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Alexandre Elkrief
He managed institutional crypto positions on spreadsheets and assumptions, then watched the market blow up. Now he is trying to rebuild the plumbing so it can't happen the same way twice.
Emma Zhang
Emma Zhang is the founder and CEO of PactFi, a New York fintech building secure, end-to-end operational infrastructure for the private credit market. A former Deutsche Bank credit banker who worked in Hong Kong and New York, she launched PactFi in 2023 to replace the email-and-spreadsheet workflows that still govern trillion-dollar private credit deals. Under her leadership the company has processed more than $300 billion in deal volume, serves eight of the top 20 credit asset managers, and raised a $25 million Series A in March 2026 led by 7RIDGE.
Everett Cook
Everett Cook is the co-founder and CEO of Rho, a New York-based financial operations platform that combines business banking, corporate cards, payments, and expense management for growing companies. Before founding Rho in 2018 with Alex Wheldon, Cook spent roughly a decade in global macro investing, leading research at multi-billion-dollar funds and working in the orbit of figures like Steve Cohen and Michael Bloomberg. Raised in a New York finance family, he blends the discipline of a trader with an entrepreneurial streak that started at age 14, and has raised more than $200 million to build banking software for real, operating businesses rather than consumers.
Lior Tibon
Lior Tibon is the co-founder and CEO of Duetti, a New York-based music financing platform that lets independent artists and songwriters sell their catalogs, individual tracks, or fractions of them for upfront cash. Before Duetti, he spent more than seven years as COO of TIDAL, the artist-owned streaming service launched under JAY-Z, and started his career as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in London. Duetti has raised over $623M to fund the independent music community, backed by The Raine Group, Flexpoint Ford, Nyca Partners, Viola Ventures and Roc Nation.
Saumil Annegiri
Saumil Annegiri is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of CredCore, a New York-based vertical AI platform for institutional debt capital markets. He built the company with Karthik Nandyal in 2022 after a two-decade career in capital markets and digital infrastructure at Guggenheim Partners and Deutsche Bank. CredCore raised a $16M Series A in February 2025 led by Avataar Ventures.
Raj Bhattacharyya
Raj Bhattacharyya is the CEO and Board Member of Robertson Stephens Wealth Management, a national registered investment advisor he has helped scale from $1.5 billion to $7.1 billion in assets under management since taking the helm in 2020. A Harvard-trained computer scientist turned three-decade Wall Street veteran, he brings rare fluency in both quantitative finance and enterprise technology to the RIA sector, where he is building what he calls a 'best-of-breed' wealth management platform. Before Robertson Stephens, he spent 17 years at Deutsche Bank leading FX and Latin American Markets businesses, plus stints at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, and founded early-stage fintech firm YY Capital.