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Speakers

DAYMOND JOHN

Founder, President & CEO, FUBU

GREG CLARK

CEO, Symantec

 

Greg Clark was named chief executive officer of Symantec and joined Symantec’s Board of Directors following the company’s acquisition of Blue Coat, Inc. completed in August 2016.


Clark served as the chief executive officer of Blue Coat and delivered scale and profitable growth, transforming Blue Coat into the

#1 market share leader and share gainer in Web Security.

IAN Bremmer

President & Founder, Eurasia Group


Ian Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He is a prolific thought leader and author, regularly expressing his views on political issues in public speeches, television appearances, and top publications, including Time magazine, where he is the foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large.


Once dubbed the “rising guru” in the field of political risk by The Economist, he teaches classes on the discipline as global research professor at New York University. 

JES Staley

Group CEO, Barclays

Jon stein

CEO & Founder, Betterment

LIZ ANN SONDERS

SVP, Chief Investment Strategist,

Charles Schwab & Co.


As Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab, Liz Ann has a range of investment strategy responsibilities reaching from market and economic analysis to investor education, all focused on the individual investor.


She analyzes and interprets the economy and markets on behalf of Schwab’s clients. The output of Liz Ann’s work is via written reports, audio and video recordings, conference

calls, and webcasts. She is a regular contributor to Schwab’s publications and the keynote speaker at many of the company’s corporate and client events.

 

Mark weinberger

Global Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young


Mark has held several high-level positions in the US Federal Government, including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Tax Policy) under President George W. Bush.


He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board, which advises the President and Congress on all

aspects of that program, and served as Chief of Staff of the 1994 Presidential Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.


Mark was also an advisor to the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform; and a Commissioner on the National Commission on Retirement Policy.

morgan housel

Partner, Collaborative Fund

 

Morgan Housel is a partner at the Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm backing young companies that are moving the world forward.


He is also a columnist at The Motley Fool, where he specializes in the psychology of investing.


Previously, he was a columnist at The Wall Street Journal. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and was selected by the Columbia Journalism Review for the Best Business Writing anthology. In 2013 and 2016, he was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award and Scripps Howard Award.

Sallie Krawcheck

CEO & Co-Founder, Ellevest


Sallie Krawcheck’s professional mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, a just-launched digital investment platform for women.


She is the Chair of Ellevate Network, a many-thousand- strong global professional woman's network. And she is the Chair of the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund, which invests in the top-rated companies for advancing women. Krawcheck has been named among

the top ten of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People" list. Before becoming

an entrepreneur, she was CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and of

Smith Barney.

sam zell

Founder, Chairman, 

Equity Group Investments


Sam Zell is a global, opportunistic, often contrarian, investor. He specializes in identifying market anomalies

and emerging trends, and has a long track record in turning around troubled companies and assets, leading

industry consolidations, and bringing companies to the public markets.


Sam is the Chairman of Equity Group Investments, the private investment firm he founded more than 45 years

ago. He also chairs five companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange: Equity Residential, the largest

apartment REIT in the country; Equity LifeStyle Properties, a manufactured home community and resort REIT;

Equity Commonwealth, an office REIT; Covanta Holding Corporation, an international owner/operator of

energy-from- waste and power generation facilities; and Anixter International Inc., a leading global provider of

communications, security, and wire and cable products.





Slava rubin

Chief Business Officer & Co-Founder, Indiegogo


Slava Rubin is the Chief Business Officer, co-founder, and former CEO of Indiegogo, a company dedicated to empowering people from all over the world to make their ideas a reality.


Slava is responsible for continuing to establish

Indiegogo as the go-to funding platform by building innovative products, creating

exciting partnerships, and exploring a variety of new initiatives.


Prior to Indiegogo, Slava was a strategy consultant and is the founder of “Music Against Myeloma.” Slava represented the crowdfunding industry at the White House during the signing of the JOBS Act and has played a crucial role in working with the White House and the SEC to finalize the rules and regulations for equity

crowd funding.

Terry Tamminen

CEO, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

From his youth in Australia to career experiences in Europe, Africa, China and across the United States, Terry has developed expertise in business, farming, education, non-profit, the environment, the arts, and government.


Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the

Governor, where Terry was the architect of many groundbreaking sustainability policies, including California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the Hydrogen Highway Network, and the Million Solar Roofs initiative.


In 2016, Terry joined the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation as CEO.

Barry Diller, Chairman, IAC 

 Mario Gabelli, CEO, GAMCO Investors 

Adena Friedman, CEO, Nasdaq 

Mark Bertolini, CEO, Aetna 

Gary Bettman, Commissioner, NHL

Kevin Hassett, Council of Economic Advisers

Carla Harris,Sr. Client Advisor, Morgan Stanley

and more to speak at the

Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit


Conference to be held in New York City on

February 7 & live-streamed on Yahoo Finance

 Barry Diller, Chairman, IAC 

 Mario Gabelli, CEO, GAMCO Investors 

Adena Friedman, CEO, Nasdaq 

Mark Bertolini, CEO, Aetna 

Gary Bettman, Commissioner, NHL

and more to speak at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit


Conference to be held in New York City, October 25 & live-streamed on Yahoo Finance

  

ABOUT

From Bitcoin and blockchain to ICOs, Yahoo Finance will lead a series of conversations with CEOs, engineers, policy makers and legal experts on the growing market and investor interest in cryptocurrencies and the technologies behind them. Where are these digital assets heading? And how can everyday investors buy in safely?


