Jenn Ablan

Editor-in-Chief & Chief Content Officer, Pensions & Investments

Jennifer Ablan is the editor-in-chief and chief content officer for Pensions & Investments. She manages the brand's platform expansion with a focus on digital engagement and measurement to grow the audience of professional investors and advisers. Before joining P&I, Ms. Ablan was U.S. assistant managing editor at the Financial Times. In that role, she supported editorial expansion in the U.S. She was previously U.S. investments editor at Reuters for a decade, overseeing asset management and "big money" coverage and leading the team. Earlier posts included working at Barron's and Dow Jones Newswires, all with a focus on money management and investing. A graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Ms. Ablan received the 2011 Rising Star award from the Women's Bond Club and has been named one of Business Insider's "125 most important finance people you have to follow" on Twitter.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

6th President of Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected President of Ukraine on April 21, 2019

On 20 May, 2019 sworn in as the 6th President of Ukraine

January 25, 1978 - Born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

2000 - Graduated from Kyiv National Economic University, with a law degree

1997-2003 -  Actor, performer, script writer, producer of the stand-up comedy contest team «KVARTAL 95»

2003-2011 - Executive producer, “KVARTAL 95”, LLC

2011-2012 - Chief Executive, PJSC “Inter TV Station”

2013-2019 - Executive producer,  “KVARTAL 95”, LLC

Founded “The League of laughter” NGO. Produced 10 feature length movies, won more than 30 awards of the National Television Award of Ukraine "Teletriumph”. President Zelenskyy is a prize-winner of numerous international film festivals and media forums.

From the outset of the hostilities in Donbas Volodymyr Zelenskyy and “KVARTAL 95” rendered support to the Armed Forces with funds, equipment and arranged shows on the front line and in different military units.

Married to Mrs Olena Zelenska, with 2 children - daughter Oleksandra and son Kyrylo.

Emily Yang

pplpleasr

pplpleasr is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on web 3.0, NFTs, crypto, DAOs, and philanthropy. Her work has inspired the formation of the prolific investment group PleasrDAO, helped define the aesthetic of the decentralized finance movement, graced the cover of Fortune Magazine, the cover of Vogue, as well as collaborations with Steve Aoki and Sotheby’s. She is in Forbes 30U30 this year and ranks in the top 5 of Fortune’s NFTy50, a list of the most influential figures in the NFT space and has donated more than $1.5 million to charity with her NFT sales.

Travis Williamson

Partner & Head of Hedge Fund Research, Albourne

Travis Williamson is a Partner at Albourne America and the Head of Hedge Fund Research. Prior to joining Albourne in 2013, Mr. Williamson was a Senior Markets & Policy Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he focused on furthering the Federal Reserve Systems analysis and interactions with buy-side market participants, with a focus on hedge funds. Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Mr. Williamson held roles at Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, and DCF Capital. Mr. Williamson earned an MBA from the University of Connecticut, a degree in Economics from Lafayette College, and holds the CAIA designation.

Michael Thrasher

Senior Reporter, Pensions & Investments

Michael Thrasher is a Senior Reporter at Pensions & Investments and covers asset management. He was previously a reporter and editor at Institutional Investor's RIA Intel. Before that, he reported for wealthmanagement.com, where he covered some of the largest wealth managers, including groups within Morgan Stanley, UBS Group AG, Wells Fargo & Co., and Bank of America Corp.

Raman Srivastava

Executive Vice President and Global Chief Investment Officer, Great West Lifeco

Raman Srivastava is Executive Vice-President and Global Chief Investment Officer for Great West Lifeco. Raman oversees investment teams in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. He joined Great West Lifeco in 2017 and leads a global team of investment professionals in setting strategic direction and delivering investment results across a diverse global investment platform, including the insurance General Accounts and third-party funds.

 Raman has 20 years’ experience in the investment industry, most recently as Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Manager Director of Global Fixed Income for Mellon Asset Management based in Boston. For over a decade prior to that, he was a portfolio manager at Putnam Investments.

Raman earned a Master of Science in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo. Raman is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder.

Marina Severinovsky

Head of Sustainability, North America, Schroders

Marina Severinovsky is the Head of Sustainability, North America, and leads the sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration for Schroders investments in North America. She collaborates with senior managers on market strategy, client communications, product development, sales, and investor management.

Marina was previously the Investment Director for North America for the Quantitative Equity Products (QEP) team from 2020 and was responsible for communicating QEP’s investment policy and strategy with clients, as well as business management in the Americas.

Prior to joining the QEP team, Marina was an Investment Strategist from 2016 to 2019, working in partnership with Hartford Funds to represent Schroders strategies to financial advisors and intermediaries across all client channels, primarily in the Central US region.

