CIO, Parkland Management Company
Co-Founder, Transpose Platform
Alex is the Co-Founder of Transpose Platform, an anchor fund for the most disruptive venture funds of this decade. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Trusted Insight, a machine learning–driven platform that hosts the world’s largest network of institutional investors. Prior to TI Platform, Alex managed capital for clients at premier endowments, foundations, family offices, insurance firms, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds since 2003.He has helped invest over $2 billion in 50 funds with a track record of investing over $1 billion in 50+ funds for institutional investors with an IRR of 30%+ and 2x NAV. He advised the first checks in Accel, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, Emergence, Y Combinator, Khosla, SaaStr, Initialized, Crystal Towers, and Baseline. Earlier in his career, Alex was an engineer and executive at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, and GE. Alex holds an MBA from the Wharton School (where he is a frequent guest lecturer); an M.Eng in Operation Research from Cornell; and a BS in Computer Science, English and Economics from Cornell.
Co-founder & CEO, Entrepreneur First
Former CIO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Brian O'Neil joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as Chief Investment Officer in January 2003, and retired in March 2023. In that role, he was responsible for management of the Foundation’s $13 billion investment portfolio, and the 15 person investment team.
O’Neil worked at the Equitable Life Assurance Society from 1980 to 2002. He was named Chief Investment Officer in 1992, at the time the company demutualized and went public. In this role he was responsible for Equitable’s general account investment portfolio, as well as relationships with ratings agencies and investors. In 1995, he moved to AXA’s headquarters in Paris, where he was global head of Asset/Liability Management and, in 1997, was named Chief Investment Officer of AXA Investment Managers Paris. On his return to Equitable, he became head of the Variable Life and Annuity Funds Management business.
O'Neil is a trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library System.
He received an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and an AB from Princeton University. He received the CFA designation in 1983.
O’Neil lives in Brooklyn, is married, and has four children.
CEO & CIO, VCIMCO
Managing Director - Private Investments, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Joshua B. Stern joined the investment unit of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in January 2012 as a senior investment officer. Prior to arriving at the Foundation, Josh was the director of Private Investments in the Office of Investments at Rockefeller University.He was a director in the Higher Education and Not-for-Profit Group at Standard & Poor’s, which was part of the Public Finance Department. Over the course of his career he also worked as an investment banker, focusing on higher education institutions.Stern received an MPA in public finance from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, an MS in non-profit management from New York University and a BA in history and sociology from Binghamton University.
Founder, Mei AGI Transpose Fund I
Mei is the founder of Mei AGI Ventures, and advisor to Eleuther.AI.Mei advises Eleuther.AI the world's largest decentralized AI research community that trains models like GPT-NeoX and Pythia, and curates datasets like The Pile. She's a VC investing into AI foundation model startups such as: Essential.ai, Synthlabs.ai, Recursal.ai, MultiOn, Extropic, etc. She's passionate about transformers as well as new architectures like RWKV.
General Partner, Grayscale Ventures
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Blume Venture Advisors
Former CIO, University of Minnesota; Senior Advisor
Stuart Mason served as the associate vice president and chief investment officer at the University of Minnesota for 21 years, retiring in April, 2024.The University has $4.5 billion in assets under management including an endowment totaling $2.3 billion. Mason was also the portfolio manager for the endowment’s venture capital allocation. Previously, Mason spent 15 years as a senior investment banker or executive officer in several investment banks including Dougherty & Company, EVERERN Securities and Dain Rauscher Corporation. He also served for 10 years as a vice president of Wells Fargo Corporation. Mason holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in chemistry and biology from St. Olaf College.
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