San Francisco Data Summit 2022

Speakers

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  Nick Adams

  Differential Ventures

  Co-Founder & Managing Partner

  Nick Adams is the co-founder and Managing Partner of New York-based seed fund Differential
  Ventures. Previously, Nick was a Venture Partner at Supernode.vc, f.k.a. Flatiron Investors,
  where he evaluated seed- stage tech companies and led the due diligence for multiple
  investments. Before joining the venture capital community, Nick held senior sales, marketing,
  and product management roles for software companies that have realized over $1.3 billion in
  exit value, including: Opower (IPO), RAGE Frameworks (acquired by Genpact), Basware
  (Publicly-traded on OMX), and Comverge (acquired by Itron).

  Nick sits on the board of several tech companies, including Ocrolus, which was named the '2020
  Fastest Growing FinTech Company in the US’ by Inc. Magazine. He is also on the board of ‘Off
  the Record,’ a non-profit dedicated to the support of venture-backed startup founders. Nick
  was an investor on ZeeTV’s startup show ‘Break Through the Crowd’ which follows the journey
  of several entrepreneurs. Nick has a MSc in Global Finance from NYU and Hong Kong University
  of Science and Technology, a MBA in Corporate Finance from Northeastern University, and a BA
  in History from Brandeis University where he played four years of varsity baseball.

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  Wachi Bandara

  Exos Financial

  Chief Investment Officer of Asset Management

  Wachi is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset Management for Exos Financial. He guides the investment process for the asset management businesses at Exos and chairs the Investment Committee for Exos Asset Management. Prior to joining Exos, Wachi was the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research at Pluribus Labs where he led the investment team and executed on the Pluribus Labs vision to become the global leader in the use of qualitative data in a systematic investment process.  Prior to that, he co-founded a data science and machine-learning start-up focused on investment management, which was eventually acquired by Golden Gate Capital. Wachi started his career as a machine-learning researcher focused on computer vision. Wachi advises a number of startups on issues related to technology and investments. He serves on the Corporate Advisory Board of the Cristo Rey De La Salle School, a non-profit school that prepares youth from low-income families for post-secondary educational opportunities. Wachi holds a PhD and an MS in Finance from The George Washington University, an MS in Applied Mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He also holds the Financial Risk Manager certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

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  Reba Beeson

  AlphaPoint

  General Counsel

  Reba Beeson is the General Counsel at AlphaPoint, a white label exchange software provider powering crypto exchanges worldwide and the technology behind El Salvador’s bitcoin wallet, Chivo. She is a member of 100 Women in Finance and Digital Asset Regulatory and Legal Alliance and a member of the New York State bar, and she has held numerous FINRA licenses. Prior to joining AlphaPoint, Reba has had extensive professional experience as an attorney and capital markets banker, having served as Deputy General Counsel – US for World Gold Council and its US affiliated sponsors of the largest global gold-backed ETF product suite. Reba formerly held roles as lead counsel for UBS’s Alternative Investment Group and SVP/Head of Complex Financing for BNP/Paribas.

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  Jonathan G. Blanco

  Niftmint

  CEO & Founder

  Jonathan G. Blanco is the Founder and CEO of Niftmint, a NFT Commerce Infrastructure company allowing Brands to Mint, Sell, and Custody NFTs directly on their eCommerce platform while handling all crypto and crypto wallets on behalf of the Brand and their Customer. Jonathan has been working with Brands since 2009, building innovative retail technology for Brands since 2014, and building at the intersection of crypto and commerce since 2017. Jonathan is also the founder of TF Labs, a Web3 Management Consulting Firm and Startup Studio guiding Brands in their company adoption of Web3 across Software Development, Branding, Marketing, and Media while spinning out internal Web3 Startups such as Niftmint.

