SALT Talks

Vanessa Colella is the Chief Innovation Officer for Citi and leads the Citi Ventures and Citi Productivity teams. Citi Ventures is committed to charting the unknown in a world of unprecedented change and disruption. We invest in innovative startups, and we work with our colleagues, clients, and the innovation ecosystem to experiment with next-generation technologies.

Vanessa's goal is to accelerate and discover new sources of value by championing innovation so that Citi can compete more effectively in a world of technological, behavioral, and societal change. The Citi Ventures team drives innovation by exploring, incubating, and investing in new ideas and partnering with category-defining startups to help people, businesses and communities thrive. She's an expert in corporate development, strategic partnerships, mobile payments, emerging payments, entrepreneurship, education, venture capital, and marketing.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin. Swan is a recurring Bitcoin purchase plan to help you save value in Bitcoin. Yan is the former co-founder and CTO at Reverb, which was sold to Etsy for $275M.

He is the author of Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained. “Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is, or how it works.”

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 Vijay Boyapati is the Author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin.

“With the price of bitcoin surging to new highs in 2017, the bullish case for investors might seem so obvious it does not need stating. Alternatively, it may seem foolish to invest in a digital asset that isn’t backed by any commodity or government and whose price rise has prompted some to compare it to the tulip mania or the dot-com bubble. Neither is true; the bullish case for Bitcoin is compelling but far from obvious. There are significant risks to investing in Bitcoin, but, as I will argue, there is still an immense opportunity.”

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Huda Al Lawati is a partner of Gateway Partners, based in Dubai. She has over 16 years of experience in strategy, investment and portfolio management across emerging market private equity and corporates in the MENA with a strong relationship network in the region. Prior to joining Gateway, Huda was CIO at Savola Group, the leading strategic investment holding company in the food and retail sectors in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region. She was responsible for strategy, portfolio management, M&A and investor relations for the group.

Kamar Jaffer is counsel at Allen & Overy in the Funds and Asset Management Group. Kamar specializes in advising on structuring and establishing investment funds (including Shari’a compliant funds), co-investments, cross-border M&A, private equity and joint ventures. Kamar’s experience spans a broad range of sectors including private equity, financial institutions, energy, telecommunications, hospitality, real estate and healthcare sectors.

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Dr. Yossi Bahagon, the Managing Partner at OurCrowd. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of e-Health, Mobile-Health and Telemedicine, Dr. Bahagon founded in 2009 the e-Health wing for Clalit Health Services (CHS), the largest HMO in Israel and second-largest globally. Under his leadership, the e-Health activity at CHS became the largest Online-Care and Telemedicine provider worldwide and has won several national and international prizes for excellence.

Dr. Bahagon serves today as a senior consultant in the Venture Capital, Bio-Medical, Telemedicine and Pharmaceutical industries, while continuing his role as a Family physician.

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Jalak Jobanputra is the Founder of Future\Perfect Ventures. An early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI. FPV's portfolio includes Abra, Blockstream, Bitpesa, Fusemachines, Everledger and Blockchain. 

Jalak was awarded Institutional Investor's Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers from 2016-2018. In May 2018, she was awarded Microsoft's VC Trailblazer Award for "her early and bold" investments in the sector. She has been listed as a 100 Most Influential Fintech Leader of 2016 and 2017 based on her investment strategy at FPV. In 2017, she was cited as a "Top 5 Investor Powering the Blockchain Boom" and Crunchbase noted FPV as one of the top VC funds in blockchain "before it was cool." Since founding the firm, she has spoken on blockchain technology, IoT, and artificial intelligence at many global conferences.

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Saleh Romeih is the Managing Partner SoftBank Group. SoftBank Capital is a venture capital group in the United States, focusing on technology and telecom early-stage businesses. It was founded by SoftBank.

“We're in the midst of a transformational shift in society, powered by AI. And like those that came before it, this transformation will reach virtually every sector of our global economy. It's why we back a diversity of companies responsibly leading us toward new tools, new capabilities, and new possibilities.”

Prior to joining SoftBank, Saleh was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. Before that, he spent 17 years at Deutsche Bank, notably as Head of Corporate Coverage for Asia; and as Head of Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions for the Corporate and Investment Bank divisions of Deutsche Bank. 

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Mark Mobius is the Founder of Mobius Capital Partners. Mobius Capital Partners is an emerging and frontier markets asset manager offering an innovative private equity approach to public markets. Supported by a first-class investment team, Mobius Capital Partners is focused on a single long-only strategy based on actively partnering with portfolio companies to improve their corporate governance and to deliver a clear ESG pathway.

Mark is a key figure in developing international policy for emerging markets. In 1999, he was selected to serve on the World Bank's Global Corporate Governance Forum as a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group and as co-chairman of its Investor Responsibility Task Force. His work and expertise have earned him numerous industry awards, including most recently the Life Time Achievement Award in Asset Management (2017) Global Investor Magazine; 50 Most Influential People (2011) Bloomberg Markets Magazine; Africa Investor Index Series Awards (2010) African Investor; and the Top 100 Most Powerful and Influential People (2006) Asiamoney. 

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This is part three of the three-part series on election security. Brad Raffensperger is the CEO and owner of Tendon Systems, LLC. Tendon is a specialty contracting and engineering design firm with nearly 150 employees. The firm has operated in 35 different states. Raffensperger also owns and operates a specialty steel manufacturing plant based in Forsyth County. Additionally, he served two terms in the Georgia General Assembly from 2015-2019.

Jocelyn Benson is Michigan's 43rd Secretary of State. In this role, she is focused on ensuring elections are secure and accessible, and dramatically improving customer experiences for all who interact with our offices. Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process, the first major book on the role of the secretary of state in enforcing election and campaign finance laws. She is also the Chair of Michigan's Task Force on Women in Sports, created by Governor Whitmer in 2019 to advance opportunities for women in Michigan as athletes and sports leaders.

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Dante Disparte is the Executive Vice President of the Diem Association. Dante serves as a member of the executive committee leading public policy, social impact, membership and communications. The Diem payment system is built on blockchain technology to enable the open, instant, and low-cost movement of money. People will be able to send, receive, and spend their money, enabling universal access to financial services.

Diem, previously known as Libra, is a permissioned blockchain-based payment system proposed by the American social media company Facebook, Inc. The plan also includes a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.