Limited live studio audience seating available. Reserve your seat now!

 Barry Diller, Chairman, IAC 

 Mario Gabelli, CEO, GAMCO Investors 

Adena Friedman, CEO, Nasdaq 

Mark Bertolini, CEO, Aetna 

Gary Bettman, Commissioner, NHL

and more to speak at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit


Conference to be held in New York City, October 25 & live-streamed on Yahoo Finance

  

AGENDA

DOORS OPEN

Continental Breakfast


Welcome Remarks

Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance


State of Blockchain Report

Nolan Bauerle, Director of Research, CoinDesk

Interviewed by Dan Roberts, Yahoo Finance


How to Invest in Cryptocurrency

Adam White, Vice President and General Manager, Coinbase

Tom Lee, Co-Founder & Head of Research, Fundstrat Global Advisors

Moderated by Myles Udland, Yahoo Finance


Initial Coin Offerings

Andy Bromberg, Co-Founder & CEO, CoinList

Ryan Shea, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Blockstack

Jason White, Head of Token Sale / ICO Platform, Indiegogo

Moderated by Melody Hahm, Yahoo Finance

  

Building A Better Financial System

Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group

Interviewed by Andy Serwer, Yahoo Finance

 

The Power Behind Digital Assets

Peter Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Blockchain

Adam Ludwin, Co-Founder & CEO, Chain

Moderated by Dan Roberts, Yahoo Finance


Lunch


The Regulator

Brian Quintenz, Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Interviewed by Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk


Crypto Policy

Perianne Boring, Founder & President, Chamber of Digital Commerce

Grant Fondo, Partner & Chair of the Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology Practice, Goodwin

Moderated by Rick Newman, Yahoo Finance


Bitcoin Options Trading

Juthica Chou, President, LedgerX

Interviewed by Jared Blikre, Yahoo Finance

 

 Wall Street Embracing Blockchain

Umar Farooq, Head of Blockchain, JPMorgan Chase

Interviewed by Andy Serwer, Yahoo Finance


The Next Frontier in Crypto Investing: ETFs

Kathleen Moriarty, Partner, Chapman and Cutler LLP

Karan Sood, CEO, Cboe Vest

Moderated by Justine Underhill, Real Vision


 Afternoon Break


Beyond Bitcoin: Ripple and $XRP

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, Ripple

Interviewed by Andy Serwer and Dan Roberts, Yahoo Finance


Bitcoin in Emerging Markets

Elizabeth Rossiello, Founder & CEO, BitPesa

Interviewed by Jen Rogers, Yahoo Finance

 

Not All Coins Are Created Equal

Alex Sunnarborg, Founding Partner, Tetras Capital

Interviewed by Bailey Reutzel, CoinDesk

 

Closing remarks by Andy Serwer

 

NETWORKING & COCKTAILS

 

*agenda subject to change


SPEAKERS

BARRY DILLER

Chairman & Senior Executive

IAC & Expedia


Barry Diller is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and the Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia, Inc.


IAC is a leading media and Internet company comprised of some of the world’s most recognized
brands and products, such as HomeAdvisor, Vimeo, About.com, Dictionary.com, The Daily
Beast, Investopedia, and Match Group's online dating portfolio.


Expedia, Inc. is the largest travel company in the world with an extensive brand portfolio that
includes some of the world’s leading online travel brands.

RICK RIEDER

Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income

BlackRock

 

Rick Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, and Co-head of BlackRock's Global Fixed Income platform, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee and Chairman of the BlackRock firm-wide Investment Council.


Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Rieder is currently a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013, and was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014.

 

MARK BERTOLINI

Chairman & CEO

Aetna

 

Mark Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company.


Aetna serves approximately 44.7 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and has operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.


Mr. Bertolini assumed the role of CEO on November 29, 2010 and of Chairman on April 8, 2011.

DON GARBER

Commissioner

Major League Soccer

 

Don Garber was named Commissioner of Major League Soccer, the premier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada, in 1999.

 

During his tenure, MLS has expanded from 10 to 23 teams, added 20 new owners and secured long-term
broadcast agreements with ESPN, FOX and Univision and major broadcasters in Europe, Asia and South America.


Garber has also led efforts to develop 16 soccer-specific stadiums in
the United States and Canada, and four more soccer venues will open in the next two years.

ARNE SORENSON

President & CEO

Marriott International, Inc.

 

Arne Sorenson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International, Inc.


Following Marriott’s September 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, the company includes more than 6,200 properties across 30 leading hotel brands spanning 125 countries and territories. In fiscal year 2016, Marriott reported revenues of more than $17 billion.