  Throughout his career, Jonathan has spent time leading Product Innovation in a large retail organization and built software products and practices from 0-1 for Startups, Growth Stage, and Enterprise Retail. Jonathan is a trusted voice and resource in Web3 Product Management, having been a product and technical consultant to Brands and Crypto Fintech CEOs and Executives. Jonathan teaches Software Product Management at the University of Washington PCE and is currently creating a curriculum for his Web3 Product Management Course which will be available via TF Labs.
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  Les Borsai

  Wave Financial

  Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer

  Les Borsai has a knack for spotting emerging trends first and building community around new ideas and markets. A Los Angeles-based technology entrepreneur, music promoter, and cryptocurrency advisor, Borsai is the co-founder of Wave Financial, a registered investment advisor with $1.5 billion under management that bridges the gap between traditional asset management and cutting-edge digital currencies. He manages the firm’s highly successful NFT Fund, investing in NFT collectibles, platforms, and protocols.

  Borsai began his career in the music industry, first gaining recognition as a rave promoter in the Southern California underground scene of the late 1980s. From there, he partnered with Avalon Attractions, now Live Nation Entertainment, to promote large-scale raves featuring performers like Moby and The Shamen.

  At the age of 26 he became director of tour marketing for MCA Records. From there, he joined 911 Records as vice-president of artist development where he created a new business model for traditional concert promoters. Next, Borsai moved into entertainment management, co-managing artists such as Jason Mraz and Wynonna Judd.

  In 2008, understanding the transformative power of the smartphone, Borsai transitioned to digital music and co-founded the iPhone application development company gridMob, which launched the first karaoke apps for artists such as Lady Gaga. He also founded SongLily in 2012, a digital platform company that simplifies music licensing for mobile application and game developers.

  As early as 2013, Borsai understood that the next big cultural and financial revolution was crypto. That year, he took on the role of advisor to Ripple Labs and the following year became one of the earliest investors in Ethereum.

  Sitting at the cross-section of entertainment and economics his entire career, Borsai was the one of the first to intuit the cultural significance of NFTs. In 2017, he bought his first CryptoPunk NFT, part of a set of 10,000 NFTs that are among the first to ever be created and can now sell for upwards of $1 million apiece.

  Borsai regularly comments on today’s NFT trends and has been featured in a variety of top-tier global publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC, TechCrunch, CNN, and The Hollywood Reporter, among many others.

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  Barney Bruce-Smythe

  Neudata

  ESG analyst (London) Research

  Barney joined Neudata in 2021 as an ESG analyst, having previously worked for three years at an executive search firm executing mandates across distribution and investment roles. During this time, he also led the Asset Management Practice’s intelligence gathering and analytics.

  He holds an MA in History from the University of St Andrews.

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  Sondra Campanelli

  Neudata

  News Editor

  Sondra is the editor of Neudata's news platform. She covers the alternative data strategies of asset managers and data vendors, including new fund launches, product launches, fundraising, dataset usage and pricing. She takes a particular focus on legal, compliance and tax issues that impact buyers and sellers of alternative data.

  Prior to joining Neudata, Sondra covered the machine learning and alternative data strategies of institutional investors for EQDerivatives/machineByte and commercial real estate debt markets for Real Estate Finance & Investment across the US, UK and Europe.

  Sondra holds BA degrees in Economics and Public Communications from American University in Washington, D.C.

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  Tjeerd van Cappelle

  aiLiftoff

  Founder & Managing Director

  Tjeerd van Cappelle, CFA is the founder and Managing Director of aiLiftoff, a provider of alternative data and services to investment firms. Tjeerd has over 25 years’ experience in finance and technology. Before Tjeerd founded aiLiftoff, he worked for 16 years at NN Investment Partners. His last position was head of the AI Equity team, leading a team of portfolio managers and data scientists, managing over EUR 5 billion AuM in systematic strategies. Tjeerd is an innovator and someone who can connect the technological possibilities with what’s needed to be a successful investor.

  Tjeerd is CFA charter holder, has a MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Delft University of Technology and a MSc degree in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam (Cum laude).

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  Alfred Chuang

  Race Capital

  General Partner

  Alfred is a cofounder and general partner at Race Capital, and Chairman of Magnet Systems.

  Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO, he is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture investor. Known for being the co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems, Alfred led BEA Systems to its acquisition by Oracle for $8.6 billion.

  With extensive experience in venture investing since 2008, Alfred (and Race Capital) are first investors in Solana (~$28B Market Cap), Databricks ($38B 2021 valuation), FTX ($32B 2022 Valuation), and many others.

