As Founder, Chairwoman and CEO of The Garcia Companies and TGC Management and Co-Founder of Seven Bucks Companies, Dany Garcia is the visionary architect of some of the most successful enterprises, brands and talent. Her immersive global approach within ever-changing landscapes paired with precise instincts have led to unprecedented box office success and innovative business partnerships across verticals.

With unbridled athleticism as a professional bodybuilder, Garcia also flawlessly pioneers her expansive enterprise while competing at the highest level. Her global audience can expect trailblazing initiatives throughout 2020 and beyond, as Garcia continues to keep human needs and experience at the forefront of her endeavors across the spaces of mental and physical wellness, athletics, entertainment, spirits, finance and more.

In 2019, Garcia, in partnership with Dwayne Johnson, announced one of their most ambitious endeavors to date – Athleticon, a first-of-its-kind community-driven virtual experience. The inaugural, eponymous counterpart, an immersive event experience celebrating the very best in athletics, wellness and entertainment will take place in October 2021 in Atlanta. Most recently, Garcia announced her acquisition of the XFL alongside Johnson and RedBird Capital, making her the first female owner of a major professional sports league.

Garcia's passion for bettering the world through socially responsible decisions is consistently reflected in the culture of her teams and the businesses she builds.

Gabrielle Sulzberger is a seasoned financial executive with over 30 years of experience assisting public and privately held companies in consumer products, retail, financial services and health sciences.

Until August of 2017, Ms. Sulzberger served as Chairman of the board of Whole Foods, where for 13 years she had previously served as Chair of the company’s audit committee. She currently serves on the board of two other public companies, Tel-Aviv based Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Brixmor Property Group, where she chairs the governance committee. Previously Ms. Sulzberger served on the boards of Stage Stores, IndyMac Bank, and Bright Horizons, and numerous private company boards.

For the past twelve years Ms. Sulzberger has served as General Partner of Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners, a private equity fund based in Pasadena, California. Prior to joining RC/Fontis, Gabrielle served as CFO of several public and private companies, including Gluecode Software, a venture-backed open source software company which was sold to IBM.

Gabrielle is a Trustee of the Ford Foundation. She also serves on the Boards of the WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, the National Association of Corporate Director’s Audit Advisory Council, Trinity Church Wall Street and she is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2014 she was named a Top 100 Director by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Ms. Sulzberger received her B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. She received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and J.D. from Harvard Law School and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

Venu Krishnamurthy, Managing Director, is the co-head of the Aladdin Wealth Tech (AWT) business within BlackRock Solutions. He is a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee.

AWT's mission is to transform wealth management through technology and differentiate BlackRock as a strategic partner for our clients. As technology fundamentally reshapes the global wealth management industry, we partner with wealth managers to enhance their value proposition to their end clients, create rigor and scale in their investment process, and grow their businesses in a differentiated way.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Venu was President of Citigold Wealth Management (CWM), in the US where he was responsible for designing client value propositions, leading the national salesforce, and delivering a comprehensive suite of investment products. Venu spent over twelve years at Citi across three different continents and in all three key business lines - Global Wealth Management, Consumer Banking & Institutional Clients Group. Prior to joining Citi, Venu spent a decade in private equity and management consulting, after starting his career as an engineer at IBM.

Venu earned his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Adam Nash is an independent investor and advisor who most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Wealthfront, where for four years he championed the creation of a new category of automated investment services. While at Wealthfront, the company grew its client base by over 60x, and grew assets under management 45x from less than $100m to over $4 billion.

Nash discovered Wealthfront while working at Greylock Partners as an Executive in Residence, where he advised the leadership teams of the firm’s consumer technology companies and helped evaluate new investment opportunities. Prior to Greylock, Nash was the Vice President of the product management team at LinkedIn. He led LinkedIn's platform and mobile products, including the launch of LinkedIn's open developer platform and their highly successful native applications, as well as mobile web experiences. He is the founder and architect of LinkedIn Hackdays, a seminal program for driving the innovation culture at the company. He also was responsible for leading LinkedIn's search and cloud efforts as well as forming and leading their user experience and design teams.

Before joining LinkedIn, Nash held a number of leadership roles at eBay including director of eBay Express, an innovative new site focused on fixed-priced products. He also held strategic and technical roles at Atlas Venture, Preview Systems, and Apple.

Nash holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science with a focus on human computer interaction from Stanford University.

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https://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-nash

Shlomo Benartzi is a behavioral economist interested in combining the insights of psychology and economics to solve big societal problems. He is a professor and co-founder of the Behavioral Decision-Making Group at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Along with Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, Benartzi pioneered the Save More Tomorrow™ (SMarT) program, a behavioral prescription designed to help employees increase their savings rates gradually over time. SMarT increased employee savings rates from 3.5 percent to 13.6 percent. The SMarT program is now offered by more than half of the large retirement plans in the U.S. and a growing number of plans in Australia and the U.K. The program has also been incorporated into the Pension Protection Act of 2006, helping millions of Americans boost their retirement savings.

Benartzi has supplemented his academic research with policy work and practical experience. He has advised government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, and has helped craft numerous legislative efforts. He currently serves as chief scientist for the California Digital Nudge Initiative. He has also worked with many financial institutions, served on multiple advisory boards and serves as a senior academic advisor for the VOYA Institute for Behavioral Finance Innovation.

Shlomo received his Ph.D. from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management.

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http://www.shlomobenartzi.com/

Dana Settle is a Founding Partner with Greycroft, and she heads the firm’s west coast office out of Los Angeles.

Prior to co-founding Greycroft, Dana spent several years as a venture capitalist and advisor to startup companies in the Bay Area, including six years at Mayfield, where she focused on early stage companies in the mobile communications and consumer Internet markets.

Dana currently manages Greycroft’s investments in Anine Bing, AppAnnie, Bird, Clique, EBTH.com, Steelhouse, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Voicera, and WideOrbit. She also managed the firm’s investments in Maker Studios (sold to Disney), Viddy (sold to FullScreen), AwesomenessTV (sold to Dreamworks), Digisynd (sold to Disney), ContentNext (sold to Guardian Media), MoVoxx (sold to Motricity), Pulse (sold to LinkedIn), Sometrics (sold to American Express) and Trunk Club (sold to Nordstrom).

Dana also serves as a Board of Director to IMAX Corporation. Her additional experience includes business development at Truveo (AOL), investment banking at Lehman Brothers and international business development at McCaw Cellular Communications (AT&T).

Dana holds a BA in Finance and International Studies from the University of Washington and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Harry Markowitz received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 for his work on portfolio selection. He is the president of the Harry Markowitz Company, a professor of Finance in the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, and has served in academic posts at universities including Baruch College, London School of Economics, London Business School, University of Tokyo, Rutgers University, Hebrew University, the Wharton School and UCLA.

Dr. Markowitz is recognized as the founder of Modern Portfolio Theory, and was given the "Man of the Century" award in 1999 by Pensions & Investments magazine for his life's work in the field of investments. He was awarded the prestigious Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory for his work in portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

Dr. Markowitz received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1990/markowitz-bio.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=2447016&privcapId=8338379

After four decades in financial services, Christopher Jones is lending his expertise as an investor and advisor. Previously, he was Co Head of Active Equities at Blackrock, which included its Fundamental and Scientific Equity Divisions, CIO of Fundamental Equities in the Americas, and co-head of Global Fundamental Equities.

Chris spent 32 years at JPMorgan Investment Management, starting as a research analyst, then graduating to project manager and team leader before becoming CIO of Growth and Small Cap Equities, and finally co head of US Equities.

Chris holds an M.A. in History from Cambridge University and is a member of both the New York Society of Security Analysts and The CFA Institute. He is a CFA charterholder.

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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/acorns-hires-christopher-jones-former-co-head-of-global-active-equities-at-blackrock-to-chair-investment-committee-300460553.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-jones-8054493b

Richard H. Thaler is the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics. Thaler studies behavioral economics and finance as well as the psychology of decision-making. He investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometimes human. Thaler is the director of the Center for Decision Research, and is the co-director (with Robert Shiller) of the Behavioral Economics Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Thaler is the co-author (with Cass R. Sunstein) of the global bestseller Nudge (2008), in which the concepts of behavioral economics are used to tackle many of society’s major problems. In 2015 he published Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. He has authored or edited four other books: Quasi-Rational Economics, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life, and Advances in Behavioral Finance (editor) Volumes I and II, and has published numerous articles in prominent journals such as the American Economics Review, the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Political Economy.

Thaler is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Finance Association and the Econometrics Society, and in 2015 served as the President of the American Economic Association. Before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1995, Thaler taught at the University of Rochester and Cornell as well as visiting stints at The University of British Columbia, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Originally from New Jersey, Thaler attended Case Western Reserve University where he received a bachelor's degree in 1967. Soon after, he attended the University of Rochester where he received a master's degree in 1970 and a PhD in 1974. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1995.

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https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/t/richard-h-thaler