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Christopher Gohlke Learned Finance’s Hardest Language: Plain English
After reporting on the machinery of global markets, Christopher Gohlke spent twelve years marketing it from the inside. Now, as Transcend’s CMO, he is translating collateral, liquidity and tokenization for the people who have to make them work.
Ben Brook
Ben Brook is the co-founder and CEO of Transcend, the data-privacy infrastructure company he started in 2017 with Harvard classmate Mike Farrell. He flew to San Francisco the day after graduation to build software that lets the world's largest companies find, delete, and control personal data at machine speed. Under his lead Transcend has delivered actionable data rights to over a billion people and raised nearly $90M, including a $40M Series B in 2024. A Toronto-born, award-winning filmmaker turned privacy engineer, Brook argues that privacy only works when it is encoded directly into the systems that touch personal data.