Peter Madsen is the Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Utah School & Institutional Trust Funds Office (SITFO), where he has led the state’s sovereign wealth fund since 2015. He previously served as a Managing Director at Cube Capital in London and as a Partner at RVK, advising large institutional investors on global portfolios, governance, and asset allocation. At SITFO, Peter has overseen the evolution of the fund from a more traditional portfolio into a globally diversified allocator across public and private markets, grounded in mean reversion, factor-based risk management, and long-term stewardship for Utah’s public education system.

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Philip Benjamin is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Colzen Capital, where he leads one of the most innovative structured equity financing strategies in the late-stage venture ecosystem. Philip’s investment philosophy is informed by his fourth-generation real estate family background and by experiencing the 2008 financial crisis just as he graduated college. His family’s timely liquidity event before the crash enabled him to explore private alternatives and eventually develop a distinctive approach to venture risk.

Before launching Colzen, Philip invested across fund managers, direct deals, and special situations, eventually partnering with Sam Buleau to refine a pre-exit liquidity model that supports founders and executives without forcing them to sell shares. Philip applies a distressed-real-estate mindset to venture—focused on downside protection, valuation discipline, and structured upside—and has become a leading voice in the growing pre-exit liquidity asset class.

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Rennick Palley is the Founder of Stratos, an investment firm he launched in 2016 after entering the crypto markets. Under his leadership, Stratos has built multiple top-decile venture funds and a liquid strategy designed to compound capital across highly volatile cycles. Before founding Stratos, Rennick worked as a Research Associate at Sanders Capital, a $75 billion global equity manager known for its fundamental, value-driven approach. He holds dual Bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University and a Master’s in Quantitative Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rennick blends value-investing discipline, quantitative rigor, and crypto-native insight, making him one of the most analytical and thoughtful investors in digital assets today.

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Ryan Serhant is one of the most recognized and successful real estate brokers on the planet. He is the founder and CEO of SERHANT., a modern multidimensional real estate brokerage operating at the intersection of media, entertainment, education, and technology. Ryan has closed nearly $10 billion in sales and has represented clients in some of the most record-breaking transactions across New York and South Florida. Before launching his firm, he became a global personality as the star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and now serves as Executive Producer and lead star of Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. Beyond real estate, Ryan is an entrepreneur, creator, bestselling author, and philanthropist whose content reaches over six million people. SERHANT. has grown rapidly under his leadership, expanding across multiple states and pioneering LISTED, a dedicated YouTube network focused on real estate and lifestyle. Ryan actively supports organizations including City Harvest, Feeding America, the Ali Forney Center, the NYC Sanitation Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and Project Sunshine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Emilia, and their daughter, Zena.

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Julia Rees Toader, CFA, is the Founding Partner at PrinCap, an independent investment portfolio strategy firm advising institutions, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals on asset allocation, manager selection, and strategic portfolio design.

Before founding PrinCap, Julia served as Head of Portfolio Strategy and Head of Relationship Management at Heritage Holdings, a multifamily office. She previously spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she rose from founding intern to Global Head of Portfolio Strategy, advising CIOs of sovereign wealth funds, pensions, private banks, and other large allocators around the world.

Julia began her career in M&A and business development for an early-stage medical device biotech company. She holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and is a CFA charterholder.

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Steve McLaughlin is the Founder, CEO, and Managing Partner of Financial Technology Partners (FT Partners), the leading investment bank focused exclusively on FinTech. Since launching in 2001, Steve has built FT Partners into a globally recognized advisory powerhouse, completing hundreds of the most important transactions across payments, digital banking, crypto, wealth & capital markets tech, InsurTech, healthcare payments, and more.

He has been ranked #1 on Institutional Investor’s “Most Influential Dealmakers in FinTech,” named Investment Banker of the Year, and recognized as the #1 FinTech banker in Silicon Valley by The Information. FT Partners has also won Investment Banking Firm of the Year four times since 2004.

Before founding FT Partners, Steve led the Global Financial Technology Group at Goldman Sachs. He earned his BSBA from Villanova University and his MBA from Wharton.

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Chris Vasquez is the Founder & CEO of Quantum Talent, a specialized recruiting firm focused on placing elite technical talent into leading AI, frontier-tech, and enterprise software startups. Quantum works with hundreds of venture-backed companies and has partnered with 80% of Tier 1 VC firms, helping founders build high-density engineering teams capable of shipping breakthrough products.

With deep expertise in identifying the top 0.1% of engineers, researchers, and product leaders, Chris and his team have become one of the most trusted upstream partners in the AI ecosystem — operating at the intersection of talent, technology, and high-velocity company building.

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Mark Peter Davis is a venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur, author, and startup community organizer.

MPD is the Managing Partner of Interplay, a startup ecosystem based in NYC that supports founders and innovation at every stage. The ecosystem comprises a top-performing venture capital fund, an accelerator, a studio, a services platform, and a multi-family office. With over 100 companies funded, incubated, or founded, he ranks among the most active startup founders and investors in New York City.

MPD is also an active podcaster, the author of The Fundraising Rules, and the founder of both the Columbia Venture Community and the Blue (Duke) Venture Community.

Prior to his current ventures, MPD was a venture capitalist at DFJ Gotham Ventures and Primary Ventures. Before entering VC, he was a M&A advisor to Fortune 1000 acquirers at KPMG and a strategy and operations consultant at Bain & Company.

MPD earned his BA from Duke University and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

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William “Bill” Brown is the Chief Investment Officer of Terrace Tower Group, a global family office originating from the Westfield legacy. Bill oversees the group’s non-real-estate portfolio, spanning public equities, private equity, venture capital, and private credit. Before joining Terrace Tower in 2010, Bill worked in investment banking and spent his early career at Salomon Brothers. His investing philosophy is shaped by decades of experience working with the Stern family and managing multi-asset portfolios across cycles.

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Eva Shang is the Co-founder and General Partner of Legalist, an asset manager specializing in technology-enabled investments across litigation finance, bankruptcy, law-firm lending, mass torts, and government receivables. Eva co-founded the firm in 2016 after leaving Harvard and entering Y Combinator, and has led Legalist from its $10M debut fund to over $1.5B in AUM across multiple strategies.

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