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Christina Leijonhufvud
Christina Leijonhufvud is the co-founder and CEO of BlueMark, the leading independent provider of impact verification and market intelligence for investors. A veteran of Wall Street, she spent more than 15 years at J.P. Morgan, where in 2007 she created the bank's Social Finance business and helped put impact investing on the map for institutional investors. She later co-founded the impact consulting firm Tideline before launching BlueMark in 2020 to bring third-party verification and benchmarking to a fast-growing industry facing scrutiny over impact-washing.
Donglai Du
Donglai Du is the co-founder and CEO of Spacesforce (空间原力), a Chengdu-based proptech company building SaaS and IoT tools that help commercial real estate operators manage leasing, projects and assets from one cloud platform. A Columbia University-trained real estate developer and former Vanke investment analyst, he started Spacesforce around 2018 to move asset management away from spreadsheets and manual work toward data-driven operations. The company has served office buildings, tech parks and co-working brands across cities including Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guiyang.
Michael Pusateri
Michael Pusateri is the CEO and founder of Siepe, a Dallas-based fintech he started in 2012 after a career running technology inside hedge funds. Siepe builds software and managed services for CLO managers, private credit funds, and other alternative investment firms, and closed a $30 million Series B led by WestCap in August 2024. Before Siepe, Pusateri was CTO at Carlson Capital and CTO/co-COO at Highland Capital Management.
Nick Romito
Nick Romito is the co-founder and CEO of VTS, the commercial real estate leasing and asset management platform based in New York. A former broker who rebuilt the tools he wished he had as a tenant rep, he grew VTS from a demo tape of office space walk-throughs into a system of record used across billions of square feet of global CRE.
Russell Feldman
Russell Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of IMTC, a New York-based fintech building cloud-based portfolio management software for fixed income teams. He took the CEO seat in May 2022 when IMTC raised its first outside capital led by Nyca Partners, and has grown the company from serving small RIAs to top-tier asset managers. Before IMTC he worked in institutional sales and client advisory at Deutsche Asset Management, an experience he says was his real education in how broken fixed income tooling was.
Jay Martin
Jay Martin is the CEO of AlignOps, the Denver-based SaaS company building a single operations platform for the construction industry out of four acquired products: ToolWatch asset management, Safety Reports compliance, busybusy time tracking, and FleetWatcher fleet and materials management. A first-generation American who grew up working on his immigrant father's dairy farm in rural New York, Martin brings 25 years of technology leadership and more than a decade inside private-equity-backed companies, including COO roles at EagleView and Aquasana and earlier leadership at Sungard Availability Services and Dell. He is candid about rejecting corporate conformity, hiring for grit and intellectual curiosity, and his belief that continuously delivering customer value is the only durable moat.
Junchen Wu
Junchen (William) Wu, PhD, CFA, is the co-founder and CEO of Menos AI, a Silicon Valley fintech building agentic AI for hedge funds and asset managers. A former Head of Quant at Northern Trust and risk portfolio manager for a $3B multi-strategy book in Boston, he is shipping Sonαr, an institutional-grade AI idea-generation platform that turns market noise into structured trade ideas. Backed by a $5.2M oversubscribed seed round, he is on a mission to give buyside teams less noise and more signal.
Aditya Singh
Aditya Singh is the founder and CEO of Promethean Energy, a Houston-based oil and gas operator that develops, produces, and decommissions mid- to late-life assets in the Gulf of Mexico. An MIT-trained strategist who came up through process engineering and completions, Singh built Promethean around an unfashionable idea: that the most responsible thing you can do with an old well is plug it well. The company operates 10 Gulf leases, retires orphaned wells ahead of budget, and partners with the University of Houston on ROICE, a program to repurpose dead offshore platforms for wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture.
Brad Schneider
Brad Schneider is the founder and CEO of Nomad Data, a New York based AI platform that helps teams find, buy, and read the data hidden inside documents and external vendors. An MIT-trained engineer turned hedge fund investor (Tiger Management, Jericho Capital) and CFA charterholder, he spent a decade using alternative data to beat markets before deciding the harder problem was simply finding the right data in the first place. Nomad Data lets users describe what they need in plain English and routes them to answers, not raw spreadsheets, with products spanning data discovery, a Doc Chat engine for unstructured text, and vendor relationship management for consultancies, insurers, and asset managers.
Nicolás Jaramillo
Nicolás Jaramillo is a Chilean engineer turned serial fintech founder who wants to be the BlackRock of web3. After helping build MACH, Chile's first widely adopted digital bank, and scaling the cross-border payments company Global66 across Latin America, he co-founded Arch in 2020 to make crypto investing as boring and accessible as an index fund. Arch packages the chaos of DeFi into tokenized, risk-rated portfolios, raised $5M in seed funding from Digital Currency Group and Upload Ventures, and aims to bring traditional-market discipline to the decentralized economy.
