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Puneet Mehta and the case for a quieter machine
Before Netomi, Puneet Mehta built trading systems and an app for navigating New York. His next wager is that useful AI should leave customers with fewer reasons to ask for help.
Joseph K. Belanoff took the long way back
Nine years on Wall Street, a return to the classroom, and a company he has led since 1999. Joseph K. Belanoff’s career makes a case for keeping your old skills - and perhaps your old suits.
Yann Barbarroux and the price of being late
A Marseille childhood, a Wall Street career, and a question hiding in the cargo paperwork: who pays when everything arrives intact, but too late? Otonomi’s co-founder has built his working life around the risks that clocks create.
Michael Novogratz and the price of conviction
A Princeton wrestler became a Wall Street partner, then staked his next act on crypto. At Galaxy, Michael Novogratz is still learning how far belief can carry a business - and where it needs a balance sheet.
Gideon Gartner and the business of getting to the point
He left Wall Street at 44 to sell advice to people buying computers. Two-page reports, searching arguments and a roomful of horses reveal how Gideon Gartner built a company around better questions.
Trina Spear and the business hiding in a uniform
Before she became FIGS’ CEO, Trina Spear spent weekends selling scrubs from a car. Her second career began with a deceptively ordinary question: why did work clothes get so little thought?
Sallie Krawcheck and the cost of being right
She ran the businesses that sold America its investments. Then Sallie Krawcheck began asking who those businesses were built for - and put her own company behind the answer.
Harvey Schwartz and the value of an open door
A friend helped him find his footing on Wall Street. Decades later, Carlyle’s CEO is still thinking about who gets a chance, who makes the introduction, and what happens next.
The 3,000-Call Cure for Wall Street's Attention Deficit
Most investor-relations firms polish the story. Acorn Management Partners built a call floor to carry it - one licensed broker, one measured conversation and one stubborn follow-up at a time.
Market Street Partners Sells CEOs the Thing They Rarely Hear: The Unvarnished Answer
A tiny San Francisco firm has spent a quarter-century translating ambitious technology companies into language Wall Street will believe. Its most valuable product may be the sentence nobody inside the company wants to say aloud.
She Markets Money for a Living
She has marketed for Goldman and Lehman, co-founded a fintech, and now runs marketing across the Americas for one of the world's largest banks. A look at a career built inside the machinery of money.
Dylan Jovine Learned the Market's Cruelest Lesson at $2.43 a Share
Before Dylan Jovine built research firms for individual investors, one Thanksgiving trade erased 90% of his savings. The mistake still explains how he reads companies, risk and the seduction of certainty.
The Blackstone Alum Betting That Wall Street Runs on Blockchain Next
Alex Marinier left private equity to write the earliest checks into blockchain finance. Six years and one Polymarket later, New Form Capital is raising again - and the institutions it once worked for are finally listening.
Anni Wang left Carnegie Hall for the mortgage desk
She trained for the concert stage under one of the great piano teachers and won a national arts prize at sixteen. Now she prices collateralized mortgage obligations at a French investment bank.
The $4.6 Trillion Bank That Runs on Software
It moves trillions of dollars a day, employs more engineers than most tech companies, and answers to one of the longest-serving CEOs on Wall Street. Here is how a 227-year-old bank became a software business that happens to hold your deposits.
Morgan Stanley
The bank that decided predictable beats spectacular - and built a $9 trillion advice machine on top of a trading floor.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
A 140-year-old Wall Street house that never grew into a giant - and turned staying mid-sized into the whole pitch.
Goldman Sachs
For 156 years the firm at 200 West Street has been in the room when companies go public, countries borrow, and fortunes change hands. Here is how the deal machine actually works.
Jefferies
How a 1962 Los Angeles block-trading desk turned into the last independent full-service investment bank standing between the boutiques and the giants.
RQD* Clearing
RQD* Clearing is a New York-based correspondent clearing firm that provides clearing, custody, and execution services for broker-dealers on a cloud-native, real-time platform. Spun out of options market maker Volant, it self-clears U.S. equities, options, and ETFs, positioning itself as a modern alternative to legacy clearing providers with direct API integration, 24x5 availability, and infrastructure built on Microsoft Azure.
