Stephen Kuhn is an experienced technology and former financial services executive with over 30 years of experience in US, Europe, and Asia growing public, private, and start-up companies. He is a strategic thinker with excellent presence, public speaking, and presentation skills. He has been founder or co-founder of a number of companies, and as an engineer in his early career created many successful software products. BA UC Berkeley, Classics

Chris has over 30 years experience founding, managing, and selling technology companies, and has been an investment banker. He has deep experience bringing new technology to profitability in a variety of markets by using his strategic vision and research abilities to uncover and develop opportunities that drive growth. Chris graduated from MIT with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with emphasis on signal processing.

Melissa has over 18 years of operations experience, 13 of them in the investment management sector at BNY Mellon Asset Management, where she led an enterprise data management team within BNY Mellon Asset Management. She managed a global team responsible for ensuring data quality and integrity across all asset classes and global markets. She chaired the Securities Pricing Committee, member of the BNY Mellon Market Data Committee. BA SUNY Albany.

Benjamin holds an MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon. He now serves as Managing Director, Quant Strategies & Product Development at Newfound Research, a Boston-based financial technology and product innovation firm enabling rule-based, behavior-driven investment strategies. At Newfound he provides valuable insights around how strategies and quantitative models can be impacted by macroeconomic and systemic market variables.

Ken Bado has been transforming IT companies for the last 20 years. Under his sales and marketing leadership Autodesk grew from over 200% to over $2.2B less than 6 years, ratable revenue went from $0 to over $800M, enterprise revenue from $0 to $500M and non-USA business grew from $400M to over $1.3B. Recently, he took a late stage “Big Data” company from $55M to over $ 70M in less than a year as CEO. Ken is based in San Francisco.

Warren has 30 years experience growing early-stage businesses, and 21 years of experience in the oncology services market and the healthcare industry. He has been involved with the launch and management of several successful oncology service companies including Oncology Therapeutics Network (OTN) in 1991 and National Oncology Alliance (NOA) in 2001, Oncology Metrics in 2007 and most recently served as the President of Altos Solutions.

Alan has held the post of Vice President of Engineering has over 25 years experience.

As VP of Engineering at Quest Software from 2005-2012, he managed a global team of 650 engineers in 14 offices, over 70 products, and a $50M budget.

As VP of Engineering for Borland Software he managed over 60 engineers, working closely with Fortune 500 customers such as FedEx, McKesson, Pepsico, and USAA.

Bill brings 20+ years of marketing experience, mostly in the financial services space. Prior to Tinga Bill led global communications for Prologis Private Capital and was also Vice President of Marketing & Communications for Fidelity’s institutional retirement division, where he supported GM, Ford, Microsoft, John Deere, US Steel and Pfizer. Bill has also held senior positions with Barclays Global Investors, Prologis Charles Schwab, and Deloitte.

Electronic trading sales with 18 years experience, 10 at Bloomberg, plus Cantor Fitzgerald and Goldman Sachs, in the capital market sector. Successfully sold electronic trading systems, algorithmic/DMA access, transaction cost analysis software and financial software and services. Skilled in a multitude of financial tools and accrued a varied skill-set in finance in London, San Francisco and New York