Speakers

Chris is the CIO of Digital Assets at Amitis Capital.  In his early career, Chris worked at several major institutions including CIBC World Markets, Société Générale Barr Devlin, Antarctica Asset Management and ING Investment Management. In 2010, he joined SAIL Advisors (the family office of the founder of Duty-Free Shoppers) as Head of Research for Tactical Trading and Relative Value Strategies. He later joined Cliffwater LLC as Managing Director covering global macro and relative value strategies on the hedge fund research team. Most recently, Chris was the CIO of Digital Assets at Forest Road, where he oversaw a digital assets-focused venture capital fund of funds.

Chris has a BA in Economics and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MComm in Finance from the University of New South Wales, where he was a Federation Scholar. Chris holds the CFA, CPA, and CAIA designations.  Chris has broken 9 Guinness World Records and has run marathons on all 7 continents and in all 50 US states.

Manas is the head of research at Hedgeweek®. With a background in financial journalism he has previously served as finance editor for EU and UK at LinkedIn News and has covered hedge funds at HFM (With Intelligence) and credit markets at Bloomberg.

Raghav Chopra is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tephra Digital, a private investment firm. He was previously a portfolio manager for AllianceBernstein and The Blackstone Group. He began his career in private equity at The Carlyle Group and investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Mr. Chopra received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Economics with Distinction from Yale University, and an M.B.A. with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where was named a George F. Baker Scholar. 

He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Club of New York City Foundation, Yale University Alumni Fund, and OpenWorld Ltd. 

Michael Oliver Weinberg, CFA, is Special Advisor to the Tokyo University of Science Endowment. Over three decades, he has invested across traditional and alternative asset classes as both a direct investor and an asset allocator. He previously served as Managing Director and board member at APG, and Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protégé Partners, following roles at FRM, Soros, and Credit Suisse. An Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, he created and teaches an advanced MBA course on institutional investing. A published author in The New York Times and Institutional Investor, Michael holds a BS from NYU and an MBA from Columbia. 

Rebecca Kerner Reiss serves as the Head of Business Development and Investor Relations. Before joining the Firm in July 2021, Rebecca worked for Levin Easterly Partners (previously Levin Capital Strategies) for six years as the Director of Business Development.  From 2012-2014, she was a Client Relationship Manager with Atlantic Investment Management. Prior to joining Atlantic Investment Management, Rebecca spent 5 years at Vision Capital Advisors in Marketing and Investor Relations. She graduated from University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BS in Sociology and Communication. Rebecca serves as co-Head of volunteer committee, Head of Americas volunteer committee as well as a member of the Steering Committee and Allocator Committee for 100 Women in Finance, the Steering Committee of NASP’s Women’s Forum as well as serving as a mentor for 100WF LaunchME Program since 2022 and Rock the Street, Wall Street career development program.  She has been a panelist and moderator for various organizations including Live Girl, SHEWORKS, Viable Edu, 100WF, NASP and Shook Forbes. 

Ryan Kanaley is the Chief Investment Officer for Overbrook Management Corporation and is the lead Portfolio Manager of the Overbrook Core Equity Fund.  Mr. Kanaley is responsible for investment allocation, portfolio management and oversight, security selection and risk management. Prior to joining Overbrook in 2022, Ryan served as a Senior Research Analyst for Seven Canyons Advisors, as an Equity Research Analyst for Wasatch Global Investors, as a Principal for a Global Macro Hedge Fund and as an analyst for JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mr. Kanaley holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Finance from Brigham Young University. 

Mr. Greenhaus joined Solus in October 2015 as the Firm’s Chief Economist and Strategist. Prior to Solus, Mr. Greenhaus served as Chief Strategist at BTIG, where he was responsible for analyzing economic and market trends and helping clients to formulate investment strategies. Prior to BTIG, he was at Miller Tabak where he served as Chief Economic Strategist. Previously, Mr. Greenhaus was with Credit Suisse First Boston in the high yield research department after beginning his career with Bear Stearns. Mr. Greenhaus received his undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo and an MBA in Finance and Investments from Baruch College. He is a member of The National Association for Business Economics and The New York Society of Security Analysts. 

