SALT Talks

Julia Collins is the CEO of Planet FWD, a company on a mission to tackle climate change by expanding regenerative agriculture adoption. The company is building a software platform for regenerative agriculture alongside a climate-smart snack brand.

Climate change is the most important and pressing issue facing our planet and the food we eat plays a significant role. Regenerative agriculture represents an environmentally thoughtful approach central to combatting climate change. Between the 1940s and 1970s, the Green revolution introduced new nitrogen-based farming practices that helped boost crop yields but simultaneously destroyed soil. “Regenerative farming has the capability not only to create healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people, but also to sequester carbon and address the legacy load, which is part of the solution to climate change.”

Moonshot snack brand is the first explicitly climate-friendly snack brand. On top of launching crackers as its first snack product, Moonshot helps other companies shift their operations towards a more planet-forward approach. This includes offering data and tactical recommendations other companies can use and implement in their production.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Amal Dokhan is the CEO of Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Saudi Arabia. Dokhan is one of the early innovation and entrepreneurship educators and facilitators in the MENA region. 

A Stanford course in design thinking offered a simple yet profound lesson for marketers and entrepreneurs: by focusing on the underlying human motivations, one can determine the solution. It requires a methodology to process and ultimately apply, but human behavior provides the most powerful data points for any business. “[Design thinking] will change something in the way you actually address problems, in the way you address strategies and the way you understand designing anything in life, even within a small organization.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Jordana Kier is the co-founder of LOLA, the first lifelong brand for her body. Created for women, by women who have been there too, LOLA aims to address every reproductive life stage with a commitment to product transparency and a community built on candid dialogue about all of the things we don’t openly talk about.

The female monthly reproductive cycle has been very reactive and left women vulnerable. There simply was no space for women to talk and engage with one another around this major part of their lives. This led to a holistic company that provided not only a supportive and open community but a full suite of products to service those needs. This has sparked greater engagement among women who are becoming more conscious about their consumer choices when it comes to their bodies. “You're talking about products that a woman may use for up to 40 years of her life, why aren't there long-term studies about the different ingredients that might go into these products?”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the co-founders of Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, to empower the individual through crypto. Gemini is a New York Trust company that allows customers to buy, sell, and store crypto such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ether, Zcash, and Litecoin.

While being identical twins, Cameron is left-handed and Tyler is right-handed. This seemingly creates a complementary skillset between the two. Utilizing the unique partnership has led to a life full of start-ups that always seek to solve a problem. This started with the creation of the high school rowing team, then with roles coming up with the idea for Facebook, and ultimately forays in the crypto asset space. Predicting global currency inflation caused by money printing and stimulus spending, investors will need to find protection. Gold was historically the best way to guard against inflation, but Bitcoin offers an even better solution. “Bitcoin is basically the expression of gold in that digital sense. When you line up all the properties, it's not really a fair fight. Bitcoin is far superior to gold across the board.” 

The growth of Bitcoin is inevitable as it lives on the Internet and is accessible wherever someone has a connection. Bitcoin will be able to coexist alongside existing government-backed currencies and will ultimately see its mainstream acceptance. Gemini serves as a crypto platform where individuals can more easily access this new alternative asset class.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Joe Scarborough is the co-host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" alongside Mika Brzezinski - a show with a reported increased viewership of 113% by Variety. "Morning Joe" starts each weekday conducting interviews with top newsmakers and discussing the day's headlines. The New York Times ranked Morning Joe as one of today’s top morning news shows and has praised Joe and Mika's natural repartee and off-the-cuff commentary. The New Yorker also described the show as "appallingly entertaining.” In 2016, Joe, joined by co-host Mika, was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.

Joe was named to the prestigious “Time 100” list of the world’s most influential people, and Vanity Fair named both Joe and Mika to their 2012 list of “Top Media Power Players.” 

In addition to his television career, Joe is a two-time New York Times best-selling author. His first work, "Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day", predicted the collapse of the Republican majority and U.S. economy due to his party's reckless spending. His second work, "The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise", draws on the forgotten genius of conservatism to offer a road map for the movement and the country. Joe also frequently contributes political opinion pieces to The Washington Post.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions.

