Speakers

Peter Attia, MD, is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of lengthening their lifespan and simultaneously improving their healthspan.

He is the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health and medicine.

He is also the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.

Daniel S. Loeb is CEO of Third Point LLC, a New York-based asset management firm founded in 1995. Third Point invests in equity and credit securities in U.S. and international markets.   

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Daniel is a trustee of the Mount Sinai Health System, where he established the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s disease in memory of his late father. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of Success Academy Charter Schools, where he also served as board Chairman from 2014-2019. 

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He graduated from Columbia University with an A.B. in economics in 1983, endowed the Daniel S. Loeb Scholarship for undergraduate study there, and received the school’s John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement. In October 2020, he was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award for his philanthropic service by the Manhattan Institute. In 2022, he was honored with UJA Federation of New York’s Gustave L. Levy Award.

Angela is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Portfolio Manager at Bayberry Capital, an investment firm based in New York, NY.  Bayberry is a long / short equity firm that invests globally through a fundamental primary-research driven process.  The firm employs the same research process on both the long and short sides of the portfolio, and considers its focus on the short side to be a critical component of its strategy.

Prior to founding Bayberry, Angela spent almost six years as a Managing Director and Partner at Blue Ridge Capital.  Previously, she worked at Goldman Sachs in their investment banking division, and was a pre-launch member of the investment team at BDT Capital.  Angela holds a BS in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Tom Anglin is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, responsible for the firm’s Australian Prime Brokerage business which provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor their portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. He is also part of the firm’s Prime Brokerage sales team. Tom moved to Hong Kong from New York in 2019 where he was on the Tactical Derivative Sales desk, focused on derivative sales to hedge funds and coordinating sales to quantitative/systematic clients. He joined Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director in 2015.

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Previously, Tom was a Managing Director and Head of Prime Services Origination and Co-Head of Prime Services sales at UBS in New York. Prior to that, he led the hedge fund sales team in Sydney for UBS and was previously an equities and commodities trader at New York hedge fund Ospraie Management. He moved from Australia to the US in 2000 with Macquarie Bank.

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Tom earned a Bachelor's of Commerce from Monash University in Melbourne in 1996 and was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2001.

Rikki Bannan is an Executive Director at IFM Investors, a global fund manager with over $215bn of funds under management. As a Portfolio Manager in IFM Investors’ Small Caps fund, Rikki is responsible for investment decisions across the consumer discretionary,  health care and technology sectors, as well as being actively involved in fund raising and investor engagement for the Small Cap product.

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Rikki also sits on the Advisory Committee of HEAL Partners, a growth Private Equity fund focused on investments within the Health, Education and Lifestyle sectors.

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Prior to joining IFM Investors in 2015, Rikki spent six years as a Senior Equities Analyst at Macquarie Bank. Over this time she held roles in the Equity Strategy team and as an Industrials Analyst.

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Rikki is a Chartered Accountant and commenced her career in KPMG’s Audit & Assurance division. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance & Accounting) from The University of Sydney.

Jeremy founded Terra Capital In 2010 launching the long only Terra Capital Global Natural Resources Fund. The fund has delivered strong performance resulting in Terra Capital becoming one of Australia’s longest running open ended global resources fund. 

Jeremy formally worked at RAB Capital’s Special Situations Fund, a US $2.5B long/short strategy focused on mining and energy the fund and was rated the “Best Energy and Natural Resource Fund” by Hedge Fund Review and ranked No.1 in Barron’s Hedge Fund 50 Global rankings in 2007, during Jeremy’s tenure. Prior to RAB Jeremy worked at Western Australian corporate advisory firm Azure Capital.

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Ravi is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Azora Capital, a financial services sector hedge fund launched in 2017. Ravi and his team are passionate about financials and have dedicated their careers to researching the space. Together they employ a deep fundamental strategy that allocates capital to the most actionable names across financial subsectors (banks, fintech, payments, brokers, asset managers, real estate, etc.) to generate alpha through distinct market cycles.

Prior to forming Azora, Ravi was a Partner and Head of U.S. Financials at Samlyn Capital from 2007 to 2016. Ravi was a Financial Services Analyst at Sigma Capital from 2003 to 2006 and began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in Goldman Sachs' Financial Institutions Group.

Ravi earned an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College. Currently, he serves as Co-President of the Board of Trustees of Morristown-Beard School, his alma mater.