Supriya Randev is currently Head of U.S. Business Development at Caius Capital LLP where she drives institutional growth and strategic engagement with North American allocators. Previously, she served as Director of Marketing and Investor Relations at East Lodge Capital crafting investor communications and building investor relationships for the firm. With deep experience in capital formation, she excels at aligning fund strategy with allocator expectations, enhancing visibility, and fostering long-term investor trust in the alternatives space.

Aani Nerlekar is responsible for driving solution and market strategy for SS&C Advent's alternatives business. He brings a wealth of hands-on experience to the team, leading the Sales Engineering and Solutions Management teams and working closely with prospective and existing clients to understand their front- to back-office business needs. Aani works hand-in-hand with Product Management to define, prioritize, and deliver roadmaps for various products, including Eze Eclipse. 

DeWayne Louis joined Versor Investments as a Founding Partner and is based in New York. DeWayne has over 20 years of experience in quantitative investment strategies, investment banking, private equity and hedge funds. Prior to Versor Investments, DeWayne joined Investcorp’s Hedge Fund Group at the inception of the North America and Europe branches. He remained there for nearly a decade. Prior to Investcorp, DeWayne was an Associate Director in UBS’ Private Equity Secondary Group, focusing on buying and selling private equity interests in the secondary market. Earlier in his career, DeWayne was an Associate in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse where he focused on mergers, acquisitions and project finance transactions. 

DeWayne serves on the  board of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (“NYCEDC”). NYCEDC is the City’s primary vehicle for promoting economic growth in each of the five boroughs.  DeWayne also serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Public Library (“BPL”), one of the nation’s largest public library systems. BPL is a recognized leader in cultural offerings, literacy, out-of-school-time services, workforce development programs, and digital literacy. DeWayne holds a BS in Finance and International Business with a French minor from Georgetown University. There, he was a four-year varsity letterman on the football team. 

David has decades of experience building investment businesses, managing portfolios and analyzing stocks. Prior to CenterBook Partners, he founded and was Portfolio Manager/Managing Member of Conatus Capital, a multi-billion-dollar global long/short equity fund manager. David was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Lone Pine Capital, an associate at McKinsey & Company and served as Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee of Greenwich Academy. He graduated from Yale with a B.A. in History summa cum laude, Harvard Business School with an MBA with distinction, and Harvard Law School with a J.D. magna cum laude. 

Nishant leads futures and FX research at Versor Investments working closely with the Investment Committee in driving the investment research agenda across all strategies. Based in New York, Nishant operates across the full spectrum of strategy development from alpha signal generation to portfolio construction. Additionally, he plays an integral role in the Firm’s efforts in alternative data sourcing and the applications of machine learning. Prior to joining Versor Investments, Nishant was the second hire on the data team at Brex, a San Francisco-based financial technology firm, working on a mix of data science, analytics and engineering projects focused on credit risk. Nishant holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton and an M.S. in Statistics from UC San Diego. 

Ronan Farrell is Global Head of Buy Side, FIS® Cross Asset Trading and Risk. With a career spanning front office leadership, consultancy, and solution management, Ronan has driven innovation for investment managers and institutional clients worldwide. He played a pivotal role in the industry’s LIBOR transition, representing the Buy Side and shaping best practices for risk and trading solutions. Ronan holds a Master's Degree from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business and a B.Sc. in Economics and Finance from University College Dublin. 

Divya Singaravelu is a Senior Portfolio Manager at Itaú Asset Management, covering multi-asset Fund-of-Funds and international fixed-income funds. Her approach combines quantitative models and macroeconomic research to optimize portfolio allocation, enhance performance, and ensure effective risk management. Divya also oversees trading activities across ETFs, MFs, bonds, derivatives, and money market instruments to maintain liquidity and cost efficiency. Before her current role, Divya was an Emerging Markets Credit Trader at Banco Santander, where she managed trading activities and risk exposure for emerging markets sovereign and corporate debt instruments. Her experience extends to hedge funds, having worked as a Global Macro Research Associate at Light Sky Macro LP, where she analyzed global economic indicators and developed strategies that effectively monetized shifting market conditions. Divya holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, where she graduated as a Dean’s Scholar, and a master’s degree in advanced data science and journalism from Columbia University 

