Eric Wollberg is the Business Development at Gnowbe

Prior to Gnowbe, Eric was Director of Business Development at VentureOut, Eric sourced the world-class startups that populate our programs. Additionally, he helped develop and run our accelerators, so that our participants have a flawless and fruitful experience.

Eric was also an Israel Government Fellow, working at the Israel Innovation Authority. There he helped bring companies totaling $1.5 trillion in market capitalization to engage with Israeli startups. Eric studied innovation economics at Sogang University and graduated with a degree in economics from New York State’s Public Honors College at Geneseo.

Fay-Louise is the Program Director at VentureOut, overseeing strategy and operations for all accelerator programs. A veteran startup advisor, Fay joined VentureOut after eight years working with investors and startups on cross-border and global market strategy across Latin America, Asia & North America. In her role at Venture Out, Fay manages all programming, supporting the startups, mentors, and clients related to those programs, and is a key member of the executive team.

Prior to VentureOut, Fay worked for several years in Private Equity where she managed a portfolio of alternative assets with Acquisition Group Inc and she played a key role in leadership and operations while working as a strategy analyst at Global Impact. Fay has also traveled to over 52 countries and is passionate about working with international startups.

Fay-Louise studied Economics & Political Science at University of Sydney.

Marcos Dinnerstein is Executive Council Member at NYVC

After being an editor at Digital.com, Marcos is now an Executive Council Member at New York Venture Council, with experience at establishing processes and continually improving them. He is an effective Product Management team member, possessing a ‘Figure it out and get it done’ attitude. New York Venture Council members are leading NYC-area venture capitalists, family offices, angels, entrepreneurs, universities, media and professional advisors, all dedicated to increasing deal flow and ecosystem cooperation in the world's financial capital.

As a startup founder with multiple exits, He thinks there are a lot of things broken with the way that entrepreneurs approach sales and marketing in today’s complex market. His team’s focus in 2018 is to make sure they can help as many people as they can scale their businesses without running out of money. He has knowledge of various fields that is helpful for startups and also can provide insight into many areas such as Team Building & Strategic Planning, Corporate Innovation & Partnerships, Growth Hacking & Lead Generation, Marketing & Community Engagement, Seed & Venture Capital, Emerging Trends & Digital Technology.

Lauren Nadan is the VP of Performance Marketing at Metric Digital.
Lauren brings 8+ years of marketing experience to her role at Metric Digital where she leads a team of digital specialists across a variety of e-commerce clients. Prior to joining Metric Digital in May, she led acquisition channel discovery initiatives across digital and traditional channels for Betterment, the leading independent online financial advisor with $15B+ in assets under management. Prior to Betterment, she held marketing roles at American Express and BlackRock. In her free time, she volunteers with the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation and enjoys playing with her dog Jax.
 

Steve Geick is the Senior Digital Specialist at Metric Digital.
Steve has various business experience, background in martial arts, and deep experience with art, philosophy and a variety of other personal interests, there is no client or CMO Steve can't keep up with, challenge and add value to.
Prior to Metric Digital, Steve was Director of Growth at Tribute. And worked as an Online Ads Manager at Marcus, Lemonis, LLC. online advertising, conversion funnel optimization, and content marketing Marcus Lemonis brands including Inkkas Shoes.

Edna spent the majority of her career in GE Capital’s Treasury group with primary responsibility for the institutional sales and trading of the global commercial paper programs. She took the programs from $20B to over $115B and managed them through the financial crisis. During her years at GE she managed global sales forces, electronic trading platforms, IT conversions and relationships with major asset managers and credit analysts around the globe.
Prior to joining GE, Edna worked at Continental Bank on the credit side and in the capital markets group.

Nora is VP of VP of Operations at Creditstacks.

Nora leads operations and business development for a fintech company, CreditStacks. CreditStacks offers premium credit cards to new-to-credit customers. A pre-series A startup where she wear multiple hats including fundraising, investor relations, forming a partnership, operationalizing new processes and business lines, and everything in between.

