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Jennifer Choi and the power of a better question
Before she became ILPA’s CEO, Jennifer Choi built databases, reporting standards and a collective voice for private equity’s investors. Her work asks a deceptively simple question: can the people supplying the money see what happens to it?
Ryan Baird and the price of staying in the room
From a shrinking trading edge to a social app in the Philippines, Ryan Baird has worked where money meets behavior. At Baird Augustine, he is returning to a business principle he learned at home: relationships take time.
Roy Salsinha and the first $20,000
A loan from his parents helped Roy Salsinha start Carmo Companies in a basement. A decade later, his work still turns on a personal question: who needs to meet whom?
Jason Eiswerth
Jason Eiswerth is the CEO of Canoe Intelligence, a New York-based financial technology company that uses machine learning to ingest, categorize, extract, and validate alternative investment documents and data for more than 400 investment firms. A technology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of senior management experience, he took the helm in 2020 and has since guided Canoe through multiple funding rounds, including a $36 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs in 2024, while positioning the company as core infrastructure for the alternatives industry.