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Rowland Hobbs is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stake. Stake is building the financial infrastructure for the next generation of rentals. With technology that aligns incentives between residents, operators, owners, and investors, everyone earns the Return on Rent™  they deserve. A leader in financial product design, Rowland led Accenture and Teneo’s product design practice. Rowland previously founded two companies and has been recognized by Forbes, Insider, and Fast Company. His inspiration for Stake came from a unique overlap of his pro bono work in microlending, loyalty platforms, and banking services.

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Jim O'Brien, CEO & Co-Founder of Agrograph. Jim's been helping corporations navigate innovation initiatives and build sustainable processes for over a decade. He's held leadership positions at 4 startups and led product innovator teams at 3 multinational corporations ranging from financial services to insurance, to agricultural and corporate wellness. Jim holds an MBA from Edgewood College and a Master’s of Science from UW-Madison.

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Maxim Fateev is the founder of Temporal.io, a developer-first, open-source platform that ensures the successful execution of services and applications. He is also the co-creator of Cadence, a workflow orchestration engine. Maxim developed Cadence when he was at Uber, seeing the engineering challenges that come from trying to solve the workflow orchestration problem. 

Dominik Tornow is a Principal Engineer at Temporal. He is a dedicated and self-motivated software engineer and architect. He uses conceptual and formal models to make complex concepts tangible and complex systems correct by construction.

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Tyler Morrey, a Co-Founder and CEO of Upside.coop, is building a platform to power the ownership economy. His experience as a valuation expert in complex financial instruments and startup consulting led him to see an unmet need in company growth - enabling brands to succeed alongside their customers by mobilizing them with the opportunity to earn ownership in the brand through their engagement.

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Dante DiCicco is the Founder and CEO of Zitti, a company on a mission to level the playing field and transform food industry operations by giving small-to-medium-sized restaurants and food service providers the same advantages experienced by larger chains. 

Dante has invested in 20+ companies as an angel investor.

He’s a passionate leader and operator who previously spent nearly 7 years at Snap leading teams, building mobile-first content experiences, and driving international revenue growth. Prior to his time at Snap, Dante was an Associate at BlackRock within their Financial Institutions Group, overseeing over $40 billion in global Assets Under Management.

He holds a B.S. from Stanford University and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. When he's not working you can find him golfing, exploring local cuisine, or cheering on his favorite sports teams.

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Alex Ghiculescu is the co-founder of Tanda.co/Workforce.com and runs a fund for B2B SaaS companies built on Rails. He lives in the Colorado mountains with his family.

He writes about what he's learned over 10 years of building software on Substack. You can also find him on LinkedIn and Github.

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CEO & Founder Erik Huberman launched Hawke Media in 2014. Now valued at over $100 million, Hawke Media is the fastest-growing marketing consultancy agency in the United States. Prior to its launch, Erik successfully founded, grew, and sold two e-commerce companies by the age of 26. Erik has since continued to strategically expand his business portfolio inclusive of a handful of company acquisitions—Hawke Ventures, which raised $25M in its second fund, and most recently HawkeZ, an agency offering brands the tools needed to tap into GenZ. As a serial entrepreneur and marketing expert, Erik has been recognized by his industry peers through honors and awards including, Forbes Magazine’s 30Under30, CSQ’s 40Under40, and Inc. Magazine’s Top 25 Marketing Influencers.

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Ben Borodach has spent his career working at the intersection of finance and technology. He helped scale Team8 Group into a multi-hundred million AUM fund, and initiated and helped sell several FinTech companies to PayPal and Bitsight, among others. During his tenure at Team8, Ben also spearheaded the firm's strategy arm and its US office as well as launched an award-winning cyber ETF and Ph.D. program. He has also been an advisor and contributor to the World Economic Forum on issues relating to central bank digital currencies. 

Prior to joining Team8, Ben was a FinTech strategist at Deloitte Consulting, where he advised the largest US banks and insurers on their business, technology, M&A, and venture strategies. 

Most recently, Ben co-founded april to bring more equity to the tax experience for all Americans. The company's vision is to democratize access to the tax code, enabling any company to develop and incorporate tax features and filing into their application. 

Ben graduated from NYU with a degree in Economics and Business with Dean's List and Presidential Honors Scholar distinctions.

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John Cordier is the Co-Founder and CEO of Epistemix. Having grown up in 13 places before attending the University of Pittsburgh to study neuroscience and sociology, he was bound to get into complex social systems science at some point. After working with Don Burke and John Grefenstette at the Public Heath Dynamics Lab, he’s led the development of an agent-based modeling platform using synthetic populations and a simulation-specific language to broaden the adoption of simulation across disciplines and industries. As a champion for using GIS and simulation to improve conditions for people to live healthier lives, John spends his non-Epistemix time working on data science education initiatives. John currently lives in Salt Lake City and outside of work spends his time in the Wasatch Mountains.

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Daniel Naim is the Founder and CEO of Fennel, the first retail investing platform to allow users to vote with their shares and access ESG information about the companies they invest in. Backed by the founder of Acorns, Capital Factory, and more, Fennel launched in the fall of 2022 and provides retail investors ESG-based information on the companies they invest in, while also not allowing for shareholder lending so investors can take an active role in being a shareholder.

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