SALT Talks

Josh Rogin is the author of "Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century". He is also an American journalist who serves as a foreign policy columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post and a political analyst for CNN. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with president Xi Jinping had sparked a trade wa...

Rob Curtis and Billie Simmons are the Co-Founders of Daylight. Daylight is the first LGBT+ digital banking platform in the United States and is part of the Visa Fintech Fast Track program, which will allow Daylight to quickly access Visa’s global network and resources. Daylight's flagship products and lifestyle services will be designed to improve financial equality and inclusion for the estim...

Sean Bill is the Chief Investment Officer of VTA. He is responsible for the management and oversight of $3 billion in multi-asset class portfolios including defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, endowment funds and institutional cash management programs. Assets allocated across global public equities, global fixed income, private credit, private core real-estate, diversified real asse...

John Preston is the author of "Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell". Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor, Member of Parliament, suspected spy, and fraudster. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Maxwell rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailin...

Professor Peter Hotez is the Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics.  Dr. Hotez is an internationally-recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development. As head of the...

Ted Seides is the Host of the Capital Allocators Podcast. Ted created Capital Allocators LLC to explore best practices in the asset management industry from the perspective of asset owners, asset managers, and other relevant players. He hosts the Capital Allocators podcast, serves as an advisor to allocators and asset managers, helps asset managers convey their story through private podcasts, and...

Greg Gibb is the Chief Executive Officer of Lufax. As a constant innovator and pioneer in the fintech industry, Lufax has developed China’s most open, safe and convenient investment and financing platform. Investors come to Lufax for its broad product offering, diverse liquidity avenues and superior user experience. Lufax takes full advantage of the latest big data and IT technologies and leverage...

Nisa Amoils is the Managing Partner of A100x, a rolling venture fund committed to investing in companies that apply blockchain, AI and other emerging technologies to promote environmental, social and economic impact. Nisa has been in venture capital for 10 years at multiple funds (Scout Ventures and Grasshopper Capital) investing in disruptive technology. She started as a generalist technology see...

Roxanne Davies is the Managing Partner of Parly. She is a senior family office executive for nearly 30 years, she has managed operational businesses and multi-asset investment portfolios around the world, including the US, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Switzerland. ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/tal...

Jeff Immelt is a Venture Partner of New Enterprise Associates, a global venture capital and private equity firm. Jeff joined NEA in 2018 as a Venture Partner on both the technology and healthcare investing teams. He is the author of HOT SEAT, a memoir of leadership in times of crisis. Jeff served as chairman and CEO of GE for 16 years where he revamped the company’s strategy, global footprint, wor...

Don Lemon is the Anchor of CNN Tonight and author of This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism.  As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea,...

Shabtai Shavit was the Director General of Mossad from 1989-1996. After retiring from the Mossad, he spent five years as CEO of Maccabi Health Services Group. From 2001, he was chairman of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He was president and CEO of EMG Israel and chairman of Athena. Shavit continued to work in government, including as adviso...

Sheila Warren is best known for serving as the head of data, blockchain and digital assets at the World Economic Forum. She also holds board member and advisory positions at multiple institutions and organizations including the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and NGO network TechSoup. Warren promotes the adoption of blockchain technology and considers herself...

Jeff Booth is the author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future. Jeff is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruptio...

Richard Byworth is the Chief Executive Officer of Diginex. He has 20+ years of experience spanning finance, start-ups, investment, fintech sectors and the crypto industry. "We are modeling out about $175,000 for the price of bitcoin by the end of this year." Diginex is a digital asset financial services and advisory company focused on delivering innovative products, architecture, and infra...

Adam Jentleson is the Author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers’ vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives. From John Calhoun in the mid-1800s to Mitch McConnell in the 2010s, their primary weap...

Jonathan Allen is a political reporter for NBC News with two decades of experience covering Congress, the White House and federal elections. A frequent guest on national television and radio programs. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency" is his third book with Amie Parnes. Their first two books, "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton&#3...

Alex Mashinsky is the CEO of Celsius Network and a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, Alex has raised more than $1 billion and exited over $3 billion. Georgia Quinn is the Chair of the Advisory Board and co-founder of iDisclose, an adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade private placement documents for...

Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, a digital asset investment firm that manages $4B in assets on behalf of a global client base, and serves as a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. She is the founder of her personal crypto fund Athena Capital, and is continuing to open the crypto world to institutional investors. On the s...

Robin Potts is the Co-Head of Real Estate Investments and Director of Acquisitions for Canyon. Ms. Potts supervises originations and acquisitions of all real estate transactions. Ms. Potts previously worked in the Financial Institutions Group of Credit Suisse in Los Angeles and focused on equity, debt, and M&A transactions in the mortgage real estate investment trust sector. Ms. Potts is a gra...

Francis Suarez is the Mayor of Miami and an attorney serving as the 43rd mayor of Miami. He was elected on November 7, 2017, with 86 percent of the vote. Suarez is the first Miami-born mayor. He is a registered Republican, but the office of the City of Miami Mayor is nonpartisan. We discuss his plans to transform Miami into a tech innovation hub, how he is embracing Bitcoin and crypto, climate cha...

Dan Held is the Growth Lead at Kraken Bitcoin Exchange. Dan is a serial Bitcoin entrepreneur with two exits (Interchange, Kraken, ZeroBlock, Blockchain.com), and has a wide span of experience across five Bitcoin companies. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth...

Betsy Cohen is a Chairman at FinTech Group. Betsy’s entrepreneurial vision is focused on identifying disruptive technology innovation in the financial services industry, with a particular focus on established companies that offer data processing, transactional or data security, consumer engagement platforms and payment processing services. Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in financial law, banking...

Erika Karp founded Cornerstone Capital Group to bring the disciplines of finance, economics and sustainability to bear in pursuit of a more regenerative and inclusive form of capitalism. Over the course of her 25-plus years on Wall Street, Erika developed a deep belief in environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis as a critical input to investment decision-making. John Streur is President...

Vanessa Colella is the Chief Innovation Officer for Citi and leads the Citi Ventures and Citi Productivity teams. Citi Ventures is committed to charting the unknown in a world of unprecedented change and disruption. We invest in innovative startups, and we work with our colleagues, clients, and the innovation ecosystem to experiment with next-generation technologies. Vanessa's goal is to accel...