the financial services sector where Apollo can serve as a validator and enabler of new technologies. Previously, she was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan and led its Blockchain/Crypto/Metaverse program through initiatives in digital assets, tokenized payments, internet-of-things, decentralized identity, NFTs, and virtual worlds. She is a graduate of Brown University. Christine was named in Fortune’s The Ledger 40 Under 40 list of “the most impressive, young superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.”
Alfarida is a Senior Vice President of Compliance at FTX.US focusing primarily on leading the cryptocurrency exchanges compliance program in the US. Prior to joining FTX.US, Alfarida worked at UBS in Compliance in Chicago, London and New York, most recently in the Asset management division. Alfarida has an undergraduate degree in Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London and graduated from BPP Law School, London in 2010.
Alfarida is passionate about creating true Equity and Inclusion in society and as such serves on the Greenwood Project Board, an organization that benefits diverse, underserved students as well as partner firms’ efforts towards enhanced Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives.
Joe McCann is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of Asymmetric, a modern-day crypto fund. Asymmetric is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Circle Inc., as well as the founders of FTX, Solana, Multicoin, Tiger Global, and many other reputable investors and entrepreneurs.
With nearly 22 years of experience working on Wall Street to Silicon Valley, and with skills ranging from systematic and quantitative trading to fundraising and running a venture-backed, open-source enterprise software company, the perspective McCann brings to technology and finance is rather unique. McCann is a frequent speaker on the global conference circuit, actively promoting emerging technologies and relevant business use cases to bring pragmatism to futurism.
Most recently, McCann was a Senior Director at Microsoft in the Cloud and AI organization focusing on incubations, M&A, and startups. McCann also ran Quantitative and Systematic Trading for Cryptocurrencies at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Prior to that McCann was the Founder and CEO of NodeSource, The Node.js Company, the most popular and widely adopted open source project of the last decade.
McCann is also an advisor to a handful of companies like Dharma (a decentralized finance app on Ethereum, acquired by OpenSea) and Voltage (Bitcoin lightning nodes-as-a-service), and Zebec (a money-streaming protocol on Solana) and is frequently mentioned in publications ranging from TechCrunch to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
During a career that has spanned the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Jeff has tackled numerous scientific, medical, and healthcare system challenges to improve human health.
Over the course of 11 years, Jeff created and built Spark Therapeutics into the world’s first fully integrated, commercial gene therapy company – from an idea within the walls of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to a private, venture-backed start-up and a publicly traded biotech company, to an independent operating unit within Roche. Under Jeff’s leadership as co-founder and CEO, Spark developed and launched LUXTURNA® for a rare blinding disorder, the first gene therapy for a genetic disease in the United States. Spark also advanced gene therapies for hemophilia B and A into Phase 3, part of an R&D portfolio spanning 9 diseases. By the time Jeff departed Spark, the company had grown to more than 850 employees and was named #5 in Science magazine’s top employer list. While at Spark, Jeff raised $1 billion, including the 3rd best performing IPO of 2015, and established major partnerships with Pfizer and Novartis. He also spearheaded the creation of novel reimbursement models to ensure patient access to genetic medicines and developed Spark’s 1 million square foot site master plan in Philadelphia, spurring the region’s cell and gene therapy sector. Jeff’s successful orchestration of Spark’s $4.8 billion sale to Roche in 2019 (including gaining antitrust clearances) marked a 100-fold increase in the company’s market value over 6 years and delivered $750 million in financial returns to Spark’s atypical founding investor, CHOP.
Prior to Spark, Jeff helped build the first genetic benefit management company up to and through its acquisition by CVS Caremark. He also previously served as an advisor to former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, contributing to reforms in and the expansion of the state’s Medicaid program.
Jeff is a past member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and currently serves on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations, including Life Science Cares Philadelphia. Jeff has been named to the Bloomberg 50 list of people who changed global business and has been regularly featured in business news outlets on the topics of gene therapy and paying for cures.
Jeff holds multiple bachelor’s degrees in systems science and engineering and in economics from the University of Pennsylvania as well as multiple master’s degrees in business and public administration from Wharton and Harvard University, a dual degree program which he founded.
