Abhinav Shashank is the CEO and cofounder of Innovaccer, a leading San Francisco-based healthcare IT company dedicated to accelerating innovation in healthcare.

Abhinav is a champion of accelerated healthcare innovation and transformation that improves clinical, financial, and operational outcomes for providers, payers, and life sciences organizations.

He cofounded Innovaccer to fulfill his vision to unlock the value of data through a common cloud framework (the Innovaccer platform), enabling healthcare stakeholders to unify patient data across systems and care settings—including 80+ EHR interfaces—and leverage unified patient records to drive integrated workflows, coordinated care, and analytic insights crucial to effective value-based care delivery.

This foundation led to Innovaccer’s success as a national leader for population health management technology and solutions, with more than 30 awards and 90 analyst recognitions from Gartner, KLAS, Forbes, Black Book, UCSF, Deloitte, and others. In 2022 and 2023, the Innovaccer platform was ranked healthcare’s #1 Data and Analytics platform by KLAS. In 2021, Innovaccer was recognized as Best in KLAS for Population Health Management. In 2023, Black Book ranked Innovaccer the #1 End-To-End Hospital System Population Health Technology Platform.

Abhinav’s leadership has enabled the company to win more than 60 healthcare organizations as customer partners, with Innovaccer’s solutions now deployed across more than 1,600 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 96,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. Innovaccer has helped its customers unify health records for more than 54 million people and generate over $1B in cumulative cost savings.

His work resulted in the latest round of Series E investment at a $3.2 billion valuation, driven by rapid customer adoption of the Innovaccer platform. The round was led by Mubadala Capital, with participation from existing investors B Capital Group, Microsoft’s M12 fund, OMERS Growth Equity, Dragoneer, Steadview Capital, Tiger Global Management, and new investors Whale Rock Capital Management, Avidity Partners, and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. Innovaccer’s Series E round brings the total capital raised by the company to over $375 million.

The company now has seven locations worldwide, including offices in the U.S., India, the U.K., and the United Arab Emirates.

Abhinav is an influential thought leader and sought-after speaker, having published over 300 articles for international media outlets. He was named to Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia: Enterprise Tech,” and was recognized by Becker's Hospital Review as one of the “Top 60 rising leaders in U.S. healthcare under 40.”

Abhinav is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.

Alifia Doriwala. Ms. Doriwala is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer at RockCreek. As a member of the Investment Committee, she is involved in portfolio management, asset allocation and investment decisions across alternative and traditional asset classes. An active investor, she sources directs, and manages relationships with top-quartile public and private investments on behalf of endowments, foundations, and pension funds. Ms. Doriwala works closely with the Investment Committee and Boards of Institutions in managing their investment portfolios and with many as their Outsourced Chief Investment Officer. Building on a life-long interest in advancing mission-oriented work, Ms. Doriwala integrates impact, ESG, and diverse investment opportunities across portfolios.

Prior to joining RockCreek, Ms. Doriwala was an Equity Arbitrage Trader at Wolverine Trading, L.P., where she was responsible for sourcing, analyzing and modeling equity linked trades together with equity options. Ms. Doriwala started her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch and member of the Financial Sponsor Group assessing the suitability of potential targets for private equity portfolio companies. 

Ms. Doriwala graduated from Georgetown University magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and English and holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a board member of the Georgetown University Global Business Initiative Advisory Board and a former Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee at The Langley School. She is also a board member for the Teach for America-DC Region, board member and investment committee member of Maret School and WETA as well as a member of the Global Advisory Council for Beyond the Billion. Ms. Doriwala is a frequent panelist and speaker at investment conferences focused on sustainable investing, diversity and alternative investments. She supports various non-profit organizations focused on education and women’s initiatives. Ms. Doriwala contributed to the RockCreek IFC research study entitled “Moving Toward Gender Balance in Private Equity.”

For 20+ years, Alix Lebec has been advising and growing organizations across the sustainable finance ecosystem.

As a member of the founding and executive leadership team—alongside co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon—Alix spent the past decade building and scaling WaterEquity, a high performing global asset manager investing in water and sanitation. She previously worked at the World Bank in Paris and Southeast Asia, followed by the Clinton Global Initiative and Water.org—where she mobilized $260 million in capital and built winning teams.

