Alex is the managing director of Transpose Platform, an anchor fund for the most disruptive venture funds of this decade. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Trusted Insight, a machine learning–driven platform that hosts the world’s largest network of institutional investors. Prior to TI Platform, Alex managed capital for clients at premier endowments, foundations, family offices, insurance firms, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds since 2003.He has helped invest over $2 billion in 50 funds with a track record of investing over $1 billion in 50+ funds for institutional investors with an IRR of 30%+ and 2x NAV. He advised the first checks in Accel, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, Emergence, Y Combinator, Khosla, SaaStr, Initialized, Crystal Towers, and Baseline. Earlier in his career, Alex was an engineer and executive at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, and GE. Alex holds an MBA from the Wharton School (where he is a frequent guest lecturer); an M.Eng in Operation Research from Cornell; and a BS in Computer Science, English and Economics from Cornell.

Alex Haro is the cofounder and CEO of Hubble Network. Hubble is building a global satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled device can connect to, even without cellular reception. Hubble’s mission is to get a billion devices connected to the network and unlock a new era of human-machine collaboration. Prior to cofounding Hubble, Mr. Haro was the co-founder and CTO of Life360, a market leading app for families, with features that range from communications to driving safety and location sharing. Life360 is based in San Francisco and has over 40 million monthly active users (MAU). In 2015, Mr. Haro was recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology. Prior to Life360, he worked on Orbited. Mr. Haro studied Computer Science at Pomona College / Harvey Mudd.

Alexandra (Alex) Yudkoff joined the Investment unit of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in March 2015.Previously, she was an analyst and associate at the Credit Suisse Private Fund Group, a placement agent that helps raise third-party capital for private equity firms, for five years. In this role, her work included preparing marketing materials, responding to investor due diligence requests, and performing due diligence on prospective managers.Alex earned her B.A. in Religion from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. and completed the Business Bridge program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Alice Bentinck MBE is cofounder and General Partner at Entrepreneur First. Entrepreneur First invests in top technical individuals to help them build world-class deep technology startups from scratch in six locations across Europe and Asia. Since 2011, Entrepreneur First has created over 200 startups worth over $1.5bn including Magic Pony Technology, Tractable and CloudNC. EF’s investors include LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and Greylock Partners, alongside Mosaic Ventures, Lakestar and Founders Fund. She also set up Code First: Girls, a not-for-profit that has taught 30,000 women to code for free while at university. Alice started her career at McKinsey & Co. She was awarded an MBE for services to business in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Alice is also a member of the UK AI Council, representing the UK AI Sector on the international stage.

Ben Wild is the co-founder and CTO of Hubble Network. Prior to Hubble Network he worked at Amazon and invented the Amazon Sidewalk wireless network which was integrated into millions of Amazon Echo devices to create a nationwide low power wireless IoT network. Ben has 20 years of experience working with low power wireless technologies.

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Brian O'Neil joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as Chief Investment Officer in January 2003, and retired in March 2023.  In that role, he was responsible for management of the Foundation’s $13 billion investment portfolio, and the 15 person investment team.

O’Neil worked at the Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1980 to 2002. He was named Chief Investment Officer in 1992, at the time the company demutualized and went public. In this role he was responsible for Equitable’s general account investment portfolio, as well as relationships with ratings agencies and investors. In 1995, he moved to AXA’s headquarters in Paris, where he was global head of Asset/Liability Management and, in 1997, was named Chief Investment Officer of AXA Investment Managers Paris. On his return to Equitable, he became head of the Variable Life and Annuity Funds Management business.

O'Neil is a trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library System.

He received an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and an AB from Princeton University. He received the CFA designation in 1983.

O’Neil lives in Brooklyn, is married, and has four children.

Dinesh Katiyar is a partner at Accel since 2011. He focuses on early-stage enterprise companies pursuing global market opportunities. Prior to Accel, Dinesh was involved in several entrepreneurial ventures in Silicon Valley, and received his PhD from Stanford.

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Fred joined Carilion Clinic, a Virginia-based healthcare system, in 2015 to lead its investment function, overseeing $3 billion across operating capital and defined benefit pension assets. Previously, he worked at Huntington Ingalls Industries with oversight responsibility for hedge fund and fixed income pension investments and as a generalist at The Pension Boards-United Church of Christ. Prior to moving to the plan sponsor side of investment management, he held different roles at Cohen & Steers and Lord Abbett. He has a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Denison University and is a CFA charterholder.