Cari B. Lodge is head of Secondaries and a member of the Investment Committee. Her responsibilities include oversight of due diligence, underwriting, manager selection and investment management for the firm’s private capital Primary, Secondary, Co-Investment and Distressed Capital Programs. Cari has over 20 years of secondaries experience and has closed over 325 secondary transactions for approximately $2.8 billion in total capital obligation. She began her career at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (which merged with Credit Suisse in 2000) as an Associate in Investment Banking. She spent 12 years with Credit Suisse’s Secondary Team, Strategic Partners, since its founding in 2000, and served as a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Commonfund Capital, Cari was at Tulane University’s Investment Management Office where she was responsible for overseeing the private equity and private real assets investments for the endowment. Cari is presently a member of the advisory board of several private capital limited partnerships. Cari is also a member of the Investment Committee of her alma mater, The Hotchkiss School. She received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in both Economics and Government and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Ms. Lee joined Oaktree’s Direct Lending team in 2009 and is primarily responsible for originating, underwriting and executing new investment opportunities. She sources new opportunities from financial sponsors and intermediaries in New York and Boston. In addition, Ms. Lee is responsible for monitoring existing portfolio investments until fully realized. Prior to joining Oaktree, she spent nearly two years as an analyst in the Leveraged Finance group at Citi. Ms. Lee received a B.S. degree in commerce with concentrations in finance and international business from the University of Virginia.
Chase Koch is the president of Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), a subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc. (Koch). KDT’s role is to partner with entrepreneurs who are creating a “could-be” world and driving continual transformation by investing in technology companies that disrupt and transform Koch’s core businesses and expand it into new platforms and capabilities.
In the summer of 1993, he began his career at Koch Industries at a feed yard in Syracuse, KS. Chase recalls that summer as a turning point in his life, learning important life lessons from manual labor and hard work. Following graduation from Texas A&M University in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in business marketing, he worked in Texas for a consulting firm. In 2003, he returned to Wichita as a financial analyst for Koch Equity Development Group.
In 2006, Chase joined Koch Nitrogen Company, serving in regional management and global supply positions. He later served in multiple leadership positions for both Koch Fertilizer, LLC and Koch Agronomic Services, LLC.
Chase serves as a board member of Koch Industries, Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation, and is the founder of Stand Together Ventures, a unique network of business leaders that focus on developing transformative and disruptive solutions which help break the barriers that stand in the way of unleashing human potential. Chase has also launched a new strategy within Stand Together, focused on using the power of music to help remove barriers and help people to improve their lives, including a new initiative called Stand Together Jam Together.
Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America, with estimated annual revenues that have exceeded $125 billion. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in industrial manufacturing, agriculture, building materials, glass, automotive components, refining, renewable energy, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, packaging, consumer products, electronics, enterprise software, data analytics, medical products, engineered technology, project services, recycling, supply chain and logistics, global commodities trading, and investments. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested nearly $150 billion in growth and improvements. With a presence in more than 70 countries, Koch companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about half of those in the United States.
Ayesha Kiani is the Chief Operating Officer of LedgerPrime. She is also a Faculty Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering where she's teaching and researching on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology. Previously, Ayesha was a Managing Director for Republic Crypto, where she successfully led Republic’s fundraising efforts for its Security Token presale. Before Republic, Ayesha was an early employee of Consensys, within SingularDTV. She is currently an Investor Board Member at Ventures for America and a Venture Partner at NextGen Ventures.
TIME President Keith A. Grossman is a global leader in the rapidly evolving world of web3 and leads TIME’s growth within the web3 ecosystem. Under Keith’s leadership, TIME’s NFT and web3 community, TIMEPieces, has grown to include well over 50,000 artists, collectors, and enthusiasts.
In 2021, TIME’s web3 strategy produced eight figures of revenue as the brand expanded from NFTs to community building to partnering with several NFT creators to develop their unique IP into animated series for TV with TIME Studios.
Previously, Keith served as the Global Chief Revenue Officer for Bloomberg Media where he was responsible for the growth of their various media platforms. He was also part of the core team to launch QuickTake by Bloomberg, a 24/7 social, mobile news platform. Prior to Bloomberg, Keith was the Associate Publisher of WIRED as well as Ars Technica where he won two Project Isaac Awards for best Digital Inventions for his work on the WIRED Tablet Edition and Ars Accelerator.