Marina was an Alternatives Specialist at Schroders from 2010 to 2016. Her product management activities covered multiple strategies, including Commodities, Absolute Return Emerging Market Debt and Insurance Linked Securities.

Marina joined Schroders in 2010 and is based in New York. Prior to joining Schroders, she worked in Investment Banking at Citi, and previously to that, in finance, economics and accounting consulting.

Fred Santarpia

President, Endeavor Streaming

Fred Santarpia is a digital media and business transformation expert. He currently serves as president of Endeavor Streaming, where he spearheads the company’s global expansion strategy. Before joining Endeavor Streaming, Fred was chief operating officer at Moda Operandi and, previously, chief digital officer at Condé Nast, where he founded and launched the digital arm of Condé Nast's entertainment division. Fred was also a founding member of the leadership team at VEVO and served as EVP & general manager. Prior to VEVO, Fred worked at Universal Music Group in a variety of senior leadership roles.

Fred is a graduate of Villanova University and holds an M.S. in finance from Boston University. He currently resides in New Jersey.

Collin Reno

Senior Vice President, Gersh

Collin Reno comes to Gersh after 25 years as SVP at WMA/WME. Along his journey as an agent, he took a brief detour into production and development for Dick Clark Productions where he oversaw the development and sales of more than two dozen programs before rejoining the agency. Post the merger between WMA and Endeavor, Reno became a partner and co-head of WME’s Alternative TV Department. His experience and knowledge of business trends have helped him thrive across the Venn diagram of subgenres in the field; having represented leading production companies, producers, authors, directors, and talent.

A small sample of the shows Reno has been involved in packaging are The Biggest Loser, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, The Weakest Link, American Ninja Warrior, Celebrity Rehab, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, The Agent, Coaching Bad, Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge, Famously Single, CNN’s The 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 2000’s; Couples Therapy, A Little Late with Lilly Singh, Strange Texas for Paramount +, Immoral Compass for Quibi, along with countless comedy and event specials branching over broadcast, cable and the streaming platforms as with Adam Sandler’s 100% Fresh for Netflix.

Reno will be based in LA until transitioning to spearhead the expansion of the Alternative Department in the New York

Romain Nouzareth

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SATO Technologies Corp.

Romain is a seasoned tech entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience running technology companies.

He co-founded SATO in 2017, a responsible ₿itcoin miner which went public in 2021 under the ticker $SATO on the TSX.V in Canada and in the US, for now, under the ticker OTCQB:CCPU.F - More on www.bysato.com

Romain is a French/American living in Manhattan for almost 20 years and frequently speaks at events about Bitcoin and the new economy.

He is active on Twitter with the handle @RomainBTC and LinkedIn @rn212

Rob Massey

Partner & Global Tax Leader, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Rob Massey has over 20 years of professional experience in tax consulting for technology companies. Since 2013, he has focused on blockchain, digital assets, cryptocurrency and tokenization.  He serves companies throughout the blockchain ecosystem inclusive of investors, miners, staking providers, payment processing, wallet hosting, exchanges, hedge funds, tokenization and protocol development.  Rob leads Deloitte’s blockchain efforts in tax for the global firm.

Rob’s blockchain expertise spans the comprehensive tax considerations of blockchain enabled transactions and the analysis of the tax impacts of tokenization and digital asset transactions across various business models and industries.

Mike Marzelli

Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Michael is an Audit & Assurance partner in the financial services audit practice and a leader in Deloitte’s Blockchain and Digital Asset audit practice. He has more than 15 years of experience serving a wide range of clients from emerging growth companies to large multi-national organizations in New York, Hong Kong and San Francisco in both an audit and advisory capacity. He has broad experience serving clients in the securities, banking, fintech and digital asset space, focusing on audit and assurance methodologies, tools and technology. He understands the complexities faced by companies engaging in the blockchain and digital asset space, from start-ups to mature enterprises, and focuses on bringing the right advice and counsel to clients when building and scaling blockchain and digital asset based businesses.

Nicole Loftus

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Pop Venture

From just an idea, Nicole Loftus built a company that disrupted a $20 billion-dollar industry and became #8 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Nicole saw the positive impact that growing, well-funded businesses have on a community and yet she found the funding system to be inadequate. Nicole decided to change the game.

After years of hard work and millions spent, Nicole’s vision for a better system is now a reality. Pop Venture is a fund that gives everyone access to investing in entrepreneurs, fueling innovations and upskilling jobs.

Pop Venture activates millions of first-time investors, creating a new source of capital. Pop Venture gives founders equal access to funding regardless of their location, gender or race. Pop Venture is an inclusive, full participation system.

