Mala Gaonkar

Founder
SurgoCap Partners

Mala founded SurgoCap Partners, an investment firm focused on the disruptive effects of technology within broad industry categories, in 2022. Prior to SurgoCap, she was a founding partner of Lone Pine Capital in 1998. At Lone Pine, she was portfolio manager for the firm’s technology, media, internet and telecommunications exposure, and was co-portfolio manager of Lone Pine’s long-only funds.

Before joining Lone Pine, Mala worked for The Boston Consulting Group, and was also a Kauffman Fellow. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Business School. She is a founding trustee of Ariadne Labs, as well as a trustee of the Tate Foundation, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and Surgo Ventures, a non-profit organization which uses data driven solutions to solve health and social problems.

Lauren Taylor Wolfe

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Impactive Capital

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital, an impact oriented activist fund. Prior to founding Impactive Capital she spent 10 years at investment firm Blue Harbour Group as a Managing Director and Investing Partner.

Prior to joining Blue Harbour in 2007, Ms. Taylor Wolfe was a Portfolio Manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private companies. She has been active on various boards, including HD Supply (HDS), 30% Club Steering Committee, and as an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance.

Ms. Taylor Wolfe holds an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a BS, magna cum laude, from Cornell University.

Karen Karniol-Tambour

Co-Chief Investment Officer for Sustainability
Bridgewater Associates

Karen joined Bridgewater in 2006. As Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater’s Sustainable Investing, she leads the design and oversight of new investment solutions with both financial and sustainability objectives. Karen is also member of Bridgewater’s Investment Committee. She has 15 years’ experience developing systematic insights on global markets and overseeing Bridgewater’s investment logic and portfolio construction, and previously headed Bridgewater’s Investment Research function.

Karen received her AB from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs with a Certificate in Finance. She serves on the boards of the Truman Center for National Policy and Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit cultivating young leaders to transform conflict in the Middle East and South Asia. Karen is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was included in Fortune’s 40 Under 40 most influential leaders in business in 2019 and has been named to Barron's list of "Most Influential Women in US Finance" for three years in a row.

Patrick Collison

Co-Founder & CEO
Stripe

Patrick Collison is the co-founder of the Arc Institute, a biomedical research institute that is dedicated to pioneering a new model for research. In partnership with Stanford, UCSF and UC Berkeley, Patrick, Silvana, and Patrick Hsu hope that by providing no strings attached, long term funding, Arc will bring together and enable ambitious and passionate biomedical investigators to study and address human complex diseases.

Patrick's primary role is chief executive officer and co- founder of Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. With the goal to make accepting payments on the internet simpler and more inclusive, Patrick and his brother John started Stripe in 2010. Today, Stripe powers millions of online businesses around the world. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, Patrick now lives in Woodside.

Nancy Lazar

Chief Global Economist, Macro Research
Piper Sandler & Co.

Nancy R. Lazar is the Chief Global Economist at Piper Sandler and leads the economic research team. Nancy’s work is known for its unbiased, comprehensive, highly-detailed approach. Before joining Piper Sandler, she co-founded Cornerstone Macro, Wall Street's premier macro boutique. Prior to Cornerstone, she was Co-Founder, and Vice Chairman of ISI Group for more than 20 years.

Nancy has been an Institutional Investor-ranked economist since 2001, placing in the top two the past nine years, ranking #1 in 2015. Nancy was named to Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Prior to co-founding ISI in 1991, Nancy was a Senior Vice President at C.J. Lawrence. She is a 1979 graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

Nancy is a member of The Economic Club of New York, New York Forecasters, Money Marketeers, NYABE, NABE, and Women in Finance & Housing.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

CEO
O'Shaughnessy Asset Management

Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). Patrick oversees the day-to-day business of the firm, directing OSAM’s initiatives in the areas of research and portfolio management, investor education, and investor relationships. He also serves as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to his role as CEO, Patrick spent 11 years on OSAM’s Research & Portfolio Management team, working to improve the firm’s investment strategies.

Mr. O’Shaughnessy is the author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a Fortune, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and a contributing author to the Fourth Edition of What Works on Wall Street. His podcast “Invest Like the Best,” which is a series of conversations with leading investors across asset classes, recently passed 7 million listeners. It was named among “5 Investment Podcasts You Should Listen To” by The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. O’Shaughnessy is also a member of the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation Investment Committee.

He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and is also a CFA charterholder.

Nan Ransohoff

Head, Climate
Stripe

Nan is the Head of Climate for Stripe. Previously, she served as the Head of Product for Nuro and Uber.

Nan holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Harvard.

Sarah Sclarsic

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Voyager

Sarah Sclarsic has been building and investing in transformative technology companies since 2009 and brings expertise in mobility, biotech, food and materials production and carbon removal. She co-founded car-sharing firm Getaround and served as the founding business director of Modern Meadow, the world’s first company making biofabricated leather and meat. Sclarsic enrolled in the PhD program at MIT in 2018 to research bioengineering strategies for carbon removal, completing her Master’s thesis before launching Voyager.

Sarah is a graduate of Harvard and of MIT, where she researched atmospheric carbon removal. She lives in New York City.

Sierra Peterson

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Voyager

Sierra is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Voyager, a venture capital firm investing in climate technology companies in North America and Europe. Sierra has been structuring markets, financial products and investments for climate stabilization since 2005 and brings expertise in energy, policy and financing. A Kauffman Fellow, she has invested in more than 25 early-stage climate tech companies since 2015. Previously, Sierra led corporate development teams at financial technology companies responsible for $3B+ in solar and energy efficiency financing. Her experience in climate policy and market design includes the Obama White House Office of Energy and Climate Change and the International Energy Agency.

Sierra is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard, where she researched lifecycle emissions analysis and carbon market design. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and young daughter.

Dan Sundheim

Founder & CIO
D1 Capital

Daniel Sundheim is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of D1 Capital Partners. D1 is a global investment firm that operates across public and private markets. The firm combines the talent and operational excellence of a large, premier asset management firm with the flexible mandate and long-term time horizon of a family office. Founded in 2018, D1 focuses on investing in the global internet, technology, telecom, media, consumer, healthcare, financial, industrial, and real estate sectors.

Prior to forming D1, Dan spent 15 years at Viking Global Investors where he most recently served as the CIO responsible for managing a team of analysts and a diversified portfolio. 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. Dan is a board member of several D1 portfolio companies, including Instacart. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and NYU Langone Medical Center.