He is a Board Member of New York Cares, New York's largest volunteer network connecting individuals within their philanthropic passions and, previously, was an Adjunct Professor at NYU.
Keith is a graduate of Cornell University and currently resides in New York City with his wife, Catherine, and daughter, Ellie.
Matthew Graham is the founder and CEO of Sino Global Capital, an international crypto-native venture firm founded in 2015 that focuses on investing in best-in-class blockchain and digital asset projects. Matthew has been involved in the cryptocurrency ecosystem since 2013 when he drafted a proposal for a large MNC to pre-install a BTC wallet in their devices. Prior to founding Sino, Matthew was an emerging markets tech banker with a China specialty, where he represented some of the top tech firms in the world on strategic international investment.
Antonio is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Valor. Antonio founded Valor in 1995. He has over 25 years of experience in private equity investing. Antonio was a Director of Tesla from 2007 to 2021. During his tenure, he served as Lead Independent Director for eight years, and helped take Tesla public. He is a Director of several Valor portfolio companies, including Space Exploration Technologies. He is a member of all Valor Investment Committees.
Antonio is actively involved in philanthropic activities. He is a trustee of The Aspen Institute, a member of the board of visitors of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a member of the board of visitors of the University of Chicago Law School. Additionally, he is a member of the board of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and a member of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.
In 2015, Antonio was appointed to the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship Program, chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. The program was a first-of-kind collaboration among the White House, entrepreneurs, the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow, an Aspen Institute program designed to engage the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community spirited leadership. In 2008, Antonio received the Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award for Entrepreneurial & Business Leadership from Changing Worlds, an educational arts non-profit organization.
Prior to founding Valor, Antonio was the Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital where he acquired and acted as Chief Executive Officer for a number of manufacturing and technology related companies. At MG Capital, together with the team that is still together at Valor today, he developed the operational skills that Valor uses to help its portfolio companies achieve scale and enhance their value. Prior to MG Capital he was at Goldman Sachs.
Antonio holds a joint B.S. and M.S.F.S. (Honors Degree) in International Finance and Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He also studied corporate structures and economic development at Waseda University in Tokyo. Prior to completing his Masters, Antonio returned to Japan as a Nikko Securities Fellow. Antonio holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Omar Eissa is a Managing Director at BofA Securities specializing in investment banking, advisory and capital markets financing transactions on behalf of private equity clients. Covering 15 firms spanning more than 100 private equity partners and principals, Omar has worked on over 70 completed M&A transactions, equity offerings and debt financings since 2010.
In addition to his investment banking responsibilities, Omar leads an internal ESG initiative to allocate LP capital to minority fund managers and entrepreneurs, with over $250 million deployed to date.
Omar is a leader in driving culture at the firm. He serves as a co-chair of Summer Intern Diversity Committee and a US Captain in our Africa Recruiting Program traveling to Ghana and Nigeria twice per year to hire 30+ interns into our London and NY offices.
Omar also serves on the Ambassador Board of Dream Charter School, a full-service pre-K through 12th grade community of school in the East Harlem and the Bronx.
Kevin Duignan is the Global Analytical Head for Fitch Ratings. He is based in New York, and oversees ratings and research globally for all sectors.
Kevin’s previous responsibilities at Fitch over the past 29 years include heading the Global Financial Institutions group, the Global Structured Finance group, heading global Corporate Communications and leading the U.S. ABS group.
Before joining Fitch in 1993, Kevin was a manager and credit analyst in Citibank’s treasury credit department and Citibank’s mortgage conduit area.
Kevin received a B.S. in management from Tulane University.
Nicole Drapkin is a Managing Director of Owl Rock Capital Partners and serves as co-head of Opportunistic Credit and shares responsibility for the Owl Rock Opportunistic Fund. Previously, Ms. Drapkin served as a member of Owl Rock Capital Advisors’ Originations team. Prior to joining Owl Rock in 2016, Ms. Drapkin was a Principal in the Principal Credit Investments Group at the CPP Investment Board, where she focused on sourcing and evaluating credit investments across the gaming, consumer retail, software and healthcare sectors. Prior to that, Ms. Drapkin was a Vice President in the Leveraged Finance Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York. Ms. Drapkin received a B.A., with Honors, from Princeton University. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan.
