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Oscar Fahlgren

December 20, 2023 8:02 am |

Oscar Fahlgren is the Head of Mubadala Capital Brazil and Chief Investment Officer of Mubadala Capital, a global asset management firm and wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company. Mr. Fahlgren originally joined Mubadala Investment Company in 2010 and held multiple senior roles in the organization. Prior to joining Mubadala, Oscar was an Associate Director with Terra Firma Capital Partners in London.

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Mark Florman

August 11, 2023 3:04 pm |

Mark is the founder and CEO of Time Partners. He has been involved in the private equity industry, working as an adviser to private equity groups and investors for 35 years. At Time Partners, he specialises in advising institutions and families in strategic thinking , private capital and long term investing, with a focus on building and scaling PE fund investment portfolios to create rolling portfolios with compounding capital gains over time.

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Lucas Fox

September 24, 2023 9:41 pm |

Lucas Fox was one of Brex’s first employees and played a pivotal role in scaling the company from <10 employees to over 1200 employees in ~5 years. In his multifaceted role, he led multiple teams across recruiting, go-to-market, and product. He became the CEO of the Startup business unit comprising Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, and Operations. Under his leadership, Brex’s venture-backed market share grew from 10% to over 50% in just three years, and he managed a P&L exceeding $250M ARR.

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John Friedman

October 18, 2023 11:49 am |

John Friedman is the Senior Advisor to Gore Range Capital. John has been the Founding and Managing Partner of Easton Capital Investment Group. Prior to founding Easton Capital, John was the founder and Managing General Partner of Security Pacific Capital Investors. Security Pacific Capital Investors was a $200 million private equity fund geared toward expansion financings and recapitalizations. Before he joined Security Pacific, John was a Managing Director and Partner at E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc., where he spent eight and a half years. Previously, John was an attorney with Sullivan and Cromwell. During his career, he has invested in over 100 transactions.

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Abrahem Ghazarian

January 16, 2024 9:34 am |

Abrahem Ghazarian is the Chief Executive Officer of The Security Centre, the leading physical and digital security solutions provider and one of the largest private sector employers in the Cayman Islands.

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Senator Phil Gramm

September 12, 2023 9:04 pm |

Senator Gramm joined Lone Star Global Acquisitions as Vice Chairman in December of 2012. He served as Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Bank from December 2002 to December 2011. At UBS he provided senior leadership in such landmark IPOs as Visa, the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), the China Merchants Bank and LGPhillips in Korea. He was instrumental in the follow-on equity offering for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the privatization of Telstra in Australia and the sale of 20% of Akbank in Turkey to Citibank.

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Rt. Hon Stephen Harper

September 2, 2023 5:34 pm |

For nearly a decade The Right Honourable Stephen J. Harper led Canada through the world’s most complex geopolitical, economic and security challenges as the country’s 22nd Prime Minister. He created the modern Conservative Party of Canada, won three successive national elections, and was the longest serving Conservative Prime Minister since Canada’s founding Prime Minister in 1891.

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Nicolas Holland

October 18, 2023 11:51 am |

Nicholas (Nick) Holland focuses his practice on international contentious trusts and estates and acts primarily for wealthy families, individuals, institutional trustees, protectors and enforcers in disputes involving offshore trusts. Nick is also often involved in non-contentious international private wealth matters where he brings his extensive knowledge of offshore trusts and jurisdictions as well as potentially litigious outcomes to bear on the difficulties faced by international wealthy families.

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Dr. Mark Jackson

September 2, 2023 5:38 pm |

Dr. Mark Jackson is the Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. He received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Duke University and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University. He then spent 10 years researching superstring theory and cosmology, co-authoring almost 40 technical articles. He is Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University and a Director of Astronomers Without Borders.

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Lyndon Lea

January 2, 2024 4:59 pm |

Lyndon Lea is the founder of Lion Capital LLP and has served as its Managing Partner since its inception in 2004. Prior to founding Lion Capital, Mr. Lea was a partner of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst where he co-founded its European operations in 1998. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Lea served at Glenisla, the former European affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., prior to which he was an investment banker at Schroders in London and Goldman Sachs in New York. Mr. Lea graduated with a BA in Honors Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 1990. Mr. Lea is currently a director of the following companies: Leo II; AllSaints, the UK fashion brand; Alex & Ani, the North American jewelry brand; Hatchbeauty, the North American fashion brand; food and nutrition companies Lenny & Larry’s, Nutiva (both North American), Picard Surgeles (France) and the French eyewear company Alain Afflelou.

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Daniel Lubin

November 3, 2023 4:01 pm |

Daniel Lubin is Chairman of Upsher Management Company (UMC), a single-family office spanning five generations and built upon his family’s 85-year legacy as operators, clinicians and investors in the healthcare industry.

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Anna Mason

September 15, 2023 4:14 pm |

Anna Mason is the managing partner at Ingeborg Investments, a SFO focused on female founders and venture fund managers.  Ingeborg invests in the full female experience – and values innovation that empowers and improves motherhood, career, financial security, women’s health and better living. Anna leads the day-to-day activity of the investing platform, including deal sourcing, portfolio management, investment recommendations and industry relationship management.