HISHAM EZZ AL-ARAB

Chairman & Managing Director

Commercial Int’l Bank (Egypt) 


Hisham Ezz Al-Arab has been Chairman and Managing Director of CIB since 2002.


He currently leads a team of over 6,450 professionals who have transformed the institution from a wholesale lender into Egypt’s largest private-sector bank, leading the sector on key metrics including
revenue, profitability, net worth and market share of deposits.


CIB serves more than 710,000
active customers, from individuals to small and medium-sized businesses and leading corporations, among them Egypt’s 500 largest companies.

GARY BETTMAN

Commissioner

National Hockey League

 

Gary Bettman has served the National Hockey League as Commissioner since February 1, 1993 and has guided the world’s top professional hockey league through more than two decades of growth and advancement on and off the ice. Record revenues, record attendance and numerous fan-friendly and community-minded initiatives are just a few examples of the
ways Commissioner Bettman has brought the NHL to a broader audience, through more media
platforms, than any time in League history.


By negotiating a long-term Collective Bargaining Agreement with the National Hockey League Players’ Association and long-term, multi-billion- dollar national broadcast rights
agreements in the United States (NBC Sports) and Canada (Rogers Communications) plus an
innovative digital rights agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), Commissioner Bettman has fostered unprecedented economic stability for the League’s
Member Clubs. League revenues have increased more than tenfold during Commissioner Bettman’s tenure and franchise values have increased exponentially.

ABBY JOSEPH COHEN

Senior Investment Strategist

Goldman Sachs

 

Abby is an advisory director to

the firm, and senior

investment strategist. She

is a member of the Investment Committee for the firm's US retirement plans and is the firm's liaison to the National Defense University of the US Department of Defense. Previously, Abby was senior investment

strategist and president of the Global Markets Institute. She served on the Partnership Committee and was a senior champion for

the Disability Interest Forum. She joined

Goldman Sachs in 1990 and was named

partner in 1998. Prior to joining the firm,

Abby specialized in quantitative strategy and

economics at other financial firms. She began

her career as an economist at the Federal  Reserve Board in Washington, DC.

Abby is a Presidential Councillor at Cornell University where she chairs the steering committee of the Innovation Center at the new Cornell Tech campus in New York and serves on the board of Weill Cornell Medicine.

 
She is also on the boards of the Brookings Institution and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She previously served as board chair of the CFA Institute and vice chair of the Economic Club of New York. Abby began her career, which is the focus of a Harvard Business School case study, as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. She is an advisor to several investment committees, including that of Major League Baseball.

ADENA FRIEDMAN

President & CEO

Nasdaq

 

Adena Friedman assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Nasdaq on January 1, 2017 and is a member of the Board of Directors.

 

Ms. Friedman brings more than 20 years of industry leadership and is credited with significant contributions
that shaped Nasdaq’s strategic transformation to a leading global exchange and technology solutions company.

MARIO GABELLI

Chairman & CEO

GAMCO Investors 


Mario J. Gabelli is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GAMCO Investors, Inc. and LICT Corp. He is Executive Chairman of Associated Capital Group, Inc.

 

Mr. Gabelli was Morningstar’s Portfolio Manager of the Year (1997) and Institutional Investor’s Money
Manager of the Year (2011) and is a member of Barron’s Financial Magazine’s All Star Century Team.

MICHELLE GIRARD

Chief US Economist & Managing Director 

NatWest Markets

 

Michelle Girard is the Chief US Economist and a Managing Director for NatWest Markets (NWM).

 

Overseeing the US Economics team, Michelle evaluates and identifies trends across all sectors of the US economy, utilizing econometric models to predict key economic indicators. She is responsible for developing forecasts for growth, inflation and interest rates, and monitoring Federal Reserve and Treasury actions.

DOUG HOLTZ-EAKIN

Fmr. CBO Director; President

American Action Forum

 

Doug Holtz-Eakin has a distinguished record as an academic, policy adviser, and strategist. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum.


Since 2001, Doug Holtz-Eakin has served in a variety of important policy positions. During 2001-2002, he was the Chief Economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).  At CEA he helped to formulate policies addressing the 2000-2001 recession and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

 

From 2003-2005 he was the 6th Director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides budgetary and policy analysis to the U.S. Congress. 

 

During 2007 and 2008 he was Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. 


REUBEN JEFFERY

 

President & CEO

Rockefeller & Co

 

Reuben Jeffery joined Rockefeller & Co. as Chief Executive in September 2010.

 

Previously, he served in the George W. Bush administration in a variety of positions including on the National Security Council Staff, as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs.

 

Reuben spent 18 years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Paris.

SALLIE KRAWCHECK

CEO & Co-Founder

Ellevest

 

Sallie Krawcheck’s professional mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, a just-launched digital investment platform for women.

 

She is the Chair of Ellevate Network, a many-thousand- strong global professional woman's network. And she is the Chair of the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund, which invests in the top-rated companies for advancing women. Krawcheck has been named among the top ten of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People" list. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she was CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and of Smith Barney.