Lexie Kier is a Principal Strategist and Founder of AOK Group, a growth consultancy for startups. She advises bold brands and startups on fundraising, customer insights, branding and marketing and often takes on interim leadership roles to help with periods of intense change, entry into new markets, and expansion.

Previously, Lexie founded Cuurio, an index of startups and innovation platform helping bold brands find clarity, context, and connection. ​Cuurio helped a growing number of innovative brands and agencies (including Warner Brother, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, and J. Walter Thompson) to create vibrant native mobile partnerships that activated consumers in new channels.

Josh Rochlin was an early pioneer in the New York Internet venture community, founding MyCalendar.com and serving as its CEO before selling it to Sports Huddle in 2001 (now owned by CBS).

Josh then led business development and strategy at GoAmerica (GOAM), the first wireless internet service provider (now Purple Communications). Prior to IBM's acquisition of Teckst (formerly Xtify), Josh served as its founding CEO. Prior to joining Teckst, Josh served as the Chief Administrative Officer at Marc Ecko Enterprises, where he oversaw all non-apparel businesses and ventures.

As a business lawyer, Joseph represents startups to publicly-held technology, life science and consumer companies, venture capital and private equity funds and investment banks in a wide range of seed and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. Joseph has represented issuers and underwriters in dozens of IPOs and follow-on public offerings involving companies in the technology, life sciences and consumer sectors, including leading investment banks such as Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Oppenheimer.

He is currently a partner and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Practice of McCarter, a 400+ lawyer U.S. law firm with a global practice.

Sam Newbold has been supporting VentureOut companies to secure US visas since 2013. He is experienced in a wide range of employment based, family based, and investment based immigration issues, working closely with the global startup and tech communities, representing cutting edge companies and talented individuals who comprise New York’s rapidly growing Silicon Alley.

Mr. Newbold also works closely with foreign investors seeking nonimmigrant or immigrant status through EB5 or E-2 investments, and he is also experienced in helping foreign business owners receive L visa status through establishing New Offices in the United States.

Stephen is employee zero at Dessa, and founded the company with a vision to build AI tools and systems that re-invent what’s possible for business. Stephen is a serial tech entrepreneur, and has owned successful companies on both sides of the Atlantic that have been featured in dozens of publications including WIRED, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. Between startups, Stephen also designed computer-based trading algorithms at one of the world’s largest hedge funds. Stephen is a passionate public speaker, and once presented at an event at 10 Downing Street before David Cameron. Stephen studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto and once spent a summer studying artificial intelligence at Stanford in the early 2000s–a time when neural networks were hardly acknowledged.

Sunny is Senior Director at the Partnership Fund for New York City, focusing on Digital Health, Fintech and Insurtech. Prior to the Partnership Fund, Sunny was Director of Strategy & Finance at RedVision (sold to First American). Previously, Sunny was an Investment Associate at Updata Partners focusing on growth-equity technology investments. Prior to Updata Partners, Sunny worked as an Investment Banking Associate at ThinkEquity Partners. He is a graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

John is a passionate, serial entrepreneur who, since 1999, has started three companies focused on using technology to alter the traditional rhythms of the institutional finance space. His first venture, Creditex was acquired by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2008 for over $600mm. More recently, he has been a founder and operating partner of eBond Advisors, which is bringing financial technology to the product level of corporate bonds – creating a more liquid corporate bond for investors while lowering financing costs for large issuers. Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, John spent 13 years on Wall St at PaineWebber, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank in derivative structuring and sales. He has been an active angel investor, board member, and advisor to many young companies.

Stephen serves on the Investment Committee at Tribeca Early Stage Partners where he has been a partner since 2015.
He has 29 years of experience in global capital markets. Most recently, he ran the Rates Trading and Sales business at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, USA, where he also served as a member of the Management Committee, Asset Liability Committee and Risk Committee. Prior to Mitsubishi, he was the head of the Municipal Derivative and Municipal Cash Trading businesses at Bear Stearns. Steve began his career at Bankers Trust, where he spent 12 years in trading and management roles in the bank’s fixed income & interest rate derivatives businesses. He spent four of these years working overseas in London, Tokyo and Auckland.  Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math and Economics from Brown University.