Martin Hughes founded Toscafund Asset Management LLP in 2000. Prior to founding Toscafund, he was Chairman of Tiger Management Corporation Europe (1997-2000) and Global Head of Financials. Prior to joining Tiger, Martin worked at Credit Lyonnais Laing (1987-1997) where he specialised in researching banks, achieving a number 1 analyst ranking in 1992, becoming Head of UK Research in 1995 and Deputy Chief Executive in 1996. Previously, he worked at Barclays Investment Management and Panmure Gordon as a banks sector research analyst. Martin graduated with an honours degree in Economics from Birmingham University in 1983.

Misty Jenkins is a NHMRC fellow and laboratory head in the Immunology Division at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research. Misty leads the immunotherapy program within the Brain Cancer Centre and is dedicated to discovering novel immunotherapy targets for high grade gliomas in adults and children. Her research focusses on the development of novel chimeric antigen receptor T cells for brain cancer. Her group also uses cutting edge two-photon microscopy combined with mouse models of brain cancer to investigate the tumour microenvironment and uncover unique biology of brain tumours.

Misty has a PhD in Immunology from The University of Melbourne, followed by postdoctoral positions at The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.  

Prof Jenkins was awarded the L’Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship (2013), was Tall Poppy of the year (2015), was awarded the Top100 Women of Influence award (2016) and was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2020.

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In addition to her research career, Prof Jenkins is experienced in governance and strategy as a company Director, co-chairs a Federal Health Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) and is a passionate advocate for gender equity and Indigenous Health and education. She was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2023 for distinguished service to medical science in Immunology, the support of women in STEM, and to the Indigenous community.

Sharif el Khazen is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Metronome Capital LLP, a London-based equity investment manager established in 2012. Metronome employs a fundamental, concentrated and long-term investment approach focusing primarily on European stocks.

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Prior to founding Metronome, Sharif was a Partner at Parvus Asset Management (UK) LLP from 2006 to 2011. Previously, Sharif was a leveraged finance analyst at Lehman Brothers' investment banking division in London from 2004 to 2006.

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Sharif has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Economics/Mathematics from the University of Southern California. Sharif has been a CFA Charterholder since 2008.

Responsible for leading our investment team, Chris has served as a Director and Portfolio Manager of Ellerston since 2005 and has over 38 years investment experience.

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Prior to joining Ellerston, Chris co-founded the Melbourne based Investment Management firm Portfolio Partners in 1994, where he held various positions including Director and Senior Investment Manager and was formerly the Head of Equities until January 2003. It was from that point that he gave up his role to conceive and focus on managing the highly successful Elite Opportunities Concentrated Australian Shares Fund.

Prior to Portfolio Partners, Chris worked as a Senior Portfolio Manager, Deputy Head of Equities and Head of Resources Strategy at County Natwest Australia Investment Management where he was responsible for the management of County’s largest specialist equity mandates.

Chris has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne and is a Senior Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

Chris was inducted into the Australian Fund Managers Foundation Hall of Fame in 2018 in recognition of his contribution to the industry.

Atul Lele is a Senior Portfolio Strategist and Head of the Portfolio Strategist Group at Bridgewater Associates. A senior member of the research group, Atul works closely with our Co-CIOs, and partners with Bridgewater’s clients on their most important investment priorities, including understanding their goals, developing investment strategies, and providing insight into the research group’s thinking on global markets and economic conditions.

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Atul is a 20+ year investment industry veteran. His prior roles include serving as the CIO of Deltec International Group, the Head of Strategy, Economics and Quantitative Research for Credit Suisse Australia, and as a Portfolio Manager and Partner at White Funds Management. Atul is on the Investment Advisory Group of the Australian Consul General in New York and has regularly appeared in the financial media. He is a CFA charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and Finance from the University of New South Wales.

Jun Bei Liu is the Portfolio Manager of Tribeca’s Alpha Plus Fund. Since taking over sole responsibility for managing the Fund, she has quadrupled AUM. She is a passionate, motivated, and dedicated investment manager having built an 18-year career at Tribeca, starting as an equity analyst in 2005 and spending several years as a Portfolio Manager, before taking over the Alpha Plus Fund in 2019.

Jun Bei completed a commerce degree at the University of NSW, followed by a number of additional finance credentials including GAICD and CFA. She is a prolific contributor to Australia’s financial services sector, writing a regular column for the AFR and making frequent appearances for key media outlets and as a speaker at industry events. Jun Bei enjoys sharing her knowledge and love for markets with investors and promotes the growth of like-minded females within the financial services community by providing mentor opportunities and serving on the advisory committee for Australian Student Asset Management. Jun Bei is a TEDX speaker, has been appointed as a Core Fund Manager for Hearts and Minds Investments Ltd (HM1) and volunteers for the Raise Foundation Board.