Mr. Powell has spent more than two decades in financial services, primarily in hedge funds and private equity. As Principal and CIO of Brookmont Capital Management, he oversees the firm’s investment and operational teams, including managing investment activity, coordinating with external analysts, and supporting investor relations. He also manages Brookmont’s ILS ETF, the first catastrophe bond ETF, bringing structured risk expertise to the firm’s product lineup. Ethan founded the nonprofit affiliate asset manager Impact Shares and serves as Chairman of the board for three mutual fund complexes totaling over $4 billion in assets. Previously, he held several roles at Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, L.P., including head of product and strategy, portfolio manager, and interested board chair. Mr. Powell earned a Master of Science in Management Information Systems and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Texas A&M University. He was a Certified Public Accountant and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Mayank is Founder and CEO of Museum Mile Funds, prior to which his two decade career included managing derivatives portfolios in leadership positions at some of the largest institutions like Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, UBS, MUFG, and AQR Capital. He noticed a glaring lack of efficient access to the financing markets and is very motivated to level the playing field by offering sophisticated investment strategies as off-the-shelf investable products. Mayank holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BTech from the Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow, India. He is also a CFA Charterholder. 

Thejas Nalval is a co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Investment Manager. Previously, he was a Portfolio Manager with LedgerPrime, a digital asset hedge fund. In that role, Mr. Nalval managed a long/short book and incubated strategies that incorporated deep technical and fundamental analysis. Prior to LedgerPrime, Mr. Nalval was the Head of Asset Management at the Element Group, a digital asset merchant bank. Prior to joining the digital asset space, Mr. Nalval spent 8 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a trader within the firm’s Macro Trading group. Mr. Nalval is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at NYU (MBA) and Rutgers University (BA). 

George Kaye started his career at Credit Suisse First Boston’s Product Development Group in 1999, quickly specialising in equity derivatives. In 2006, he left to join the Derivatives Analysis Group of Goldman Sachs, where he focused on building a methodology for model risk analysis of the firm’s equity derivatives positions. In 2010 he returned to the front office, working in the equity derivatives section of the Quantitative Analysis Group of UBS, leaving at the end of 2011 to build his own derivatives software company. 

Joe Armao is the Portfolio Manager of the Galaxy Fintech Fund. He brings over 15 years of buy-side investing experience spanning public, private, equity, credit, and token investing. Prior to Galaxy, Joe worked at Senator Investment Group where he served as Fintech Sector Head and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Strategic Resources Fund. He also managed a digital asset strategy and a number of private fintech investments in growth-stage companies, including multiple board seats. Previously, Joe worked at Blackstone Strycker View Capital, a financial sector hedge fund, and began his career with Blackstone Strategic Capital Group focused on seed and GP investments. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, and an Honors thesis in Game Theory. He is a New York Board member of Music Will, a national charitable organization dedicated to music education. 

Les Finemore is Co-Founder and CIO at Moreton Capital Partners (MCP), bringing over 12 years of global commodity and agricultural market experience. A trained research agronomist and prior physical trader, he combines deep domain expertise with more than a decade of fundamental and systematic investment leadership. Les' research sits at the intersection of AI and quantitative finance. 
 
At MCP, he leads the global systematic commodities strategy, overseeing research, portfolio construction, risk management, and capital allocation.   

Mr. Zummo is the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Executive Officer and Head of J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management. Mr. Zummo is Chair of the JPMAAM Investment Committee and co-founded JPMAAM in 1994. 

 Prior to that, Mr. Zummo served as the manager of retirement plan investments for the Interpublic Group of Companies from 1992 to 1994, where he was responsible for analysis, asset allocation, and manager selection. 

Mr. Zummo received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from New York University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® CFA designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. 

Jeffrey A. Sexton is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Demeter and a founding partner. He is responsible for the firm’s investment management and portfolio implementation, including portfolio construction, trading, and continuous monitoring of strategy exposures and risk controls. Mr. Sexton’s investment approach is informed by rigorous empirical finance research, shaped in part by his studies at the University of Chicago under Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama. 

Dan Gelernter serves as the Director of AI for Roy Niederhoffer’s family office and as Director of Artificial Intelligence at R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management. A Yale University alumnus and machine learning specialist, he combines deep technical expertise inherited from a family of computer scientists with institutional asset management experience. 