  Alfred's notable awards include CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honouree, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, University of San Francisco President’s Ambassador, UC Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award, and UC Davis Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal among others.

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  Kathlyn Collins

  Matthews Asia

  Head of ESG

  Kathlyn Collins is Head of ESG at Matthews Asia where she is responsible for overall ESG Strategy on the investment team, including implementation of ESG integration and active ownership activities such as company engagement and voting. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Kathlyn worked as an ESG & Global Strategy Analyst with Cartica Management LLC where she developed ESG integration and analyzed investments for portfolios, conducted company research and engagement, and wrote reports relating to Emerging Markets. She earned an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and an M.A. in Italian Studies from Middlebury College in Florence, Italy. Kathlyn has a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism, Italian Language, Literature & Culture from Syracuse University. She has been part of the faculty for the International Corporate Governance Network’s (ICGN) ESG integration course and is a Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential holder. She is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and speaks Italian and Spanish.

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  Moyi Dang

  Coinfeeds

  Co-Founder & CEO

  Moyi is the co-founder and CEO of Coinfeeds, a social intelligence platform dedicated to cryptocurrencies. She was a senior data scientist at Uber, and previously did investment research for Chinese and other emerging market equities.

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  Stephanie Desanges

  PayPal

  Global Business & Market Development, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Digital Currencies

  Stephanie Desanges is originally from Boston and attended Northeastern University undergrad where she majored in Finance. She has various experiences that span across the public and private sector. She has worked 5.5 years in a variety of roles in the private sector in investment banking, private banking, and asset management at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs in New York City and London. She interned on the Northeast fundraising team for the Hillary Clinton Campaign and also interned in the office of the President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. She has a deep interest in international development and has helped build three organizations focused on economic development, specifically in Haiti after the earthquake: a for-profit sustainable development community in the central plateau, an impact investment fund, and a non-profit focused on the pillars of education and healthcare. She also spent two years building and scaling businesses in the Middle East based out of Dubai.

  She now works in Global Business and Market Development in Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Digital Currencies at PayPal. She focuses on ensuring the end-to-end management of PayPal’s underlying cryptocurrency product, technology infrastructure, partnerships and regulatory foundations to drive continued growth in the space. She was previously the Global CBDC lead and is now focused on Go to market for international expansion for PayPal’s current crypto products. She is deeply passionate about financial inclusion and the intersection of tech, policy and finance. She has an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from Wharton Business School.

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  Dominique DeRubeis

  BlackRock

  Data Strategy & Solutions Associate

  Dominique is an Associate on the Data Strategy & Solutions within the Portfolio Management Group at BlackRock, which is a centralized function for data discovery, distribution and bespoke solutions. She leads their Acquisition efforts to identify, onboard and evaluate differentiated data sources that complement investment research.

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  Matthew Dixon

  Illinois Institute of Technology

  Associate Professor of Applied Math

  Dr. Matthew Dixon (FRM) is an Associate Professor in Applied Math at Illinois Tech. He holds a PhD in Applied Math from Imperial College,  London, and has held a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Computational Math and Engineering at Stanford University, and an Arthur Krener Visiting Assistant Professorship at UC Davis.  Prior to joining academia, Matthew, worked in structured credit trading for Lehman Brothers and has since been a freelance consultant to the several financial institutions including the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Silverlake investments, Hedgefacts, Brookfield Investments, and Tradeforecaster. He has published over 40 articles relating to risk management, blockchain engineering, and machine learning in finance, including a textbook on Machine Learning in Finance. He serves on the board of the CFA NYC Quant Trading Committee, the AIMS Journals of Dynamics and Games, and the World Scientific Annual Review of Fintech.  He is the recipient of Risk Magazine’s 2022 Buyside Quant of the year Award, an Illinois Tech innovation award, and the College of Computing's Dean Award for Excellence in Research, and his research has been funded by Intel, Dell, NASA JPL, and the NSF in addition to being quoted in the Financial Times, Barron’s Advisor, and Bloomberg Markets. Matthew is the co-founder of CFX Labs - providing the first global stablecoin settlement network.