She is fluent in Mandarin and English, only learning English as a 16-year-old, when she emigrated to Australia from China.

Professor Daniel MacArthur is the Director of the Centre for Population Genomics (CPG), a joint initiative of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. The CPG was established to solve the critical scientific, regulatory, and technical problems currently limiting the development of genomic medicine in Australia, and to execute large-scale projects that will establish Australia’s leadership in this field.

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Daniel previously served as Co-Director of the Medical and Population Genetics Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and headed up a team jointly based at the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He co-directed the Broad Institute's Centre for Mendelian Genomics, which has sequenced and analysed genomic data from over 10,000 individuals from rare disease families and contributed to the discovery of more than 100 new rare disease genes. He also led the development of the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD), the largest and most widely-used data set of human exome and genome sequence data, which has collated data from over 140,000 sequenced individuals.

After 10 years working in finance in the US and London, Steven relocated to Sydney in 2002 where he launched and sold several successful businesses. 

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After realising that there was a genuine gap in the Australian market for fresh, clean Mexican food, Steven founded the first Guzman y Gomez restaurant in Newtown, Sydney. His vision was to build a restaurant business that had the speed and convenience of fast food but to re-invent the fast food category by never compromising on the quality, only using the freshest and best ingredients. Today GYG is one of the world’s fastest growing QSR businesses with plans to open 40 restaurants per year and operates 202+ restaurants in Australia, Singapore, Japan and the US. 

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In October 2023, Steven appointed Hilton Brett as Co-Ceo of GYG. Steven remains the Founder and co-CEO of the business globally and is firmly focussed on maintaining GYG’s unique energy and culture. He is a committed philanthropist raising millions of dollars and actively supporting Mision Mexico, a charity in Mexico dedicated to ending poverty for the youth of Mexico.

Kieran Moore joined Munro Partners at its inception in July 2016.

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Kieran is responsible for championing stock ideas and managing these positions within the portfolio. Kieran has specialised in global growth equities for the last 10 years. Over his career, Kieran has undertaken additional functions within the investment team, including risk management, portfolio analytics and trading.

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Key career highlights include, 10 years working in funds management, Senior Investment Analyst at Munro Partners (2017-18) and Investment Analyst at K2 Asset Management (2014-16).

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Kieran is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, with majors in Finance and Economics, and also a Juris Doctor Law Degree from the University of Melbourne.

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Tom Naughton is the CIO and Managing Partner of Prusik Investment Management LLP. He joined Prusik in 2010 to launch the Prusik Asian Equity Income Fund (PAEIF) which, since launch, has outperformed the index by 4x, resulting in him winning multiple awards. PAEIF follows a research based, value biased approach to identify stocks that can sustain and grow their dividends over time, which means the upside potential is significant relative to downside risk.    

Before joining Prusik, Tom was the CIO for Equities at PMA Investment Advisors in Hong Kong – a multi-strategy hedge fund. Tom received a BSc in Mathematics with Economics from University College London and has completed several ultramarathons across the globe.

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Tom and his wife, Amanda, set up a Global Health Fund with the UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) and they also fund a Mathematics Scholarship to enable students in financial need to pursue their postgraduate studies.

Sheila Patel is Co-Chair of Antler’s Advisory Board and Vice Chair of B Capital’s Advisory Board. Sheila brings thirty years of experience in financial markets, most recently serving as Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.  Sheila served on Goldman Sachs’ Firmwide Management Committee, Partnership Committee, Inclusion & Diversity Committee and led ESG and Sustainability initiatives.  She held leadership roles in 2 divisions and on 3 continents.

She is in Milken’s Executive Circle, an Angel sponsor of 100 Women in Finance, and on multiple Princeton University Leadership councils and is a former board member of Pacific Pension & Investment Institute.   

She holds degrees with the highest honors from Princeton and Columbia and was named Investment Woman of the Year by Investment Week in 2020, a Financial News’ 100 Women in Finance in 2019, and a Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Asia in 2015.  She has spoken at some of the most prestigious gatherings, including the Davos World Economic Forum, IFSWF, and the Milken Global Conference, and her views have appeared in influential media outlets, such as CNBC, Bloomberg, the NY Times, WSJ, FT and AFR.