In 2020, Alix launched Lebec Consulting to support philanthropists, investors, and entrepreneurs worldwide and shape a paradigm shift in our global financial ecosystem. She currently serves as an LP and impact advisor at Polymath Ventures (a premier venture studio in Latin America), a co-founder of the World Climate Tech Summit in Miami, and a regular media contributor on innovative finance and investing in women in emerging markets.

Alix holds a Master of Science in Social Policy and Development with Merit from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Business from the American University of Paris.

Andrew Curry is a Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations for Global Credit. He is based in New York.

Prior to Mr. Curry's current role, he served as Head of Investor Relations for Global Private Equity and Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Carlyle Global Credit. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2011, he was a Principal at Greenhill & Co., where he worked in the Private Capital Advisory group, which raised capital for a variety of private equity funds and provided advisory services to the private equity secondary market. Prior to Greenhill, Mr. Curry spent six years at Lazard Frères in the Private Fund Advisory group. Andrew began his career at Salomon Smith Barney, where he worked in High Yield Capital Markets.

Mr. Curry received a BA in economics from Washington and Lee University. He currently maintains Series 7 and 63 licenses.​

Areije Al Shakar is a senior leader in Bahrain’s financial industry, bringing
20 years of experience in the startup and banking sectors. She leads the
Al Waha Fund of Funds and is part of the executive management at
Bahrain Development Bank, leading Innovation.

A regular media commentator and columnist for outlets including CNBC,
Entrepreneur magazine and Arabian Business, Areije is often called upon
to offer high-level analysis of the full-entrepreneurship cycle, public policy,
and ecosystem development within the region. She has been featured among Bahrain’s Most Influential Women by Business in Gulf. Areije is also a Kauffman Fellow and the co- chairperson of the prestigious investment program’s MENA Chapter.

At Al Waha, Areije manages the fund of funds with a mandate to build out a venture capital ecosystem within the region. In pursuit of this goal, Areije has spearheaded several initiatives including the pioneering Rowad Program, an entrepreneurship platform and SeedFuel-Rowad, an early stage funding program.

Before joining BDB, Areije worked in banking and advisory roles at BNP Paribas, and Lehman Brothers, contributing to setting up their respective Advisory and Investment Management desks for the wider region. She also worked at Citibank and Investcorp B.S.C.

Areije graduated from the John Molson School of Business with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and holds a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Areije she enjoys literature and has been recognized as a talented writer and storyteller.

As President and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association since 2013, Bobby Franklin has championed for public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem, making NVCA the dominant voice of the U.S. startup ecosystem.

In 2020, he led the launch of Venture Forward, NVCA’s connected organization which drives the industry’s human capital by promoting a strong, diverse, and inclusive venture community that will fuel the economy of tomorrow.

Prior to joining NVCA, he spent ten years at CTIA. Before CTIA, he served as Vice President, Federal Government Affairs and head of Alltel’s Washington, D.C. office. Franklin began his professional career on Capitol Hill working for Senator David Pryor (D-AR).

Bouchra Darwazah is a General Partner at Asymmetric, a multi-strategy investment fund focused on venture and liquid investments in cryptocurrency and Web3. Asymmetric is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, the founders of Solana, Circle Inc. among other reputable institutional asset managers.

Bouchra has over 13 years of experience as an institutional trader, entrepreneur, and early-stage investor. Moroccan-born, Bouchra grew up between Casablanca and Paris before relocating to the US to attend Princeton University.

She moved to New York in 2010 to join Goldman Sachs as a derivatives trader where she traded and managed the US rates options, flow exotics, hybrid, and mortgage options books. Most recently she was the co-CEO at Aurate New York, a venture-backed leading DTC business she co-founded in 2017.

Bouchra is an angel investor focused on fintech and Web3 early-stage companies and is also a Limited Partner in technology-focused venture capital funds.

She is a founding member of the Moroccan Children Parliament, an initiative started by UNESCO in 1999, a member of the host committee of MacroMinds, and a member of the Visionary Committee of Friends of Hudson River Park in New York.

Bouchra earned a MSc in Finance from Princeton University and a BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the French Grande Ecole- ENSAE Paris Tech.

At Princeton, she was the recipient of the Gerhard R. Andlinger Honorary Graduate Fellowship in Finance. She is currently based in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children.

Andrews joins Intel from SoftBank Group, where he was senior vice president and managing partner, co-leading global government affairs. Prior to SoftBank, he served as managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, an international economic and trade policy advisory firm. In previous roles, Andrews served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and chief of staff to the secretary. Andrews also served as general counsel of the Senate Commerce Committee for Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and vice president of Governmental Affairs for Ford Motor Co., where he oversaw U.S. federal and state government affairs.

