The Future of Capital Markets
When & Where
Capital Markets
Track Agenda
- 05/05/2022 | 9:00 am – 9:25 am PDT
- 25 mins Hall CSpeakersShu Nyatta is the founder of a new firm focused on growth investing in Latin America. From March 2015 until April 2022, Shu served in multiple senior investment roles at SoftBank Vision Fund and SoftBank Group International. He was most recently a Managing Partner at SoftBank Group International, where he launched and managed two separate funds - the SoftBank Latin America Fund, and the Opportunity Fund for US-based founders-of-color. In those roles he oversaw investments in a broad range of companies, and sat on multiple boards. Prior to that, he served as a Partner at SoftBank's Vision Fund. Before his investing career, Shu served as a Vice President at J.P. Morgan, a consultant with McKinsey and a singer-songwriter. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard College, as well as a Master of Science in Anthropology with Distinction from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.Maggie McGrathEditor
Forbes MediaMaggie McGrath is the editor of ForbesWomen, the Forbes vertical dedicated to covering all angles of female entrepreneurship. She loves a good Forbes list: she is the editor of the 50 Over 50 and the World's 100 Most Powerful Women, and previously edited the 30 Under 30 Food & Drink list and the Just 100. She has worked at Forbes since 2013 and in that time has written on everything from the student debt crisis to Triple Crown-contending (and winning) horses. Before coming to Forbes, Maggie worked with TODAY show financial editor Jean Chatzky.
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- 05/05/2022 | 9:25 am – 9:55 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakers
Isabelle Freidheim is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur and the founder of the Athena family of SPACs. She currently serves as Athena Technology Acquisition Corporation II's Chief Executive Officer and as Chairman of the company's Board of Directors and is the founder and Chairman of Athena Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ATHN).
She is the co-founder and was CEO of Magnifi (acquired by The Tifin Group) and is a co-founder and managing partner of Castle VC (formerly Starwood VC), a venture investment firm. She has had a career in venture capital at various VC funds making investments in technology companies across stages with a current focus on late-stage investments in the sectors of financial technologies, data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and SaaS.
Ms. Freidheim received a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MA from Columbia Business School.
Jocelyn KinseyPartner
DFJ GrowthJocelyn Kinsey is a partner at DFJ Growth. She joined the team in 2014 and has been actively involved with DFJ Growth’s investments in Collective Health, Giphy, Helix, Mapbox, Neocis, NotCo, Patreon, Ring (Amazon), and Splice. Prior to joining the firm, Jocelyn was with J.P. Morgan’s Alternative Investments Group in New York where she worked on the placement, diligence, and structuring of private equity, venture capital, real estate, and hedge fund products. Jocelyn graduated from Stanford University with a BS in management science and engineering. While at Stanford, she was part of the founding team at StartX, Stanford’s student startup accelerator. Jocelyn was featured on the 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 Venture Capital list as "investing in the next great tech companies." She is an active member of All Raise, the non-profit dedicated to increasing diversity across venture capital and venture-backed businesses.Pauline Yang is a partner at Altimeter Capital, a tech-focused crossover firm based in Menlo Park. She joined the team in 2017 and has led or worked actively on investments in Confluent, Epic Games, Gitlab, H1, Reify Health, Transposit, Unity, UiPath, and Workato. Prior to joining Altimeter, Pauline was an investor at Berkshire Partners, a middle-market private equity firm based in Boston where she focused on vertical software and consumer investments. She began her career working on M&A transactions at Blackstone in New York. Pauline graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in economics.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.
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- 05/05/2022 | 9:55 am – 10:15 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall CSpeakersSumant is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of March Capital. Sumant leads investments in cloud driven enterprise platforms, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, and network infrastructure as well as companies supporting the Indian market. In his two decades of venture capital, Sumant has generated multiple meaningful exits in companies that he has either incubated or been the first institutional investor. His most recent exits include BillDesk (acquired by Prosus) and CarTrade Tech (NSE: CARTRADE), both valuable companies capitalizing on the digitization of the Indian Economy in their respective industry sectors.
Sumant’s previous exits include VeloCloud Networks (acquired by VMware), Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), Kosei (acquired by Pinterest), Appcito (acquired by A10 Networks), Deep Forest Media (acquired by Rakuten), Kazeon Systems (acquired by EMC), Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain), Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper), Cetas (acquired by VMware), Apture (acquired by Google), and Perspica Systems (acquired by Cisco). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of market-leading technology companies SparkCognition and Uniphore.
Additionally, Sumant is co-founder of two leading technology incubators in the San Francisco Bay Area: The Hive, focused on AI and Blockchain driven companies, and The Fabric, focused on cloud, IoT, and network infrastructure companies. He has helped incubate more than 25 companies throughout his career. In 2000, Sumant joined Clearstone Venture Partners and became a Managing Director four years later. Prior to Clearstone, Sumant spent more than eight years as an entrepreneur, starting companies in both India and the United States.
