SALT Talks

Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin. Swan is a recurring Bitcoin purchase plan to help you save value in Bitcoin. Yan is the former co-founder and CTO at Reverb, which was sold to Etsy for $275M. He is the author of Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained. “Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most...

 Vijay Boyapati is the Author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. “With the price of bitcoin surging to new highs in 2017, the bullish case for investors might seem so obvious it does not need stating. Alternatively, it may seem foolish to invest in a digital asset that isn’t backed by any commodity or government and whose price rise has prompted some to compare it to the tulip mania or the dot-com b...

Huda Al Lawati is a partner of Gateway Partners, based in Dubai. She has over 16 years of experience in strategy, investment and portfolio management across emerging market private equity and corporates in the MENA with a strong relationship network in the region. Prior to joining Gateway, Huda was CIO at Savola Group, the leading strategic investment holding company in the food and retail sectors...

Dr. Yossi Bahagon, the Managing Partner at OurCrowd. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of e-Health, Mobile-Health and Telemedicine, Dr. Bahagon founded in 2009 the e-Health wing for Clalit Health Services (CHS), the largest HMO in Israel and second-largest globally. Under his leadership, the e-Health activity at CHS became the largest Online-Care and Telemedicine provider wor...

Jalak Jobanputra is the Founder of Future\Perfect Ventures. An early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI. FPV's portfolio includes Abra, Blockstream, Bitpesa, Fusemachines, Everledger and Blockchain.  Jalak was awarded Institutional Investor's Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers from 2016-2018. In May 2018, she was awarded...

Saleh Romeih is the Managing Partner SoftBank Group. SoftBank Capital is a venture capital group in the United States, focusing on technology and telecom early-stage businesses. It was founded by SoftBank. “We're in the midst of a transformational shift in society, powered by AI. And like those that came before it, this transformation will reach virtually every sector of our global economy. It...

Mark Mobius is the Founder of Mobius Capital Partners. Mobius Capital Partners is an emerging and frontier markets asset manager offering an innovative private equity approach to public markets. Supported by a first-class investment team, Mobius Capital Partners is focused on a single long-only strategy based on actively partnering with portfolio companies to improve their corporate governance and...

This is part three of the three-part series on election security. Brad Raffensperger is the CEO and owner of Tendon Systems, LLC. Tendon is a specialty contracting and engineering design firm with nearly 150 employees. The firm has operated in 35 different states. Raffensperger also owns and operates a specialty steel manufacturing plant based in Forsyth County. Additionally, he served two terms i...

Dante Disparte is the Executive Vice President of the Diem Association. Dante serves as a member of the executive committee leading public policy, social impact, membership and communications. The Diem payment system is built on blockchain technology to enable the open, instant, and low-cost movement of money. People will be able to send, receive, and spend their money, enabling universal access t...

Michael Dyson is an academic, author, ordained minister, and radio host. Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Illmatic (Nas's debut album), Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina. Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brut...

Joe Terranova is a series regular on CNBC's Fast Money and the Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners, a $25 billion Hartford-based asset management firm. In his current role, Mr. Terranova is involved with Virtus' investment oversight function and represents Virtus as a client-facing thought leader, providing insight into the domestic and global investing landscape. Prior...

Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano is the co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital. He is the host of The Pomp Podcast, where he talks to investors about business, finance, Bitcoin, and crypto.  Morgan Creek Digital is a hedge fund that specializes in blockchain technology and digital assets and is backed by investment management firm Morgan Creek Capital. The firm was founded by Mark Yusko, Jason William...

Lauren Kolodny and Theresia Gouw are the Founders of Acrew Capital. Acrew DCF is a new growth stage investment fund from Acrew Capital, that aims to diversify the ownership and leadership of leading growth-stage companies through value-added capital. Prior to co-founding Acrew, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. She joined at the founding of the firm and helped to build out the team. Previou...

Jeffrey Ubben is an American businessman and Founder of Inclusive Capital Partners. He recently retired as CEO of ValueAct Capital, a hedge fund focused on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and impact investing. Ubben is an activist board member of Exxon Mobil. Prior to founding ValueAct Capital in 2000, Mr. Ubben was a Managing Partner at Blum Capital Partners for more than fiv...

Joe Lonsdalewas an early institutional investor in notable companies including Wish, Oculus, Oscar, Illumio, Blend, Orca Bio, RelateIQ, Joby Aviation, Synthego, Guardant Health, and in 2016 and 2017 was the youngest member of the Forbes 100 Midas List. He is also the co-founder of Palantir, a multi-billion dollar global software company best known for its work in defense and finance. Most recently...

Backed by over 20 years of experience, Stacy Robinson works with her clients to understand their goals, define risk, manage liabilities, and proactively plan for their overall financial future. Stacy’s focus on a client-centric wealth management process has spanned her entire career.  Octavius Reid is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Advisor with Morgan Stanley. Over the past 30 years, he has de...

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet. Change Cadet provides people and companies with services that support anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging (DEIB). As a young Black woman, Dr. Akilah Cadet experienced judgment, "isms", and numerous barriers in the workplace. One day she thought, “what if I could change that?” and Change Cadet was started. Cadet,...

This is episode two of a three-part series on election security. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). EAC is an independent, bipartisan commission charged with developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, and serving as a national clearinghouse of information on election administrat...

Dr. Jonathan Simons is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Dr. Simons is an internationally recognized physician-scientist, oncologist and acclaimed investigator in translational prostate cancer research. Prior to joining PCF in 2007, he was Distinguished Service Professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine and Professor o...

Paula Schneider is the president and CEO of Susan G. Komen®. She is responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day operation of Komen’s research, community health, public policy advocacy and global programs. Schneider brings a personal perspective to Komen’s mission as a breast cancer survivor whose mother died of metastatic breast cancer.  Schneider is widely regarded as an expert in orga...

Lo is the Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, which he incubated and spun out from GV, based on a strategy to increase access to early-stage deal flow. Jihan is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Bracket Capital. He began his investing career in London on Goldman Sachs’ esteemed Global Macro Proprietary Trading Desk, the first analyst in the firm’s history to be asked to join. Plexo Ca...

Wes Moore is the CEO of Robin Hood, a leading foundation in the fight against poverty. He is also the author of the bestselling books “The Work,” “Discovering Wes Moore,” and “This Way Home.” Venture philanthropy involves using business-oriented data to identify the best solutions to poverty around the country. The capital investments in communities are delivered in partnership with on-the-ground...

Jake Wood is the founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization that utilizes the skills of military veterans to deploy disaster response teams to a variety of different humanitarian crises.  The US military provides some of the most advanced skill training in the world to its service members. Too often when these veterans leave the military, there are no smart ways to apply those skil...

This is the first episode in a three-episode SALT Talks series focused on election security. Michael Chertoff was the Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009 where he led the country in blocking would-be terrorists and transformed FEMA following Hurricane Katrina. Elections security became a greater focus as the Internet became more integrated with voting systems. One...

Juliet Scott-Croxford is the CEO for the media brand Worth, responsible for leading its transformation from a print magazine to a content platform that focuses on 'Worth beyond Wealth.' Building around a mission that a person's worth is more than a person's financial wealth offers a compelling approach for a media company. All media has been in the process of handling the rapid shi...