Andrews is a graduate of Haverford College and the Georgetown University Law Center.

Schroeder is an early investor and supporter of startups globally, especially in rising markets. He co-founded Next Billion Ventures, is a senior advisor at Village Global and LP in leading Silicon Valley VCs advising all on international investments - and has built a portfolio of over 40 early stage companies from South East Asia, The Middle East, Latin America, Kenya and Pakistan. He is an advisor to top policy makers in DC and globally on geopolitical and economic issues, and is Vice Chairman of the German Marshall Fund, the leading think tank on Transatlantic issues in policy and competitiveness. He co-founded and sold the Sequoia-backed HealthCentral and was CEO of washingtonpost.com.

Chris Yeh is a founding General Partner of Blitzscaling Ventures.  Chris has founded, advised, or invested in over 100 high-tech startups since 1995, including 9-figure companies like Ustream (investor, advisor, CEO) and UserTesting.com (advisor).  He is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of "Blitzscaling: The Lighting-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies", and the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, of the New York Times bestseller, "The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age".  Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University, with distinction in both, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.

Christine Tsai co-founded 500 Global in 2010, and led the firm’s growth over the past decade from a startup accelerator to a multi-stage venture capital firm with $2.4B in assets under management, and more than 2,800 investments in 80+ countries. 500 Global regularly ranks as one of the most active venture capital firms in the world, according to PitchBook, with a top number of exits. The firm’s diversified portfolio includes 40+ companies valued at more than $1B, such as Talkdesk, Canva, Grab, and GitLab. Private Equity International has named Christine one of 10 Women of Influence in venture capital. 

She currently serves on the venture capital committee of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers, and is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Christine is also an honoree of Gold House’s 2021 A100 List, recognizing the most impactful Asian and Pacific Islander leaders across business and technology, entertainment, advocacy and politics, lifestyle, and sports.

Prior to founding 500 Global, she held product marketing and operating roles at Google, focusing primarily on monetization and developer products. 

Christine holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley.​

Courtney Powell is tasked with helping venture capital firm 500 Global scale globally and explore new opportunities across both new and existing markets. She is responsible for driving day-to-day operations across the team to pursue 500’s mission of uplifting people and economies through entrepreneurship.

Her ties to 500 Global go back to 2012, when she founded PublikDemand, a member of Batch 4 in 500’s Seed Accelerator. She went on to become CEO of Agent Pronto, one of the largest real estate agent referral services in North America, which was ultimately acquired by Fidelity National Title Group.

Most recently, Courtney was the Head of Corporate Development at Keller Williams, the largest real estate franchise in the world. During her tenure, she established the company’s first corporate innovation program, and worked with Keller Capital to invest and acquire tech companies in the real estate space.

Courtney was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2012, received the Twilio Doer Award in 2013, and became a Google Business Leader in 2015. She attended the University of Texas at Austin and studied French and Corporate Communication.​

David Hall is a Managing Partner at Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and is responsible for investment sourcing, execution, and oversight of the Fund’s portfolio companies. David began his career with Revolution in 2006, serving as an investment professional across the firm, including as an investor with Revolution Growth and Revolution Ventures. David has worked closely with and served as a Board director and observer for a number of Revolution’s portfolio companies, including Revolution Money (acquired by American Express), Booker (acquired by MindBody), BenchPrep, FreightWaves, Foxtrot, and Understory.

Prior to Revolution, David was an executive with The Washington Post Company as Director of Planning and Development. In this capacity, he managed corporate M&A and investments and launched new print and digital publications. Earlier in his career, David held positions at Akamai Technologies, Inc. and was a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.

David received a B.A. in Economics from Morehouse College and a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.

Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.

A globally recognized thought leader and serial entrepreneur, Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin has recently joined the United Nations Development Program as the Chief Innovation Officer in the Regional Bureau for Africa. She is the architect and head of timbuktoo, a bold new initiative to mobilize US$ 1 billion private-public capital for investing into youth tech and tech-enabled startups across Africa. Prior to this, she served as chief happiness officer of blueMoon, Ethiopia’s top private incubator, and founded blueSpace, a highly successful co-working space company. Previously, Eleni conceived, designed, and ran the acclaimed Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) between 2006 and 2012, achieving $1.2 billion annual trading in three years, impacting the livelihoods of over 15 million small farmers.