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  Tenley Foran

  Bain & Company

  Director, Research and Data Services

  Tenley Foran is Director, Research & Data Services, affiliated with the Private Equity Practice at Bain & Company, with over 25 years of industry experience. Tenley leads the global evaluation and on-boarding of alternative data, and works closely with Bain’s advanced analytics teams to create solutions and products for the firm’s private equity due diligence, and portfolio work. Her team has evaluated hundreds of data sources and works with dozens of them, supporting over 5,000 projects in the past few years. Previously she worked in strategy at BBC Technology and Sony Pictures Entertainment focused on the convergence of technology and media.

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  Anton Gorodniuk

  Allspring Global Investments

  Investment Strategist, Sustainable Investing

  Anton Gorodniuk is an investment strategist for the Sustainable Investing team at Allspring Global Investments. In this capacity, he helps create ESG-driven analysis, manages custom projects for clients and prospects, and contributes to content development and thought leadership. Anton joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Before WFAM, he worked at the Value Reporting Foundation (formerly known as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board), where he served as a lead analyst. Prior to that, Anton was an equity research analyst intern at Allianz Global Investors. Earlier, he served as a research analyst intern at Crestline Investors. He began his investment industry career in 2012. He earned an economics and management degree in real estate management from the Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Anton has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation.

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  Tom Grant

  Apptopia

  Director of Equity Research

  Tom is Director of Equity Research at Apptopia. Tom leads the company's research effort, using Apptopia's mobile intelligence to uncover trends about companies that can be turned into investable decisions. Tom provides the link between the raw data and the customer's investment process. Tom has 15 years of experience investing across global equity markets, with unique expertise in small cap emerging markets stocks. Tom has covered all regions and sectors, performing rigorous fundamental analysis at the country, industry, and company levels.  Most recently, Tom was a Senior Research Analyst at Copper Rock Capital Partners.

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  Jodie Gunzberg

  CoinDesk Indices

  Managing Director

  Jodie Gunzberg is Managing Director, CoinDesk Indices. Before CoinDesk, Jodie was the Chief Institutional Investment Strategist at Morgan Stanley. She has over 25 years of investment experience across the buy-side, indexing, and consulting. Ms. Gunzberg is a CFA charterholder, member, curriculum consultant, and volunteers on the Education Advisory Committee of the CFA Institute. She is also a former member of the Board of Directors for CFA NY and CFA Chicago and founded the CFA New Jersey Group of CFA NY. Ms. Gunzberg currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Department of Finance of Hofstra University and on the Industry Advisory Council and Editorial Advisory Board for the Global Commodities Applied Research Digest at the University of Colorado Denver Business School’s J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities. She received her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Emory University.

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  J. Scott Hamilton

  Live Data Technologies

  Founder/CEO

  Scott is the founder and CEO of Live Data Technologies, a company providing real-time job change data for 100M+ US B2B professionals across 2M companies.

  Scott is a longtime tech entrepreneur, with B2B contact data being a common thread. Additional interests include semantics (formal and lexical), context, and pattern recognition. He graduated Indiana University without distinction with a BA in Economics.

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  Greg Kapoustin

  Clerkenwell Labs

  Co-Founder

  I am an avid builder of products and businesses at the intersection of technology and finance. These have ranged from core computing technologies used by hundreds of millions of people, to financial analytics platforms guiding tens of billions in assets, to cutting-edge stealth ventures. My current focus is on emerging technologies at the junction of finance and web3.

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  Stephan Kessler

  Morgan Stanley

  Global Head of Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Research

  Stephan Kessler is a Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Research at Morgan Stanley, focusing on research around signals, portfolio construction and risk management in systematic strategies. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was lead portfolio manager and head of research in the alternative investment strategies team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s QIS platform. Other previous roles include tenures as an equity derivatives strategist, portfolio manager for a quantitative multi-strategy fund, and founding partner of a financial consulting firm in Switzerland. He holds a master’s in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Mannheim and a PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, where he still lectures on financial modelling. He is the author of numerous academic-journal articles on financial markets.

