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Junchen Wu
Junchen (William) Wu, PhD, CFA, is the co-founder and CEO of Menos AI, a Silicon Valley fintech building agentic AI for hedge funds and asset managers. A former Head of Quant at Northern Trust and risk portfolio manager for a $3B multi-strategy book in Boston, he is shipping Sonαr, an institutional-grade AI idea-generation platform that turns market noise into structured trade ideas. Backed by a $5.2M oversubscribed seed round, he is on a mission to give buyside teams less noise and more signal.
Hami Babai
Hami Babai is the founder and CEO of Power Kiosk, a Chicago-based cloud platform that turned the messy, paper-heavy world of energy procurement into an online marketplace connecting brokers, suppliers, and customers. An Iranian immigrant who landed in Chicago at 21 with $4,000 and no credit, he earned a Ph.D. in engineering from Northwestern, bootstrapped Power Kiosk for roughly four years, and grew it into one of North America's largest energy brokerage platforms - licensed across dozens of states and provinces and credited with returning well over $100 million in savings to customers.