SALT Talks

Michael Greenwald is the Director of Tiedemann Advisors. His expertise is in the future of the U.S. dollar and digital currencies; illicit finance; sanctions; and affairs in the Gulf/Middle East, Europe, and Africa.  Greenwald previously worked in senior roles within the United States Treasury working with Africa and Europe. He served as a financial diplomat in the Middle East spanning the tenures...

Kathryn Lincoln and George McCarthy are the CIO and CEO of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy seeks to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land. A nonprofit private operating foundation whose origins date to 1946, the Lincoln Institute researches and recommends creative approaches to land as a solution to economic, soc...

Jon Najarian is the Co-Founder of Market Rebellion. Market Rebellion offers in-depth trader education, coaching and mentoring – from beginner to advanced – to help you build the knowledge base and practical skills required for market success. Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian was linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of contact sport – trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Jo...

Edward-Isaac Dovere, the Lead Political Correspondent at The Atlantic. He has covered Democratic politics for 15 years, beginning in his native New York City and carrying him through the Obama White House and then across 29 states during the 2020 election cycle. His reporting has won the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for Excellence and the Society of Professional Jo...

Valerie Mosley is the Founder of Valmo Ventures. Valerie created Valmo Ventures to advise and invest in companies that add value to both investors and society. She recently founded BrightUp, a FinTech company focused on democratizing wealth building and wellbeing. Mosley sits on several boards including Eaton Vance’s family of mutual funds, DraftKings, Groupon and Envestnet. Previously, she was an...

Ali Tamaseb is a partner at DCVC, a highly reputable VC firm in Silicon Valley with over $2 billion under management and investments in over ten billion-dollar startups. At DCVC, he works on a broad spectrum of areas ranging from computational health/bio to cybersecurity. More specifically, Ali likes to identify early-stage highly technical and defensible startups in diagnostics tools, neuro-techn...

Zachary Karabell is the Author of “Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power”. He is also the founder of the Progress Network at New America, and president of River Twice Research and River Twice Capital. Previously, he was Head of Global Strategies at Envestnet, a publicly traded financial services firm. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former finan...

Scott M. Sperling is the President of THL Portfolio Holdings Corp. and Co-President for Thomas H. Lee Partners LP. Mr. Sperling is also Chairman for Mass General Brigham, Inc. and on the board of 7 other companies. In his past career he occupied the position of Managing Partner at Aeneas Group, Inc., Executive Chairman of Federal Street Acquisition Corp. and Chairman for Boch Centre. Prior to join...

Walter Isaacson is the Author of “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race”. Isaacson is famous for writing Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, so a title like The Code Breaker might imply a lesser book about a lesser character. But 2020 Nobel winner Jennifer Doudna, who developed the gene editing technology CRISPR, is a giant in her own right. CRISPR could o...

Jim Mellon is the co-founder and Chairman of Juvenescence. Juvenescence was inspired by the possibilities and advances being made in the area of longevity. He travelled across the world speaking to leading scientists and researchers and from those conversations, he wrote the book,  Juvenescence . That book and his partnership with Greg Bailey and Declan Doogan led to the concept and rare opportuni...

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX & CEO of VaynerMedia. Gary is considered one of the leading global minds on what’s next in culture, relevance and the internet. Known as “GaryVee” he is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business - he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early to help others understand how these shifts impact markets and consumer behavior. Whether its...

Warren Fisher is the Founder of Manole Capital Management. Warren started his career at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 1994.  While on GSAM’s Growth Equity team, Warren was responsible for both the Financial sector, as well as  Service companies in the Technology and Fintech industries.  In...

Willy Woo is a prominent on-chain Bitcoin analyst. He is also the author of the “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, explains the parabolic activity of Bitcoin in the past month. Willy Woo is a New Zealander with 15 years experience founding multiple startups. Previously an angel investor, and a trader during the 2008 world financial crisis, he now dedicates the much of his ti...

Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile...

Brett Tejpaul is the Head of Institutional Coverage at Coinbase. As an experienced business builder and innovator in Financial Services, Brett has accelerated revenue growth with institutional clients and mobilize FinTech companies. At Coinbase, Brett is making connections between finance 1.0 and the crypto economy. Coinbase is focused on the continued institutionalization of crypto. This includes...

Alex Bangash and Trang Nguyen are the Founders of TI Platform Management. TI Platform Management is a global venture investment platform. The firm invests in what it considers disruptive venture structures, such as studios and platforms with a high-growth potential, while striving to bridge the diversity gap in VC. Together with the support of their mission-driven LPs, who include investors at pro...

Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital. She invests in transformative technologies streamlining analog industries and improving lives and livelihoods. She is particularly interested in intersectional and polymath entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies and accelerating advances and equity in human and population health. Shakir joined Lux Capital as a Partner in late 2019. She has led Lux’s...

Dan Tapiero is the CEO and Managing Partner of 10T. Dan brings 30 years of experience in macro and commodity investing and trading, research and economics, as well as entrepreneurship. Dan has an extensive set of relationships in the institutional investment management space and is a thought leader that regularly speaks and contributes on macroeconomic topics. In this conversation, we discuss the...

Ed Hajim is the Author of "On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom". Ed is a seasoned Wall Street executive with more than 50 years of investment experience. He has held senior management positions with the Capital Group, E.F. Hutton, and Lehman Brothers before becoming chairman and CEO of Furman Selz. Hajim has been the co-chairman of ING Barings...

Dean Trantalis is the 42nd Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. He is an American politician and mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Before his election as mayor, Trantalis served as a city commissioner for Fort Lauderdale from 2009 to 2017.  —————————————————————————  For podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/talks Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dmWSVosE1d4 Developed, created and...

Nikhil Kamath is the Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer, True Beacon & Zerodha. Over the last year, Zerodha—the name of which is derived from combining two words, zero and rodha (Sanskrit for barriers)—has seen its number of registered users double under the pandemic and reportedly has a daily turnover of $10 billion. According to his official company bio: "Nikhil is an astute inves...

Cathie Wood's is the Founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment o...

Kim Scott and Trier Bryant are the co-founders of Just Work. This isn’t Trier’s first foray into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) work. She started her career in the Air Force, where she implemented her senior capstone project that highlighted the lack of diversity across all the service academies and how that ultimately affects the lack of officer diversity. From there she led teams at...

Gabriel Radzyminski is the Managing Director of Sandon Capital, a boutique investment management and advisory firm. He is the portfolio manager of the Sandon Capital Activist Fund and Sandon Capital Investments Limited. Gabriel has been involved in the financial services sector for more than 20 years. He has significant investment experience across a range of asset classes. He serves as executive...

Brooke Baldwin is an Anchor at CNN and Author of "Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power". She is also the creator and host of CNN's Digital series "American Woman" which focuses on the stories of trailblazing women who have broken barriers in their respective fields and are now helping other women do the same. In her book, Brooke explores the phenomenon of “huddling,”...