SUSAN LYNE

President & Managing Partner

BBG Ventures

 

Susan Lyne is President and Managing Partner of BBG Ventures, an early stage fund backing the new wave of female entrepreneurs using technology to re-imagine daily life.

 

Ms. Lyne has held leadership positions at media, technology, and entertainment companies of all sizes and stages, from startups to public companies. Before launching BBG Ventures, she was CEO of the AOL Brand Group where she oversaw AOL’s unique content brands.

RICHARD MADIGAN

Chief Investment Officer

J.P. Morgan Private Bank


Richard Madigan is Chief Investment Officer for J.P. Morgan Private Bank.


In this role, he is responsible for the development of investment strategy, tactical and strategic asset allocation for $1 trillion in high-net-worth and institutional client assets.


Richard is Chair of the Private Bank’s Global Investment Committee and brings over 20 years of experience in portfolio management and international capital markets to the firm.

BLYTHE MASTERS

CEO

Digital Asset Holdings 


Blythe Masters is CEO of Digital Asset, a New York headquartered financial technology company that builds distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools for wholesale financial service providers using distributed ledger technology.


She is also Chair of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project, member of the International Advisory Board of Santander Group, and Advisory Board Member of the US Chamber of Digital Commerce.


Blythe was previously a senior executive at J.P. Morgan which she left in 2014 after a career spanning 27 years, following the successful sale of the bank’s physical commodities business which she built between 2007 and 2014.


DOUG PEEBLES

Partner & CIO Fixed Income

AllianceBernstein


Douglas J. Peebles is the Chief Investment Officer of AB Fixed Income and a Partner of the firm, focusing on fixed-income investment processes, strategy and performance across portfolios globally.


As CIO, he is also Co-Chairman of the Interest Rates and Currencies Research Review team, which is responsible for setting interest-rate and currency policy for all fixed-income portfolios. In addition, Peebles serves as Lead Portfolio Manager for AB’s Unconstrained Bond Strategy, and focuses on managing the firm’s strategic client relationships.


In 1997, he pioneered AB’s highly successful and innovative approach to global multi-sector high-income investing, which is now being adopted by other firms.

DAVID SCHLEICHER

Professor

Yale Law School

 

Professor Schleicher is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and is an expert in election law, land use, local government law, urban development, transportation, and local regulation of the sharing economy.

 

His work has been published widely in academic journals, including the Yale Law Journal and the University of Chicago Law Review, as well as in popular outlets like The Atlantic and Slate.


His scholarship focuses on state and local elections, the relationship between local government law and agglomeration economics, and pathologies in land use politics and procedure. 

ARUN SUNDARARAJAN

Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences

NYU Stern School of Business 


Arun is a Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business, and an affiliated faculty member at many of NYU’s interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Data Science and the Center for Urban Science and Progress.


Professor Sundararajan's research studies how digital technologies transform business, government and civil society. He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, and over 30 op-eds in outlets that include The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Wired, Le Monde, Bloomberg View, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Economic Times, Harvard Business Review and Quartz.

JULIE SWEET

CEO

Accenture

 

Julie Sweet is Chief Executive Officer – North America, responsible for leading Accenture’s business in the United States, the company’s largest market, and Canada. She is also a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee.

 

Prior to assuming her current position in June 2015, Ms. Sweet served as general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer. As general counsel, she had ultimate responsibility for all legal support to Accenture, serving as principal counsel to senior leadership and the board of directors and leading the company's Legal department.

JANET TANG

VP Corporate Strategy & Planning

Lenovo Group 


Ms Tang joined Lenovo Group in 2014.

 

Prior to the current role, she worked in Lenovo’s BTIT organization and worldwide Services, leading initiatives in assisting company’s transformation.


At the present role, Janet is responsible for Lenovo’s
overall strategy and ensuring implementation of the strategy into business and
operations.

GREG VALLIERE

Chief Global Strategist

Horizon Investments 


Greg Valliere is the Chief Global Strategist at Horizon
Investments.

 

With over three decades of experience following Washington for investors, Greg brings a unique perspective to Horizon -- analyzing policy and politics and their impact on the markets.

 

Greg specializes in coverage of the Federal Reserve, economic policy and -- of course -- politics. He is a
frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and radio, CNN, Fox Business News and CBS radio. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s
and The New York Times.

MIKE WILSON

Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & CIO

Morgan Stanley


Michael Wilson is Chief US Equity Strategist and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

 

As CIO and Chair of the Global Investment Committee, Mike is responsible for all investment and asset allocation advice provided to manage the firm's $2.1 trillion in retail client assets.

 

Over the past 28 years, Mike has held various roles at Morgan Stanley, mostly within the Institutional Securities Group.

MARK ZANDI

Chief Economist

Moody’s Analytics


Mark Zandi is chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, where he directs economic research.

 

Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corp., is a leading provider of
economic research, data and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi is a cofounder of Economy.com, which Moody’s purchased in 2005.

