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Ian Koons
Ian Koons is the co-founder and CEO of Karoo Health, an Albuquerque-based startup building tech-enabled, value-based cardiovascular care. A former college tennis player who once did post-game radio for an NFL team, Koons turned a personal loss - a best friend's fatal heart attack in 2014 - into a company that pairs on-site and virtual care teams with software to help cardiologists move from volume to value. Since founding Karoo in 2021, he has grown it to dozens of employees, raised seed funding, partnered with cardiology networks across roughly a dozen states, and teamed with Heartbeat Health to assemble a national end-to-end cardiac care solution.
Adam Mitchell
Adam Mitchell is CEO at Mitchell & Associates Talent, a SAG-AFTRA franchised boutique agency headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico with California operations - named one of Hollywood's top 7 agencies by Backstage.com. The agency represents hundreds of actors across commercials, studio films, streaming platforms, voiceover, and television, with credits spanning Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, Star Wars, and Disney productions. Operating at the intersection of the Southwest and Hollywood, Mitchell & Associates has built a family-like culture that distinguishes it from larger, impersonal agencies while punching well above its weight in major market bookings.
Stewart Alsop
Stewart Alsop is a veteran technology journalist turned venture capitalist who co-founded Alsop Louie Partners and, in 2024, TK MediaTech Ventures. One of the first journalists to become a full general partner at a major VC firm, he backed Twitch, TiVo, and Sonos, founded the legendary DEMO Conference, and spent 20 years shaping tech journalism at InfoWorld, Inc., and Fortune before pivoting to investing. A proud member of one of America's most storied journalistic dynasties - son of columnist Stewart Alsop Jr. - he now operates from Santa Fe, New Mexico, writing on Substack and co-hosting a podcast with his son.