SALT Talks

Amal Dokhan is the CEO of Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Saudi Arabia. Dokhan is one of the early innovation and entrepreneurship educators and facilitators in the MENA region.  A Stanford course in design thinking offered a simple yet profound lesson for marketers and entrepreneurs: by focusing on the underlying human motivations, one can determine the solution. It requires a methodology t...

Jordana Kier is the co-founder of LOLA, the first lifelong brand for her body. Created for women, by women who have been there too, LOLA aims to address every reproductive life stage with a commitment to product transparency and a community built on candid dialogue about all of the things we don’t openly talk about. The female monthly reproductive cycle has been very reactive and left women vulner...

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the co-founders of Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, to empower the individual through crypto. Gemini is a New York Trust company that allows customers to buy, sell, and store crypto such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ether, Zcash, and Litecoin. While being identical twins, Cameron is left-handed and Tyler is right-handed. This seemingly creates a comple...

Joe Scarborough is the co-host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" alongside Mika Brzezinski - a show with a reported increased viewership of 113% by Variety. "Morning Joe" starts each weekday conducting interviews with top newsmakers and discussing the day's headlines. The New York Times ranked Morning Joe as one of today’s top morning news shows and has praised Joe and Mika's natura...

Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. Gary Hall is a Partner with Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (the nation's largest minority-owne...

Josh Giegel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Virgin Hyperloop where he is leading a world-class team of engineers making the hyperloop a reality. Josh founded the company in 2014, when hyperloop was an idea drawn on a whiteboard in a garage. A little over two years later, VH built a full-scale prototype capturing the attention of governments worldwide. Today, Josh is leading the development of paradig...

Top voices in venture capital provide insights into how startups are leveraging and driving the revolution in working, communicating, and staying healthy brought about by COVID-19. This third installment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, includes insight into disruption in MedTech. Hear from the CEOs behind Israel’s leading COVID-19 vacc...

Prior to COVID-19, digital transformation projects were at a pace of their own - slow and experimental. For the fourth installment of SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, Ron Moritz, serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and sector expert, will quiz top CEOs from startups Morphisec, ITsMine and ThetaRay on how they are dealing with the unprecedented r...

Todd Sears is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Out Leadership, the global LGBT+ business advisory company that partners with the world’s most influential firms to build a business opportunity, cultivate talent, and drive equality forward.  In 2001, gay marriage was not legal. That meant there were over 1,049 rights at the federal level that the LGBT+ community did not enjoy, over 90% bei...

Stergios Voskopoulos is the CEO of Kanoo Capital, the Investment Division within YBA Kanoo, one of the largest and oldest family conglomerates in the Middle East. As CEO of Kanoo Capital, Mr. Voskopoulos is responsible for the active management of direct and indirect investments regionally and globally. Kanoo as an institution was incorporated all the way back in 1890 and after many decades of an...

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies at Yale University’s School of Management and The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice, as well as the Founder, President of THE YALE CHIEF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE– the world’s first “CEO College”. Previously, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. He has been named one of the...

Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy. He is a technologist, investor, business executive, philanthropist, and best-selling author. He has become famous in the Bitcoin community for purchasing more than $450+ million of Bitcoin using the company's balance sheet. Bitcoin represents a similar transformation in the financial space. Similar to the likes of Amazon, Apple and Facebook, Bitcoin...

Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly known as Cross Culture Ventures), which finds the entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America. A career started in consulting eventually led to venture because as a VC, one has skin in the game for the length of that investment. It offers the ability to directly shape the nature of the companies, s...

Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive track record of successful startups. He launched Binance in July 2017 and within 180 days grew Binance into the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. An expert in blockchain and trading systems, CZ has built Binance into the leading blockchain ecosystem, comprised of Binance Exchange, Labs, Launchpad, Info, Acade...

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Peter is the Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, political analyst for MSNBC, and author of Days of Fire and The Breach.  Susan is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of its weekly Letters from Trump's Washington, as well as a CNN global affairs analyst. Susan and Peter are married, and their first assignment as a married couple was a...

Top voices in venture capital provide insights into how startups are leveraging and driving the revolution in working, communicating, and staying healthy brought about by COVID-19. This second installment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, includes a look at the mobility sector in the current COVID-climate, how top entrepreneurs and their...

Philip Bagdasarianz has been working with wealthy families from Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for over 18 years. This year he joined PWA Private Wealth Advisors AG, a swiss multi-family office boutique as a managing partner. Our identities play a central role in our personality and it ultimately has a huge effect on how we work and interact professionally and personally. Ide...

Dr. Taghreed Al-Saraj is currently working as a Post Doctorate fellow at University of California, Berkeley. She is the first Saudi female Post Doctorate in the history of UC Berkeley. Dr. Al-Saraj earned both a Bachelor and a Masters in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from the University of Miami, Florida. She earned her Ph. D. from UCL Institute of Education, University of London....

Raoul Pal is the co-founder of Real Vision Finance, a financial media company offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world’s best investors. Bitcoin appeals to three different types of people: Libertarians like its decentralized and anonymous nature; technologists see its potential as an engineering solution to the financial system; early adopter investors identify i...

Ruston Smith is the Chairman of the Tesco Pension Fund (DB and DC) and Tesco Pension Investment Ltd, Non-Exec Chair of JP Morgan Asset Management (EMEA), Non-Exec Chair of Smart Pension Ltd, Non-Exec Chair of PTL Ltd, Independent Trustee and Chair of the Funding and Investment Committee for the BAE Pension Fund, Governor of the PPI and Chair of GroceryAid (charity for the grocery industry).  Due t...

Gert Dijkstra is the Senior Managing Director at APG Asset Management, responsible for Global Networks and Peers and for Investing in the Netherlands. Formerly he was Chief Strategy & Communication and member of the Board at APG Asset Management. More and more, asset management companies are placing an emphasis on investing in socially responsible companies. APG created GRESB, standing for Glo...

Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York. Governor Cuomo is the Dean of the nation’s Democratic Governors and currently serves as Chairman of the National Governors Association. Prior to his election as Governor, Cuomo served as the 64th Attorney General of New York. From 1997-2001, Cuomo served as the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clint...

Mishal Kanoo is the Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest, longest-running and independent family-owned groups of companies in the Gulf region. He holds chief positions as Chairman/Director of various reputable companies, including AXA Insurance Gulf, Gulf Capital, KHK & Partners Limited, Dalma Capital, Johnson Arabia LLC and KAAF Investments. Started in 1890 in Bahrain, The Kanoo Gr...

Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital. He also the founder and chairman of SALT Conference, a leading global conference that brings together leading investors, creators and thinkers to discuss big ideas in the world of finance, technology and public policy. He is the author of four books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Hopping Over th...

Top voices in venture capital provide insights into how startups are leveraging and driving the revolution in working, communicating, and staying healthy brought about by COVID-19. This first installment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd , includes a survey of general pandemic investment trends and disruptive approaches to funding startup...