Team
Elliot Chun
Emergents Lead
20+ years across capital markets including Buy-Side, Consulting, and Sell-Side. Understands the importance of positioning at the forefront of innovation and believes emerging technologies must lead the transition to a better world.
Michael Klena
FinTech, FS & Impact / ESG
25+ years of managing the disruption of innovation. As senior executive at E*TRADE to building a digital asset creation and trading firm, Michael brings balance of real world operations and bleeding edge strategy.
Todd White
InsurTech, Legal & Impact
Over 20 years of experience in re/insurance, asset management and capital markets, and has been directly involved with over $1.8 billion in various re/insurance ventures and alternative capital transactions.
Richard Malone
Digital Assets & DLT
5+ years of experience as a technology investor, entrepreneur, and advisor. Richard leads the deal sourcing efforts for Emergents @ Weild & Co.
Diana Barrero Zalles
Emerging Markets & RegTech
Author on ESG and emerging tech. Forbes contributor covering stablecoins and central bank digital currencies. Runs a blockchain discussion forum at Yale’s International Center for Finance. Advised Cyprus Parliament on crypto governance and regulation. Previously managed cross-border investment banking transactions with ESG focus.
Sean Nasiri
Capital Formation, Reg A+ & NFTs
Early crowdfunding pioneer, co-founded the first mission-driven equity crowdfunding platform GenYrator. Launched the first Reg A+ platform as Dir. of Investments at Startengine. Most recently lead Business Development and Operations on the east coast at TokenSoft.
Dan Wang
Operations & Strategy
6+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, consultant, and advisor with a focus on operations, strategy and business development.
Isioma Orewa
Marketing & Communications
Commercialization operator and consultant managing global business development programs for startups cyber security, fintech and emerging tech. Developing strategies for growth at the intersection of content development, investor relations and product management.
Ben Cardinal
Analyst
Undergraduate at the University of Chicago double majoring in Mathematics and Economics. Started his career as a research assistant at the Becker Friedman Institute and worked for Kleiner Perkins as an investment analyst.
Affiliates
David Weild IV
CEO, Weild & Co.
Known as “Father of the JOBS Act”;
Former Vice Chairman of NASDAQ;
Former President of Prudential Securities
Eric Risley
Architect Partners
Founded and is Managing Partner at Architect Partners. Has guided senior executives and corporate boards through strategic transactions for over twenty-five years.
Steve Palmer
Draycott Place
Former CEO of nationally licensed title insurance company. Spent 7 years running internal Private Equity / Ventures Group at PartnerRe Group Ltd. Made investments in and alongside the leading insurance focused PE funds.
Frank Lackner
Over 25 Years of capital markets experience. Currently on the board of Greenlight Capital Re. and Greenlight Reinsurance. Previously CEO of Risk Continuum. Has held leadership positions at many other insurance and capital markets institutions.
Todd Bertsch
Strategic professional with more than 20 years of experience in finance and a proven track record of identifying and strengthening opportunities for business growth in corporate and start-up ecosystems. Leverages strong professional network to connect clients with strategic partners and solidify strategies for business expansion.
Network Partners
Dan Torrey
CryptoAssets & Funds
25+ years experience in capital markets, across a range of asset classes. Most recently ran Institutional Sales – Americas at Genesis Trading. Speaks 6 languages, & has worked with institutional investors across the globe throughout the length of his career.
Paul Johnson
Education & Research
Former Equity Research Analyst; Buy-Side Investing; Adjunct Professor at Columbia and Fordham Universities focused on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Valuation.
Olivier Levitte
Energy & Resource
Over 30 years of investment banking, capital markets, and principal investing experience with a focus on the energy, infrastructure, power and specialty finance sectors.
Ray Kamrath
CryptoAsset Infrastructure
Former Global Head of FX ecommerce at Goldman Sachs, Founder and CEO of Faros Trading, Global Head of FX at Jefferies, and former Board Member FXall.
Sandeep Kaur
Due Diligence & Research
Involved with emerging tech since 2014 and combines deep understanding of these technologies with practical business knowledge.
Preeti Adhikary
AI & Marketing
Spent the last decade in the startup world, including 3.5 years in the Artificial Intelligence sector. MBA in Finance/Strategy. Passionate about emerging technologies and social impact.
Nauman Sheikh
Digital Assets
Seasoned Wall St veteran in global equities including derivatives, prime brokerage, research and capital markets and more recently in emerging technology.