Speaker alumni

Todd L. Boehly is Chairman and CEO of Eldridge, a diversified holding company with more than 8,000 employees. Eldridge wholly owns Eldridge Wealth Solutions, which comprises retirement companies Security Benefit and Everly; and Eldridge Capital Management, a multi-strategy alternative asset manager.

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Eldridge founded A24, CBAM, One Beverly Hills, Stonebriar, Zinnia, and 830 Brickell, and has invested in leading businesses including Aman, CAIS, Delano, Flexjet, Metropolis, and Payactiv.

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Mr. Boehly is an owner of the LA Dodgers, LA Lakers, LA Sparks, and the Trent Rockets, and was previously Chairman of Chelsea Football Club.

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Prior to founding Eldridge, Mr. Boehly was President of Guggenheim Partners, where he founded the credit business. He supports epilepsy research, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Brunswick School, Landon School, William & Mary, Texas Christian University, The University of Texas at Austin, and The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. Mr. Boehly received his B.B.A. from William & Mary.

Mr. Wong Kok Hoi is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of APS Asset Management Pte Ltd (APS). Established in 1995, APS currently manages USD2.9 billion* in assets. APS’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, foundations, endowments, financial institutions and family offices. Mr. Wong has over 35 years of investing experience in Asia Pacific equity markets.

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Mr. Wong was a Senior Investment Officer, Asia Pacific Equities Department, at GIC from 1981 to 1985. He was CIO of Cititrust and Banking Corporation, Japan from 1986-1990. He was consultant to the Monetary Authority of Singapore from 2000 to 2001. He helped the National University of Singapore set up Singapore’s first endowment fund and served on its first Endowment Investment Committee. A Japan Mombusho scholar, he obtained his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Hitotsubashi University and attended Harvard University’s Investment Appraisal and Management Program. He is a CFA charter holder.

Mr Alex Waislitz is Executive Chairman and Founder of Thorney Investment Group, a Melbourne Australia based diversified investor in public securities, private companies and property. Thorney specialises in emerging companies across a broad array of industries including Manufacturing, Technology, Mining Services and Resources. Alex has extensive business and capital markets experience and has been a member of several public company Board of Directors. Alex is also Chairman of Thorney Opportunities Limited, and Thorney Technologies Limited, both Australian  sharemarket (ASX) listed investment companies, and Vice President of Collingwood Football Club.

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In 2014 Alex established the Waislitz Foundation with the aim of donating $50 million to charity.  He is a graduate of Monash University in Law and Commerce and a Graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM Program.

Leah Joy Zell (PhD, CFA) is a nationally recognized expert in international investing, and a pioneer in the international small-cap category. From 1992 to 2005, she was a co-founding partner and portfolio manager at Wanger Asset Management, a global small-mid cap equity specialist.

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Ms. Zell is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Global Advisory Council of Harvard University, and the Wilson Centre Global Advisory Council in Washington, D.C. Ms. Zell also serves as a Director of the Horton Trust Company LLC, and a member of the Investment Committee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Previously, she was on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the Board of Trustees of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics, CFA Charterholder.

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Matthew has more than 20 years’ experience in investment analysis and funds management. Matthew manages the Greencape Broadcap Fund with around $2 billion in funds under management.

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Before entering the financial services industry, Matthew worked as a commodity buyer in the World Wide Purchasing Division of General Motors. In 1997 Matthew took on the role of Head of Research at Taylor Collison Stockbroking, based in Adelaide. Matthew was a highly rated sell-side analyst in both the small caps sector as well as the healthcare sector. He then moved to Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (since acquired by Blackrock). Initially in the role of Fund Manager, he then took on the responsibility of Director and Senior Portfolio Manager in 2003, responsible for managing his own fund with a similar mandate to the Greencape Broadcap Fund that is managed today.

Mor Assia, iAngels Founding Partner and Co-CEO, is an Israeli High Tech insider with over 15 years experience assisting global corporations define new corporate strategies, M&A activities and technological pivots, working on the corporate level of blue-chip companies such as SAP, IBM and Amdocs. Mor has in just 5 years, grown the VC firm from a startup to a mature global company with over US$150M assets under management in divisions and funds that specialize in top-tier tech industry sectors, including Frontier Tech, FinTech, Enterprise Software and Environmental Technologies. Mor holds an MBA from Columbia University (New York), a Mathematics and Computer Science Degree from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology (Haifa), and is is a graduate of the IDF’s 8200 Intelligence Unit.

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Mor puts this same insight, discipline and influence through iAngels, knowing where to look for new technologies, vetting them for market potential and structuring deal terms and a management team that is poised to deliver the best possible returns.