 

Dr. Zandi’s broad research interests encompass macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. 

 

EVA ZLOTNICKA 

US Analyst & Vice President

Morgan Stanley

 

Eva Zlotnicka is the US-based analyst for the Global Sustainable + Responsible investment research team and a vice president at Morgan Stanley.

 

She re-joined the firm from UBS Investment Bank, where she was also a sustainability and ESG analyst. Previously, Eva spent nearly 5 years at Morgan Stanley, primarily in the areas of Fixed Income Strategy and Quantitative & Structured Solutions. 

 

BARRY SILBERT

Digital Currency Group

Founder + CEO

BRAD GARLINGHOUSE

Ripple

CEO

JUTHICA CHOU

LedgerX

President

ADAM LUDWIN

Chain

Co-Founder & CEO

ELIZABETH ROSSIELLO

BitPesa

CEO

PETER SMITH

Blockchain

Co-Founder & CEO

BRIAN QUINTENZ

Commodity Futures

Trading Commission

Commissioner

UMAR FAROOQ

JP Morgan Chase

Head of Innovation, Treasury Services; Head of Blockchain Initiatives, Corporate and Investment Bank

ANDY BROMBERG

CoinList

Co-Founder & CEO

ADAM WHITE

Coinbase

Vice President & 
General Manager

KATHLEEN MORIARTY

Chapman and Cutler LLP

Partner

KARAN SOOD

Cboe Vest

CEO

TOM LEE

Fundstrat Global Advisors

Co-Founder & 
Head of Research 

PERIANNE BORING

Chamber of Digital Commerce

Founder & President

GRANT FONDO

Goodwin

Partner & Chair of the Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology Practice

KARAN SOOD

CBOE Vest

CEO

SLAVA RUBIN

Indiegogo

Founder

NOLAN BAUERLE

CoinDesk

Director of Research

ALEX SUNNARBORG

Tetras Capital

Founding Partner

JASON WHITE

Indiegogo

Head of Token Sale / ICO Platform

SLAVA RUBIN

Indiegogo

Founder

RYAN SHEA

Blockstack

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

ALEX SUNNARBORG

Tetras Capital

Founding Partner

JASON WHITE

Indiegogo

Head of Token Sale / ICO Platform

MIKE WILSON

Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & CIO

Morgan Stanley


Mike Wilson is Chief US Equity Strategist and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.


As CIO and Chair of the Global Investment Committee, Mike is responsible for all investment and asset allocation advice provided to manage the firm's $2.1 trillion in retail client assets.


Over the past 28 years, Mike has held various roles at Morgan Stanley, mostly within the Institutional Securities Group.

GREG VALLIERE
Chief Global Strategist

Horizon Investments 


Greg Valliere is the Chief Global Strategist at Horizon Investments.


With over three decades of experience following Washington for investors, Greg brings a unique perspective to Horizon -- analyzing policy and politics and their impact on the markets.


Greg specializes in coverage of the Federal Reserve, economic policy and -- of course -- politics. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and radio, CNN, Fox Business News and CBS radio. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and The New York Times.

MARK ZANDI

Chief Economist

Moody’s Analytics


Mark Zandi is chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, where he directs economic research.


Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corp., is a leading provider of economic research, data and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi is a cofounder of Economy.com, which Moody’s purchased in 2005.


Dr. Zandi’s broad research interests encompass macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. 

EVA ZLOTNICKA 

US Analyst & Vice President

Morgan Stanley

 

Eva Zlotnicka is the US-based analyst for the Global Sustainable + Responsible investment research team and a vice president at Morgan Stanley.


She re-joined the firm from UBS Investment Bank, where she was also a sustainability and ESG analyst. Previously, Eva spent nearly 5 years at Morgan Stanley, primarily in the areas of Fixed Income Strategy and Quantitative & Structured Solutions. 

MODERATORS

BARRY DILLER

Chairman & Senior Executive

IAC & Expedia


Barry Diller is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and the Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia, Inc.


IAC is a leading media and Internet company comprised of some of the world’s most recognized
brands and products, such as HomeAdvisor, Vimeo, About.com, Dictionary.com, The Daily
Beast, Investopedia, and Match Group's online dating portfolio.


Expedia, Inc. is the largest travel company in the world with an extensive brand portfolio that
includes some of the world’s leading online travel brands.

RICK RIEDER

Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income

BlackRock

 

Rick Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, and Co-head of BlackRock's Global Fixed Income platform, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee and Chairman of the BlackRock firm-wide Investment Council.


Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Rieder is currently a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013, and was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014.

 

MARK BERTOLINI

Chairman & CEO

Aetna

 

Mark Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company.


Aetna serves approximately 44.7 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and has operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.


Mr. Bertolini assumed the role of CEO on November 29, 2010 and of Chairman on April 8, 2011.

DON GARBER

Commissioner

Major League Soccer

 

Don Garber was named Commissioner of Major League Soccer, the premier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada, in 1999.

