Uri Levine is a passionate entrepreneur and disruptor, a 2x 'unicorn' builder (Duocorn), and the author of "Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for Entrepre-neurs". He is co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, and former investor and board member in Moovit, 'Waze of public transportation', which Intel acquired for $1 Billion in 2020.

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Levine's vision in building startups is to disrupt inefficient markets and improve under-functioning services, focusing on solving "BIG problems" and saving consumers time and money while empowering them and changing the world for the better. Among Uri's startups are Pontera (formerly FeeX), FairFly, and Refundit, and he is always working on the next one.  Uri has been in the high-tech business for the last 30 years, half of them in the startup scene, and has seen everything ranging from failure to moderate success and big success.

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He is also a world-class speaker on entrepreneurship, disruption, evolution vs. revolutions of markets, mobility, and startups. Motivated to encourage the next generation of thinkers and innovators, he also leads an academic workshop entitled "How to Build a Startup", aimed at undergraduate and graduate-level business students.

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Levine is a BA graduate of Tel-Aviv University. Before attending University, he served in the Israeli army at special intelligence unit 8200. In his public activity, he serves on the board of trustees of Tel-Aviv University. He also mentors young entrepreneurs at the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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To learn more about Uri, visit www.urilevine.com.

Paul Ryan was the 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. In office from October 2015 to January 2019, he was the youngest speaker in nearly 150 years. Prior to becoming Speaker of the House, Paul served as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He also served as Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011-2015.

In 2012, he was selected to serve as Governor Mitt Romney’s Vice-Presidential nominee. Paul was first elected to Congress at age 28 and represented Wisconsin’s First District for two decades. In 2019, he launched the American Idea Foundation, a non-partisan, not for profit organization that expands economic opportunity by partnering with local organizations and academics to advance evidence-based public policies. In 2020, Paul was named as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Executive Network Partnering Corporation and in 2021, he was named as a Partner at Solamere Capital. In 2022, he was named Vice Chairman of Teneo, a global management consulting company.

Paul is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fox Corporation, of SHINE Medical Technologies LLC, and of Xactus. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH.

Paul serves as a Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame and a visiting fellow in the practice of public policy at the American Enterprise Institute. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute and on the Board of Directors for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Paul and his wife Janna have three children: Liza, Charlie, and Sam. He holds a degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio and was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University.

Jeff Ubben is a Founder, Managing Partner and the Portfolio Manager of Inclusive Capital Partners. He has served on over 20 public company boards and is currently a director of The Exxon Mobil Corporation, Vistry Group Plc, and Enviva Inc., and serves on the Sustainability Council of Bayer AG. Jeff is a former Founder of ValueAct Capital. In addition, he serves on the boards of Duke University, the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Redford Center, and formerly served as Chair of the National Board of the Posse Foundation. Jeff has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light.

Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead the firm’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience and Hadrian. He is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta, making cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications. Josh is a Westinghouse semi-finalist and published scientist. He previously worked in investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in capital markets at Merrill Lynch. In 2008 Josh co-founded and funded Kurion, a contrarian bet in the unlikely business of using advanced robotics and state-of-the-art engineering and chemistry to clean up nuclear waste. It was an unmet, inevitable need with no solution in sight. The company was among the first responders to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. In February 2016, Veolia acquired Kurion for nearly $400 million—34 times Lux’s total investment.

Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, and a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU. He is a term member at The Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of Coney Island Prep Charter School, where he grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and Finance.

Joe Lonsdale is the Founder and Managing Partner at 8VC, an early-stage venture capital firm managing over $6 billion in capital. He has founded over a dozen companies, including Palantir, a leading data analytics company; Addepar, a wealth management platform; and OpenGov, the largest cloud software provider for local governments. He continues to create and scale companies through the 8VC Build program.

Joe was an early investor in many companies, including Anduril, Oculus, Guardant, Oscar, Illumio, Blend, Qualia, Joby, Orca Bio, and Flexport.

Joe and his wife Tayler are active in many philanthropic and institutional pursuits: they founded the non-partisan Cicero Institute to promote accountable governance, and in 2021 Joe became the founding chairman of the University of Austin.

Joe, Tayler, and their four daughters live in Austin, TX.

Ms. Gunderson is a managing principal and member of the Investment Committee for AB CarVal, responsible for leading the firm’s investment strategy and management, as well as its global loan portfolios and clean energy businesses. In addition, Ms. Gunderson manages investments in asset-backed securities globally, including residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations. Prior to joining AB CarVal in 1994, Ms. Gunderson was a manager in the financial services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers where she served investment fund, commercial banking and thrift clients. Ms. Gunderson earned her B.S. degree in business from the University of Minnesota and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Marc Cohodes, a former General Partner of Rocker Partners/Copper River, is a long-time stock market analyst, as well as one of the most globally recognized and accomplished short sellers. Marc’s 40-year career as an investor and hedge fund manager began at Northern Trust Company in 1982 after graduating Babson College with a BS in Finance. He has since exposed many publicly traded companies and individuals who were engaged in fraud, illegal conduct, questionable accounting, and stock manipulation, including Lernout & Hauspie, Media Vision Technology, NovaStar Financial, AremiSoft, California Micro Devices, Network Associates, TakeTwo Interactive, Krispy Kreme Donuts, Boston Chicken, MiMedx Group Inc., and others. For more than 30 years, he has provided valuable and timely information to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice about companies engaged in fraudulent business practices. Most recently, his work helped uncover the dark sides of FTX, Silvergate and Signature Bank. His investigations of fraud in financial markets have been reported in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, and Institutional Investor, on CNN, and in award-winning books about financial fraud, such as Selling America Short and The Most Dangerous Trade. Marc was also the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies -about his successful efforts to expose frauds. Marc is currently a private investor.