Garry is a designer/engineer turned early-stage investor. He was a partner at Y Combinator for nearly five years, advising and funding over 600 companies and more than a thousand founders. He co-founded the YC-backed blog platform Posterous (Top 200 Quantcast site, acquired by Twitter in 2012). Before that, he was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir’s financial analysis product, and also designed Palantir’s logo. He has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford.

May Ng is Chief Investment Officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a private philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of everyone in the United States. She leads the team responsible for managing the Foundation’s $13 billion endowment.
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May has nearly 20 years of experience in endowment and foundation investment management. Prior to joining the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2023, she served as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Earlier in her career she was a Senior Investment Officer in George Washington University’s Investment Office.

May holds an MPA with a concentration in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton University and a BA in Political Science from Williams College. She currently serves on the investment committees of Williams College, the William Penn Foundation, the France-Merrick Foundation and Georgetown Day School.

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Mei is the founder of Mei AGI Ventures, and advisor to Eleuther.AI.Mei advises Eleuther.AI the world's largest decentralized AI research community that trains models like GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and curates datasets like The Pile. She's a VC investing into AI foundation model startups such as: Essential.ai, Synthlabs.ai, Recursal.ai, MultiOn, Extropic, etc. She's passionate about transformers as well as new architectures like RWKV.

Neal Graziano is the managing director of private investments for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) in Battle Creek,  Michigan. In this role, he supports the foundation’s  efforts to promote thriving children, working families and equitable communities. Graziano works with the foundation’s vice president & chief investment officer and investments team  –  including consultants, trustees, advisors, and counsel  –  on investment strategy and portfolio and investment management. He invests the diversified portfolios of the Foundation and Trust to maintain its purchasing power in support of the WKKF’s mission over the long term, leading the private investments portfolio. Prior to joining Kellogg Foundation in 2007, Graziano spent three years at Mastrapasqua Asset Management in Nashville, TN, where he most recently served as the associate portfolio manager for a hedge fund and an equity strategy. Prior to this, he served as an investment analyst at William Blair & Company. During his tenure at William Blair, Graziano was the portfolio specialist for institutional clients and led multiple research projects for the domestic equity teams.  Graziano holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA  Society of West Michigan. He serves on advisory boards for several private capital fund strategies and Institutional Limited Partner Association (ILPA) Diversity in Action.  In addition to his work at the Kellogg Foundation, Graziano serves as a board member for the Woodward Hines Education Foundation, Kalamazoo Peoples Food Co-op, Battle Creek Unlimited economic development, and the Kalamazoo Farmer’s Market. He is married to Sarah Curtis Graziano, resides in Kalamazoo, and has three daughters. In 2017, Graziano was named on Trusted Insight's Top 30 LPs Investing Real Assets. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all  children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

The Kellogg Foundation is based in Battle Creek, Michigan, and works throughout the United States and internationally, as well as with sovereign tribes. Special attention is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success. WKKF priority places in the U.S. are in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; and internationally, are in Mexico and Haiti. For more information, visit  www.wkkf.org.

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Paul Thomas brings more than 20 years of technology, finance and strategic leadership experience to Talkdesk, working extensively with both private and public technology companies to help them develop and implement strategic plans, make acquisitions or raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) or secondary offerings. Prior to Talkdesk, Paul was VP of Investor Relations and Strategic Finance at Sumo Logic, and previous to that held similar leadership positions at Looker (acquired by Google), RingCentral and Equinix. Prior to working for technology companies, Paul was an equity research analyst covering a broad set of technology companies at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Prior to working in finance, Paul spent 10 years in the semiconductor industry as an engineer and product manager at Rockwell, Conexant and Intel. Paul holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Prabhu is a veteran of the investment industry who brings over 23 years of investment experience with global investment leaders including Barclays Global Investors, Franklin Templeton Investments, and Mellon Capital Management.  He was Managing Director and Senior Investment Strategist at Mellon Capital Management where he helped build the firm’s quantitative equity capabilities.  Previously he was an SVP and Portfolio Manager at Franklin Templeton Investment managing structured equity portfolios. He has also held fixed income portfolio management positions at BGI and NetWest Bank.  He is also a former Trustee of the Federated City Employees Retirement System where he served on the Investment Committee for 6 months. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose and a volunteer with the City of Fremont Police Department.

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Prakhar is the assistant vice president, managing director of strategy, focused on the overall investment strategy for the endowment. He joined the Office of Investments in 2003 as the manager of quantitative research and was responsible for risk management and asset allocation decisions. He has subsequently served in various portfolio management roles at the Office of Investments, including senior portfolio manager for real assets (2012-2014), senior portfolio manager for the public markets and absolute return portfolios (2009-2012), and manager of absolute return investments (2006-2009). Prior to joining the University, Prakhar was a senior quantitative analyst with Morningstar.

