Bradford Oberwager is the Executive Chairman of Linden Lab and CEO of Tilia, the fintech arm powering Second Life's virtual economy. A serial entrepreneur who built and sold companies in personalized vitamins, healthy snacks (Bare Snacks, acquired by PepsiCo), and labor technology (Jyve, acquired by Advantage Solutions), Oberwager led the 2020 acquisition of Linden Lab alongside investor Randy Waterfield. Since then he has staked $35 million on securing money transmitter licenses in all U.S. states to enable real-money payouts from Second Life's Linden dollar economy, grown monthly active users to 600,000, and championed a mobile-forward future for the world's original metaverse.
Nico S. Enea is a co-founder, board member, and distribution lead at NUG, Inc., a state-licensed, vertically-integrated California cannabis company he helped build from the ground up starting in 2014. Operating out of Alameda and Oakland, NUG has grown into one of California's most recognized cannabis brands, represented in over 80% of the state's dispensaries, with $28M+ in annual revenue, 150 employees, and a $15M Series A round under its belt. Enea also serves as Founder and CFO of Bloom Innovations Holdings LLC, a cannabis holding company managing diverse assets including property, IP, patents, and securities.
Jessica Verrilli is co-founder and managing director of Adverb Ventures, a San Francisco-based early-stage VC firm she launched in 2023 with April Underwood. A former VP of Corporate Development & Strategy at Twitter (employee #34), she led roughly 30 acquisitions including Vine and Periscope before becoming a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures). She also co-founded #ANGELS, a women-led angel investing collective that placed women on over 100 startup cap tables and produced landmark research quantifying Silicon Valley's gender equity gap. She holds the coveted @jess handle on X with 318,000 followers.