Kumar is an entrepreneurial executive with strong interest in technology, data and finance. He has over twenty five years financial services experience and brings expert knowledge of exchange structures, hedge fund strategies, risk mitigation, structured products and quantitative finance. This includes derivatives research at Salomon Brothers; followed by sales & trading and strategic, executive management level experience at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Natixis Capital Markets. Kumar also ran a quantitative hedge fund for several years and helped the electronic swap trading start-up TrueEX gain significant market share and traction in the competitive SEF market. Kumar is an active angel investor with a portfolio spread across finance, technology, biomedical and natural foods spaces. He loves the public equity markets and spends significant time on research and fundamental analysis of finance and technology companies.

Steve Miller is the CEO & Founder of CR Holdco.
He is an experienced entrepreneur, board member, investor, and hands-on manager in the financial information and technology industry, with a focus on leveraged loans.
Steve started in the space as loan reporter for Gold Sheets in the early 1990s just as the market was embarking on its remarkable journey from a backwater, to a one-trillion-dollar-plus asset class. Since then, I have had the good fortune to work with excellent teams to build businesses that have become essential providers of news, data, benchmarks, software and analytical tools for leveraged credit market participants.
Prior to Fitch Solutions, he was CEO of Fulcrum Financial Data LLC, Co-founder, and CEO of Portfolio Management Data LLC.

Mr. Stanton Green is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Equities. He joined Guggenheim Securities, LLC in May 2018

Prior to joining Guggenheim, Mr. Green was at OTR Global where he served as President and CEO, shaping OTR into a premier research firm. Prior to OTR, he was a Founding Partner, President, and CEO of Vista Research, which he helped to successfully sell to Standard & Poor’s, a McGraw Hill Company.

Previous to Vista Research, Mr. Green was a Managing Director of Epoch Partners. Mr. Green ran Equity Capital Markets, Structured Products, and their Private Equity portfolio. He was part of the deal team that successfully sold Epoch to Goldman Sachs. He began his career at Merrill Lynch in the equity derivatives business and spent four years in Morgan Stanley’s institutional derivatives group.

Mr. Green holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Lawrence Johnson Experienced in developing international ventures in China and Europe. He has Specialties in Diffusion of new technologies in uncharted markets

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the private capital markets.

Brian is a co-founder and Managing Partner ofTribeca Early Stage Partners.  Prior to his role there, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity.

Amar Kuchinad is a Senior Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee at Pretium Partners.
He focuses on the use of technology, data, and analytics at Pretium, both for internal business process and decision-making as well as for external commercial opportunities. Prior to joining Pretium in 2019, Mr. Kuchinad was Chief Strategy Officer at Trumid Financial. He joined Trumid from Electronifie, where he was CEO and Founder, upon Electronifie’s acquisition by Trumid in 2017. Previously, Mr. Kuchinad was a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Kuchinad was formerly a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he ran the U.S. portfolio credit trading business and the U.S. structured equity derivatives trading desk and where he was a member of the Securities Division Risk Committee. Mr. Kuchinad began his career at Credit Suisse First Boston after receiving an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.

Chipper is an experienced internet investor and business builder, based in NY.  He co-founded Firestartr, a London seed-stage investment platform helping >30 promising entrepreneurs build leading global companies across fintech, marketplaces, new media and cloud/SaaS.  Chipper’s current focus is Fintech, with investments including: Transferwise, Pantera, Railsbank, Wagestream, Yoyo Wallet, AngelList.

Chipper previously led Corporate Strategy for eBay in Silicon Valley developing its first mobile strategy and spearheading over $3 billion in strategic acquisitions, including Skype.  A management consulting partner in Asia, he co-founded McKinsey’s global Mobile Commerce Initiative, and co-built Booz-Allen’s Jakarta office.

Harvard (Physics), Cambridge (Math), and MIT (Management).