George is a Managing Director on the Hedge Funds team and has over 17 years of experience in alternative investments. He is responsible for sourcing, conducting investment research, and evaluating managers across relative value strategies. George also works with global investors focused on hedge funds, directing strategic portfolio construction, management, and providing customized investment decisions. 

Prior to joining Aksia in 2019, George was a Strategy Head focusing on global macro & trading strategies at UBP Asset Management where he was responsible for sourcing and due diligence across discretionary global macro, fixed income arbitrage and commodity strategies. Before that, George worked as a research analyst at Ermitage UK Ltd. where he focused mostly on long/short equity strategies in Europe. 

George graduated from Bayes Business School, City, University of London with a BS in Banking and International Finance. He is a CFA charterholder. 

Jackie Rosner is a Managing Director at PAAMCO Prisma, specializing in global macro and relative value strategies. He joined the firm in 2013, when it was called KKR Prisma, from Union Bancaire Privée, leading global macro and systematic trading. He held proprietary trading roles at BNP Paribas, Millennium Partners, and J.P. Morgan, after starting at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Rosner serves on the MIT Sloan Finance advisory board. He holds an S.B. in Economics, an S.B. in Management Science, and an S.M. in Management from MIT, as well as an M.S. in Mathematical Finance from NYU. His designations include CFA, CAIA, CMT, and FRM. 

Jeffrey Rosenberg, CFA, Managing Director, is a Senior Portfolio Manager within BlackRock’s Systematic Fixed Income (SFI) team, where he leads active and factor investments across mutual funds, institutional portfolios and ETFs. He serves on the SFI Investment and Executive Committees and is a portfolio manager for several strategies, including the Systematic Multi-Strategy Fund and the iShares Systematic Alternatives Active ETF (IALT).  

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Jeffrey spent nearly a decade at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jeffrey earned a Master of Science degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon, a BA in Mathematics from the Univ. of Minnesota, and a BA in Finance from the Univ. of Wisconsin. 

Dan Miller is Head of Business Development for Middle Office, Hedge Fund and CFO Services at IQ-EQ. He first joined IQ-EQ in June of 2019 in the New York City Hedge Fund Practice. As a member of the firm's commercial leadership team, he sets strategy and designs the product offering to meet the changing needs of the Liquid Alternatives Industry. His team of business development professionals maintain a best-in-class network of business partners and service providers to assist existing managers and new fund launches with meeting their needs and exceeding their objectives. He supports the brand development for IQ-EQ both domestically and globally. His areas of expertise include designing next generation institutional grade trading architectures, hedge fund launch coordination, counterparty management, ensuring fund accounting best practices are adhered to, and building robust and repeatable operational processes for alternative investment advisors of all sizes, structure, and strategies. Dan also leads the firm’s digital asset advisory practice – offering clients across the digital asset space an objective opinion on industry best practices and proper controls, helping firms to accept institutional allocations on day one. 

Dean Schaffer is President and CEO of Lightkeeper, where he leads the company's strategy and growth as the platform continues to expand its analytics, data infrastructure and AI capabilities for investment managers. He brings over 20 years of experience building and scaling technology and fund services businesses across the alternative investment ecosystem, with a focus on how AI and data infrastructure are transforming investment decision-making.  

Prior to Lightkeeper, Dean led the Capital Administration division at Alter Domus and was President of Investors Economic Assurance (IEA), where he oversaw the firm's growth and its eventual sale. He is also a Senior Advisor to PSG Equity; a growth equity firm focused on middle-market software and technology-enabled service companies. Dean holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and serves as Vice Chairman of the Board for Avenues for Justice. 

George Teixeira, MST, is a Principal – Tax. He is experienced in servicing the alternative investment, private equity, and financial services industries. 

His expertise includes tax planning for high-net worth individuals, investment partnerships, investment advisors, broker-dealers, venture capital companies, hedge funds (and their investors), investment partnership management companies and general partner entities. He specializes in the taxation of securities transactions and financial services companies, in addition to offering tax compliance and consulting services for a diversity of entities and individuals. George works closely with clients to develop effective planning structures and strategies. He advises high-net-worth individuals on estate planning, trust planning, charitable contributions and investment strategy and planning. His specific knowledge of straddles, swaps, options, wash sales and mark to market investments has led to his involvement with some of the largest investment partnerships in the country and the expansion of investment firms’ funds offshore. George frequently lectures for the Financial Research Associates (FRA) and the New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) on issues such as tax allocation methodologies, partnership contributions and distributions as well as tax planning and structuring. Prior to joining the firm, George was a partner in a national firm where he was the financial services tax practice leader. 

