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Edward Chung and the trouble with waiting for your own money
After managing money at Square, Edward Chung helped turn a tax-preparation business into Grid. His work keeps returning to a deceptively ordinary question: when does money become useful?
Nadir Al-Koraya and the long apprenticeship in tomorrow
Before he became Riyad Bank’s CEO, Nadir Al-Koraya spent decades in treasury and investment. Now his work connects the patient arithmetic of banking with Saudi Arabia’s plans for what comes next.
Ira Birns and the value of saying no
Before he became CEO of World Kinect, Ira Birns learned to turn down business that tied up too much cash. His route from a Long Island coin business to global fuel distribution is a story about choosing what deserves a yes.
Tom Priore and the business of waiting less
Priority Commerce began with two brothers and an idea about payments. Twenty-one years later, Tom Priore is leading an agreed buyout while pursuing a familiar goal: making a business’s money useful sooner.
Kevin Cook and the problem with money that sits still
A lawyer turned cash-market founder, Kevin Cook learned what happens when liquidity disappears. With TreasurySpring, he and two longstanding partners have spent a decade opening financial doors that most businesses could never get through.
John Manoochehri
John Manoochehri is the Founder and CEO of Treasury, a San Francisco-based registry and discovery system for the world's most valuable spatial assets - from architectural designs and film sets to real estate and world monuments. An architect and environmental scientist with an Oxford degree in ancient languages, he co-founded Treasury with Zaha Hadid Architects and Spaceform in 2022, securing backing from Google's AI fund Gradient Ventures. Before Treasury, he wrote policy frameworks for UNEP and WWF, ran a sustainable design firm working on Sweden's Kiruna city relocation, and launched Last Meter - an architectural tech company integrating circular consumption into real estate. He hosts two podcasts: Resource Talks and Futureperfect Talks (Epic Games-sponsored), and has taught architecture at KTH Stockholm.
Kenneth Lee
Kenneth Lee is the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration, at Southern New Hampshire University, one of the largest nonprofit providers of online higher education in the United States. Since 2018 he has steered the money behind a 16,000-employee institution that turned a small regional college into a national online powerhouse, overseeing finance, accounting, financial planning, treasury, tax, internal controls, procurement, and the campus and facilities themselves. A two-time Harvard graduate and former A.T. Kearney partner, Lee spent seventeen years in consulting and senior corporate roles before deciding the most interesting balance sheets were the ones attached to a mission.
Noam Mills
Noam Mills is the co-founder and CEO of Panax, an AI-native cash flow management platform for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. Before fintech, she was an elite epee fencer who ranked first in the world among under-20 competitors and became the first Israeli to fence epee at the Olympics, at Beijing 2008. She studied economics at Harvard, earned a Harvard MBA, and built a finance career across BCG, FIMI Opportunity Funds, SparkBeyond, and Mixtiles before founding Panax in 2022.
Luis Cuello
Luis Cuello is the Founder and CEO of Minted Protocol (MintedAssociates Corp), building mUSD - the first exclusive Canton-native institutional stable settlement token. With a background spanning BNP Paribas fund administration and M&A at Johnson & Johnson, Cuello brings traditional finance credibility to one of DeFi's most ambitious institutional plays: a GENIUS Act-aligned stablecoin backed 1:1 by HQLA-equivalent reserves on the Canton Network, the blockchain infrastructure processing $6T+ in monthly settlements for the world's largest financial institutions.
Sam Corcos
Sam Corcos is a four-time founder and the co-founder and former CEO of Levels Health, a $300M metabolic health company that pairs continuous glucose monitors with a software layer to help people understand how food affects their blood sugar. He co-founded CarDash (Y Combinator S17, acquired 2020), Sightline Maps, and LearnPhoenix before building Levels into a category-defining health company with $67M raised from a16z and a community of 1,400+ member-investors. In 2025, he joined the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and was appointed U.S. Treasury Chief Information Officer. He is also known for extreme minimalism (one pair of pants, one backpack), tracking time in 15-minute increments, and hosting 100+ intellectual salon dinners in New York and San Francisco.