Gary Hall is a Partner with Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (the nation's largest minority-owned investment bank) and a Partner with American Triple I Partners (an infrastructure private-equity firm). He formerly was an investment banker with JPMorgan, an attorney with 

Municipal markets are at the center of how infrastructure and essential services are delivered, but it is very fragmented. The market is very local and decisions reflect the specific nature of the city/region, geographically and culturally. The need for infrastructure projects in the United States has been made even more urgent due to the pandemic. Municipal bonds have been responsible for many of the biggest and most iconic infrastructure projects in American history. “We have this sort of disparate view about the government and its ability to operate and manage assets, but these are really important investments that we need to make in our country.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Josh Giegel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Virgin Hyperloop where he is leading a world-class team of engineers making the hyperloop a reality. Josh founded the company in 2014, when hyperloop was an idea drawn on a whiteboard in a garage. A little over two years later, VH built a full-scale prototype capturing the attention of governments worldwide. Today, Josh is leading the development of paradigm-shifting electromagnetic, high power, autonomous technology, bridging the engineering work with unparalleled passenger experience, and working at the highest levels of government to develop a regulatory framework for hyperloop technology.

Growing up in a family of engineers opened Giegel’s eyes to a world of possibility. He learned from his dad early on to tackle any project by simply understanding the problem-solving process. An early role with SpaceX building rockets eventually led to a shift towards more earth-based interests. “We're going to do make life interplanetary, that's awesome as well, but I really started to focus on the responsibility of the engineer here on earth.”

Hyperloop aims to completely revolutionize the way we travel. “What we're trying to do is move people at airline speeds, but here on the ground.” This more environmentally-friendly technology will allow someone to live in NYC and commute daily to Washington DC with the ease of a commuter driving into the city from the suburbs.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Top voices in venture capital provide insights into how startups are leveraging and driving the revolution in working, communicating, and staying healthy brought about by COVID-19. This third installment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, includes insight into disruption in MedTech. Hear from the CEOs behind Israel’s leading COVID-19 vaccine company, MigVax, SaNOtize which is developing a breakthrough preventative treatment for those exposed to the virus, and Medaware, which is transforming patient safety by digitally eliminating medication error.

Featuring Eyal Desheh, Chairman of MigVax, Dr. Gilly Regev, Chief Executive Officer of SaNOtize, and Dr. Gidi Stein, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Medaware.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Prior to COVID-19, digital transformation projects were at a pace of their own - slow and experimental. For the fourth installment of SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, Ron Moritz, serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and sector expert, will quiz top CEOs from startups Morphisec, ITsMine and ThetaRay on how they are dealing with the unprecedented rush to move enterprise applications from the traditional data center to the cloud, managing rapid cybersecurity innovation successfully and the resulting challenges and opportunities. 

Featuring Ronen Yehoshua, Chief Executive Officer of Morphisec, Mark Gazit, Chief Executive Officer of ThetaRay, and Kfir Kimhi, Chief Executive Officer of ITsMine.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Todd Sears is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Out Leadership, the global LGBT+ business advisory company that partners with the world’s most influential firms to build a business opportunity, cultivate talent, and drive equality forward. 

In 2001, gay marriage was not legal. That meant there were over 1,049 rights at the federal level that the LGBT+ community did not enjoy, over 90% being financial. This presented a massive opportunity as there was an entire segment in desperate need of financial guidance related to protecting livelihoods and estates. This ultimately led to the creation of global conferences in 2011 called Out on the Street that brought CEOs together in support of the LBGT+ community in business. “Everything that we've done globally with 650 CEOs, and now 85 companies, is focused on the idea that business can drive equality, but from a business imperative.”

Beyond the social value, LGBT+ advocacy has real economic benefits. Leaders in the business communities of places like Singapore, where homosexuality is still illegal, can be influential in applying pressure.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.