With a career spanning both private and public sector, Eleni holds holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University, an MSc in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University, and BA in Economics from Cornell University. Her doctoral research was awarded Outstanding Dissertation by the American Agricultural Economics Association.

Eleni was awarded the prestigious Kiel Institute Global Economy Prize, category Business, in June 2023, recognized as Top 50 Disruptors of 2020 by The Africa Report, Devex’ Top 5 Women Global Women of Impact on Development in April 2016, 125 Global Women of Impact by Newsweek in April 2013, 100 Most Influential Africans by New African in 2012, and received the prestigious Yara Prize for Agricultural Transformation in Africa and the African Banker Icon Award in 2012.

Gabe is co-founder of Dinari, a first of its kind, direct to consumer, brokerless, global on-chain stock exchange. Dinari's vision is to help create a more equitable world by providing financial services and tools, including a cross-border, decentralized digital marketplaces for public securities and private shares, allowing ex-US investors to access US securities as well as providing tools for retail to borrow and lend – tools traditionally only available to institutions.

Prior to Dinari, Gabe was CEO and co-founder of Freenome, a multi-billion dollar AI genomics biotech company that develops early detection blood tests for cancer.

Gabe sold his first company, OSXplanet when he was 13 years old. He became a software engineer at Apple at just 17 years of age. He graduated from Cornell University in 2011 and dropped out of the PhD program at University of Pennsylvania to start Freenome.

Gabe’s work has been recognized by various publications including Fortune, Forbes, CNBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and many more. He has also been recognized as one of the Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneurs in Healthcare.

Gabe is also an ordained minister at the St Stephen Orthodox Christian Church in Campbell, CA and has a Masters of Theology though the University of Balamand in Lebanon. He strives to be a different kind of leader, one who approaches his work with humility, recognizing that everyone makes mistakes, while also empowering his company’s employees to strive for greatness.

Al-Monitor is a Middle East focused newsroom with over 100 local journalists providing original reporting.

Ham Serunjogi is the Co-founder & CEO of African fintech giant, Chipper Cash. As CEO, Ham heads the Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for leading the company's overall direction and strategy.

After Graduating from Grinnell College in 2016 with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Ham began his career at Meta (formerly Facebook) where he worked in their Dublin, Ireland office responsible for building partner relationships with some of Facebook’s biggest UK advertisers.

Today Ham also serves on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater Grinnell College, where he is one of a few Trustees that sit on the Investment Committee which is charged with the responsibility of overseeing, managing, and allocating of the college’s approximately $2.5B endowment.

At a personal level, Ham swam competitively for many years and competed in the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, representing Uganda. Prior to attaining his degree in Economics from Grinnell college, Ham attended the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa serving as President of its Student Council.

Ham is based out of Chipper's global headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta. The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. 

Prior to Carta, Henry was founder and CEO of Secondsight, a portfolio optimization platform for retail investors. He also held leadership positions at software companies including Reddwerks Inc. and BetweenMarkets. 

Henry graduated from University of Michigan with a BGS in Mathematics and Computer Science and holds a MSC in Market Finance from EDHEC Business School.

Irakli Nadareishvili, currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development in Georgia, is an alumnus of Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, specializing in International Economic Relations, and he furthered his education by obtaining a Master's degree in International Real Estate from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. Prior to assuming his role as Deputy Minister, Mr. Nadareishvili occupied key leadership positions within both the private and public sectors. Within the Ministry of Economy, his purview extends to the oversight of several departments and subordinate entities, including the LEPL Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency and Enterprise Georgia. Over the past three years, under the guidance and leadership of Irakli Nadareishvili, Georgia has hosted a series of significant events and competitions aimed at fostering technological advancements, innovation, and startup initiatives in the region.

Jake Jennings is Head of Global Trade Policy, in Washington DC, where he is responsible for AT&T’s policy development and advocacy on trade focusing on the digital economy and Internet Policy. Jake works closely with AT&T’s diverse business units, and the team of international external affairs advocates around the world. AT&T provides wholesale services to over 220 countries and territories, and provides enterprise services to over 130 countries.

His work includes efforts on market liberalization, pro-competitive licensing procedures, reasonable compliance requirements, and polices to promote a secure and stable internet.

Mr. Jennings is based in AT&T’s Washington D.C. office.