 

During his tenure, MLS has expanded from 10 to 23 teams, added 20 new owners and secured long-term
broadcast agreements with ESPN, FOX and Univision and major broadcasters in Europe, Asia and South America.


Garber has also led efforts to develop 16 soccer-specific stadiums in
the United States and Canada, and four more soccer venues will open in the next two years.

ARNE SORENSON

President & CEO

Marriott International, Inc.

 

Arne Sorenson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International, Inc.


Following Marriott’s September 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, the company includes more than 6,200 properties across 30 leading hotel brands spanning 125 countries and territories. In fiscal year 2016, Marriott reported revenues of more than $17 billion.

HISHAM EZZ AL-ARAB

Chairman & Managing Director

Commercial Int’l Bank (Egypt) 


Hisham Ezz Al-Arab has been Chairman and Managing Director of CIB since 2002.


He currently leads a team of over 6,450 professionals who have transformed the institution from a wholesale lender into Egypt’s largest private-sector bank, leading the sector on key metrics including
revenue, profitability, net worth and market share of deposits.


CIB serves more than 710,000
active customers, from individuals to small and medium-sized businesses and leading corporations, among them Egypt’s 500 largest companies.

GARY BETTMAN

Commissioner

National Hockey League

 

Gary Bettman has served the National Hockey League as Commissioner since February 1, 1993 and has guided the world’s top professional hockey league through more than two decades of growth and advancement on and off the ice. Record revenues, record attendance and numerous fan-friendly and community-minded initiatives are just a few examples of the
ways Commissioner Bettman has brought the NHL to a broader audience, through more media
platforms, than any time in League history.


By negotiating a long-term Collective Bargaining Agreement with the National Hockey League Players’ Association and long-term, multi-billion- dollar national broadcast rights
agreements in the United States (NBC Sports) and Canada (Rogers Communications) plus an
innovative digital rights agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM), Commissioner Bettman has fostered unprecedented economic stability for the League’s
Member Clubs. League revenues have increased more than tenfold during Commissioner Bettman’s tenure and franchise values have increased exponentially.

ABBY JOSEPH COHEN

Senior Investment Strategist

Goldman Sachs

 

Abby is an advisory director to

the firm, and senior

investment strategist. She

is a member of the Investment Committee for the firm's US retirement plans and is the firm's liaison to the National Defense University of the US Department of Defense. Previously, Abby was senior investment

strategist and president of the Global Markets Institute. She served on the Partnership Committee and was a senior champion for

the Disability Interest Forum. She joined

Goldman Sachs in 1990 and was named

partner in 1998. Prior to joining the firm,

Abby specialized in quantitative strategy and

economics at other financial firms. She began

her career as an economist at the Federal  Reserve Board in Washington, DC.

Abby is a Presidential Councillor at Cornell University where she chairs the steering committee of the Innovation Center at the new Cornell Tech campus in New York and serves on the board of Weill Cornell Medicine.

 
She is also on the boards of the Brookings Institution and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She previously served as board chair of the CFA Institute and vice chair of the Economic Club of New York. Abby began her career, which is the focus of a Harvard Business School case study, as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. She is an advisor to several investment committees, including that of Major League Baseball.

ADENA FRIEDMAN

President & CEO

Nasdaq

 

Adena Friedman assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Nasdaq on January 1, 2017 and is a member of the Board of Directors.

 

Ms. Friedman brings more than 20 years of industry leadership and is credited with significant contributions
that shaped Nasdaq’s strategic transformation to a leading global exchange and technology solutions company.

MARIO GABELLI

Chairman & CEO

GAMCO Investors 


Mario J. Gabelli is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GAMCO Investors, Inc. and LICT Corp. He is Executive Chairman of Associated Capital Group, Inc.

 

Mr. Gabelli was Morningstar’s Portfolio Manager of the Year (1997) and Institutional Investor’s Money
Manager of the Year (2011) and is a member of Barron’s Financial Magazine’s All Star Century Team.

MICHELLE GIRARD

Chief US Economist & Managing Director 

NatWest Markets

 

Michelle Girard is the Chief US Economist and a Managing Director for NatWest Markets (NWM).

 

Overseeing the US Economics team, Michelle evaluates and identifies trends across all sectors of the US economy, utilizing econometric models to predict key economic indicators. She is responsible for developing forecasts for growth, inflation and interest rates, and monitoring Federal Reserve and Treasury actions.

DOUG HOLTZ-EAKIN

Fmr. CBO Director; President

American Action Forum

 

Doug Holtz-Eakin has a distinguished record as an academic, policy adviser, and strategist. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum.


Since 2001, Doug Holtz-Eakin has served in a variety of important policy positions. During 2001-2002, he was the Chief Economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).  At CEA he helped to formulate policies addressing the 2000-2001 recession and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

 

From 2003-2005 he was the 6th Director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides budgetary and policy analysis to the U.S. Congress. 

 

During 2007 and 2008 he was Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. 


REUBEN JEFFERY

 

President & CEO

Rockefeller & Co

 

Reuben Jeffery joined Rockefeller & Co. as Chief Executive in September 2010.