Annabel Spring became Group Executive of the Wealth Management Division of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in October 2011.

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She is responsible for Colonial First State, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Wealth Management Advice and CommInsure, and is a member of the Group Executive Committee.

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Annabel joined CBA in 2009 as Group Head of Strategy where she was responsible for strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and government relations.

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Before joining CBA, Annabel was Managing Director and Global Head of Firm Strategy and Execution at Morgan Stanley in New York. Annabel has worked in the USA, Asia and Australia.

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Annabel is Deputy Co-Chair of the Financial Services Council (FSC), and Director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. She is also a member of Chief Executive Women.

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Annabel holds degrees with honours in Laws and Economics from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar.

Renee Lim is a medical doctor, performer, and educator. In addition to her work as the Director of Program Development at the Pam McLean Centre (one of the leading centres in Australia aimed at improving communication education in the Health sector), as a Senior Lecturer in Professional Development at Sydney University, and as a locum doctor in Emergency and Palliative Care Departments across NSW, Renee is also a well established performer, working on shows likes Pulse, Ask The Doctors, Food Investigators, Secret City, East West 101 and Please Like Me, and as a writer/director with KFilms.  She is the CEO of Changineers, a social enterprise focused on providing educational innovation for organisations that are creating positive social change, and consults in Health, Education and Engagement across the NFP space, most recently with the Paul Ramsay Foundation and MSF.

Jeremy founded Terra Capital in 2010, launching the long-only Terra Capital Global Natural Resources Fund. The fund has returned over 18% pa. over 16 years, resulting in Terra Capital becoming Australia’s longest running open ended global resources fund.

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Jeremy formally worked at RAB Capital’s Special Situations Fund, a US $2.5B long/short strategy focused on mining and energy. The fund 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.

Danny Yong is the CIO and Founder of Dymon Asia Capital. Established in 2008, the alternative investment management firm has assets under management of US$5.7 billion across hedge funds, private equity and venture capital strategies as of June 2017. The Firm is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Malaysia. In May 2014, Temasek invested USD 500 million in one of Dymon Asia’s funds, and also took a minority stake in the company. Dymon Asia Capital has 142 employees, comprising of 72 investment professionals. Danny has traded FX, fixed income and futures for over 20 years. He was an MD at Citadel Investment Asia where he ran the Asia Macro trading business from 2005 to 2007. Prior to Citadel, he was Goldman Sachs’ Head of Trading for South East Asian FX and Derivatives from 2000 to 2005. Danny started his trading career at JP Morgan in 1997.

Dr Kaylene Young was a Sir John Monash Science Scholar who obtained her BSc (hons) from Monash University in 1999.  With the start of the new millennium she commenced PhD research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, where she developed a method to allow researchers to visualize and purify brain stem cells, so that they could be studied. She also identified a key signal capable of directing brain stem cells to make new nerve cells.  Kaylene then helped with the successful establishment of the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland, before accepting a postdoctoral research position at University College London (UK).  At UCL, Kaylene identified a novel immature cell population in the brain, capable of producing new cells and repairing brain insulation to offset the damage caused by Multiple Sclerosis.  She is now leading a research team at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, to develop a new therapy that can direct brain repair in people with MS.  The importance of her research contributions are highlighted by her receipt of the Inaugural Metcalf Prize for Stem Cell Research, awarded to emerging leaders of stem cell research in Australia, and the Inaugural Macquarie Group Foundation, MS Research Australia Paired Fellowship, which supports research likely to make a significant impact on the lives of people with MS.

Dr Nikki Stamp is a cardiothoracic surgeon based in Sydney, Australia. Nikki is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and has completed training in cardiothoracic surgery with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Nikki wants to share with people an approach to health and wellbeing that is backed up by science and good quality evidence. She has a particular interest in all things related to heart health and in particular, women’s heart health.

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Nikki is also a strong advocate for women in surgery and other professional positions. She enjoys mentoring and encouraging young women into roles that are traditionally occupied by men. Nikki enjoys education and thoroughly enjoys teaching young doctors and other hospital staff. She also is committed to advocating to doctor’s well being and prevention and management of mental health issues amongst doctors.

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Outside of work, Nikki is a Perth girl through and through, evidenced by a love of the beach and sunshine. Nikki is a (slow) runner and swimmer to help keep fit and healthy. Nikki also is an accomplished singer and can often be found belting out tunes from the music Chicago or Fleetwood Mac and hopes to one day make all four chairs turn around on The Voice.

Ross joined Northcape in 2009 and co-manages Northcape's AU$8 billion Global Emerging Markets fund, which has outperformed the MSCI EM index by an average 4.4% per annum since inception 18 years ago. 