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  Linda Kreitzman

  Partner/CEO at 0xPartners.com

  Berkeley SkyDeck Blockchain/Crypto Track Co-Chair

  Linda Kreitzman joined 0xP as partner and investor on May 1st, 2021. She is currently a lecturer at the Haas School of Business for the Master of Financial Engineering program, industry Lead for the Centre for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) and also strategic advisor/crypto track chair for SkyDeck at UCB. Linda has spent the last twenty-one years at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, first as director then executive director and assistant dean of the top tier MFE program which she helped launch in 2000. Linda was the first director in the United States to develop a pre-program set of courses and curriculum in data science and machine learning tailored to each admitted student as early as 2012 as well as seminars on blockchain and cryptocurrencies beginning 2013. In 2017, Linda was invited by Dr. Laura Tyson, Clinton's former presidential advisor and former dean of the Haas School, to be the co-lead on the Faculty Research Review Committee on the Berkeley Blockchain Initiative where she oversees the students' projects on blockchain and cryptocurrency.  Linda possesses extensive worldwide industry contacts in finance, Fintech and blockchain. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish and is also investor, adviser, and board member to several start-ups in the United States, France, and Israel.

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  Jeremy Lewi

  ex-Google

  Software Engineer

  Jeremy Lewi spent 9 years at Google. He started his career working on YouTube’s Video Recommendation System before transferring to Cloud to launch Dataflow and then Cloud ML Engine. He co-created Kubeflow, a Kubernetes native MLOps platform. After Google he worked at Primer.ai which is building machines to read and write. He is currently exploring applications of AI to alternative data.

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  Rado Lipuš

  Neudata

  Founder & CEO

  Rado Lipuš, CFA is the founder and CEO of Neudata, an alternative data intelligence and SaaS provider. Prior to founding Neudata, Rado's professional experience spans 20 years of FinTech leadership, quantitative risk management and data innovation for the buy-side. An acknowledged expert, Rado is regularly invited to speak about alternative data at conferences and industry events.

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  David Mascio

  Della Parola Capital Management

  Managing Founder and Principal

  David is the Founder of Della Parola Capital Management, LLC and serves as the firm’s Chief Economist, and Head of Investment Policy and Research.

  The focus of David's financial and professional career has been advising, lecturing and managing financial assets in areas related to investment management, private equity, macroeconomic and microeconomic forecasting, financial modeling, portfolio analysis, portfolio hedging models, machine learning, artificial intelligence and financial derivatives strategies. He has served highly affluent families, private family offices, foundations, charitable organizations, pension plans, and institutions for nearly 20 years.

  David earned a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from the University of New Mexico, where his studies were financed by an athletic scholarship. In addition, he earned an MBA from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), and a PhD in Finance at EDHEC Business School. He is a member of the CFA Institute and a member of the CFA Society of Colorado.

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  Tiffany McGhee

  Pivotal Advisors

  Founder, CEO & Chief Investment Officer

  Tiffany McGhee is the founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Pivotal Advisors and a CNBC Contributor. She leads Pivotal in its mission to exceed client investment objectives and maximize their impact. Tiffany works with firm leadership to set and execute Pivotal’s investment strategy, firm vision and voice within the institutional investment community. She chairs the firm’s investment committee, overseeing investment research and manager due diligence and is the lead advisor for the firm’s largest relationships. Pivotal Advisors is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Registered Investment Advisory firm focusing on institutions. It is also the first African American woman-owned and Afro-Latina owned firm of its kind in the country.

  Prior to founding Pivotal, Tiffany was one of the founding partners of Momentum Advisors, an independent, Investment Advisory firm. She created Momentum’s institutional investment practice and served as the CEO and Co-CIO of the firm’s institutional business. Before her work with Momentum, Tiffany managed a portfolio of institutional clients in the Mid-Atlantic region for TIAA. She also worked in the private bank and broker-dealer business channels for T. Rowe Price. Tiffany has managed over $7 billion dollars in assets and relationships since beginning her career as an advisor in the Private Client Group at Merrill Lynch.

  Tiffany frequently speaks on topics such as ESG investing, impact investing, Web 3 and brands, ERISA, asset allocation, alternative investments, and diverse ownership in asset management. She has been invited to speak at conferences such as SoCap, RAISE, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the National Women’s Studies Foundation and the Florida Alternative Investment Association, Columbia Business School’s Elevate Conference, and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s Wall Street Project Summit.