Steven Woods
Steven Woods is the founder and CEO of Stirlingshire Investments, a New York based, SEC-registered, FINRA-member broker-dealer trying to rewire how financial advisors get paid. He started at 26 with a GED, cold-calling for $500 a day, and grew into an advisor producing millions before walking away to build a 'Hybrid Broker-Dealer' that lets advisors keep 100% of their fees and commissions with zero expenses. His 'advice on demand' model gives clients three choices: trade free, pay only when recommendations make money, or hand over full management. He frames the whole project around one question: 'How do we make this better?'
Bob Elliott
Bob Elliott is the co-founder, CEO and CIO of Unlimited Funds, a New York firm that uses Bayesian machine learning to replicate the returns of hedge funds, venture capital and private equity inside low-cost ETFs. A Harvard-trained botanist turned macro investor, he spent roughly 15 years at Bridgewater Associates, where he sat on the Investment Committee, helped run the flagship Pure Alpha fund, and built and led Ray Dalio's personal research team for nearly a decade. Today he is one of the most-followed independent macro voices on financial Twitter and the manager behind the HFND and HFGM ETFs.
Chris Turlica
Chris Turlica is the CEO and Co-Founder of MaintainX, a San Francisco-based industrial operations platform that has raised $254M and reached a $2.5B valuation. A McGill commerce graduate who previously built and sold a consumer messaging startup, Turlica spotted a striking data point while at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners — 80% of the global workforce is deskless, yet only 1% of enterprise software spend serves them. That insight became MaintainX, which now helps over 11,000 companies manage 11M+ assets and has transformed maintenance teams at companies including ABInBev, Duracell, Marriott, and McDonald's.
Nick Haase
Nick Haase is co-founder of MaintainX, the AI-powered CMMS and connected worker platform that reached a $2.5B valuation after its $150M Series D in July 2025. Leading go-to-market strategy, Haase has helped grow MaintainX to 11,000+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, food & beverage, and facilities — while separately angel-investing in 40+ startups including Anduril, Hadrian, and Figure. A former mobile marketing founder turned industrial software builder, he's spent years on factory floors helping maintenance teams ditch paper checklists and embrace digital workflows.
Tony Mackenzie
Tony Mackenzie is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jacobi, a San Francisco-based investment technology platform he built after watching the world's largest institutional investors still manage portfolio processes in spreadsheets. Drawing on a PhD in Applied Mathematics and a career managing over $45 billion in assets at QIC, he co-founded Jacobi in 2014 to modernize multi-asset portfolio design, analytics, and client engagement. Today the platform serves clients including T. Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton, and LGIM, representing over $7 trillion in assets under management, and has raised $27.6 million in total funding.
Vikram Takru
Vikram Takru is the Co-Founder and CEO of KloudGin Inc., a Sunnyvale-based SaaS company building the utility industry's only cloud-native, mobile-first combined field service and enterprise asset management platform. With over 27 years of enterprise software experience and two successful exits - including growing Frontline Consulting Services (FCS) to 500+ employees and $40M+ revenue before its 2012 acquisition by TEKSystems - Takru brings a rare blend of deep R&D roots (Oracle) and street-level execution to one of infrastructure's most underserved technology gaps. Under his leadership, KloudGin has developed the 'Single Face of Work' platform powered by its AssetIQ AI co-pilot, raised $16.4M in total funding, and built a team of 240 serving electric, gas, and water utilities across the United States.
Jason Chavez
Jason Chavez is the CEO and founder of Xyicon, a Napa, California-based SaaS company whose flagship platform SpaceRunner turns static PDF floor plans and spreadsheet data into interactive, visual asset management workspaces. Chavez started in technology as a field technician, built ComNet Technology in 2000 as an IT professional-services firm, and pivoted it into Xyicon in 2015 after growing frustrated with facility management software too complex for the people actually meant to use it. Under his leadership, Xyicon has grown to roughly 54 employees, landed major healthcare and construction clients, and built a platform claiming 95% productivity gains and 15% procurement cost reductions for its users.
Nikhil Vadhavkar
Nikhil Vadhavkar is the co-founder, President, and CEO of Raptor Maps, the leading solar lifecycle management software platform. A Johns Hopkins and MIT-trained engineer, he pivoted from researching spacesuit thermal control systems and drone-based medical supply delivery in Africa to building the operating system for the global solar industry. Under his leadership, Raptor Maps has scaled to managing over 50 GW of solar PV assets across 40+ countries, raised $63.9M in total funding including a $35M Series C in December 2024, and established itself as the system of record for utility-scale solar asset management.