Agenda – Wednesday, Nov. 5
12:00 pm – Registration and lunch – Palm Beach Lake Pavilion
1:00 pm – Forum Starts
1:00 pm: Digital Asset Treasury
- Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, Winston & Strawn
- Andrew Keys, Co-Founder and Chairman, The Ether Machine (NASDAQ: ETHM)
- Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and Co-Founder, Ajna Labs LLC
1:30 pm: Private Equity Meets Founder and Family-Owned Businesses
- Taylor Ingraham, Partner, ASC Advisors
- Mario Masrieh, Managing Director, Recognition, Trivest
- John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)
1:55 pm: Private Equity in Florida Sports
- Michael Alford, Vice President and Director of Athletics, Florida State University
- Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball
- Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures (Moderator)
2:25 pm: From Series A to IPO: Deep Diligence Across the Deal Cycle – Fireside with Paul Quinlan
- Paul Quinlan, Founder and CEO, Quinlan Partners
- Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
2:40 pm: Tech-Enabled Private Equity
- Adam Doyle, EVP, Head of Technology Finance, Alliance Funding Group
- Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity
- Alex Moazed, General Partner, Applico Capital
- Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield (Moderator)
3:05 pm: Governance: The Evolution from Private to Public Markets
- Gabriel Hasson, Global Head of Governance and Shareholder Advisory, ICR
- Alex Knowland, Principal, Comvest Credit Partners
- Emma Sissman, Vice President, Impact Investing, Goldman Sachs
- Marc Yaklofsky, Managing Partner, New York, Forward Global (Moderator)
3:30 pm: Break
3:35 pm: VC Investing in Latin America
- Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
- Pablo Casilimas, Managing Partner, OneSixOne Ventures
- Jonathan Lo, VP of Finance, EisnerAmper
3:55 pm: AI: From Hospitality to Real Estate
- Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)
- Ariel Mark, Head of Western US Investments, Tokyu Land US Corp.
- Mary Allen Saunders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Toast, Inc. (NYSE: TOST)
- Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital; Co-Founder and Former CEO, EVPassport
4:20 pm: Maximizing the Value of Directors on VC-Backed Boards
- Sher Baig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Salus
- Ryan Keating, Partner – Outsource Accounting Services Practice, EisnerAmper (Moderator)
- Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital
- Patrick Whelan, Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins
4:45 pm: Media Industry Dealmaking: Paramount Global, Warner Bros. and Beyond
- Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners
- Josh Harlan, Founder & Managing Partner, Harlan Capital
- Josh Kosman, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum (Moderator)
- Bob Verrico, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, InvestingChannel, Inc.
Depart for reception at The Cove Club (sponsored by ASC Advisors)
