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Noel Moldvai
Noel Moldvai is the co-founder and CEO of Augment, a FINRA-registered marketplace that lets accredited investors buy and sell shares of late-stage private companies like SpaceX, OpenAI and Stripe with order-book style trading. A former Google engineer and founding engineer at Rubrik, where he felt the pain of locked-up employee equity firsthand, he built Augment from beta to a roughly $10M run rate in about 18 months, profitably, crossing $400M+ in trade volume and raising about $16M. Berkeley EECS grad, holder of 10+ patents, and a self-described metalhead who plays guitar and drums.
Tom Callahan
Tom Callahan is the CEO of Nasdaq Private Market (NPM), the New York firm building the plumbing for trading shares in companies that have not gone public. A 30-year markets veteran who ran a $700 billion cash business at BlackRock and led NYSE Liffe U.S., he took NPM's helm in 2022 and frames the private market as a multi-trillion-dollar asset class 'hiding in plain sight' - one whose infrastructure, he says, resembles the bond market of 1970. He argues tender offers will soon outpace IPOs as the way late-stage companies deliver liquidity.
SooMan Wolffs
SooMan Wolffs is General Partner at Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP.vc), a New York-based firm that pioneered the institutionalization of secondary markets for late-stage private venture-backed technology companies. Based in San Francisco, he oversees investment due diligence, deal structuring, and the firm's Secondary as a Service business line. Before MVP, he was an early team member at Carta (formerly eShares), helping build it into the leading private market valuation provider. A CFA charterholder with Series 7, 63, and 79 FINRA licenses, Wolffs brings a rare combination of valuation depth and secondary-market execution to one of the most active players in private company liquidity.
Marcus Shen
Marcus Shen is the CEO and Board Member of B-Stock, the world's largest B2B marketplace for excess merchandise, helping retailers like Walmart, Amazon, and Costco efficiently recover value from returned and surplus inventory. A former Yahoo! VP of Corporate Development and KKR advisor, Shen joined B-Stock as CFO in 2019, rose to COO, and took the CEO role in March 2022. Under his leadership, B-Stock has become a defining force in the recommerce economy, selling 160 million units annually and keeping nearly 300,000 tons of inventory out of landfills.