Prakhar earned an MBA in analytic finance and economics with high honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an MS from The Ohio State University, and B.Tech. from The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is a CFA Charterholder.

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Pushkar Mukewar is the CEO of Drip Capital. In his 13-years-long career, he has worked across various geographies and has an in-depth understanding of the global financial services industry. Pushkar realized the huge potential of addressing the working capital gap for small businesses in emerging economies which became his inspiration behind starting Drip in 2016. Drip offers a unique trade financing product targeted toward small businesses engaged in cross-border trade by making the underwriting and financing of international B2B transactions seamless.In the past, Pushkar was a venture capitalist at Saama Capital and was involved with several high-growth start-ups in India, including Paytm, Snapdeal, and Bluestone. He has also been a Consultant with Oliver Wyman in the US, UAE, and Switzerland, where he advised several financial services clients on strategic and operational issues. He started his career at Capital One where he developed credit risk analytics for the subprime consumer loans business.Pushkar holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MS degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Pushkar is also a thought leader and influencer in the global trade finance ecosystem. His opinions are routinely published in leading publications like Forbes, Fortune, and Financial Express, to name a few. He has also won numerous awards, including BW 40 under 40.

Stuart Mason served as the associate vice president and chief investment officer at the University of Minnesota for 21 years, retiring in April, 2024.The University has $4.5 billion in assets under management including an endowment totaling $2.3 billion. Mason was also the portfolio manager for the endowment’s venture capital allocation. Previously, Mason spent 15 years as a senior investment banker or executive officer in several investment banks including Dougherty & Company, EVERERN Securities and Dain Rauscher Corporation. He also served for 10 years as a vice president of Wells Fargo Corporation. Mason holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in chemistry and biology from St. Olaf College.

Susanne Gealy, CAIA, is a Senior Director of the investments team at CommonSpirit Health, which she joined in 2018. Across the $25 billion endowment-style Treasury investment program, Susanne leads public equity and equity long/short hedge fund investments and is engaged in real assets investments. Additionally, Susanne is a member of CommonSpirit Health’s DefinedContribution Committee, which oversees $16 billion in participant investments.

At the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Susanne led the $28 billion global external equity program and worked with emerging managers. Previously, she worked in New York at a family office, asset management and investment banking. Susanne holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and earned a B.S. and MS. in engineering degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

CommonSpirit Health and its investment program are aligned with the social determinants of health and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Susanne is active in championing DEI engagement through IADEI, iConnections, ILPA, Girls Who Invest, and LP networking. CommonSpirit is a signatory of the ILPA Diversity in Action initiative. Susanne is based in San Francisco.

Trang Nguyen co-founded Transpose Management in 2015. The firm backs ambitious entrepreneurs creating today’s most disruptive venture structures. Transpose Platform seeks out the world’s most innovative companies and invests in tomorrow’s category-defining leaders. Trang's wide-ranging experience and strategic acumen have significantly influenced her professional journey. Previously, she played a key role in developing product and pricing strategies at Trusted Insights, a VC-backed platform by firms such as Founders Fund, Stanford among others that supported a community of institutional investors and incubated software products. She launched several major products, including the Institutional LP Ranking List, Institutional Forum (Quora), Global Institutional Summit & Events, and an LP/GP Job Board. These initiatives greatly enhanced the platform's network of limited partners, boosting user engagement and expanding the community to over 30,000 members. Trang also excelled in establishing initial partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, with a focus on markets in Japan and the U.S., which were vital to the platform’s growth. Trang was involved in incubating LP software solutions now adopted by endowments, foundations, and other asset owners. Before her tenure at Transpose Management, Trang played a critical role at Sutter Health, where she directed investment strategies and managed portfolios with a combined asset under management (AUM) of $9 billion. Her expertise also included trading and managing a $1 billion credit portfolio, encompassing structured products and corporate bonds. Trang's foundational career spanned across firms such as Merrill Lynch, Visa, and Bank of New York Mellon, and included roles in tech, investment, and marketing sectors, as well as various startups.

Travis serves as Chief Investment Officer for the University of Illinois Foundation (UIF) where he leads the investment team responsible for managing the $2.8 billion endowment. Travis joined UIF in April 2022.Prior to joining UIF, Travis was Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Vanderbilt University’s Office of Investments where he led the private and public market investment teams.Previously, Travis served as Investment Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and held Director of Investments roles at New York University and the University of Florida Investment Corporation.Before entering non-profit investment management, Travis held various roles at Wachovia (First Union) and Merrill Lynch.Travis earned his BBA in Banking and Finance at the University of North Florida and is a CFA charterholder.