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Before joining Northcape, Ross worked at Capital Partners (now CP2) covering a broad range of sectors including financials, industrials and infrastructure. Ross worked in Tokyo for seven years and is fluent in Japanese.

Ravi is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Azora Capital – an investment firm launched in 2017, focused on the Financial Services sector, employing a fundamental modest-net strategy. Ravi and his team are passionate about financials and have dedicated their careers to researching the space.

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Prior to forming Azora, Ravi served as Sector Head of U.S. Financial Services investing at Samlyn Capital, where he was a day-one partner following a lift-out from Sigma Capital. Earlier in his career, Ravi was a Financial Services Analyst at Sigma and an Investment Banking Analyst in Goldman Sachs' Financial Institutions Group.

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Ravi graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Ed spent 15 years as a professional cricketer around the world, including a stint in Tasmania and 18 Test matches for Australia. His passion for investing and high-performing cultures led him to the next stage of his career at TDM Growth Partners, one of Australia's best-performing fund managers. 

At TDM — a Hearts and Minds Core Manager — Ed supports portfolio companies and their executives, as well as leading the sourcing of private company investment opportunities. He's also the host of TDM's podcast, Scaling Up, now in its tenth season, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cricket NSW.

Andrew joined Milford Asset Management’s Global Equities division in 2023.  He is the Portfolio Manager of Milford’s wholesale Global Technology Fund which focusses on the Information Technology and Communications Services sectors.  As part of this role, he leads Milford’s research on the AI ecosystem.

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Prior to joining Milford, Andrew spent three years as a Portfolio Manager at NZ Funds and five years at event-driven hedge fund Melqart Asset Management in London.  Andrew began his career advising on Mergers and Acquisitions at Goldman Sachs in both Auckland and London.

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Andrew has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland with First Class Honours, majoring in Finance and Economics.

Sam D'Amore is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Cymer Capital, a concentrated international long-only equity fund investing in mid- to large-cap companies outside the U.S. that solve complex problems.

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Before founding Cymer in 2025, Sam was a Portfolio Manager at Trillium Asset Management, co-managing two diversified sustainable core portfolios. Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Jennison Associates as a Managing Director, covering global equities across multiple strategies. She began her career as a sell-side analyst at Credit Suisse and was later an investment analyst at Sound Energy Capital Management, a long-short energy hedge fund.

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Sam holds a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University. She serves on the investment committees of Manomet Conservation Sciences and the Unitarian Universalist Common Endowment Fund, and on the board of the Progress for Informatics & Energy Foundation.
Originally from Wales, Sam lives outside Boston with her family.

Michael Every is a Global Strategist at Rabobank Singapore analysing developments and thematic trends on the intersection of geopolitics and geoeconomics/markets. He has been in the industry for over 25 years, with a track record of market-leading calls for clients from the C-suite and commodity traders to central banks. Michael is frequently published in financial media, a much-requested conference keynote speaker, and was invited to present to the 2022 and 2025 G20s. He has lived and worked in nine countries, and speaks Thai, among a smattering of other languages.

Robbie Ferguson is Co-Founder and President of Immutable, the AI-powered growth platform trusted by Ubisoft, Netmarble and 700+ game studios and publishers to launch games, acquire players and scale.

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A Thiel Fellow and technology entrepreneur, Robbie co-founded Immutable and has helped build it into one of gaming’s most ambitious technology companies. Under his leadership, Immutable has evolved from pioneering Web3 gaming infrastructure to building AI-native analytics, attribution and player-growth technology that helps studios reduce launch risk and grow games from first click through live operations.

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Immutable has raised $500M+ from leading global investors including Temasek, Tencent, BITKRAFT and Coinbase.

Ticky Fullerton is Chief Executive of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, which she has led since March 2023.

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She is a skilled and motivated thought leader and a trusted advisor to government, working closely with both Australian and UK government networks.

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Ticky is an award-winning journalist with a long-standing reputation as a credible voice in business.  In 20 years in the media, she was Business Editor at Large at The Australian newspaper, Business Editor of Sky News in Australia and at the ABC, she presented Business Weekend, Landline, and was an investigative reporter with Four Corners.

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Prior to journalism, Ticky spent 10 years with investment bank CS First Boston in Britain and Australia working in capital markets and corporate finance.

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Ticky has a law degree from Oxford, where she was also Treasurer of the Oxford Union.

Justin Hooley is Head of APAC Direct Lending and a member of the Asia Pacific Private Finance Investment Committee. He is responsible for leading a team that originates, underwrites and manages private credit investments in the developed Asia Pacific region.

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Justin has worked in the industry since 1997. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, he worked for Deutsche Bank Sydney for twelve years, most recently as their Head of Credit Opportunities, leading origination, structuring, analysis and provision of strategic capital to junior to mid-cap companies across a range of sectors.