Before starting Verdad, Dan worked at Bain Capital Private Equity and Bridgewater Associates. He is a member of the investment committee of the Trustees of Donations of the Episcopal Church, is the New York Times bestselling author of American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, and in 2017, was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Dan is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and his investment research has been featured in multiple volumes of The Best Investment Writing. Dan earned an AB from Harvard College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr Samild joined the Future Fund in 2013 and was appointed to Chief Investment Officer in August 2023. In his former role (June 2022 – July 2023) as Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Strategy, Ben led work on portfolio construction and dynamic asset allocation, the integration of overall portfolio insights with sector specific opportunities, and the development of views on emerging markets. Prior to this, Ben was the Future Fund’s Head of Alternatives with responsibility for the investment of over $30 billion of capital across a range of hedge fund and other skill based absolute return strategies.

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Before joining the Future Fund he had a ten-year career in the hedge fund industry, and four years as Head of Investment Strategy at Industry Super Fund LUCRF Super. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne majoring in behavioural finance, psychology and history. He also worked as a research fellow while completing a Masters in Applied Finance.

Ricky Sandler founded Eminence Capital in 1999. Today, Eminence is a ~$7.0B global investment management organization. As the CIO of Eminence, Ricky is responsible for managing a team of over 20 investment professionals and a diversified portfolio across most sectors of the market. Prior to launching Eminence, Ricky was co-founder and co-general partner of Fusion Capital Management, LLC. Prior to that he was a research analyst covering a wide range of industries and companies for Mark Asset Management, where he began his investing career in 1991. Ricky received a BBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Wisconsin, graduating with honors. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Foundation and as a member of its Development Committee, Investment Committee and Traditional Asset Subcommittee. Ricky Sandler is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Michelle Simmons is CEO and Founder of Silicon Quantum Computing and Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology in Sydney.

She is internationally recognised as the creator of the new field of atomic electronics. For over a quarter century, she has pioneered new technologies to manufacture computing devices in silicon atom by atom. Her work led to the invention of the first single atom transistor in 2012, and to the world’s first integrated circuit in silicon manufactured at the atomic-scale, which is now being commercialised as the basis for a new generation of quantum computers. Michelle’s discoveries are powering the transition from the digital to the quantum age, placing Australia at the forefront of the global race to develop a quantum computer. 

Michelle has received over 30 globally recognised awards over her career to date and is a passionate advocate and mentor for young scientists in Australia.

Ashish co-founded Aikya along with a few colleagues in March 2020. Previously he worked for Stewart Investors in London.

Ashish joined the predecessor business of Stewart Investors in 2014. During his time at Stewart Investors Ashish was Lead Manager on Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific strategies, including Stewart Investors Emerging Markets Leaders Fund. 

He was with Fidelity between 2004 and 2014. In 2008, he launched an Emerging Markets Equity Strategy with high-quality companies, which became Fidelity Institutional Asset Management (FIAM) EM All Cap in 2010. He managed this strategy until his departure in 2014.

Ashish has a degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, a Post Graduate Diploma from Indian Institute of Management, and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France.​

Holly Ransom is an award-winning keynote speaker, master interviewer, author, and leadership expert. Holly is the CEO of Emergent; Author of The Leading Edge; Co-Founder, Chief Curator and Catalyst at Energy Disruptors; Non-executive Director at Port Adelaide Football Club; Board member of Pride Cup,and Hudson.

As an accomplished company director, Holly has compressed a power-packed career into a decade, spanning corporate, non-profit, and public sectors.

Holly Ransom has led discussions with influential figures such as Barack Obama, Malcolm Gladwell, Billie Jean-King, and Julia Gillard. Holly was named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review and awarded the US Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019.

Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. As Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) and Portfolio Manager, Cathie led the development of ARK’s philosophy and investment approach and has ultimate responsibility for investment decisions.

Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as CIO of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed over $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo Capital Management, a hedge fund she co-founded, which in 2000, managed approximately $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates LLC as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Director. She started her career in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Southern California in 1981.

Cathie has been recognized as an influential fund manager across various outlets. In 2018, editors at Bloomberg acknowledged Cathie by selecting her to its second annual Bloomberg 50 list of people across business, entertainment, finance, politics, technology, and science who have defined global business. Additionally, Fortune named Cathie to its exclusive roundtable of experts in the annual Fortune Investors Guide: The Best Investing Advice for 2019 From Fortune’s Experts. In 2016, Cathie received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media. Cathie also has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum (China) in 2016 & 2017, the World Strategic Forum (Miami) in 2017, The Sohn Hearts and Minds Investment Leaders Conference (Australia) in 2018 and 2019, and Singularity University’s Exponential Finance in 2017 and Global Summit in 2019.

In 2018, Cathie launched the Duddy Innovation Institute at her alma mater, Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles. The institute offers a challenging educational experience for young women eager to stretch their learning beyond the boundaries of traditional acquisition of knowledge, while influencing a new way of thinking and learning throughout campus.