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Angela Matheny is the CIO of Crewcial Partners. Angela also continues to drive the firm’s manager diversity initiative to attract and source diverse asset managers while monitoring protocol and the internal vetting process of women and diverse asset managers.

The private equity and venture capital space continues to see a dearth of black and brown asset managers. For too long, companies and their leaders operate within their existing networks, leading to less exposure of diverse candidates. Beyond the social good, diverse teams offer real financial benefits by bringing in different perspectives that ultimately lead to stronger investment portfolios. “One of the ways that we like to think that you can incorporate that downside protection is actually implementing diversity, which leads to diversity of thought, which then leads to diverse outcomes.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who has worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China. Most recently, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund, for 10 years. Prior to that, Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Hedge funds and asset managers typically get most of the spotlight from the media when it comes to large investment groups. In reality, sovereign funds play massive roles in the capital markets, yet are under-discussed and not fully understood relative to their importance.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Fareed Zakaria is th host of Fareed Zakaria GPS for CNN Worldwide and a columnist for The Washington Post, a contributing editor for The Atlantic, and a bestselling author. Fareed Zakaria GPS is a weekly international and domestic affairs program that airs on CNN/U.S. and around the world on CNN International. Since its debut in 2008, it has become a prominent television forum for global newsmakers and thought leaders.

Globalization over the last 100+ years has been responsible for many of the most important advances in western civilization. Though, in the last 25 years, globalization fueled by an information/technological revolution has created greater inequality with a priority placed on more skilled work. “What's happening is the higher and higher value stuff is being made digitally and operates in a digital world, and the lower and lower value stuff is the physical world… It's more technological than it is globalization and the pandemic has massively exacerbated it.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Marty Chavez is a widely renowned trailblazer and leader in venture capital. Most recently, Marty served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. Chavez began his long and illustrious career breaking from tradition as an openly gay Latino working on Wall Street, an industry that had not yet earned a reputation as widely accepting.

Chavez is now applying the AI technology and ideas he helped develop in finance to the life sciences, his original passion. This includes a company that has created a digital microscope designed to outline cells and their tissue specimen to identify potentially cancerous properties.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Michelle Williams is Dean of the Faculty for the Harvard Chan School of Public Health as well as the Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development. Dean Williams is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator and a widely recognized academic leader. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

The failures of the United States’ COVID response can be connected to a distinct lack of leadership and institutional distrust of science, but that’s only part of the problem. Long-term problems existed before the pandemic, due to chronic underinvestment, that has been exposed by the pandemic. While it’s highlighted the problems, it also presents an opportunity to renew the call for impactful and long-term public health investment. “Public health for far too long has been sort of unseen and undervalued and underinvested.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Saeed Al Mazrouei is the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund for the government of Abu Dhabi. In this role, he oversees the group-wide finance function, supporting the delivery of the company’s growth strategy and ensuring the successful execution of strategic transactions and financing projects, as well as supporting the company’s business units in various acquisitive transactions and assets monetization.

Mubadala was created to focus on investing in and growing a more diverse business ecosystem within Abu Dhabi. This includes working with American organizations like the Cleveland Clinic to build a world-class healthcare system in Abu Dhabi. 

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Dr. Finian Tan is the founder of Vickers Venture Partners. Vickers is a top-performing, global deep-tech firm with $3B under management across six funds and co-investments. Vickers invests in early-stage companies with technical solutions to solve large, global problems. Finian was Deputy Secretary of Trade and Industry for the Singapore government.

Serving as Deputy Secretary of Trade and Industry at 34, a major project was turning Singapore into a Silicon Valley for Asia. Creating that ecosystem is difficult and similar to building a national park that develops a natural self-sustaining circle of life; it cannot be artificially maintained. This effort sought to use venture capital, work hubs and regulations to allow start-ups to thrive in Singapore. “If you want to create a circle of life for venture capital, you need every single part of it, and you need the country to have the political will to do this, and the capital and the R&D spend, and they must be in the right R&D environment.”

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Michael Sonnenshein is the Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager with more than $5.9 billion in assets under management across its family of 10 products – all of which provide access and exposure to the digital currency asset class in the form of a traditional security, without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping digital currencies directly.

Dan Morehead founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. 

Bitcoin represents the launching pad for global financial inclusion. The Internet moves all kinds of data all over the globe and a reliable e-cash system represents the final piece of that puzzle. Financial value can now be moved seamlessly without going through the expensive and obstructive intermediaries.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Noah Kerner is the CEO of Acorns, a financial technology and financial services company specializing in micro-investing and robo-investing. Born in New York City, Kerner got involved with Acorns two months after launch as an adviser, investor, board director and then CEO. He is a 4X entrepreneur, Co-author of Chasing Cool with the former CEO of Barneys, and former DJ for Jennifer Lopez.

Acting on a lifelong mission to level the playing field in a world of haves and have-nots, Acorns was founded to bring tools of wealth creation to everyone. The goal is to make it easy to save and invest even small amounts of money, where typically investment tools are reserved for the financial elites. Acorns has an initiative focused on opening children’s investment accounts, highlighting the importance and value of early, compounding growth. It also seeks to offer investment education to prevent less experienced investors from overreacting to short-term market swings. “The market swings every day. It's in the red, the blue, black. It's impossible to stay calm and make rational decisions… great investors stay the course.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. 

Nathalie Molina Niño, an entrepreneur, builder capitalist (at O³) and tech globalization veteran focused on high-growth businesses that benefit women and the planet. She is the author of LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs (Penguin Random House, Tarcher Perigee) and serves as a Venture Partner at Connectivity Capital Partners. Molina Niño launched her first tech startup at the age of twenty and is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies of Barnard College at Columbia University.

Finding issues identifying as either venture or private equity, a group of like-minded entrepreneurs with a passion for long-term vision and sustainability coined a new term: Builder Capitalist. Venture capital too often promoted the kind of short-term think that prioritized quick turnarounds for profit rather than a long-term holistic approach to building. “What worries me is when the Shark Tank effect starts to happen and you have organizations like the media making it seem like it’s the end-all, be-all for all entrepreneurs.”

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.