Prior to joining AT&T in 2008, Mr. Jennings had been an Associate Bureau Chief for the Federal Communications Commission focused on domestic and international broadband and internet policies. He worked for the Chairman on a new healthcare telemedicine program, “Rural Health Care Pilot Program” and international issues, including Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and International Telecommunications Union). His focus was on broadband deployment, network management, and universal service.

He has previously worked at NuVox Communications as Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Illinois Commerce Commission.

He has a graduate degree in Economics and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics from the University of Central Oklahoma.

As NEA's Partner, Communications, Kate leads the development and execution of NEA’s global communications strategy, including communications, public relations and marketing portfolio services. She works closely with the firm's investing teams and portfolio companies, providing both strategic counsel and tactical support on communications and marketing initiatives. Prior to joining NEA in 2007, Kate held corporate communications roles at MedImmune, with a particular focus on corporate branding and digital media. She previously held a variety of communications and project management roles at The Kroger Co. and The E. W. Scripps Company. She began her career at The Cincinnati Enquirer. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English/Journalism at Miami University.

Kolawole Owodunni is the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority - responsible for deploying over US$4.3 billion across the Authority’s core funds: Stabilisation Fund, Future Generations Fund, Nigeria Infrastructure Fund and other mandates.

He holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Kola has extensive experience in the financial services sector spanning Risk Management, Investment Banking, Equity, Fixed Income and Alternative Investments.

Kola joined the NSIA in 2013 as the Head of Investment Risk Management and was appointed CIO in 2020. In addition to his current role as ED/CIO, he serves on the Board of various NSIA investee companies as a Non-Executive Director.

Kola’s previous roles include Head of Risk Management at Dunn Loren Merrifield, a boutique Investment Bank headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. He was also a Risk Manager in Credit Suisse, London. Kola was one of the pioneer team that started the Hedge Fund Development and Management Group at Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America Merrill Lynch) in London. Kola is a CFA Charter-holder.

LaToya Wilson is the Americas Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group and Co-Head of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab. LaToya has over 20 years of experience in the private markets and in impact investing in both the public and private sectors. In her current role, she is committed to developing and executing commercial opportunities and strategies to achieve and maintain market and thought leadership with underrepresented entrepreneurs. LaToya holds an undergraduate degree in Finance from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

Magdalena Coronel brings more than 15 years of angel investing, venture capital and investment banking experience both in the United States and Latin America. Magdalena started her career as a Venture Capital Analyst with Prosperitas Capital Partners, a fund manager investing in early-stage tech companies located in Uruguay. Subsequently, she became VentureStart Program Manager at the Regional Technology Alliance in Sacramento, California to later transition to Director with the Institute of the Americas, where she was responsible for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Since 2018 she was a member of Houlihan Lokey, advising clients in valuation matters, until she joined IDB Lab as a Senior Investment Officer, leading the direct equity arm of the Lab, in December 2020. Magdalena assumed the role of Chief Investment Officer of IDB Lab in September 2021.

Magdalena also co-founded a 35-member angel investor network with a focus on deal flow from Argentina, Colombia, and Uruguay, and was a Business Fellow from Partners of the Americas and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in 2011. Ms. Coronel holds a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay, and a Master’s degree in Business and Administration from NYU Stern.

Mareme is the lead for Market Strategy, Africa at venture capital firm 500 Global, where she’s responsible for leading the market development and expansion of the firm into Africa and the neighboring regions, with a focus on increasing AUM and ecosystem development in emerging countries. She has also been recognized by Forbes magazine and highlighted as a Forbes Afrique 30 Under 30 nominee. Previously, she was Head of International Partnerships and Relations at Draper University and an Investor Associate at Draper University Ventures where she led investments and worked with founders from emerging markets. Originally from Senegal, Mareme is a strong advocate for technology and innovation in emerging markets, particularly in Africa where she led several initiatives to increase funding opportunities for startups. She has more than five years of experience working as an investor associate, accelerator program manager, corporate innovation lead consultant, and as a member of the advisory board of several startups. She also sat as a member of the Board of Trustees at Bennington College, her alma mater and his currently a member of the advisor board of AESIS.

Marc Mealy is the Senior Vice President-Policy at the US-ASEAN Business Council.  He manages the production of the Council’s information products, coordinates advocacy efforts across our country and industry committees, and serves as the in-house lead on international trade policy.  He joined the Council in 2003 as the Senior Director for Malaysia, Philippines and Brunei Affairs as well as Coordinator of the Council's ASEAN Financial Services Working Group. He was named the Vice President in 2010.