Eva Sehic
Eva Sehic is the CEO of Lime Trading, a New York agency broker that provides fast, scalable direct market access to US equities and options markets. She stepped into the top job in September 2024 after joining as COO a year earlier, and brings more than two decades of markets experience from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Sberbank's New York operation, where she served as COO and CEO. Known for pairing operational discipline with a bet on AI, blockchain and machine learning, she was named Excellence in Innovation winner at the 2024 Markets Media Women in Finance Awards and Vendor Professional of the Year at the 2025 Witad Awards.
Jason Eiswerth
Jason Eiswerth is the CEO of Canoe Intelligence, a New York-based financial technology company that uses machine learning to ingest, categorize, extract, and validate alternative investment documents and data for more than 400 investment firms. A technology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of senior management experience, he took the helm in 2020 and has since guided Canoe through multiple funding rounds, including a $36 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs in 2024, while positioning the company as core infrastructure for the alternatives industry.
Matthew Cohen
Matthew Cohen is the co-founder and chief executive of Provable Markets, a New York fintech running Aurora, an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System for securities lending. After 15 years trading equity finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Jefferies, and Nomura, Cohen partnered with cryptographer Thomer Gil in 2020 to apply secure multi-party computation to a market that had run for decades on phone calls, spreadsheets, and information leakage. In 2022 Provable ran the first securities lending transaction cleared through DTCC's SFT service. In May 2024 the company raised an $8M Series A led by Dialectic Capital Management.
Michael Sanocki
Michael Sanocki is the founder and CEO of RQD* Clearing, a New York-based cloud-native correspondent clearing firm that processes billions of dollars of US equity and options trades daily. An attorney by training who spent years inside the SEC, the ISE options exchange, and Volant Trading before running RQD, he argues that legacy clearing is 'broken' and is rebuilding it in real time on Microsoft Azure.
Ori Eldarov
Ori Eldarov is the co-founder and CEO of OffDeal, a New York based AI-native investment bank that runs sell-side M&A processes for owners of small businesses with $10-100M in revenue. A former RBC Capital Markets banker with over $20B in advised deals and a Harvard MBA, Eldarov started OffDeal out of Y Combinator in 2024 with ex-Meta engineer Alston Lin, and in mid-2025 raised a $12M Series A led by Radical Ventures.
Sreej Menon
Sreej Menon is the CEO of Transient.AI, a New York-based startup building an AI operating system for capital markets, unifying compliance, trading, and research workflows for hedge funds and RIAs. A former banking technologist with over a decade inside Credit Suisse's credit trading syndicate, he raised the company's Series A from NEXT Investors in May 2026 on the argument that AI in finance needs the same engineering rigor as the trading systems it plugs into.
Pressman Film
Pressman Film is a Los Angeles-based independent production company founded in 1969 by the late producer Edward R. Pressman and now led by his son, CEO Sam Pressman. With more than 100 motion pictures to its name - including Badlands, Conan the Barbarian, Wall Street, The Crow and American Psycho - the company has a long history of backing risky, director-driven cinema before the rest of Hollywood catches on. Today it is expanding into television, virtual-reality storytelling (the Cate Blanchett/Terrence Malick VR piece Evolver), stage work and experimental, blockchain-enabled film financing that lets everyday fans invest in its development slate.
Christina Qi
Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, an on-demand market-data platform for quants and asset managers, and a founding partner of Domeyard LP, one of the longest-running high-frequency trading hedge funds in the world. She started Domeyard from an MIT dorm room with $1,000 in savings, grew it to trade billions of dollars a day, then wound it down and built Databento to fix the broken market-data infrastructure that had frustrated her for a decade. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, MIT trustee, and financial-literacy advocate, Qi turned a rough start into a career spent lowering the barriers to Wall Street for everyone else.
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.
Gerry Poirier
Gerry Poirier is the founder and CEO of AngeLink, billed as the world's first social crowdfunding platform powered by women. After more than two decades on Wall Street trading floors at Credit Suisse and Lazard, where she was often the only woman in the room, she built an AI-driven, fraud-resistant fundraising platform that has grown to roughly 55,000 active users across 100 currencies and raised over $7.3 million in seed funding. A Wharton-trained, globe-trotting risk-taker based in Naples, Florida, she also runs the AngeLink Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) making direct impact grants.