The Future of Capital Markets

Hyun is a Partner at March Capital, a venture capital and growth equity firm based in Santa Monica. Prior to March, Hyun was at Allen & Company, a New York-based investment bank, where he was a Vice President covering media, consumer internet, and enterprise software sectors. He executed M&A and equity financing transactions for clients such as Activision, Adobe, Discovery, Fox, LinkedIn, Samsung, Spotify, and Twitter.

Prior to Allen & Company, Hyun worked on M&A, equity and debt financings, and various strategic assignments at Citigroup in Chicago and Montgomery & Co. in Los Angeles.

Hyun received his BBA in Finance and BS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business and College of LSA, respectively.

Priya is Market Lead for India and MENA in SVB's international market development team, Global Gateway. She provides market entry advice and insights on cross-border engagement focused on constituents in the innovation ecosystem - founders and investors.

Priya's work with Indian entrepreneurs and venture capital funds has yielded tangible value with founders accessing leading programs in the U.S. like Y-Combinator and investors getting visibility of great founders and deals.

Priya calls on her experience, expertise and connections to champion a more inclusive innovation economy. She works closely with community leaders, including Change Catalyst, Kapor Capital, and YC Female Founders. She sits on the board of directors at non-profits Big Brothers Big Sisters and Women Who Code - an organization dedicated to helping women excel in technology careers. As a venture partner at Xfund, Priya connects VC firms with superior research universities and advisor at Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.

Priya co-created the Diaspora Community initiative at SVB and is a charter member of TiE, a nonprofit focused on nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs with Indian ties.

Prior to joining Global Gateway, Priya was a Director in our early stage practice (Startup Banking) where she led university programs and SVB Trek for student entrepreneurs. Leading to partnerships with Dorm Room Fund, The House Fund, Stanford Venture Studio and Rough Draft Ventures.

Priya's career at SVB Financial Group began as a global group financial officer, a pivotal role in the Finance team. Earlier in her career, she held financial management positions at Charles Schwab and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. In addition to a bachelor's degree from the University of Madras and a master's degree in international business from Queen's University, Priya holds an MBA in business administration from Cornell University and a California CPA in accounting and business administration.

Priya enjoys traveling the world, opening doors, and meeting new people. When not on a plane, Priya enjoys classical music - after studying music for over a decade, she passed on this passion and skill to her two children.

Dami is Head of Value Creation for the SoftBank Opportunity Fund, where she's charged with helping the portfolio companies grow and scale. At SoftBank, she's led ecosystem partnerships and value creation work for companies in SB's $100B Vision Fund including WeWork, Uber, Bytedance, amongst others. She also created and launched SB's early-stage global accelerator, Emerge, where she led the sourcing, investing and support of companies across health tech, fintech, e-commerce, edtech, and software industries, and sat on the Investment Committee of. She's invested in 12 companies from this inaugural cohort, which has now gone global.

Prior to joining SoftBank, Dami helped lead Intel's $75B Corporate Finance and Strategy team, and managed an extensive fulfillment operation with more than 100 employees, filling 15,000 orders a day at McMaster-Carr. She's also led operations and finance teams at Sprint Corporation and Kraft Foods. Dami holds a Finance and Chinese degree from Emory University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Kirthiga Reddy brings over twenty years of experience leading technology-driven transformations to her role as President, Athena Technology II, the third in a series of all women-led SPACs bringing leading talent, access to capital and transaction experience to enable a market leader to access the equity capital markets. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear.

Previously, she was the first female Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. At SBIA, Kirthiga focused on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments and managed a portfolio of $5B+. She served on the Board of Directors for Collective Health and Fungible. She also served on the Investment Committee for Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders.

Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has also served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board.

Kirthiga holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India's "Most Powerful Women" and as Fast Company's "Most Creative People in Business" among other recognitions.