Julia Fitzgerald is Group Product Director at Earnest Analytics where she leads the Healthcare Datasets team. Julia is responsible for product development and strategy for Earnest’s medical and pharmacy claims datasets, which track trends across biopharma, medtech, and healthcare services. Before her Product Manager role, she used transaction data to forecast revenue estimates for retail companies as a financial services analyst.

Prior to Earnest, Julia was a research assistant at Harvard where she conducted studies and analyzed experimental data on various topics within judgment and decision-making. Julia holds a Social Psychology degree from Princeton.

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Karthik Kumar is the cofounder and CEO at Amplify Data, a software platform to help data vendors accelerate data sales through data personalization, flexible data delivery, and rich consumption analytics. Across its clients, Amplify today serves 150+ data products to thousands of consumers every month.

Before founding Amplify, he was the VP of Operations at Aera Technology, where he helped build and scale the decision intelligence business globally. Karthik got his first taste of the startup world as a VC investor at NEA, where he invested in early-stage data companies. Karthik holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Keava is a Senior Analyst at Neudata. Prior to Neudata Keava previously spent a year in Private Equity Advisory and Consulting, executing mandates across the private capital sector.  Keava holds an MA in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, with a focus on Political Violence.

Kyle is a repeat entrepreneur and veteran of product management, development, and design. His latest venture, Vizion, supports digital transformation in supply chain and logistics by providing web services and data streams that power door-to-door freight visibility solutions.

Prior to founding Vizion, Kyle participated in nine early-stage technology startups and held senior product management roles at companies such as Fullstory, ClearMetal, Nokia, and NAVTEQ. Kyle received his Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science from Berry College in beautiful Rome, Georgia.

Michael joined Advent in 2021 and works across industry groups on deal diligence, portfolio initiatives and sourcing. He’s worked on deals in payments, devops, enterprise software among others.

Prior to Advent, he spent 5 years in banking, private equity and consulting. He received a BA in Economics/German from Harvard and MS in Data Science / MBA from University of Virginia. He’s currently lives in Boston.

Manish is a Managing Director in Deloitte’s Strategy & Analytics (S&A) practice, and currently leads the practice for Investment Mgt & Wealth Mgt sectors.

He has been exclusively focused on Financial Services and has spent the 26 years working with Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, PE Firms, Fund Administrators as well as Corporate Investment Banking clients on run the bank as well as change the bank initiatives.

A majority of his work has centered around helping these clients with their growth, cost/efficiency, business agility and risk management objectives, through interventions in technology, operations and data management space.

Specific to Private Markets, he has worked extensively with a number of PE/PC firms as well as Sovereign funds across the lifecycle – from sourcing through PortCO value creation.

Margaret most recently led Data Acquisition at Cohere, the leading language AI platform for enterprise. With 10+ years of experience leading strategic data programs at Paravision AI, StreetLight Data, Al Jazeera Media Network and Craigslist, and two IAPP certifications (CIPP/E and CIPT), she’s passionate about effectively moving data through organizations to build today's leading AI/ML products.

Matthew leads EMEA Corporates Supply Chain and Data Strategy at Bloomberg in London. Matthew specializes in advising and working with clients on data strategy matters, focusing on supply chain management, sustainability and on incorporating external data into company operations.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, he spent over 18 years as a quantitative portfolio manager at firms including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup in New York and London. More recently he headed data strategy for equities trading at Morgan Stanley in London. Matthew holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School.

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Michael leads the corporate client group at Neudata.  He and his team work tirelessly to help corporate clients effectively identify and source external data from thousands of data vendors.

Michael has over twenty years of senior leadership experience at companies where he drove digital transformation and data-driven culture. Most recently Michael ran sales and marketing at alternative data provider Sequentum, Inc. Michael received his MBA from the Columbia Business School in New York.

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As the CEO of Wirestock, Mikayel Khachatryan has revolutionized content licensing and distribution, aiding countless artists in monetizing their work through major marketplaces and generating millions in royalties. Under his leadership, Wirestock has embraced generative AI, effectively managing AI-generated content and forming strategic licensing partnerships with top tech companies to ensure ethical AI training.

Nico Hoff is the Head of Revenue for Oxford DataPlan, an Alternative Data company using unique and exclusive data sources to deliver KPI trackers for 180+ companies.

Nico has vast experience in SaaS and has led various commercial leadership positions.  He also holds an MBA and is interested in data-based decision-making.

Pouya Taaghol is a passionate engineer and the founder of Big Data Federation. Pouya was the CTO of Cisco’s Smart Home and Intel’s of Mobile Wireless Group where he led technology evolution, intellectual property strategies, ecosystem development, business acquisition, and divesture. Pouya has also held senior technical positions at Motorola and NEC.

Pouya holds over 71 granted and pending patents in wireless/networking/security/big data, and 150+ publications and contributions to standards bodies. Pouya holds a BSc from Sharif University of Technologies (Iran) and a PhD from University of Surrey (UK).