Mark Anson is the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Investment Officer of Commonfund, where he oversees more than $35 billion in assets serving endowments, foundations, and institutional investors. Throughout his career, Mark has led investment organizations at some of the world’s most prominent institutions, including CalPERS, the Bass Family Office, British Telecom Pension Scheme, Hermes Pension Management, and Nuveen Investments. A prolific author, researcher, and educator, he has published more than 100 journal articles and several leading finance textbooks, including The Handbook of Alternative Assets.

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David Blumberg is the Founder and Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on backing visionary entrepreneurs building global B2B technology companies. Over a career spanning venture capital, operating leadership, and institutional investing, he has helped build and back category-defining businesses including Nutanix, Braze, DoubleVerify, Trulioo, and Check Point Software Technologies. Prior to founding Blumberg Capital, David held investment roles with Claridge, Apax Partners, Adler & Co., and T. Rowe Price, and was part of the early leadership team at Check Point. He is widely recognized for his focus on enterprise technology, cybersecurity, fintech, and the next wave of AI-driven innovation.

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Ravi Viswanathan is the Founder and Managing Partner of NewView Capital, a growth-stage investment firm managing more than $3 billion and focused on primary, secondary, and hybrid investments in leading technology companies. Prior to founding NewView in 2018, Ravi spent 15 years as a General Partner at NEA, where he backed category-defining companies including MuleSoft, Braintree, Acquia, Cyence, and GlobalLogic. Over more than two decades in venture capital, Ravi has built a reputation for partnering with exceptional founders, identifying enduring technology businesses, and helping shape the evolution of liquidity and capital formation in private markets.

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Jeff Bramel is a Partner at a16z Perennial, where he focuses on real assets and institutional portfolio construction. He has more than 25 years of experience managing large and complex investment portfolios across public and private markets, with expertise spanning real estate, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, asset-backed investments, and alternative strategies. Jeff is known for applying first-principles thinking to portfolio management, combining deep quantitative analysis with a focus on structural diversification, cash-flowing assets, and after-tax optimization for long-term investors.

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Eric Becker is the Founder and Chairman of Cresset, a multi-family office and wealth management platform overseeing more than $250 billion in assets under management and advisement. Prior to founding Cresset, Eric built and invested in multiple businesses as an entrepreneur, beginning with a healthcare technology company he launched while attending the University of Chicago. He is also the author of The Long Game, a book exploring the lessons behind companies and families that have endured for generations, drawing on interviews with some of the world’s longest-lasting organizations and business leaders.

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Luke Sarsfield is Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer of Ridgepost Capital, an investment platform focused on partnering with specialized alternative asset managers. Prior to Ridgepost, he spent more than two decades at Goldman Sachs, where he served in several senior leadership roles including Global Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Chief Commercial Officer of Asset and Wealth Management. Across his career, Luke has focused on building enduring investment businesses, aligning incentives between managers and LPs, and helping scale world-class investment platforms with a long-term orientation.

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Ryan Levitt is Co-Head of LP Secondaries at ICG, a global alternative asset manager with more than $126 billion in assets under management across private equity, credit, structured capital, and real assets. At ICG, Ryan focuses on originating and leading LP secondary transactions, co-investments, and primary fund commitments globally. Prior to joining ICG, he was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Pomona Capital, where he helped build the firm’s private wealth interval fund platform, and earlier in his career he invested across direct equity and debt transactions at GE Capital.

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Niko Bonatsos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Verdict, an early-stage venture firm focused on backing unconventional founders building entirely new categories. Prior to launching Verdict, he spent 15 years at General Catalyst, where he helped expand the firm from an emerging venture platform into one of the world’s leading investment franchises. Niko is known for investing early in overlooked markets, partnering with highly technical founders, and developing a reputation for identifying “freak” entrepreneurs with exceptional rates of learning and conviction.

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Jared Carmel is the Founder and Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners, a leading venture secondary investment firm managing billions across primary and secondary private market investments. He has spent more than a decade helping institutionalize venture secondaries, building liquidity solutions for founders, employees, and investors in many of the world’s most valuable private technology companies. Through MVP’s “Land and Expand” strategy, Jared has invested across category-defining businesses including SpaceX, Anthropic, Databricks, xAI, and Coinbase, while helping shape the modern private liquidity ecosystem.

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Brent Sullivan is an independent tax analyst, software developer, and writer focused on tax-aware investing and portfolio construction. He publishes widely followed research on tax alpha, long-short investing, and advanced wealth management strategies through his platform Tax Alpha Insider. Brent specializes in analyzing the mechanics, risks, and implementation details behind sophisticated tax planning strategies used by advisors, family offices, and institutional investors.

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