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital, a $3 Billion active impact investing firm. Impactive Capital helps companies allocate capital effectively and ethically to drive more sustainable, profitable and valuable businesses over the long run. Prior to founding Impactive Capital, from 2007 to 2017, Lauren was a Managing Director at investment firm, Blue Harbour Group, where she led investments in the technology, consumer and business and healthcare services industries. Prior to joining Blue Harbour in 2007, Lauren was a Portfolio Manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private companies.  

Lauren received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University.  Lauren has been active on various public and private boards including $4 Billion TEV Envestnet Inc [NYSE: ENV], $10 Billion TEV HD Supply [Nasdaq: HDS], and the 30% Club Steering Committee, and as an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance.

James is currently a partner at Lingotto Investment Management and Chair of Kinnevik AB in Sweden. He was a partner of Baillie Gifford in Edinburgh for over 35 years and for over twenty years Manager and Joint Manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, which became the UK’s largest and part of the FTSE 100. He was also the lead manager of the Baillie Gifford portion of the Vanguard International Growth fund for almost 20 years.  James is principally interested in loyally backing companies engaged in innovative change throughout the world. In this connection he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Kay Review into UK equity markets and long-term decision making in 2011-12.

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James graduated from University College Oxford, where he is a Foundation Fellow, before postgraduate study in Italy and Canada. He is a Trustee of the Johns Hopkins University and a member of its Investment Committee. James is also Chairman of the Panmure Prize given in honour of Adam Smith and awarded at his last home.

Ms. Puri is a Governing Partner of HPS Investment Partners and is the Portfolio Manager for the Public Credit strategies, which include various Funds and Managed Accounts. Prior to joining HPS in 2007, Ms. Puri was a Principal at Redwood Capital Management, a credit opportunities hedge fund. Before joining Redwood, she was with Goldman Sachs for five years on both the Credit Arbitrage Desk, a proprietary trading desk at Goldman Sachs, and in the Principal Investment Area. From 1993 to 1995, Ms. Puri was part of Lazard Frères’ Restructuring and Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Ms. Puri is a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University and the Board of Dean’s Advisors (BDA) of Harvard Business School.  She is also a member of the Financial Sector Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Ms. Puri holds a BA in Mathematics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dr. Jim Yong Kim is currently Vice-Chair and Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners, and Senior Advisor to Two Bridge. He is a globally recognized leader in public health and healthcare delivery who co-founded Partners in Health and has served as President of the World Bank Group, President of Dartmouth College, and Director of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization. Dr. Kim has led global efforts to treat complex diseases such as tuberculosis and AIDS in the poorest countries and now, in his role as Senior Advisor to Two Bridge is working to build a movement to dramatically improve treatment outcomes in mental health and other healthcare verticals. Dr. Kim and Two Bridge plan to accomplish these goals by identifying, working with, and investing in disruptive private healthcare companies. Dr. Kim holds a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.D. and PhD in anthropology from Harvard University. He received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, was recognized as one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report and was named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Marcia Page is one of a handful of women founders of a global alternative investment firm with a successful 30-year track record and a history of investing in market dislocation.

Marcia is the founder of MPowered Capital, a firm focused on accelerating equity by committing capital and resources to women and other diverse investors. Prior to MPowered, Marcia co-founded Värde Partners, a $14 billion global alternative investment management firm, where she oversaw the firm’s growth ranging from raising and investing capital, identifying talent, and building investment teams across geographies. She served as Värde’s Co-CEO and Co-CIO until 2016 and currently serves as the firm’s Co-Executive Chair.

Marcia holds a B.A. in Economics from Gustavus Adolphus College, and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

Ian Rosen is the President & Chief Operating Officer at Harry Rosen, where he is responsible for driving profitable growth across each of the company’s three banners: Harry Rosen, FinalCut and The Outlet by Harry Rosen. Ian sits on the Harry Rosen Board of Directors.

In his role, Ian works with Executives across Sales Management, Merchandising, Marketing, Digital and IT functions to ensure operations are aligned towards delivering on the Harry Rosen brand’s promise to provide exceptional service to clients throughout every touchpoint. Since joining Harry Rosen in 2018, Ian has led the company’s transformation to extend relationships with customers onto digital channels and enhance the shopping experience with technology (both online and in-store).

Ian marks the third generation of Rosens to enter the company founded by his grandfather. Prior to joining Harry Rosen, Ian was a Management Consultant at Bain & Company in Chicago where he focused on Strategy, Retail and Digital projects. Ian holds both an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an HBA from Ivey Business School.

Larry Rosen, the eldest son of Harry Rosen, has worked for the company for more than 30 years in many different areas: on the sales floor, as a buyer, and in operations and corporate development.

Larry began learning the business as a teenager, working summers as a sales associate in Harry Rosen stores. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Laws Degree from Western University.

After practicing corporate law in Toronto, Larry joined Harry Rosen as a buyer in 1985. He then became involved in store operations at a senior management level and then became Buying Director.

In 1997 Larry was named President and Chief Operating Officer. He was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2000.

Larry was a longstanding member of the Ivey Advisory Board, the Ivey Entrepreneurship Advisory Council and the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation Board and has worked tirelessly to raise more than $4 million in recent years for cancer research.

In 2014, Larry Rosen was named Distinguished Retailer of the Year by the Retail Council of Canada, as well as Design Thinker of the Year - presented by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and Rotman School of Management.

In December 2019, Larry was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for his accomplishments in business and philanthropy.