Marc has over twenty years of experience in international trade and economics.

He began his professional career in 1989 as an international economist with International Trade Policy Division of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Services. While at USDA he was accepted into the United States Foreign Service, and later went on to manage some of USDA’s largest commodity trade finance (GSM) and food assistance programs (PL-480) in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe for USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation.

In 1994-1996, he joined the African American Institute, an international non-profit NGO, as the Director of its Trade and Investment Program and later worked as a consultant to foreign government and international development NGO’s.

Prior to joining the Council Marc spent four years inside the U.S. Congress. From 1999-2001 he was a member of the Professional Staff of the House International Relations Committee.  From 2001 to 2003, he served as the international economic and foreign policy advisor to Congressmen Gregory Meeks of New York, a member of the House Foreign Affairs and Financial Services Committees.

Marc holds a B.A. in Economics and Third World Studies from Oberlin College and an M.S. degree in Economics from the University of Florida.

Dr. Mark Jackson is the Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. He received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Duke University and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University. He then spent 10 years researching superstring theory and cosmology, co-authoring almost 40 technical articles. He is Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University and a Director of Astronomers Without Borders.

Meredith Sumpter is the CEO of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, a global community of CEOs who commit their organizations to pursue profit in ways that benefit people and planet. In two years, the community expanded from 25 to more than 540 corporate and investor CEOs taking over 760 measurable, concrete actions that demonstrate value creation of inclusive and sustainable business practices. She is CEO of the separate Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, a global non-profit that engages stakeholders across the private, public, and civic sectors to drive reform initiatives for capitalism to be inclusive and its benefits more widely and equitably shared.

Mohamed leads IFC’s Global Venture Capital and Direct Investments Group. As a member of the investment committee, he leads a team of investment professionals in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern and Central Europe, South Asia and Asia-Pacific region. IFC’s portfolio investments include venture capital funds and direct investments in disruptive startups in over 30 countries. Prior to IFC, he led technology investments at Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) – a joint fund with equal ownership by the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries’ sovereign wealth funds.  

Mohamed also held operational roles in technology in the US as well as venture capital investments at Bell Labs’ New Ventures Group. Mohamed holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Scientist, turned tech founder, turned investor. Pedro has deep experience on both sides of the table as operator and investor. He founded and sold GoodGuide, a digital health venture (backed by NEA & DFJ). Following that he founded West to West a US non-profit that helps Portuguese & EU entrepreneurs succeed in Silicon Valley (200+ portfolio). More recently he founded and managed the Shilling Founders Fund, a €50m+ early-stage tech fund focused on pre-seed and seed stage companies. Currently a Partner at 500 Global, he has helped design and operate several programs around the world, and leads all the acceleration and investment initiatives in EECCA via the 500 Georgia fund.

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, AI/ML, and application software sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81 (acq. by CHKP), Zesty, among others.

Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame (acq. by NTNX), UnravelData, Incorta, among others.

Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.

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Shauntel Garvey is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Reach Capital where she funds people and ideas that empower learners, parents and educators across the education spectrum. Shauntel currently serves on the boards of Riipen, Holberton School, and Ellevation.

Prior to Reach, Shauntel was a Partner at the NewSchools Seed Fund and invested in over 40 early stage edtech companies including Newsela, Nearpod, and SchoolMint (acquired). Shauntel was previously a Senior Engineer at Procter and Gamble and received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University.

 Santiago Zavala is Global Managing Partner at 500 Startups. He leads the thematic fund from 500 Global to invest in Spanish speaking Latin America. As part of 500 Startups, since 2011, Santiago has participated in the more than 267 investments they have done in the region. His portfolio includes companies like Clip, 99 Minutos, Jüsto, Konfio, Ayenda, Baubap, Conekta, etc.

This companies have raised over $1B usd from downstream investors and have produced over 18000 jobs. Santiago is also involved with the Portfolio Value and Product initiatives at 500 Global that aim to support the 3000 global portfolio companies. He is also part of the investment committee of multiple corporate venture capital funds and is part of the advisory board of private and government institutions. Before joining 500 Global, Santiago co-founded Mexican.vc, had a software development career and participated in multiple software development communities. He continues to write code every week.