  Tiffany holds a B.A. degree in Political Science and International Relations from Morgan State University. She sits on the board of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health and Maryland Humanities where she serves on the finance and racial equity committees.

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  Dean Murphy

  Neudata

  Commercial Director - Data Provider Products

  Dean is responsible for leading, developing and expanding Neudata’s events programme.

  Having spent the last decade creating, building and scaling conference and content businesses within the FinTech and Energy sectors, Dean has worked with some of the most recognisable global brands on B2B events of all sizes. Dean co-founded two conference companies in 2013 and exited through acquisition in early 2020.

  Dean holds a BA Hons degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from Warwick University.

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  Adam Nahari

  Berkshire Partners

  Data Science and Analytics

  Adam leads Berkshire Partners’ innovative data science group. In this capacity, Adam harnesses alternative data in public and private equity investing and drives data related initiatives across the investment lifecycle: algorithmic sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio company value creation.

  Prior to joining Berkshire, Adam worked as a Research Scientist at Harvard Medical School’s Predictive Medicine Group. In this role, he developed advanced predictive models in Medicine and Pharma. Previously, Adam worked as a Data Scientist across multiple industries, leveraging advanced computational methods and Machine Learning techniques to inform strategic direction, design and implement innovative, data-driven processes and systems, and improve performance.

  Adam is a MIT System Design and Management Fellow. He received a B.A. from
  Harvard University and an M.S. from MIT.

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  Eric Nemeth

  Sino Global Capital

  Investment Associate

  Eric is SGC’s portfolio support lead, centralized and decentralized finance expert with a focus on DeFi infrastructure, on-chain structured products, and products that bridge Web 2 and Web 3.  Prior to SGC, Eric was an Institutional Index Equities Product Strategist at Blackrock, partnering with portfolio managers to maintain and support the $2.6B AUM book of institutional index assets.  Eric also worked at a decentralized exchange in 2018, conducting market research and developing strategies to onboard the first thousands of users to DeFi on Ethereum.  Eric graduated from Boston College with degrees in Economics and Accounting.

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  Raja Patnaik

  Dodge & Cox

  Analyst, Equity Research & Portfolio Strategy

  Dr. Patnaik is an analyst in the Equity Research and Portfolio Strategy team at Dodge & Cox. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in computer science and statistics from the Vienna University of Technology, and his Masters and Ph.D. in Finance from London Business School. Prior to joining Dodge & Cox in 2019, he was an associate at Cornerstone Research.

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  Andrew Peek

  Delphia

  Co-Founder & CEO

  Andrew is a technology entrepreneur with a penchant for standing at the intersection of complementary ideas and industries. After selling his previous venture to Shopify, Andrew purchased a Toronto-based research lab with the mission of helping people derive benefit from their data. He went on to steer the lab’s novel predictive methods toward the forecasting of capital markets, partnering with some of the top minds in quantitative investing along the way. With that, in 2018, Delphia was born — a growing collective of people sharing their data to inform a world-class systematic investment strategy.

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  Sidney Powell

  Maple

  CEO & Co-founder

  Sid Powell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Maple, and with his Co-Founder Joe Flanagan launched Maple in 2021. Maple is transforming capital markets through technology and counts traditional finance and crypto-native firms as customers. Sid comes from a background in debt capital markets and institutional banking. During his career in traditional finance, he participated in $3BN+ of corporate bond issuance, established and ran a $200M+ bond funding program, and managed Treasury at a commercial lending FinTech company.

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  Roshan Raman

  Woodline Partners LP

  Head of Quantitative Research

  Roshan is Head of Quantitative Research for the Investment Manager. Previously, Roshan served as a Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Global Equities. Prior to Citadel, he held Senior Quantitative Research positions at Ascend Capital, AQR Capital Management and Northern Trust Global Investments since 2006. Roshan graduated with an MBA from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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  Olivia Russell

  ACLED Data

  Executive Director

  Olivia Russell is Executive Director of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). ACLED is a US-based non-profit organization which collects data and conducts analysis on global political violence and protests. Ms. Russell holds an MA in International Conflict and Security and has previously worked in operations, research, and communications in peacebuilding and conflict analysis organizations across the world.