Paul Wigdor currently serves as Managing Partner at Ascendant Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor based in Houston, Texas. Paul was a Founding Shareholder in Ascendant when the Company was formed in 2009 and joined the Firm as a Partner in 2011 to launch the Firm’s Mutual Fund Business. Under Paul’s direction, Ascendant has launched four mutual funds and will be launching a fifth in May, 2015. Prior to his work with Ascendant, Paul spent 15 years on the buy side and the sell side in a variety of capacities including legal and compliance, equity trading, wealth management and asset management. In addition to his financial services work experience, Paul is a seasoned entrepreneur and has been an active angel investor, advisor and board member to many young companies in a variety of industries including financial services, technology, restaurants, real estate, and luxury goods.

Maria is the Vice President of Business Development at RRE Ventures, where she is responsible for working with their active portfolio companies and F500 Leadership Teams to drive collaboration where strategies align on both sides.  As Head of Platform for the firm, she also leads initiatives that help founding teams grow and scale or expand RRE’s presence within and beyond the NYC ecosystem.

Prior to RRE, Maria was Chief of Staff and Executive Director of Business Development for a NY-based ad tech company, Eyeview.  Maria began her career at General Electric in Operations Management & Supply Chain. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Industrial Engineering from UW-Madison. Outside of work she is the board chair of a nonprofit, African Entrepreneur Collective, that works with entrepreneurs in Africa across urban, refugee and rural environments to drive job growth.

Ishan Sinha is a technology investor based out of NYC with experience in both public and private markets. He is broadly interested in the internet and fintech, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Ishan was a part of the initial team at Point72 Ventures, where he’s worked on over 25+ early and growth stage transactions. Point72 Ventures is the early-stage venture capital strategy funded exclusively by Steve Cohen and eligible employees of Point72 Asset Management. They invest in emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the financial services industry. Prior to helping launch Point72 Ventures, Ishan was a long/short equity analyst at Point72’s hedge fund, where he focused on global technology and financials stocks. He began his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

Business and financial leader with the ability develop and deliver strategic development and execution of company-wide financial policies and procedures. Distinguished, hands-on experience in driving corporate development activities, assisting startups, reorganizing financially distressed companies, and the managing the acquisition and integration process. Astute leader who adds value through proactive decision-making, business process re-engineering, and proven global leadership abilities coupled with mentoring and coaching skills.

Anna Kotyza is the Content Director at VentureOut, creating content for VentureOut programs. Holding a strong background in storytelling, film-making, virtual reality, business development, strategy, research, video editing, content creation, and media.
Prior to VentureOut, Anna studied visual and media art production at Emerson University. And currently studying arts, business, technology and innovation in New York University.

David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital, an international venture capital fund based in New York. David has a particular interest in fintech, sales tech, and HR tech. He was previously a Managing Partner with HOF Capital and Partner for 6 years with ff Venture Capital, one of the best-performing seed- and early-stage venture capital firms in the U.S. He has served on the boards of Authorea (sold to Wiley), Earnest Research (Observer), Ionic Security, Signup.com, and Whisk (sold to Deem).  David also has advised clients such as Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, and other institutional investors. He earlier was a serial fintech entrepreneur with two exits. David holds a Harvard MBA and Yale BA, both with honors.  He writes regularly at teten.com.

Youcif Almegaryaf is a development professional with wide-ranging experience in economic, infrastructure and business development in the United States and MENA region. Youcif’s experience spans the private, public and non-profit sectors, including serving as a Rapport Public Finance Fellow at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) capital planning department to building New York’s innovation economy by managing business attraction and strategic corporate engagement for emerging tech sectors including Smart & Sustainable Cities, Cybersecurity, Life Sciences and healthcare , A.I., etc

Chuck Doerr is President and COO of OpenFin. He is responsible for the company's technology strategy and business operations. Prior to OpenFinChuck was VP of CDS Technology at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE's CDS e-trading and processing technology and software development. Before ICEChuck served as Chief Technology Officer of Creditex where he was responsible for all technology initiatives. He architected the company's award-winning technology platformled software development and managed Creditex's global technology infrastructure.