Sarah S. Keh is a vice president of Inclusive Solutions at Prudential Financial. In her current role, she leads strategic philanthropy and partnerships to help advance the company’s purpose and commitment to inclusive economic growth. She oversees philanthropic grants, business integration partnerships, and employee community engagement programs to expand work and wealth opportunities for financially vulnerable populations, build inclusive and equitable communities, advance racial equity and justice, and support disaster response and recovery efforts. Sarah currently serves on the board of JerseyCAN, the Devils Youth Foundation, and on the investment committee of PGIM Real Estate’s Impact Value Partners. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Sean McManus is the co-founder of M+D, a strategic advisory that guides some of the world's most influential media, finance, and technology companies on interactive content development, partnerships and international policy. Prior to that, he was director of programs at The Economist, overseeing conferences and custom content. He then worked for the Atlantic, launching the conference business for the digital platform, Quartz. Sean regularly advises CEOs in the area of thought leadership, communications strategy, and international affairs. He is the co-founder of several new media and nonprofit initiatives including the Arts Funders Forum and the World Climate Tech Summit. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Fast Company and many others. 

K. Shelly Porges is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women and Beyond the Billion. She is also a Board Member of the Financial Alliance for Women and on the Advisory Board for Cornerstone Capital, Mindshift Capital, Different Funds and Global Invest Her. Ms. Porges also served as President of the North American Jury for Cartier Women’s Initiative for over a decade and as the former Senior Advisor, Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) at the U.S. State Department, a program she expanded to almost 150 countries, under Secretary Hillary Clinton. Before joining the State Department, she had a distinguished career in the private sector, including both corporate and entrepreneurial ventures. She served as executive head of marketing for American Express Canada and as chief marketing officer for Bank of America during a historic turn-around. Ms. Porges co-founded six ventures including Porges/Hudson Marketing; Scudder Weisel Capital LLC, a joint venture between Thomas Weisel Partners and Zurich Scudder Investments; and Global Payments Experts LLC, a payments industry advisory firm. Ms. Porges holds both a BS with Honors and MPS degree from Cornell University.

Shu Nyatta is the founder of Bicycle, a new firm focused on growth investing in Latin America. From March 2015 until April 2022, Shu served in multiple senior investment roles at SoftBank Vision Fund and SoftBank Group International. He was most recently a Managing Partner at SoftBank Group International, where he launched and managed two separate funds - the SoftBank Latin America Fund, and the Opportunity Fund for US-based founders-of-color. In those roles he oversaw investments in a broad range of companies and sat on multiple boards. Prior to that, he served as a Partner at SoftBank's Vision Fund. Before his investing career, Shu served as a Vice President at J.P. Morgan, a consultant with McKinsey and a singer-songwriter. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard College, as well as a Master of Science in Anthropology with Distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Teresa Barger is the CEO of Cartica Management, an asset management firm dedicated to ESG engagement and improvement strategies in the Emerging Markets, specifically in listed equities.

Ms. Barger spent 21 years at the International Finance Corporation investing in emerging market companies in nearly all regions of the world. At IFC, among other positions, she led investments in African financial institutions, Private Equity, and Corporate Governance. She created the first index for EM private equity and co-founded the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA, now GPCA). Ms. Barger also developed the first two corporate governance funds in the Emerging Markets.

Before joining IFC, Ms. Barger was with McKinsey & Company. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of National Investment and Infrastructure Trust in India, American University in Cairo, ANERA, and USAID’s Advisory Council on Voluntary Foreign Assistance. She is also an advisor to one of the longest standing global climate tech funds and a SPAC.

Ms. Barger received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard College and her MBA from the Yale School of Management. She did post-graduate work at the American University in Cairo. She speaks Arabic and French. And she is a Latin Grammy winner.

The Honorable Juan Zarate is the global co-managing partner and chief strategy officer for the global consulting firm, K2 Integrity. He is also the co-founder and Chair of the Board of Consilient, an innovative new fintech.

Mr. Zarate is a Trustee, board member, and Audit Committee Chair for Northwestern Mutual. He serves on the board of Guardian Space Technology Solutions, and since 2014, Mr. Zarate has served as an independent adviser to Coinbase, the largest virtual asset service provider in the United States.

He is the chairman and co-founder of the Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and senior fellow at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center. He was a visiting lecturer in law at the Harvard Law School for eight years and is a published author, including his books “Treasury’s War” (2013) and “Forging Democracy” (1994).