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Before that, Justin worked in the leveraged and acquisition teams at Merrill Lynch, BOS International and CIBC. He has worked in both the Australian and European markets and started his career with Arthur Anderson in 1997.

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Justin holds a BSc Honours in Management Science from the University of Warwick, England and is also a Chartered Accountant.

Richard Howes joined Hearts and Minds Investments as a Managing Director in June 2025. He has over 30 years' financial services experience, managing multi-billion-dollar investment and hedge portfolios.

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He spent 19 years at ASX-listed Challenger (over AU$100 billion in assets), including as Group CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive of the annuity business, which grew from AU$3 billion to over AU$25 billion.

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He began his career at Queensland Investment Corporation in 1992, then held trading and derivatives roles at Zurich Capital Markets, Macquarie and Bankers Trust.

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He co-founded and chairs the Financial Markets Academy (FINMA) and sits on the UTS Council, chairing its Finance Committee. He is a director of Edge Zero (grid monitoring hardware) and an advisory board member of Transatlantic Power Holdings (US wind and solar assets).

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Richard holds a BCom (First Class Honours) and BEc from the University of Queensland, and completed Harvard's Advanced Management Program.

Robert Mullin is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Marathon Resource Advisors and has been investing in the energy and natural resource sector since 1994. Over the last three-plus decades, he has been a portfolio manager at the Franklin/Templeton Group, The Cypress Funds and Tocqueville Asset Management, as well as running his own firms focused on the sector.

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Mr. Mullin received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991. He was born and raised in Northern California, lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children and enjoys cooking, keeping up with his relentlessly athletic kids, and attending the French Open whenever possible.

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In 2022, Mr. Mulin established the Marathon Statera Project, which allocates a portion of fund management and performance fees to causes focused on global conservation and food security, as well as supporting Bay Area female immigrant food businesses and local youth development.

John D. Pinkel is a Partner of Indus Capital, based in San Francisco, and the Portfolio Manager of the Indus Select Strategy since its inception in 2009. Mr. Pinkel joined Indus Capital in March 2003 and soon after spearheaded many of the firm’s largest long-term investments in China and Taiwan. He joined Indus from Citigroup, where he was Managing Director and Head of Equities for Taiwan. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a securities analyst in Hong Kong, China and South Korea.

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In total, he has lived and worked in Asia for over 35 years. Mr. Pinkel, a CFA charterholder, graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a BS in Applied Mathematics. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

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.

Isabella Rich is a Partner at OIF Ventures, an Australian venture capital firm investing in technology companies from Seed through to Series B, with investments including Instaclustr, Advanced Navigation and XM Cyber. Over seven years at OIF, Isabella has worked across investment and portfolio management, with a focus on SaaS, enterprise software, fintech and hardware, and sits on the board of several of the firm's portfolio companies.

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Isabella has extensive technology investing, venture capital and consulting experience. Prior to joining OIF, Isabella was a consultant at BCG, primarily helping large corporates incubate digitally native businesses. She also co-founded a social enterprise and an angel syndicate.

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Isabella is also a board director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, bringing a close connection to the medical research.

John Robson is the CEO of cell therapy manufacturing company, BioOra Limited. JR has more than 30 years of investment experience, including 12 years with Merrill Lynch Investment Management in Europe, where he was an investment manager for a number of publicly traded investment funds, and as the Head of Emerging Technologies for a large banking group in Australasia. 

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He is actively involved in a number of biotechnology start-ups in New Zealand that were seed-funded and founded by Bridgewest Ventures New Zealand, where he holds an executive position. JR is a member of the Executive Council of BioTechNZ and was awarded Life Membership of the Child Cancer Foundation by Dame Patsy Reddy in 2017 for his longstanding support to children with cancer. He has been an active member of a number of other NGOs, including CanTeen and the One Percent Collective Trust, over the last 20 years.

Vihari Ross is a portfolio manager at Antipodes Partners, working across global equities strategies for the AU$21 billion firm. She has more than 20 years’ experience in global markets.

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Before joining Antipodes, she spent over 15 years at Magellan Financial Group, where she was Head of Research and led a 30-person global research team. During her time there, she designed and managed the Magellan Core Global strategy. Earlier at Magellan, she covered financials and consumer sectors and served as Sector Head of Franchises (Consumer).

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Vihari began her career at Commonwealth Investment Management in strategy and research, later joining Ausbil Dexia from 2003 to 2007 as an analyst covering financials and consumer sectors, with additional responsibility for quantitative analysis.

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She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies and Finance) and a Master of Commerce (Finance) from UNSW and is an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries.