Michael Moritz

Partner
Sequoia Capital

Michael Moritz is a partner at Sequoia Capital, which he joined in 1986. He has helped Sequoia adjust to the profound changes in global technology and was one of the co-founders of its business in China and India as well as Sequoia Global Growth, a global technology fund; Sequoia Heritage, the firm’s single pool of globally diversified, long-term assets; and Sequoia Capital Global Equities, a public market fund. Michael has represented Sequoia on the boards of a number of companies including Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, LinkedIn, Flextronics and Kayak; and younger businesses such as Berkeley Lights, Charlotte Tilbury, Instacart, Klarna and Stripe. Prior to joining Sequoia, Michael co-founded Technologic Partners and was a correspondent for Time, where he was the San Francisco bureau chief.

He is the author of several books including Return to the Little Kingdom, the first major book about Apple published in 1984, and more recently LEADING with Sir Alex Ferguson, the longtime Manager of Manchester United. Michael graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1976 with a MA in History. Together with his wife, Harriet Heyman, he has made a series of donations to educational causes. He received a knighthood from the Queen of England in 2013.

Patrick Collison

Chief Executive Officer
Stripe

Patrick Collison is chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. After experiencing firsthand how difficult it was to set up an online business, Patrick and his brother John started Stripe in 2010. Their goal was to make accepting payments on the internet simpler and more inclusive. Today, Stripe powers millions of online businesses around the world.

Prior to Stripe, Patrick co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media for $5 million in March 2008. In 2016, he was named a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship by President Obama. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, Patrick now lives in San Francisco, where Stripe is headquartered.

Christopher R. Hansen

President & Founding Partner
Valiant Capital Management, L.P.

Chris Hansen is the President and Founding Partner of Valiant Capital Management, L.P. a global long/short public and private equity firm based in San Francisco. Valiant’s investment objective is to generate superior long-term, risk adjusted returns by employing a flexible mandate that allows the team to search the world for the best opportunities. To date, the Firm has had a strong bias toward emerging markets, where the research process tends to uncover compelling investment opportunities that may yield tangible, differentiated results relative to local markets.

Prior to starting Valiant in 2008, Chris was a partner at Blue Ridge Capital LP from 2001 until January of 2008. Before Blue Ridge, Chris was a Principal and Senior Equity Research analyst at Banc of America Securities in San Francisco covering the Advertising Sector. Chris received his MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business in 1996, and holds an undergraduate degree in Finance from San Diego State University. He has four children and lives in Tiburon, CA with his wife Kimberly.

David Einhorn

President
Greenlight Capital, Inc.

David Einhorn is President of Greenlight Capital, Inc., which he co-founded in January 1996. Greenlight Capital is a value-oriented investment advisor whose goal is to achieve high absolute rates of return while minimizing the risk of capital loss.

Greenlight’s investment philosophy is to combine the analytical discipline of determining fair value with a practical understanding of markets. The firm believes that an investment approach that emphasizes intrinsic value will achieve consistent absolute investment returns and safeguard capital regardless of market conditions.

Prior to founding Greenlight Capital, Inc., David worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) as an analyst in the Investment Banking Group. After DLJ, Mr. Einhorn joined Siegler, Collery & Co., a buyout and investment management firm, as an investment analyst.

David is Chairman of the Board of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLRE) and Chairman of the Board of Green Brick Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:GRBK). He is the author of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story, published in May 2008.

David graduated summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, where he earned a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Ryan Heslop

Co-Founder & Portfolio Manager
Firefly Value Partners, LP

Ryan Heslop is a Portfolio Manager at Firefly Value Partners, which he co-founded in 2006. Firefly is an investment partnership focused on fundamental primary research and business analysis. Firefly invests with a long-term time horizon in a concentrated portfolio of deeply undervalued companies.

Prior to co-founding Firefly, Ryan worked as an analyst at Elm Ridge Capital Management, and as an investment associate at both Fidelity Investments and Putnam Investments.
Ryan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in Economics and received an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Tim Ferriss

Investor, Best Selling Author & Top-Ranked Podcaster

Tim Ferriss has been called “a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk” by The New York Times. He is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 300 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running. His latest book is Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World.

Jeffrey Gundlach

Chief Executive Officer
DoubleLine Capital

Mr. Gundlach is CEO of DoubleLine. In 2011, he appeared on the cover of Barron’s as “The New Bond King.” In 2013, Institutional Investor named him “Money Manager of the Year.” In 2012, 2015 and 2016, he was named one of “The Fifty Most Influential” in Bloomberg Markets. In 2017, he was inducted into the FIASI Fixed Income Hall of Fame. Mr. Gundlach is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, with degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy.