 

Previously, he served in the George W. Bush administration in a variety of positions including on the National Security Council Staff, as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs.

 

Reuben spent 18 years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York, London and Paris.

SALLIE KRAWCHECK

CEO & Co-Founder

Ellevest

 

Sallie Krawcheck’s professional mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, a just-launched digital investment platform for women.

 

She is the Chair of Ellevate Network, a many-thousand- strong global professional woman's network. And she is the Chair of the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund, which invests in the top-rated companies for advancing women. Krawcheck has been named among the top ten of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People" list. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she was CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and of Smith Barney.

SUSAN LYNE

President & Managing Partner

BBG Ventures

 

Susan Lyne is President and Managing Partner of BBG Ventures, an early stage fund backing the new wave of female entrepreneurs using technology to re-imagine daily life.

 

Ms. Lyne has held leadership positions at media, technology, and entertainment companies of all sizes and stages, from startups to public companies. Before launching BBG Ventures, she was CEO of the AOL Brand Group where she oversaw AOL’s unique content brands.

RICHARD MADIGAN

Chief Investment Officer

J.P. Morgan Private Bank


Richard Madigan is Chief Investment Officer for J.P. Morgan Private Bank.


In this role, he is responsible for the development of investment strategy, tactical and strategic asset allocation for $1 trillion in high-net-worth and institutional client assets.


Richard is Chair of the Private Bank’s Global Investment Committee and brings over 20 years of experience in portfolio management and international capital markets to the firm.

BLYTHE MASTERS

CEO

Digital Asset Holdings 


Blythe Masters is CEO of Digital Asset, a New York headquartered financial technology company that builds distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools for wholesale financial service providers using distributed ledger technology.


She is also Chair of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project, member of the International Advisory Board of Santander Group, and Advisory Board Member of the US Chamber of Digital Commerce.


Blythe was previously a senior executive at J.P. Morgan which she left in 2014 after a career spanning 27 years, following the successful sale of the bank’s physical commodities business which she built between 2007 and 2014.


DOUG PEEBLES

Partner & CIO Fixed Income

AllianceBernstein


Douglas J. Peebles is the Chief Investment Officer of AB Fixed Income and a Partner of the firm, focusing on fixed-income investment processes, strategy and performance across portfolios globally.


As CIO, he is also Co-Chairman of the Interest Rates and Currencies Research Review team, which is responsible for setting interest-rate and currency policy for all fixed-income portfolios. In addition, Peebles serves as Lead Portfolio Manager for AB’s Unconstrained Bond Strategy, and focuses on managing the firm’s strategic client relationships.


In 1997, he pioneered AB’s highly successful and innovative approach to global multi-sector high-income investing, which is now being adopted by other firms.

DAVID SCHLEICHER

Professor

Yale Law School

 

Professor Schleicher is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and is an expert in election law, land use, local government law, urban development, transportation, and local regulation of the sharing economy.

 

His work has been published widely in academic journals, including the Yale Law Journal and the University of Chicago Law Review, as well as in popular outlets like The Atlantic and Slate.


His scholarship focuses on state and local elections, the relationship between local government law and agglomeration economics, and pathologies in land use politics and procedure. 

ARUN SUNDARARAJAN

Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences

NYU Stern School of Business 


Arun is a Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business, and an affiliated faculty member at many of NYU’s interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Data Science and the Center for Urban Science and Progress.


Professor Sundararajan's research studies how digital technologies transform business, government and civil society. He has published over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals and conferences, and over 30 op-eds in outlets that include The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Wired, Le Monde, Bloomberg View, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Economic Times, Harvard Business Review and Quartz.

JULIE SWEET

CEO

Accenture

 

Julie Sweet is Chief Executive Officer – North America, responsible for leading Accenture’s business in the United States, the company’s largest market, and Canada. She is also a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee.

 

Prior to assuming her current position in June 2015, Ms. Sweet served as general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer. As general counsel, she had ultimate responsibility for all legal support to Accenture, serving as principal counsel to senior leadership and the board of directors and leading the company's Legal department.

JANET TANG

VP Corporate Strategy & Planning

Lenovo Group 


Ms Tang joined Lenovo Group in 2014.

 

Prior to the current role, she worked in Lenovo’s BTIT organization and worldwide Services, leading initiatives in assisting company’s transformation.


At the present role, Janet is responsible for Lenovo’s
overall strategy and ensuring implementation of the strategy into business and
operations.

GREG VALLIERE

Chief Global Strategist

Horizon Investments 


Greg Valliere is the Chief Global Strategist at Horizon
Investments.

 

With over three decades of experience following Washington for investors, Greg brings a unique perspective to Horizon -- analyzing policy and politics and their impact on the markets.

 

Greg specializes in coverage of the Federal Reserve, economic policy and -- of course -- politics. He is a
frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and radio, CNN, Fox Business News and CBS radio. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s
and The New York Times.