To operate the Pop Venture Funds, Nicole and the Pop team built the first founder- driven, comprehensive diligence software that will save entrepreneurs time, protect their proprietary information and improve chances of raising capital by 85%.

Nicole believes Pop Venture is how we recover economically and emotionally as a united country, creating solutions, equality and the renewed American Dream.

Bruce Lipnick

Executive Producer, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Stage Access

Bruce is the founder and CEO of Stage Access, a streaming platform and production company for the performing arts featuring dance, opera, concerts, theater and documentary films. His extensive background as a film producer has included The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World 30th Anniversary Documentary; Yo-Yo Ma Performs Bach From the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens; The Extraordinary Journey of Fernando Bujones; La Frontera; The Heartbreaker; and Death of a Dynasty, starring Kevin Hart. Bruce also appeared in the award-winning films Three Days of the Condor and All The President's Men. He held an ownership stake in Monarch Business & Wealth Management, a firm representing internationally acclaimed entertainers and athletes including Justin Timberlake, Charlie Sheen, Anna Kournikova and Rob Gronkowski. 

Bruce previously enjoyed a long and distinguished financial services career as the founder, CEO and Chairman of Asset Alliance Corporation, an alternative investment management company with more than $7 billion under management. He is a pioneer in hedge fund portfolio management and launched the first 40 Act mutual fund. He received numerous industry awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Giving from Hedge Funds Care. Bruce helped launch and served on the board of SMArtX Advisory Solutions, a leading asset management technology platform with $50 billion under management.

A devoted patron of the arts, Bruce has proudly supported major performing arts institutions including New York City Ballet’s New Combinations Fund for the development of world premiere dance and music commissions, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, and The School of American Ballet in New York.

Steve Kovach

Technology Correspondent, CNBC

Steve Kovach is Technology Correspondent for CNBC covering Apple, Microsoft, E-sports and video games for the network.

Most recently, he served as Technology Editor for CNBC.com, where he managed technology coverage for CNBC Digital. Kovach joined CNBC in 2018 from Business Insider, where he was Senior Technology Correspondent. He has a dual degree in journalism and English from Syracuse University.

Follow Steve Kovach on Twitter at @stevekovach.

Tushar Jain

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Tushar Jain is a cofounder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, which is one of the largest and most established crypto-focused investment firms in the world. The firm manages billions in assets across liquid and illiquid strategies in the crypto markets, and is known for its high-conviction, thesis-driven investing.

Stefanie Ilgenfritz

Coverage Chief, Health & Science, The Wall Street Journal

Stefanie Ilgenfritz is the Coverage Chief for Health & Science and editorial director of The Future of Everything at The Wall Street Journal. She leads a team of reporters and editors who cover the hospital, health-insurance, pharmaceutical and medical-device industries, as well as medicine, science and innovation. Over more than 30 years with Dow Jones, she has helped shape prize-winning journalism, including a series on fraud and abuse in Medicare that won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2015, a series on the dysfunction in drug prices that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in explanatory reporting in 2016, and a probe of the pandemic’s impact on nursing homes that was a finalist for the Pulitzer in national reporting in 2021.

Meredith Lorenz Heimburger

Partner & Head of Impact, Global Endowment Management (GEM)

Meredith Lorenz Heimburger is a Partner and Head of Impact at Global Endowment Management. As Head of Impact, Meredith partners with GEM’s clients to align their investment programs with their values and mission.

Meredith and her team aim to meet these clients where they are to help them fulfill both their impact and investment objectives.

Prior to joining GEM in 2012, Meredith spent seven years with Teach For America. She served first as a classroom teacher and then as a member of the staff, leading the expansion of the organization’s presence in new and developing regions across the U.S.

Meredith is a trustee and chair of the finance committee for the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, which promotes sustainable solutions to human and environmental problems. She is also a member of the Davidson College Board of Visitors and a trustee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library Foundation. She is an active member of several organizations that focus on leveraging assets for positive impact, including The ImPact and The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW).

Meredith received her B.A. in English with a concentration in Gender Studies from Davidson College.

Zack Guzmán

Founder, Trustless Media; Host, Coinage

Zack Guzman is a crypto journalist and founder of the Meta/Bulletin newsletter "Crypto Uncomplicated." He was the creator of Yahoo Finance's "Crypto Corner" and host of Yahoo Finance's millennial money show "YFi PM." He previously worked as a multimedia reporter at CNBC covering startups and technology. His reporting has been featured across multiple platforms including the New York Post, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC, Entrepreneur and AOL. Before graduating from Harvard, he was selected by a committee of his peers and alumni to address graduating seniors, family, and faculty at Class Day with a comedic oration.