Scott Goodwin

Managing Partner
Diameter Capital Partners

Scott Goodwin is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Diameter Capital Partners, an investment firm that focuses on the full spectrum of credit investing, from performing to distressed. As Portfolio Manager, he focuses on managing the sizing, security selection, gross/net exposures and overall risk of the fund while also managing the relationships of trading and capital markets counter parties. Diameter is built on its core blend of trading and research – the fund endeavors to provide an investment in credit markets throughout all parts of the cycle. Prior to founding Diameter, Mr. Goodwin was previously with Anchorage Capital Group (2010 – 2016) as a Portfolio Manager and the Global Head of Trading. Mr. Goodwin also had day-to-day oversight for the Anchorage Short Credit (ASC) fund. In addition to his portfolio management and trading responsibilities, Mr. Goodwin sat on the firm’s Investment Committee. Previously, Mr. Goodwin spent eight years with Citigroup, serving most recently as Head of High Yield Bond and Credit Default Swap Trading. A 2002 graduate of Duke University, Mr. Goodwin earned a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Markets and Management and a minor in Spanish.

Gabe Plotkin

Chief Investment Officer & Founder
Melvin Capital Management LP

Gabe Plotkin currently serves as the CIO of Melvin Capital, a multi-billion dollar long/short investment fund that he founded in 2014. Prior to Melvin Capital, Gabe was a portfolio manager at Sigma Capital, a division of SAC Capital Advisors. There, he oversaw a $1.8 billion portfolio in consumer-facing industries, including retail, internet, restaurants, gaming/lodging, and consumer products. Previously, he was a managing director at North Sound Capital, a strategy analyst at Citadel, and a private equity analyst at Henry Crown. Gabe graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University with a BA in Economics.

Larry Robbins

Founder, CEO & Portfolio Manager
Glenview Capital Management

Larry Robbins is the Founder, Portfolio Manager and CEO of Glenview Capital Management, a $7.6B investment management firm in its 19th year of operation. Glenview is focused on delivering attractive absolute returns through an intense focus on deep fundamental research and individual security selection. Headquartered in New York City, Glenview has 77 employees, including 38 investment professionals.

Prior to founding Glenview, Larry spent six years as an analyst and partner at Omega Advisors on their US equity long/short team. He joined Omega after three years at Gleacher & Company, a merger and advisory boutique in New York.

Larry graduated with honors from the Wharton School and Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Economics and Engineering, with majors in accounting, finance, marketing, and systems engineering. Larry became a Certified Public Accountant in 1991 in his then home state of Illinois.

Through their Robbins Family Foundation, Larry and his wife, Sarahmay, are active supporters of education reform both in New York City and on the national level. Larry serves as Chairman of the Board for The Robin Hood Foundation and KIPP New York. He is a member of the board of Teach For America (New York) and Relay Graduate School of Education. In addition, Larry is the Senior Chair of the Wall Street Division of the UJA‐ Federation. Larry is also the proud coach of several New Jersey Avalanche youth hockey teams. Larry resides in Alpine, NJ with his wife and six sons.

Daniel Sundheim

Founder & Chief Investment Officer
D1 Capital Partners

Daniel Sundheim is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of D1 Capital. Prior to forming D1, Dan spent 15 years at Viking Global Investors where he served as the CIO responsible for managing a team of analysts and a diversified portfolio. From April 2010 to July 2014, he served as the co-CIO. From 2002 until he became a Portfolio Manager in 2005, Dan was an Investment Analyst responsible for identifying and researching investment ideas in the financial and business services sectors. He began his career in the Merchant Banking Group at Bear Stearns researching and executing private equity investments. Dan graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 with a B.S. in Economics. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYU Langone Medical Center, The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School.

Josh Waitzkin

Extreme Athlete & Peak Performance Specialist

Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning, is an 8-time US National Chess Champion, a 2-time World Champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt under 9-time World Champion Marcelo Garcia. For the past twelve years, Josh has been channeling his passion for the outer limits of the learning process toward training elite mental performers in business and finance, and to revolutionizing the education system through his nonprofit foundation, The Art of Learning Project. Josh is currently in the process of taking on his fourth and fifth disciplines, paddle surfing and foiling, and is an all-in father and husband.