George is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He is also a member of the Wall Street Tax Association (WSTA), the Managed Funds Association (MFA) and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). In addition to English, George is fluent in Portuguese.

J.Dennis Jean-Jacques is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Ocean Park Investments LP. He is a highly accomplished and seasoned investor, having invested more than $3.2 billion of client capital in U.S. and European public markets across various market cycles over the past 20 years.  Before founding Ocean Park, Mr. Jean-Jacques spent a decade as a Managing Director and portfolio manager at alternative platforms, including Verition Fund. Prior to managing low net alternative strategies, he was an investor in the Public Equities Division at Olayan Investment Group and apprenticed at Mutual Shares, focusing on companies undergoing or likely to undergo significant change, dislocations, and other unique special situations with a strategy and asset mix included domestic and foreign equities, arbitrage positions, shareholder activism, and bankruptcy positions.  For ten years, Mr. Jean-Jacques served as a board advisor and as an actively engaged shareholder in several campaigns. These included the operational restructuring of a global industrial company, the outright sale of an American appliance manufacturer, and leading the breakup of an S&P 500 conglomerate at the boardroom level. His work has been profiled in Barron's, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal.  Mr. Jean-Jacques is also an author on portfolio construction, valuation, and risk management. His published work, The Five Keys to Value Investing, is used at many universities and has been translated into three languages, including Mandarin Chinese. He began his investment career in equity research at Fidelity Investments in 1993. Mr. Jean-Jacques holds a BSSE from Boston University College of Engineering and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Raj Dua is a senior hedge fund professional with deep experience building and scaling multi-PM, multi-asset investment platforms. He joined Fasanara’s Open Quant team in January 2026 as Managing Director and Head of Systematic Macro and Relative Value Strategies. In this capacity, he leads strategy sourcing, portfolio construction, and risk oversight. Previously, Raj built and led the Systematic Macro and Global Alpha businesses at Walleye Capital, overseeing quantitatively driven strategies across equities, commodities, fixed income, and FX. Earlier in his career, he was CIO and head PM at GTS Asset Management, helped launch its hedge fund business, and held prop-trading leadership roles at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Raj graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University with an M.Eng in Financial Engineering and a BSc in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. 

Brian Goodman is Head of Sales, North America at ActiveViam, where he works with global banks, exchanges, clearing organizations, hedge funds, and asset managers to deliver high-performance, real-time analytics for capital markets. 
Prior to joining ActiveViam, Brian spent nearly two decades at JPMorgan, holding leadership roles across  markets technology, market infrastructure and sales, including serving as Global Head of Equity OTC Clearing. In that role, he worked with institutional clients, exchanges, central counterparties and industry participants to develop and support cleared equity derivatives solutions and advance post-trade market infrastructure. His experience also includes electronic trading product development, and large-scale technology initiatives spanning front-, middle-, and back-office operations. 
With more than 20 years of experience in capital markets, Brian brings practical expertise in clearing, risk management, market infrastructure, enterprise data, and the technologies that enable modern trading and risk platforms. 

Alan Lee is the Chief Product Officer at ActiveViam, where he leads the teams responsible for designing and enhancing the company’s platform and solutions. In this role, Alan sets the product strategy, oversees product development, and drives innovation to ensure ActiveViam remains at the cutting edge of the industry. 

With over three decades of experience at the intersection of Finance and Technology, Alan has cultivated a diverse career spanning Product Leadership, Engineering Management, Corporate Strategy, and Sales. Before joining ActiveViam in early 2025, he spent more than ten years at BlackRock, where he played a pivotal role in the Aladdin organization, most recently leading the commercialization of their programmatic and development platform. 

Alan earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

James E. Walker III is President and Senior Managing Director of Black Diamond Capital Management, overseeing firm management, strategic growth, and new investment opportunities. A co-founder of Black Diamond in 1996, he rejoined as President in September 2023. From 2008 to 2016, he was Managing Partner at Fir Tree Partners, co-founding its real estate opportunity fund, co-leading its real estate platform, leading activist investments, and chairing its Risk Committee. Earlier, he held senior roles at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Bear Stearns. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Mr. Walker serves on the boards of Starwood Real Estate Trust, Consumer Portfolio Services, and Emeco. 