Sumant has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. He is a Charter Member of TiE.Amir HusainFounder and CEO
SparkCognitionAmir Husain is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, technologist, and author based in Austin, Texas. He is the Founder and CEO of an award-winning artificial intelligence company, SparkCognition, and is the founding CEO of SkyGrid, a Boeing and SparkCognition joint venture that is building an aerial operating system to power the next century of aviation. Amir’s work has been featured in world-leading outlets such as Forbes, Fox Business News, and Fortune. He is the author of the best-selling book “The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence”.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:15 am – 10:40 am PDT
- 25 mins Hall CSpeakersLaela Sturdy has invested in some of the world's most consequential companies, including Stripe, Duolingo (DUOL), Gusto, UiPath (PATH), Unqork, Curated, Webflow, Whatnot, and Chief. She brings hands-on operational hypergrowth experience and deep, cross-sector knowledge to CapitalG. Laela serves on numerous public and private company boards and is known for the high level of engagement, wide-ranging expertise, and unwavering commitment that she brings to every investment. Laela joined CapitalG shortly after its inception in 2013 from Google, where as managing director of emerging businesses she launched and scaled a number of domestic and international high-growth businesses and held leadership roles on the YouTube and Google Search teams. Before joining Google in 2007, Laela was a consultant at Bain & Company, advising companies across media, retail, CPG and private equity. She holds an AB in Biochemistry from Harvard College, an MSc in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. An avid basketball player and former captain of her college women’s team, Laela enjoys spending time listening to live music with her wife and kids in San Francisco.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.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:40 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall CSpeakersNadir ShaikhPartner
Qatalyst PartnersNadir joined Qatalyst in May 2011 and leads the firm’s coverage of the communications technology, storage and systems sectors. He has over 21 years experience in investment banking and prior to joining Qatalyst, Nadir spent more than 7 years at Credit Suisse, where he served as Head of the Global Communications group. Prior to that, Nadir worked in a similar capacity at Banc of America Securities and its predecessor firm, Montgomery Securities. Before that, he was a member of the Global Project Finance team at Bank of America, specializing in the telecommunications sector.
Nadir has advised on several landmark transactions in the technology sector, including Motorola Mobility’s $12.5B sale to Google, Sun’s $7B sale to Oracle, Avaya’s $8B sale to SilverLake and TPG, and Scientific-Atlanta’s $7B sale to Cisco. Recent transaction experience at Qatalyst includes Appdynamics’s $3.7B sale to Cisco, Jasper’s $1.4B sale to Cisco, SolidFire’s $870MM sale to NetApp, OpenDNS’ $650MM sale to Cisco, Aruba’s $3B sale to HP, Riverbed’s $3.6B sale to Thoma Bravo, Fusion IO’s $1B sale to SanDisk, Mandiant’s $1B sale to FireEye and SourceFire’s $2.7B sale to Cisco amongst others. Nadir has also had the privilege of advising on capital-raising and M&A transactions for leading technology companies including 3PAR, Acme Packet, ADC Telecommunications, Alcatel-Lucent, Appdynamics, Ciena, Cisco, Corning, Dell, Finisar, Fusion-io, JDS Uniphase, Hewlett-Packard, Nicira, Nokia, Nortel, Quantum, Sandforce, Silver Tail Systems and Tellabs.
Nadir currently serves on the Board of Trustees of University High School in San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Economics and History from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.Natasha AllenPartner
Foley & Lardner LLPNatasha Allen is a partner based in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices of Foley & Lardner LLP, where she serves as Co-Chair for Artificial Intelligence within our Innovative Technology sector, Co-Chair of the Venture Capital Committee, and is a member of the Venture Capital, M&A and Transactions Practices. Natasha is a strategic advisor, supporting her clients in complex decision making. Prior to joining Foley, Natasha was a founding partner at a corporate and transactional law firm, where she counselled startups and emerging companies on debt and equity financing, venture capital financing, commercial matters, and general corporate matters including formations, corporate governance, structuring, and share issuances across a variety of industries including Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, robotics, and life sciences. Natasha’s transactional experience includes mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including domestic and cross-border buy-side and sell-side transactions in Augmented/Virtual Reality, software, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and healthcare industries. Natasha draws on a depth of experience developed in a combination of law firms, business consulting firms, and startups in both Canada and the U.S. She was previously managing counsel at a technology enabled law firm where in addition to her management role, she acted as external general counsel for clients. Before her time there, Natasha practiced at various laws firms including at a U.S.-based multinational law firm. Natasha advised public and private companies in corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings, company and investor side venture capital financings, formations, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters.
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- 05/05/2022 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall CSpeakersGirish MathruboothamCEO and Founder
FreshworksGirish Mathrubootham is the CEO and founder of Freshworks. In 10 years, with backing from leading investors including Accel, Sequoia, Tiger Global Management, and CapitalG, Girish has taken Freshworks from an idea to a leading software company empowering businesses to delight their customers and employees. Under his leadership, Freshworks has expanded its operations to 13 global locations to serve over 50,000 customers throughout the world. He is also a prominent venture capital investor and adviser to over 60 companies, and founding member of SaaSBOOMi, Asia’s largest community of founders and product builders.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.
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Track Chairs
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.
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
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Cloud & SaaS
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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Healthcare
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Media & Entertainment
Convergence of Art and Technology
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Security & Fraud
Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
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Social Impact
Dare to Change the World for Good
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Supply Chain
Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
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Sustainability
Sustainability
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TiE Youth
Fostering youth entrepreneurs
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Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Bringing together the trends and the practical applications of Web3