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Michael Zacharski
Michael Zacharski is a strategic technology executive with more than 20 years in programmatic advertising and consumer AI. He is Interim CEO of Decide (formerly LockerDome) in St. Louis, following a career that includes CEO roles at EMX Digital / ENGINE Media Exchange, bRealTime, Balihoo, and Brand Engagement Network (Nasdaq: BNAI), plus advisory work through his own firm M2M5 Co and Progress Partners.
Danny Rogers
Danny Rogers is a computational physicist turned serial cybersecurity founder who runs iVerify, a New York mobile threat-detection company that hunts spyware like Pegasus on the phones of executives, journalists, and activists. Before iVerify he built Terbium Labs, a dark-web intelligence startup in Baltimore, and co-founded the Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit built to defund online disinformation. He teaches narrative warfare at NYU and became iVerify's CEO in 2023 after first joining as a paying customer.
Chris DeAppolonio
Chris DeAppolonio is the CEO of Evil Geniuses, North America's oldest esports organization. A sports-business lifer who wrote his 2008 NYU master's thesis on the coming rise of professional gaming, he spent a decade in traditional sports marketing before crossing into esports as a team president and innovation chief. He now runs EG on a data-first, 'Moneyball' philosophy, pairing proprietary analytics and AI with player development to scout undervalued talent and chase championships.
Michelle Lee
Michelle Lee is the founder and CEO of Medra, a San Francisco company building 'Physical AI Scientists' - robot arms with cameras and sensors, governed by AI, that run wet-lab biology experiments around the clock. A Stanford AI Lab PhD who worked at NVIDIA, SpaceX, and McKinsey, she walked away from an assistant professor post at NYU after AlphaFold 2's 2021 release convinced her that biology's real bottleneck was not algorithms but data, and that data is a robotics problem. Medra runs in production with partners including Genentech and raised a $52M Series A in December 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $63M.
Sandra Pérez Baos
Sandra Pérez Baos, Ph.D. is a Senior Associate at 2048 Ventures, a NYC- and Boston-based thesis-driven early-stage VC firm that closed an oversubscribed $82M Fund III in January 2026. A scientist turned investor, she brings a decade of hands-on experience in translational immunology and molecular biology research - first as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, then as a founding leader at Nucleate New York, and later as a fellow with NYU's technology commercialization office. At 2048 Ventures she leads biotech and health investments at pre-seed and seed stages, writing checks from $500K to $3M into companies building the next generation of platform biology, drug delivery, diagnostics, and digital health.
Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and AI critic who has spent 25 years arguing that deep learning alone cannot produce genuine intelligence. A NYU professor emeritus, founder of Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber), and co-founder of Robust.AI with Rodney Brooks, he runs the Substack newsletter 'Marcus on AI' with over 103,000 subscribers. His books 'Rebooting AI' and 'Taming Silicon Valley' are essential texts for understanding what current AI systems can and cannot do. He testified before the U.S. Senate alongside Sam Altman in May 2023, calling for strict AI regulation.
Justin Gage
Justin Gage is the founder and writer of Technically, a newsletter that makes software and AI concepts accessible to non-engineers. With 72,000+ subscribers on Substack, he built one of the most respected tech-explainer newsletters from scratch - conceived during a 7-hour Tokyo airport layover - growing it without paid ads through authentic writing and word-of-mouth. By day, he serves as VP of Developer Marketing at Amplify Partners, an early-stage VC firm focused on technical founders.
Scott Galloway
Scott Galloway is a serial entrepreneur, NYU Stern professor, five-time New York Times bestselling author, and one of the most outspoken voices in business and tech. Known for his unfiltered analysis of Big Tech, wealth inequality, and generational economics, he built and sold L2 Inc to Gartner for $155 million, co-hosts the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher, writes the Webby Award-winning No Mercy / No Malice newsletter, and reaches millions through his Prof G Pod. His books - from The Four to The Algebra of Wealth - have made him a trusted, provocative guide to navigating capitalism in the 21st century.