SALT Talks

Richard Byworth is the Chief Executive Officer of Diginex. He has 20+ years of experience spanning finance, start-ups, investment, fintech sectors and the crypto industry. "We are modeling out about $175,000 for the price of bitcoin by the end of this year."

Diginex is a digital asset financial services and advisory company focused on delivering innovative products, architecture, and infrastructure to foster the mainstream adoption of the digital asset class. The group was listed on Nasdaq in September 2020 under the ticker "EQOS".

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Adam Jentleson is the Author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.

In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers’ vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives. From John Calhoun in the mid-1800s to Mitch McConnell in the 2010s, their primary weapon has been the filibuster, or the requirement that most legislation secure the support of a supermajority of senators. Yet, as Jentleson reveals, the filibuster was not a feature of the original Senate and, in allowing a determined minority to gridlock the federal government, runs utterly counter to the Framers’ intent.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Jonathan Allen is a political reporter for NBC News with two decades of experience covering Congress, the White House and federal elections. A frequent guest on national television and radio programs. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency" is his third book with Amie Parnes. Their first two books, "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign" and "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton," were both New York Times bestsellers. "Shattered" reached No. 1 on the list.

Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Alex Mashinsky is the CEO of Celsius Network and a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, Alex has raised more than $1 billion and exited over $3 billion.

Georgia Quinn is the Chair of the Advisory Board and co-founder of iDisclose, an adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade private placement documents for a fraction of the time and cost.

Celsius is a modern platform where membership provides access to curated financial services that are not available through traditional financial institutions. Crypto holders can earn rewards by transferring their coins to their Celsius Wallet and borrow USD against their crypto collateral.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, a digital asset investment firm that manages $4B in assets on behalf of a global client base, and serves as a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. She is the founder of her personal crypto fund Athena Capital, and is continuing to open the crypto world to institutional investors. On the side, Demirors has lectured about blockchain for the University of Oxford.

Tegan Kline is the Co-Founder and Business Lead at Edge & Node, Initial team behind The Graph, working to ensure decentralized applications are as easy to build on Web3 and use as the centralized applications on the Web2 today. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem for the world of tomorrow.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Robin Potts is the Co-Head of Real Estate Investments and Director of Acquisitions for Canyon. Ms. Potts supervises originations and acquisitions of all real estate transactions. Ms. Potts previously worked in the Financial Institutions Group of Credit Suisse in Los Angeles and focused on equity, debt, and M&A transactions in the mortgage real estate investment trust sector. Ms. Potts is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A., Economics).

Michael Levy is the Chief Executive Officer of Crow Holdings where he is responsible for leading and overseeing the Company’s overall business activities. Joining in 2016 from Morgan Stanley where he was Chief Operating Officer for the Investment Management Division and a member of the firm’s Management Committee, Michael had a longstanding career in real estate finance and investments.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Francis Suarez is the Mayor of Miami and an attorney serving as the 43rd mayor of Miami. He was elected on November 7, 2017, with 86 percent of the vote. Suarez is the first Miami-born mayor. He is a registered Republican, but the office of the City of Miami Mayor is nonpartisan.

We discuss his plans to transform Miami into a tech innovation hub, how he is embracing Bitcoin and crypto, climate change, and more. Suarez has been a strong advocate for technological innovation within Miami and has recently embraced leaders and innovators within the crypto industry.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Dan Held is the Growth Lead at Kraken Bitcoin Exchange. Dan is a serial Bitcoin entrepreneur with two exits (Interchange, Kraken, ZeroBlock, Blockchain.com), and has a wide span of experience across five Bitcoin companies.

His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by Airbnb), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second-ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised of the founders of Kraken, Coinbase, Litecoin, and others.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Betsy Cohen is a Chairman at FinTech Group. Betsy’s entrepreneurial vision is focused on identifying disruptive technology innovation in the financial services industry, with a particular focus on established companies that offer data processing, transactional or data security, consumer engagement platforms and payment processing services.

Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in financial law, banking, real estate lending, investing and development, Betsy Cohen and her achievements have been widely recognized by some of the nation’s most prestigious organizations and publications. By the time she founded Jefferson Bank at 32 years of age (which she subsequently sold for over $370 million), she had already served as only the second female law professor on the East Coast (after Ruth Bader Ginsburg), created a commercial law firm, started a shipping business in Hong Kong, set up a leasing company in Brazil, and entered into a joint venture with a bank in Spain. But it would be her creation in 1999 of The Bancorp - a revolutionary concept in commercial banking - that would anchor her position as a true financial services visionary. 

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Erika Karp founded Cornerstone Capital Group to bring the disciplines of finance, economics and sustainability to bear in pursuit of a more regenerative and inclusive form of capitalism. Over the course of her 25-plus years on Wall Street, Erika developed a deep belief in environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis as a critical input to investment decision-making.

John Streur is President and Chief Executive Officer of Calvert Research and Management, an investment management firm that specializes in responsible and sustainable investing across global capital markets. Calvert serves all types of investors through its family of mutual funds and separate accounts. Mr. Streur is also President and a Trustee/Director of the Calvert Funds and a Director of Calvert Foundation and a member of its Risk Oversight Committee.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.