Auren Hoffman is CEO of SafeGraph. SafeGraph is a geospatial data company focused on understanding physical places. He is also GP of Flex Capital. He is the former CEO and cofounder of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) -- the largest middleware provider in marketing technology. He is the founder of the Dialog Retreat and investor in over 160 active technology companies. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. Twitter: @auren

Barney joined Neudata's research team in 2021, where he is responsible for uncovering new datasets across a range of sectors including ESG, digital and consumer-oriented landscapes. Previously, Barney spent three years at an executive search firm executing mandates across ESG, distribution, investment roles.He holds an MA in History from the University of St Andrews.

Ben Zweig is the CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company that unifies and enriches the most comprehensive set of public employment data to create a universal HR database. Revelio Labs’ mission is to increase the sophistication of labor markets by providing clean and rich Human Capital data to empower businesses and investors.

He also teaches courses on Data Science and The Future of Work at NYU Stern. Prior to starting Revelio Labs, Ben managed Workforce Analytics projects in the IBM Chief Analytics Office and worked as a Data Scientist at an Emerging Markets hedge fund. He holds a PhD in Economics from the CUNY Graduate Center and has done research in Occupational Transformation and Social Mobility.

Bill Kirk is CEO and Founder of Weather Trends International and "the REAL Captain Kirk" USAF Gulf War Veteran.  Weather Trends offers the #1 most accurate and proprietary YEAR-AHEAD weather forecasting with predictive seasonal category sales analytics for Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Bill has a B.S. degree in meteorology/physics from Rutgers University, held a top-secret SCI security clearance in the Air Force and received awards for his support in the Gulf War/Desert Storm.  While in the USAF, Captain Kirk was Chief Forecaster for NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, Super Bowl XXV, Operation Just Cause (Panama); and the British Royal Knighting of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.

Bill has been featured on national TV networks including Fox Business, Fox Weather, CNBC and ABC 20/20. He is an inventor/co-inventor of three U.S. patents and has published research in hundreds of Wall Street equity reports.

Brandon Marsh is CEO at Playfair, founding the company after working as an Economist in the CPI Division for the Government of Canada. Following his tenure in the public sector, he began trading full-time using modern social information, starting Playfair to make sense of the disarray he was confronted with in finance's online landscape. Funded by Rough Draft Ventures, a fund of funds of General Catalyst, he and his core team of Cornell Master's Engineers rank and score 10s of Millions of social points, creating a comprehensive accuracy assessment of 600k+ social accounts bought by Multinational Banks and some of the world's largest hedge funds. Outside of data sales, Brandon manages a $300k portfolio for a large Canadian bank conglomerate, combining his knowledge of the market with his proprietary social strategies, continuing to improve upon his passion for live trading in the markets as well. Brandon intends to continue building institutional grade social finance data to one day create a financial search engine that can query what anyone in the world thinks about the market in the current moment, and point in time through the history of the markets.

Brian Herlihy heads the quantitative research team at the 22V Research, focusing on converting macro views into factor, stock, and industry trades. Before starting 22V, Brian was a managing director of portfolio strategy, quantitative research, and equity derivatives at Evercore ISI.

Brian began his career as a sell-side quantitative analyst at ISI Group before joining the buy-side as a macro and quantitative specialist at Level Global Investors. In 2013, Brian re-joined ISI to help Dennis DeBusschere launch a new strategy and quantitative research team.

Brian graduated from NYU with a degree in economics and lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife, Em, and their dogs, Lincoln and Navi.

Brian joined Salesforce Ventures in 2022. He supports the broader Ventures team by enabling data-driven investing and portfolio development. Brian enjoys the science and art of representing a complex world in numbers.

Before joining Salesforce Ventures, he worked at Two Sigma Investments and Harvard Business School. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from Harvard University. He is based in New York City.

Brian Peltonen is the founder of stealth mode start up, parcosm.ai. Most recently, he initiated and led the AI and alt data research efforts for $1 trillion in assets for the Equity Division at the Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR Co.). His team was responsible for identifying alternative data sets and using AI to derive investment insights for Fidelity's equity division. Brian started his career in the video game industry as an AI programmer before leaving to build data science solutions for large corporations and the government at a boutique AI consulting firm.

Brittany is a Regulatory Analyst at Neudata. Prior to Neudata, she worked on technology policy issues for the United States Congress and New America’s Open Technology Institute. She also spent five years working in television, primarily at Viacom Media Networks and Fuse TV.Brittany holds a JD from the Fordham University School of Law, where she concentrated in Intellectual Property and Information Law. She earned her BA in Classics and Anthropologyfrom Colby College.

Bryan Christian is an industry veteran with over 25 years of financial services experience, bringing acute sales acumen to Symphony’s commercial organization. His expertise lies in Equity & Exchange Market Structure, and most recently in with blockchain technology.

As head of business development, Byran focuses on the company’s priority growth initiatives, including new markets, segments and client engagement.

Previously, Bryan worked at LMAX Group, as director US Institutional Sales, having also worked in senior commercial roles at Nasdaq, Cboe Global Markets, and Old Mission. Bryan is on the board of directors for the SIFMA Foundation.

Charlie Whitlock brings over 25 years of financial markets experience to his role as Head of America's Distribution at XTX Markets. Joining the firm in April 2023, Charlie has a distinguished career in the industry, previously serving as Managing Director and Head of Americas AES Sales at Credit Suisse.

His extensive background also includes senior roles at ITG and J.P. Morgan, where he led America’s Electronic Sales.  Charlie's expertise spans buy-side services, data analysis, sales management, and low latency trading. His leadership and insight continue to drive innovation and excellence in electronic trading and distribution at XTX Markets.

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Christina Qi is the CEO of Databento, a market data provider with over 4000 users. Databento provides a simpler, faster way to customize and access market data, allowing users to get data almost instantly. In 2012, Christina founded Domeyard LP, a hedge fund focused on high frequency trading (HFT) that traded up to $7.1 billion USD per day. Christina is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, a standing committee of the MIT Corporation (the board of trustees), charged with raising critical financial resources to uphold the Institute's academic rigor, promote student life, and advance global initiatives.

From 2018 to 2023, she co-chaired the Development Committee and eventually became Co-Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls, bringing financial literacy education to underserved populations across the US. Christina also sits on the Board of Directors of The Financial Executives Alliance (FEA) Hedge Fund Group, drove entrepreneurship efforts at the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association (MIT SBAA), and served on the U.S. Non-Profit Boards Committee of 100 Women in Finance.

Although "X Under X" lists are a gimmick, she’ll admit that Forbes 30 Under 30 made a positive impact on her life by giving her a community - friends who dragged her out of bed during the lowest days of her life. Christina holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from MIT and is a CAIA Charterholder.