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Michael Diaz
Michael Diaz is the CEO of Palm Tree Crew Holdings, the diversified lifestyle, live-events, and investment company Kygo and Myles Shear founded in 2020. A former Duke undergrad who spent his early career in investment banking at UBS and as a Managing Director at LionTree, Diaz now runs a business that in 2025 raised a $20M Series B led by WME Group at a $215M valuation, opened four Palm Tree Club hospitality venues in under a year, and expanded its festival footprint from Oahu and West Palm Beach to Saint-Tropez and Sardinia.
Jean Smart
Jean Smart is the founder and CEO of Penelope, a New York fintech rebuilding the retirement recordkeeping layer for the small and micro-businesses Wall Street forgot. After a 20-plus year career as a financial-services executive at Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Citigroup and UBS, she left a managing-director seat to build affordable, fully-digital 401(k) infrastructure for solopreneurs and mom-and-pop shops. The company, which she named after her daughter, launched in 2022 with a mission to put generational wealth-building within reach of the workers institutions have historically overlooked.
William Greenberg
William 'Bill' Greenberg is a theoretical-physicist-turned-financier who runs Two Harbors Investment Corp (rebranded 'Two'), the mortgage REIT whose in-house servicing engine is RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing LLC. He holds a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics and has spent 25+ years managing structured-finance portfolios at Natixis, UBS and the Swiss National Bank's StabFund before joining Two Harbors in 2012 and becoming CEO in 2020. He pushed the company to bring mortgage servicing in-house by acquiring RoundPoint in 2023, then steered the firm through a high-profile 2025-2026 takeover battle that ended with UWM Holdings agreeing to buy the company.
Andre Bliznyuk
Andre Bliznyuk is a General Partner at Runa Capital, where he leads North American investments in software for regulated industries: fintech, edtech, and digital health. Before VC, he spent a decade in capital markets at Goldman Sachs and UBS, running 20+ IPOs. He has backed Brainly, Mambu, Lendio, Smava, and Zopa, with exits at Cloudflare, Goldman Sachs, and Colt Telecom.
Jeff Bramel
Jeff Bramel is a Partner on the a16z Perennial team at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads real assets investing for ultra-high-net-worth clients and families. With 25 years of investment and portfolio management experience spanning derivatives trading, endowment-style alternatives at Jasper Ridge Partners, co-founding the Sequoia Heritage Fund, and heading real assets at both Jordan Park Group and UBS Asset Management, Bramel brings a rare blend of engineering rigor and financial depth to one of venture capital's most storied firms. A Caltech-and-Stanford-trained engineer turned multi-billion-dollar allocator, he now helps the world's most successful tech founders and families build durable, multi-generational wealth.