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Samantha Malone
Samantha Malone is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Farther, the New York-based wealthtech that turned unicorn in early 2026 on the back of a $150M Series D led by General Atlantic. She joined roughly five months before the round closed - her first startup - after an MBA at Chicago Booth and stints at McKinsey, Skydio, GoDaddy, and Apple's global finance projects. A Bay Area kid who commuted through Santa Clara's business school a year early, she is the person building the deck, running the room, and stitching the operating rhythm as Farther scales past $23B in recruited assets.
Sascha Eder
Sascha Eder is CEO and co-founder of NewtonX, a New York-based B2B market research platform that uses an AI-driven Knowledge Graph to custom-recruit specialists from a pool of more than a billion professionals. A German-born former national track and field athlete, he trained at MIT and HEC Paris, consulted at McKinsey and BCG, and started NewtonX in 2017 with fellow McKinsey alum Germain Chastel after growing frustrated with the panels and speed of legacy research.
Sara Providence
Sara Providence is Vice President and Chief of Staff to the CEO at SeatGeek, the New York-based ticketing marketplace. She arrived from McKinsey & Company in 2023, bringing an unusual triple-degree background - a BA from Harvard, a JD from Columbia Law, and an MBA from Columbia Business School - to the corner office of a company whose product is essentially the trust that a stranger's PDF will get you into a stadium.
Baptiste Bouvier
Baptiste Bouvier is the founder and CEO of Daptic (formerly DiploAI), a New York-based AI startup building regulatory intelligence infrastructure for global manufacturers. The platform monitors more than 10,000 regulatory sources worldwide, flags changes within 24 hours, and helps engineering, product, and compliance teams act on obligations early. Raised between Tokyo, Sydney, London, and Boston by entrepreneur parents, Baptiste studied computer science and political science at MIT and public policy at Oxford, taught negotiation, founded MIT's first entrepreneurship club, and worked at McKinsey before turning regulatory bottlenecks into a company.
Erin Tavgac
Erin Tavgac is the co-founder and CEO of Redbird, a New York based AI-powered analytics platform that lets non-technical employees run the full analytics pipeline - data prep, wrangling, analysis, reporting and data science - through natural language instead of code. A Stanford-trained ex-McKinsey consultant who spent a decade building data and consumer-insights practices, Tavgac launched the company (originally Cube Analytics) with brother Deren Tavgac, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, and raised a $7.6M oversubscribed seed led by B Capital. By 2024 Redbird had reframed itself around conversational AI agents and counted eight Fortune 50 brands among its customers.
Obiaku Hill
Obiaku Ohiaeri Hill is the founder and CEO of Binkey, a Washington, DC fintech that turns FSA and HSA accounts into a checkout button. After years inside healthcare's machinery as a scientist, a McKinsey expert, and a product VP, she built an API-enabled payment service that lets merchants accept pre-tax health dollars at the point of sale and auto-files the paperwork so customers stop forfeiting the money they already set aside. Binkey raised a $3.3M seed round in December 2023 led by Wellington Access Ventures and was selected for the Mastercard Start Path program.
Greg Maged
Greg Maged is the cofounder and CEO of SEEN Hair Care, a dermatologist-developed haircare brand he launched in 2018 with Harvard-trained dermatologist Dr. Iris Rubin. SEEN built its business on a single idea - that hair care is skin care - making shampoos and styling products engineered not to clog pores or irritate sensitive scalps. Before beauty, Maged spent decades in finance and consulting: McKinsey, then chief of staff to Charles Schwab's founder, then cofounding the online advisor Bicycle Financial. He has steered SEEN to 100% compounded annual growth, a $9 million Series A backed by marquee investors, and shelf space in every Ulta Beauty store in the country.
Akili Hinson
Akili Hinson is the founder and CEO of Juno Medical, a technology-powered family medical practice he opened in Harlem in April 2020 with three patient rooms. A physician trained at Weill Cornell with an MBA from Columbia and a stint at McKinsey, he set out to build modern, family-centered primary care for what he calls 'the 99%' in neighborhoods that big health systems skip. Juno now runs clinics in Harlem, Brooklyn, East Atlanta, and Tulsa's Greenwood District, backed by a $12M Series A led by NEXT VENTURES and Serena Williams' Serena Ventures. He was named a 2024-2025 Obama Foundation USA Leader.