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  Todd Schmucker

  CoinDesk Indices

  Head of Data Partnerships

  Todd Schmucker is Head of Data Partnerships for CoinDesk Indices. Todd is a seasoned data executive with over 20 years of experience buying, building, and selling data and insights to institutional investors.  At CoinDesk Indices, Todd is responsible for commercializing the firm’s product offering as well as forging new data partnerships.

  Todd joined CoinDesk Indices from Catalina, where he successfully led the go-to-market effort and drove all revenue opportunities for the financial services sector. Prior to Catalina, he was the founder and Head of Data Strategy & Sourcing at Balyasny Asset Management, a large multi-strategy hedge fund, where he oversaw all aspects of the firm’s data efforts.  Prior to Balyasny, Todd was a senior member of Point72 Asset Management’s data strategy team. Todd’s prior experience also includes client facing roles at Goldman Sachs and at J.P. Morgan. Todd graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Villanova University and holds an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business.

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  Daryl Smith

  Neudata

  Managing Director and Head of Research

  Daryl is Head of Research at Neudata. He and his team are responsible for researching and discovering alternative datasets for a wide range of asset managers worldwide. In doing so, Neudata are able to deliver objective advice to clients on exactly which datasets are most appropriate for their investment strategy.

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  Deep Srivastav

  Franklin Templeton

  Senior Vice president, Head of Digital Solutions

  Deep Srivastav is a senior vice president and head of digital solutions for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions.

  Mr. Srivastav is responsible for the development and deployment of Franklin Templeton's investment solutions
  through digital channels. His role involves leveraging financial technologies, data science capabilities and
  investment capabilities related to Goals Based Wealth Management to bring Franklin Templeton's personalized
  investment solutions to market.

  Most recently, Mr. Srivastav was the global head of data & analytics for Global Advisory Services within Franklin
  Templeton. He has also held various leadership roles at the firm in the areas of client analytics, capital market
  research, data sciences, digital analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, and business strategy. He
  represented Franklin Templeton within Data Board (a board.org community) for 2020-21.
  Prior to Franklin Templeton, Mr. Srivastav served as the head of operations at Oracle Financial Services,
  technology manager at GE Capital, and engineer at Tata Motors.

  Mr. Srivastav holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics from The M.S University of Baroda in India and an
  MBA with a focus in quantitative research and marketing from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He
  holds the Certificate in Quantitative Finance by CQF Institute of Fitch Learning. He is also a GE Capital certified
  Six Sigma Black Belt and IBM certified in Python for Data Science and SQL.

  Mr. Srivastav is the co-author of “A New Approach to Goals Based Wealth Management”, which was published in
  the Journal of Investment Management and won the Harry M. Markowitz Award in 2018. Another one of his
  papers, “Dynamic Portfolio Allocation in Goals Based Wealth Management”, was published in the Journal of
  Computational Management Science in 2019.

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  Lorne Sugarman

  Metaverse Group

  Chief Executive Officer

  Lorne Sugarman is a seasoned senior executive with diverse experience across direct C-level operating experience, investment banking and principal investing.

  Lorne is CEO and Director of the Metaverse Group. Prior to the Metaverse Group, Lorne was previously the CEO of Wellpoint Health Services for 9 years where he grew the business to over 250 employees, completed and integrated seven acquisitions and ultimately was sold to CloudMD (TSX: CMD).

  Lorne spent over 20 years in advisory services with over 15+ years at GMP Securities, most recently as MD / Head of Technology Group, and spent almost 4 years as Principal at KES7 Capital Inc. Lorne started his career with Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche providing advice to clients in North America.

  Lorne holds a BA from Western University and an MBA from the Rotman School at the University of Toronto.