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Kevin Mayer

November 21, 2023 9:33 am |

Kevin Mayer is currently the founder and Co-CEO of Candle Media. He was a former top executive at The Walt Disney Company overseeing its Direct-to-Consumer businesses which included global streaming platforms Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu. Mr. Mayer architected the development and successful rollout of Disney+ that today has over 150 million subscribers. In his capacity as Chairman, Direct-to-Consumer and International, he also led global advertising, content, and channel sales as well as studio distribution and marketing overseas, managing over 25,000 employees around the world and over 60% of Disney revenues. Prior to that role, Mr. Mayer served as Chief Strategy Officer for Disney, where he oversaw and executed major acquisitions including Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, BAMTech, and 21st Century Fox. After Disney, Mr. Mayer served as CEO of TikTok and COO of its parent company, ByteDance, driving one of the greatest disruptions in social media history and helping to steer one of the world’s largest social entertainment platforms with over 1 billion users.

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Peter Micelli

December 21, 2023 10:01 am |

Peter Micelli is CEO and co-founder of Range Media Partners, the 3-year-old company that has quickly
established itself as a dominant force within the talent representation ecosystem and one of the most innovative & forward-thinking firms in Hollywood overall.
Micelli began his illustrious career at CAA in 1995, starting in the mailroom before quickly moving up through the ranks, distinguishing himself as a top TV Literary and Packaging Agent. His 23-year tenure at CAA is punctuated by numerous distinctions and milestones. Within ten years, Micelli became the youngest person to run the TV Packaging Division, one of the most profitable divisions within the agency. He then became the youngest person to ever co-head the Television department, supervising a staff of 195 employees. Under his leadership, the department grew to over $200 million per year in revenue. Subsequently, he was named to the Compensation Committee at CAA as well as its Operations Board.

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Alan Milgate

September 24, 2023 9:44 pm |

Alan Milgate is Senior Partner of Rawlinson & Hunter LLP in the Cayman Islands (“R&H”) and specialises in private client services including international trust structures, family office services, private trust companies and purpose trusts, estate planning and wealth management for HNW individuals.

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Dan Mitchell

January 12, 2024 12:24 pm |

Dan Mitchell is President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a pro-market public policy organization he founded in 2000. His major research interests include tax reform, international tax competition, the economic burden of government spending, and other fiscal policy issues. Having also worked in the United States Senate, as well as the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, he has decades of experience authoring papers, writing editorials, working with the public policy community, and presenting economic analysis to newspaper, television, and radio media.

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Grant Mitchell

November 3, 2023 4:04 pm |

Grant Mitchell, MD, MBA, is Co-Founder and CEO of Every Cure. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, operator and investor in the areas of health, technology, and machine learning. He has launched multiple health tech companies and operated in the CEO role in life science and tech organizations.

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Julian Morris

September 2, 2023 5:40 pm |

Julian Morris is a Cayman-based economist and policy analyst with 30 years’ experience working with think tanks, businesses, and governments. The author of over 100 scholarly articles and policy papers and the editor of several books, Julian’s diverse recent work includes studies on: the role Cayman plays in facilitating global economic growth and good governance; the effects of a global minimum corporation tax; bottom-up mechanisms for reducing carbon emissions; real-time payments and financial inclusion; and a primer on NFTs.

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Maurice Ng

October 18, 2023 11:53 am |

Maurice Ng (Ng Hong Nin 吳康年) is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Tings Capital, where he focuses on leading and directing all investment and operational activities of the firm.

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Alexandre Scripilliti Noschese

October 18, 2023 1:55 pm |

Alexandre is a Co-Founder and Partner at Across Capital, a growth equity fund focused on investing into leading software companies across the Americas (LATAM and US). Alexandre started his career at the Votorantim Group, one of the largest industrial and financial conglomerates in Latin America and his family business. Currently, he is part of multiple Committees within Votorantim and also part of the Board of Esplanada SFO, one of his family´s investment vehicles, focusing mainly on Alternative Investments.  Additionally, Alexandre co-founded a non-profit initiative alongside former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, being personally invited by the President to make the opening speech at the Person of the Year Awards 2015 in New York City, which honored President Clinton and President Cardoso. The initiative brought together some of the country’s largest and most influential families to work together on common causes around social impact and public management.

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Sharon Novak

August 11, 2023 3:10 pm |

Sharon Novak has over twenty years of experience as a founder and luxury goods brand president, COO and strategic advisor.

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Admiral Bill Owens

September 24, 2023 9:47 pm |

William A. Owens is the co-founder and executive chairman of Red Bison Technology Group, a company which installs and operates high speed telecoms networks and technology in large office buildings. He is the Chairman of Visionary Vehicles which is building a series of automobiles focused on electric and hydrogen powered cars, Kyrrex which is a successful and growing Crypto Currency Exchange operating in Europe, and Massif, an electric bicycle company. Owens serves on the board of directors of the Public Companies, Siply, Know Labs, and Compass, and is a director of the private companies: TruU, Tethr, ViruSight, Prism, Steel Grove, JennyCo, Axxess Capital, Versium, and Viome. Owens was the chairman of the board of CenturyLink Telecom (now Lumen), the third largest telecommunications company in the United States and SAP USA. Owens is on the board of trustees of Seattle University, and the Fiscal Responsibility Amendment (CFFRA) Association which aims to establish a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He is the Founder and senior General on a China US forum to bring 4 star generals together for China US cooperation. He is a Senior Fellow at Stimson Institute.

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Nate Raabe

October 18, 2023 1:42 pm |

Nate Raabe co-founded RX3 Growth Partners, a consumer focused growth equity fund alongside Aaron Rodgers and Byron Roth, where he currently serves as Managing Partner. RX3 invests in growth-stage consumer brands and provides value beyond capital through its influential investor base.

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