MIKE WILSON

Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & CIO

Morgan Stanley


Michael Wilson is Chief US Equity Strategist and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

 

As CIO and Chair of the Global Investment Committee, Mike is responsible for all investment and asset allocation advice provided to manage the firm's $2.1 trillion in retail client assets.

 

Over the past 28 years, Mike has held various roles at Morgan Stanley, mostly within the Institutional Securities Group.

MARK ZANDI

Chief Economist

Moody’s Analytics


Mark Zandi is chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, where he directs economic research.

 

Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corp., is a leading provider of
economic research, data and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi is a cofounder of Economy.com, which Moody’s purchased in 2005.

 

Dr. Zandi’s broad research interests encompass macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. 

 

EVA ZLOTNICKA 

US Analyst & Vice President

Morgan Stanley

 

Eva Zlotnicka is the US-based analyst for the Global Sustainable + Responsible investment research team and a vice president at Morgan Stanley.

 

She re-joined the firm from UBS Investment Bank, where she was also a sustainability and ESG analyst. Previously, Eva spent nearly 5 years at Morgan Stanley, primarily in the areas of Fixed Income Strategy and Quantitative & Structured Solutions. 

 

ANDY SERWER

Yahoo Finance
Editor-in-Chief

DAN ROBERTS

Yahoo Finance
Senior Writer

MYLES UDLAND

Yahoo Finance
Reporter

MELODY HAHM

Yahoo Finance
Reporter

MARC HOCHSTEIN

CoinDesk
Managing Editor

RICK NEWMAN

Yahoo Finance
Columnist

JARED BLIKRE

Yahoo Finance
Reporter

JUSTINE UNDERHILL

Real Vision
Reporter

JEN ROGERS

Yahoo Finance
Anchor

BAILEY REUTZEL

CoinDesk
US Editor

KATHLEEN MORIARTY

Chapman and Cutler LLP

Partner

KARAN SOOD

Cboe Vest

CEO

MIKE WILSON

Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & CIO

Morgan Stanley


Mike Wilson is Chief US Equity Strategist and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities and Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.


As CIO and Chair of the Global Investment Committee, Mike is responsible for all investment and asset allocation advice provided to manage the firm's $2.1 trillion in retail client assets.


Over the past 28 years, Mike has held various roles at Morgan Stanley, mostly within the Institutional Securities Group.

GREG VALLIERE
Chief Global Strategist

Horizon Investments 


Greg Valliere is the Chief Global Strategist at Horizon Investments.


With over three decades of experience following Washington for investors, Greg brings a unique perspective to Horizon -- analyzing policy and politics and their impact on the markets.


Greg specializes in coverage of the Federal Reserve, economic policy and -- of course -- politics. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and radio, CNN, Fox Business News and CBS radio. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and The New York Times.

MARK ZANDI

Chief Economist

Moody’s Analytics


Mark Zandi is chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, where he directs economic research.


Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corp., is a leading provider of economic research, data and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi is a cofounder of Economy.com, which Moody’s purchased in 2005.


Dr. Zandi’s broad research interests encompass macroeconomics, financial markets and public policy. 

EVA ZLOTNICKA 

US Analyst & Vice President

Morgan Stanley

 

Eva Zlotnicka is the US-based analyst for the Global Sustainable + Responsible investment research team and a vice president at Morgan Stanley.


She re-joined the firm from UBS Investment Bank, where she was also a sustainability and ESG analyst. Previously, Eva spent nearly 5 years at Morgan Stanley, primarily in the areas of Fixed Income Strategy and Quantitative & Structured Solutions. 

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Clear your calendar - It's going down! st-coach-3 kicks off on September 25th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Roberta's Pizza (261 Moore St.) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

When

February 
07 
2018 
9:00am

Where

Agenda
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

8:00 AM

Doors Open & Breakfast


8:30 AM

Yahoo Finance’s Market Movers Live

Host Alexis Christoforous and guests provide a preview of the trading day ahead, the latest market and economic news and stocks already on the move in the pre-market.







8:45 AM

Welcome by Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer

What Now? The economy under a new administration

Glenn Hutchins, Silver Lake Partners co-founder

Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist




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9:00 AM

 Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer Keynote Interview

Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO Blackrock


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10:00 AM

Tim Sloan, President & CEO Wells Fargo

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12:00 PM

Lunch

Yahoo Finance's Midday Movers Live

Alexis Christoforous, Rick Newman, Julia LaRoche, 1:1 with Jim Chanos

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INNOVATORS - THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY

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1:00 PM

 

Young Money

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Baiju Bhatt, Sean Duff, Paul Ryan

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2:00 PM

 

The Tech Economy

Myles Udland with Max Levchin, AirBNB, Sharing Economy, cars alone, convergence of tech and autos, IoT

 

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3:00 PM

1:1 Keynote 

David Pogue with Evan Spiegel or Sheryl Sandberg

 

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4:00 PM

Yahoo Finance's The Final Round

A wrap-up of the day at the conference and in the markets

Yahoo Finance's Jen Rogers hosts with Andy Serwer and Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America

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4:15 PM

 

Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres

 

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