Mr. Zarate sat on the board of the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority for over five years; the Boston Dynamics board for over three years; and for seven years, he was the U.S. advisor on HSBC’s Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee and remains an advisor to HSBC’s Group Risk Committee. Mr. Zarate also sat on the board of Cambridge Quantum Computing North America. For fourteen years, Zarate was a senior national security analyst for CBS News and later NBC News.

Mr. Zarate has served on multiple commissions and task forces, including the CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism; CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security; the Council on Foreign Relation’s Independent Task Force on North Korea; the Center for A New American Security’s Future of U.S. Sanctions Task Force; and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism.

Mr. Zarate served as the deputy assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser for combating terrorism from 2005 to 2009, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the U.S. counterterrorism strategy and policies related to transnational security threats, anti-money laundering, kleptocracy, and transnational organized crime. He was responsible for conceiving and leading major initiatives in the post 9/11 period, including the establishment of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT).

He was the first ever Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes. In this role, he led the post-9/11 anti-money laundering and sanctions regime expansion in the United States; helped develop the international standards for AML/CFT and proliferation finance; supervised the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the Treasury’s Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF); drove the innovative use of the Treasury’s national security–related powers and ultimately the establishment of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI). He has also led some of the largest asset recovery ventures in history, including the return of over $3 billion in Iraqi assets.

Mr. Zarate is a former federal terrorism prosecutor, prior to 9/11, serving on the prosecution teams in the East Africa bombings and USS Cole cases, among others. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. At Harvard College, he won the John P. Reardon Award, as the best male student athlete.

Mr. Zarate is represented by Leading Authorities, Inc. and by BigSpeak Speakers Bureau.

Tony Wang is an experienced investor and operator with a background in consumer internet, digital media, SaaS and healthcare. While at Google, Tony was part of the executive management team overseeing Google’s operations outside the United States. Tony became a Vice President at Twitter where he joined pre-revenue and helped develop Twitter’s global revenue and partnerships (including being Twitter’s VP of EMEA). Prior to joining 500, Tony was Chief Operating Officer at Color, which applies software and machine learning to develop the software infrastructure for population health. Prior to working with early stage companies, Tony practiced law after getting a J.D. from Harvard Law School and graduating from UC Berkeley with highest honors.

Tonya Williams is an innovative strategist with extensive public and private sector experience. She is the Former Head of External Affairs and Corporate Responsibility at SoftBank where she leads engagement with external stakeholders, directs firm-wide sustainability and ESG initiatives, and works closely with investment teams to increase and evaluate deal flow, expand networks, and deliver critical post-investment support. She also manages outreach and ecosystem partnerships for Softbank’s Opportunity Fund – a $100 million venture fund created to invest in emerging technology companies led by underrepresented entrepreneurs. In addition to her work at SoftBank, Tonya serves on the Board of Directors for Evelo Biosciences (Nasdaq: EVLO), she is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and an adviser to Hangar Management, a public sector investment firm.

Born and raised in Greenville, N.C., she is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina School of Law. Following graduation, she spent a year and a half backpacking around the world before accepting a judicial clerkship at the N.C. Court of Appeals. After her clerkship, Tonya served as General Counsel to the President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate for five years, developing and implementing the caucus’s political and legislative agenda before joining the executive management team at GlaxoSmithKline. In 2008, she returned to public service and moved to Washington, DC where she worked as Chief of Staff to Congressman G.K. Butterfield until 2011, when she took a position at the White House serving as the Director of Legislative Affairs for Vice President Joe Biden. In 2016, Tonya was appointed Vice President for Policy, Communications and Knowledge Analytics at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation where she led strategic planning and outreach for the $10 billion charitable foundation. Following her appointment at Kellogg, she joined the newly formed Global Government Affairs team at SoftBank, one of the world’s largest investors and operators in the emerging technology sector.

Usman Ahmed is the Head of Global Public Affairs and Strategic Research at PayPal Inc. Ahmed supports the chief strategy officer and the chief corporate affairs in advancing PayPal’s core products, services, and platform as well as analyzing broader trends to inform company decision-making. Ahmed also serves on the PayPal Ventures Advisor Network. Ahmed serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School. His research has been published in the Cambridge Press World Trade Review, MIT Press Innovations Journal, as well as the Boston University International Law Journal and has also been cited in articles appearing in the NY Times, Financial Times, and Straits Times. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council; and, a Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ahmed earned his JD from University of Michigan, his MA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and his BA from University of Maryland.