Marko Papic is the Macro-Geopolitical Chief Strategist at BCA Research, one of the largest investment research firms. He is also the published author of Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future, which was featured on Bloomberg’s ‘Best Books of 2020’, and his work on incorporating geopolitics into the asset management industry has become part of the CAIA curriculum. 

At BCA, Marko leads, BCA Access, a service providing advisory, consulting, and custom research to select clients, and he writes the firm’s macro-geopolitical research subscription (GeoMacro), that blends in-depth analysis of politics, geopolitics and policy to call the markets. 

Previously, Marko was a Partner and the Chief Strategist at an alternative asset management firm in California where he provided institutional investors with around-the-clock market insights and bold calls. He also helped seed global macro hedge funds and curate several funds across public and private markets.  

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, he has lived in Iraq, Jordan, Switzerland, Canada, and the U.S. He has lectured at the top universities, and he is often featured in the global media. 

Daniel Gerard is a senior multi-asset strategist for State Street Markets based in the US where he has been since July of 2021. His current focus is on the equity asset class, the interaction between rates and equities, countries, themes, sectors, and cross asset behavior. He is particularly interested in monetary policy and aggregate balance sheet analysis of market participants and studies their longer term impact on equities, fixed income and the overall investment environment. Previously Dan was on the Emerging Markets rates and FX team based in Singapore, prior to that he ran the Advisory Solutions business for State Street Markets in Hong Kong.

Prior to launching PharVision, Blago was a trader at Citadel Global Equities in Chicago for over 4 years where he gained extensive experience in long-short market-neutral trading, risk & portfolio management, data analysis and operations. Blago helped oversee up to $15B of gross assets in the consumer, TMT and healthcare sectors. Before Citadel, Blago spent 4 years on the Morgan Stanley Quantitative & Derivatives Strategies team in New York engineering fully systematic equity derivatives strategies. Blago graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Mathematics & Economics degree from Lafayette College in Easton, PA. 

John Avery leads a team of industry and product subject matter experts in FIS Capital Markets, providing clients with actionable insights on how the products in our ecosystem deliver business value for hedge fund managers, asset managers, brokers and market makers. John has 30+ years of strategy, product, consulting, and sales experience in institutional capital markets across the front, middle and back office on the buy-side and sell-side. 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjohn/ 

Dan Berkovitz is Vice Chairman, External and Regulatory Affairs, and a member of the Firm’s Compliance, Legal & Ethics Oversight Committee (CLEO).

Prior to joining Millennium in 2024, Dan served as General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and, prior to that, as Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). He was also previously a Partner and Co-Chair of the Futures and Derivatives practice at WilmerHale, General Counsel at the CFTC, and was a senior staff lawyer for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management. Dan is currently a Lecturer at Columbia Law School, and has previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School and Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Futures and Derivatives.

Dan received an AB in Physics from Princeton University and a JD from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, formerly known as Hastings College of the Law.

Amrita Tiwari, CFA, is an investment professional with expertise in trading, market structure, and investment analytics. She is currently at New York Life Investment Management and previously was a multi-asset trader at BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, and Citadel. She serves on advisory boards and is a frequent speaker at industry forums on market innovation, technology, and the future of investment analytics. She serves as a committee chair of Collaborative WIM a women-founded nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing and empowering women throughout the investment industry. Amrita holds an MBA from Cornell University and is a CFA Charterholder. 

Chris is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the fund industry, specializing in alternative investments. As a Vice President at NAV Fund Services Group since 2021, Chris oversees client relationships and drives business development initiatives. Throughout his career, he has successfully managed the onboarding and administration of open-end and closed-end funds for a diverse global clientele. Known for his expertise in fund structures and client-focused solutions, Chris is passionate about fostering strong partnerships and delivering exceptional service in the financial sector. 

Irene Aldridge, PhD (ABD), is one of the leading voices on agentic AI in finance. She founded the Risk AI Center, an independent research and executive education institute advancing the science of AI in finance, and has taught quantitative finance and AI at Cornell and Cambridge. Her career spans more than two decades on Wall Street, including designing and running high-frequency trading strategies across a cross-asset portfolio, and she has served on the CFTC's subcommittee on high-frequency trading. 