Lule Demmissie is the US CEO of eToro, the world’s largest social investing network that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community of investors. eToro US offers individual investors easy access to investment instruments ranging from stocks to crypto, innovations like CopyTrader and more to come. Lule joined the company in September 2021, overseeing the company’s expansion and investment within the US, operational infrastructure, marketing, investment thought leadership, corporate governance, compliance, and its regulatory affairs & risk management.
Lule previously served as the President of Ally Invest overseeing the business’ P&L and growth strategy. She also led the products and services delivered to Ally Invest’s all- digital client base, shaping the end-to-end client experience. Additionally, Lule served as the Managing Director of Investment Products & Digital Guidance at TD Ameritrade where she led the development and launch of financial guidance services, tools and products for long-term oriented retail investors. Lule has also worked for leading investment firms such as Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Merrill Lynch.
Lule Demmissie is a unicorn in the retail investing and wealth sector. As a financial executive with a range of intersectional identities, a woman of color and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, she has a perspective that is much needed (and not often represented) in the area of fintech innovation, and gives voice to financial challenges facing a variety of communities.
As a leader, Lule is committed to cultivating a culture with diverse perspectives and talents. She has been sighted by many industry publications as a formidable leader in fintech. She was the recipient of a coveted TD Ameritrade Impact Award, a coveted annual award for leaders paving the way in building, developing and retaining a diverse group of associates — while continuing to foster a culture where all associates feel valued, included and challenged.
Lule holds a B.A. in Economics from Smith College, an M.B.A from Columbia Business School, a CIMA designation from the Investments & Wealth Institute (formerly IMCA) and the 7, 66 and 24 securities licenses.
Vaughn Crowe is a Managing Partner of Newark Venture Partners (NVP), a global seed-stage investment firm, with a focus on B2B technology. Prior to joining NVP, Vaughn served as Managing Director at Wesray Social Investments, the investment arm of Ray Chambers’s family office. Vaughn was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He has a degree from Colgate University and attended Harvard Business School for Executive Education. Vaughn currently serves as Vice-Chair of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJ Barnabas Hospital, and the New Jersey State Investment Council, the governing body for the State's pension fund. In his spare time, he likes to play golf, spend time with family, read, and listen to music.
Ron Conway is the Founder and a Managing Partner of SV Angel. He has been an active angel investor since the mid 90s and has received wide recognition for his role in the tech ecosystem. He was included on Vanity Fair’s 100 most influential people in the Information Age in 2010, awarded Best Angel at the 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards, and has been named on Forbes Magazine Midas list of top “deal-makers” since 2011. Prior to founding SV Angel, Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO (1979-1990), taking the company public on Nasdaq in 1982, and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL).
Ron is an advocate for technology companies and civic engagement in San Francisco, as well as an advocate for immigration reform. He is founder and Chairman of sf.citi and co-founder of FWD.US. Ron is also working diligently on efforts to solve for systemic racial inequity and to support founders of color, especially through the launch of Slauson and Co. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 he has been involved in efforts to secure PPE and fundraise for a drug therapy/vaccine, and organized the Covid-19 Tech Task Force.
Philanthropically, Ron is a member of the Giving Pledge and Board Member of the Salesforce Foundation. He is a major donor and advisor to UCSF Medical Center and the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, College Track, the THORN Foundation, and many organizations focused on preventing gun violence including, Sandy Hook Promise, Giffords.org, and March for Our Lives.
Amanda is the co-founder & CEO of Serotonin, the leading web3 marketing agency and product studio. Amanda is also co-founder & President of Mojito, the first venture to spin out of Serotonin. Mojito is an NFT commerce suite that is the top choice by Sotheby's, CAA, and major brands for engaging in d-commerce on web3.
Amanda is a notable web3 product builder and master marketer who has helped bring some of the leading blockchain companies to market and advised global institutions on how to adopt NFTs and crypto.
From 2016 to 2019, Amanda brought Ethereum to market as the CMO of ConsenSys, supporting its growth to become the largest and most robust blockchain ecosystem. Prior to joining ConsenSys, Amanda co-founded media startup Slant, which she launched after working under Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post where she learned about the challenges for creators in web2 that she would spend her subsequent career addressing.