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  Catherine Tanimura

  Summit Partners

  Vice President, Analytics & Data Science

  Cathy Tanimura is Vice President, Analytics & Data Science at Summit Partners. Cathy works closely with the Summit team and portfolio companies to help create and execute strategies that effectively use data and analytics to drive decisions and build better products. Prior to Summit, Cathy worked at Strava, where she built an analytics and data science team focused on product, marketing, and business development. Previously she led analytics teams at Okta and Zynga. Cathy is also the author of the book SQL for Data Analysis: Advanced Techniques for Transforming Data into Insights.

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  Sandra Waliczek

  World Economic Forum

  Blockchain and Digital Assets

  Sandra Waliczek is a Blockchain and Digital Asset Lead at the World Economic Forum with a current focus on digital currency governance and the future of digital assets in capital markets. Previously, Sandra worked at the intersection of blockchain and capital markets at the World Bank. Sandra holds a B.S. in International Business and Finance from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

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  Sheila Warren

  Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI)

  Chief Executive Officer

  Sheila Warren is the chief executive officer for Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), a global
  alliance formed to demonstrate the transformational promise of crypto and educate
  policymakers, regulators, and people around the globe.

  Sheila leads a group of the most influential crypto industry leaders in the world representing
  Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Block, Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, and Paradigm.
  Prior to joining CCI, Sheila served as the World Economic Forum’s deputy global head of the
  Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, and a
  member of its executive committee. She founded the blockchain and digital assets team at the
  Forum, and her pioneering policy work has helped shape the data and technology spaces to be
  more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.

  Sheila began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP before
  turning to philanthropy and civic technology. She was a senior executive and general counsel at
  TechSoup. She also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on
  international grantmaking. Sheila is the co-host of "Money Reimagined", CoinDesk’s popular
  podcast and serves on the board of directors of various nonprofit and social justice
  organizations. She graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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  Kathryn White

  Accenture

  Digital Financial Markets leader

  Kathryn White is a Digital Financial Markets leader at Accenture. She has just completed a two-year, full time, Fellowship with the World Economic Forum, where she was a leader of the first two phases of the Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium (DCGC), co-authored the DCGC White Paper Series and, most recently, authored and published the Macroeconomic Impact of Cryptocurrency and Stablecoins. Kathryn is passionate about representing women’s voices and needs in financial services as well as studying applications of digital currency for emerging markets and developing economies. Kathryn holds a dual B.A. from the University of Southern California (USC) in International Relations and Spanish as well as a Masters in Public Affairs from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

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  Paul White

  Quantbot Technologies

  Co-founder and the CEO

  Mr. White is a co-founder and the CEO of Quantbot Technologies, LP. Before co-founding Quantbot, he was co-head of Merrill Lynch's statistical arbitrage proprietary trading group (QSA). As an original founding member of QSA he was responsible for creating a new global business from scratch. Before joining Merrill, Paul had a senior position in Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab (ETL) proprietary trading group, responsible for developing statistical arbitrage black box automated trading strategies. Prior to ETL, Paul held senior technology roles at Morgan Stanley, an Internet startup and a major European software company. Paul holds a BSc. in Mathematics and Computer Science.

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  Mark Yusko

  Morgan Creek Capital Management and Morgan Creek Digital

  CEO and Chief Investment Officer; Managing Partner

  Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital. Morgan Creek Capital Management was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in discretionary and non-discretionary assets. Prior to founding Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was CIO and Founder of UNC Management Company (UNCMC), the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he was Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office.

  Mr. Yusko has been at the forefront of institutional investing throughout his career. An early investor in alternative asset classes at Notre Dame, he brought the Endowment Model of investing to UNC, which contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment. The Endowment Model is the cornerstone philosophy of Morgan Creek, as is the mandate to Invest in Innovation. Mr. Yusko is again at the forefront of institutional investing through Morgan Creek Digital Assets, which was formed in 2018. Morgan Creek Digital is an early stage investor in blockchain technology, digital currency and digital assets.

  Mr. Yusko received a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago.

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  Saif Zia

  Neudata

  Business Development Manager

  Saif is Business Development Manager for the Buyside in London. Prior to joining Neudata, Saif worked in Private Equity bringing vendor offerings to the investor community. Formerly an institutional equity research salesperson Saif has over 6 years of Capital Markets and Private Markets experience. Saif has held various positions with Barclays and more recently, Preqin.