Andy has over 20 years of fund administration experience across Canadian and offshore markets. Since joining SGGG in 2011, he has led the transfer agency and treasury departments, overseen internal and external communications, and managed key compliance functions including anti-money laundering, business continuity, and data privacy. Before SGGG, Andy managed the transfer agency department at BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services in Bermuda. 

Yarin is Co-Founder, CEO and CIO of Beacon Harbor Capital, a technology-centric quantitative volatility fund, where he leads the firm’s investment strategy and technology. He brings nearly two decades of markets experience across Jefferies, HSBC, RBC Capital Markets and Balyasny Asset Management, where he built and led technology teams. An engineer, entrepreneur and hands-on builder, Yarin focuses on connecting strategy with execution, quantitative research and practical technology. He is also Co-Founder and CEO of Keep AI Safe, a nonprofit advancing safer AI for children through independent testing, research, education and standards, while advising organizations on applied AI strategy and implementation.    

Michael Lubman is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development of GTC Partners, an environmentals and energy transition hedge fund manager. In his role, Michael spreadheads the team’s product strategy and business development initiatives.  

Separately, Michael also advises a select group of emerging and growth stage managers of business and product strategy, rollout, capital raising and operational efficiency.  

Previously, Michael served was a founding partner and COO of Vollero Beach Capital Partners. He began his career in London with HSBC.  

Michael holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Delaware and an M.B.A. from Fordham University. 

Scott Treacy is a Senior Associate, US Institutional Relations for Campion Capital. He is responsible for actively cultivating relationships with US institutional investors. 

For the past decade, Scott worked in New York for Investment Metrics as a Consultant to US institutional investors. Previously, he worked in Geneva, Switzerland for Brandes Investment Partners as an Institutional Portfolio Specialist to their European, Middle Eastern, and African institutional clients. 

Scott grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and is an avid Boston Celtics fan. Graduating from Tufts University with a major in Economics, he also served as co-captain of the football team. Scott is a CFA® charterholder and is the Chair of the Alternative Investments Interest Group for the CFA Society of New York.  He also holds the SIE, Series 63, and Series 7. He currently lives in New York City with his family, where he enjoys staying active through basketball, running, and hiking. 

Tara Hariharan is Co-Chief Investment Officer and Head of Global Research and Strategy at NWI Management LP, a New York City-based global macro hedge fund. She partners with the firm’s Chairman and CEO on investment strategy and portfolio construction, and leads analysis of global economic, policy, and geopolitical developments. She created NWI’s proprietary macro dashboard for identifying investment opportunities across fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, and commodities. Hariharan is a recognized expert and seasoned speaker on China, emerging markets, global macro and transatlantic relations, and has featured on CNBC and Bloomberg Television and is quoted by Reuters.  

A 2024 Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40 honoree, Hariharan serves on the boards of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the American Council on Germany, and on the Atlantic Council Millennium Fellowship Program Advisory Council. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Economic Club of New York. She has been awarded several fellowships: 2023 Atlantic Council Millennium Leadership Fellowship, 2022 Economic Club of New York Fellowship, 2016 American Council on Germany Young Leader, and 2014 German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellowship. She earned her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and a graduate certificate in International Relations from Harvard Extension School. 

Ilya Khazen joined LMAX Group this summer to lead cross-asset sales across the Americas, delivering its broad product offering to a growing base of both traditional finance and digital assets customers across the region. LMAX Group is the leading operator of institutional exchanges for FX and digital assets trading. With the establishment of greater regulatory clarity in the US, LMAX Group is extending its digital offering in the Americas to deliver the first integrated, full-service cross-asset solution for leading institutions. 

Prior to LMAX Group, Mr. Khazen was Co-Head of Sales for Americas at Copper where he led the firms Americas (US, Canada, Latam) institutional revenue growth. Previously, Ilya spent more than a decade in prime brokerage at Goldmans Sachs in NYC and Hong Kong and two years at Societe Generale in listed derivatives and OTC clearing sales where he worked with some of the world’s largest market makers, broker dealers, trading firms, and hedge funds. Ilya graduated from Lehigh University with degrees in Finance and Economics and currently resides in New York City.