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Dr. Rachel Schreiber currently serves as the Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design at The New School. As an experienced administrator, creating cross-institutional partnerships, faculty leadership, board development, and fundraising, Rachel is passionately committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. She is a visual artist, designer, and publishing historian with an extensive record of exhibitions, academic presses, peer-reviewed articles, and publications. Her most recent book, Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration was issued by Temple University Press in 2021.  

Dr. Rachel Schreiber joined The New School as Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design in July 2019, following more than 26 years in senior leadership and faculty roles at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, and other institutions. Most recently, Rachel served as Provost and Senior Vice President, and as Interim President, at SFAI. An American gender historian, artist, and designer, Rachel has taught design, studio arts, and interdisciplinary humanities at all levels – from first year through graduate studies.       

Chitra is the Senior Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise GreenLake and the Head of the Global Customer Success Center of Excellence. 

She is a self-directed and driven technology and business leader with comprehensive accomplishments in leading post-sale customer and partner strategy, technical advisory, onboarding, adoption, retention, service monetization, and global cross-functional teams to maximize business goals. She brings 20 years of global professional experience combined with innovative thinking and execution with strong hi-tech, finance, insurance, retail, manufacturing, and health care industry acumen.  

Chitra is a highly organized, creative problem-solver who excels at leading teams through challenging projects and translating complicated technology into easy-to-understand concepts. She has proven expertise in retaining and growing multimillion-dollar contracts, budgets, products, and advising C-level executives.      

David Mandel is the Managing Partner of Emerging Ventures Fund.  

Emerging Tech "Super Angel", he has invested in over 500 startups, and built, operated, and exited 4 successful different businesses in the Insurance and Finance industries over a 28-year period. Now focusing on investing in early-stage emerging tech startups both as a very active angel investor, and through Emerging Ventures, in my role as Managing Partner.  

Happy to use my accumulated experience, connections, and financial resources to help the next generation of bright, energetic founders build their businesses.   

Sandra Pham is the Vice President of Finance, People & Culture at The Permanente Federation.  

As a Performance-focused C-level Executive, Sandra has cultivated a stellar record of accelerating business growth, delivering financial performance, regulatory compliance, and strategy alongside operational excellence in healthcare, education, and technology industries. She is known for developing corporate strategy and translating it into actionable business and financial plans to achieve corporate, financial, and market objectives and goals.

Beau Button is the President and CTO of Atlas Reality. Atlas is a company that operates as a mobile games technology with a focus on merging digital and physical interactions.

Hector McNeil is a veteran of the ETF industry, being instrumental in establishing Susquehanna’s ETF desk in Europe as head of business development. Hector then joined ETF Securities as Joint Managing Partner, before going on to found BoostETP with Nik Bienkowski in 2011. BoostETP was purchased by US ETF provider WisdomTree in 2014 and following the completion of this buyout in 2016 Hector stepped down as Co-CEO of WisdomTree Europe.

Cortney Worrall is the President and CEO of Waterfront Alliance, leading the organization to meet the challenges of revitalizing, protecting, and making more accessible the coastlines, waterfronts of the most vulnerable communities throughout the New York-New Jersey region. Cortney leads the strategic direction for climate resilience initiatives and brings a track record in campaign and coalition building to solve complex urban challenges.   

As Senior Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association's Northeast office, Cortney led campaign development and direction, strategic planning, fundraising, organizational development, park protection, and community organizing in the Northeast. She designed and led the two-year campaign for a national park for Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York. By leading and building leadership across multiple sectors, Stonewall National Monument was designated by President Obama in June 2016. She led the northeast strategy for the campaign to reduce the $12B maintenance backlog affecting national parks through the historic Great American Outdoors Act which passed in 2020.     

Managing Partner at CyberVerse Advisors, Rodrigo Loureiro is a thought leader, recognized keynote speaker, and active participant in industry conferences, fireside chats, keynote panels, and other industry events.

Gopal Swamy is the CEO of Conductiv. He is a fintech entrepreneur and product leader with 20+ years of experience in tech startups. Gopal focuses on enterprise/ B2B products and businesses. He is also a proud ex-employee of Akamai Technologies!

Ankit Sharma is the CEO and Founder of Kitply Industries. Kitply Industries’ extensive portfolio of hardwood plywood, decorative surfaces, and specialty hardware products coupled with unparalleled levels of service, ensures that they are a distributor that has what the consumer needs to ignite their creativity, support their project specs and deliver the ultimate results for their clients.   

Ankit earned a bachelor’s degree at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2007. He completed his studies at the London Business School in March 2016, and is participated in the Entrepreneurial Masters Program housed by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization at MIT Endicott House.