John Collison

John Collison is co-founder and president of Stripe, a technology company that builds financial infrastructure for the internet. John and his brother, Patrick, started Stripe in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler. Today, millions of businesses from startups to global enterprises use Stripe to accept payments and manage complex businesses online. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John splits his time between San Francisco and Dublin.

Teresa Heitsenrether

Teresa Heitsenrether is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer and a member of JPMorganChase’s Operating Committee. Leading the Data & Analytics organization, she is responsible for setting data and analytics strategy and governance standards, as well as driving firmwide adoption of artificial intelligence to develop new products, enhance productivity, and improve risk management.

Heitsenrether has spent her entire career with JPMorganChase. From 2015 to 2023, she was Global Head of Securities Services, overseeing a business responsible for safekeeping, accounting, administration, and data solutions for institutional investment managers. Under her leadership, the business achieved remarkable growth, increasing revenue by over 22% and assets under custody by nearly $9 trillion. It also launched Fusion, a scalable data platform for institutional investors.

Prior to that, Heitsenrether held various leadership roles within JPMorganChase, including Global Head of Prime Brokerage, where she spearheaded international expansion and growth. She has been recognized as one of American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Finance and named to Barron’s list of the 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance. 

Heitsenrether holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Fordham University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University. She serves on the Advisory Board of Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business and is actively involved in JPMorganChase’s Women on the Move initiative and the NextGen Business Resource Group.

Max Levchin

Max Levchin is the Founder & CEO of Affirm, a financial services technology company. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Glow, a data-driven fertility company, and co-founder and general partner at SciFi VC, a private venture capital firm. All three companies were created and launched from his San Francisco based innovation lab, HVF (Hard, Valuable, Fun). Max was one of the original co-founders of PayPal where he served as the CTO until its acquisition by eBay in 2002.

In 2004, he founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service, which he sold to Google in August 2010. Also in 2004, he helped start Yelp, where he was the company’s first investor and Chairman of the Board until 2015. He has served on several boards such as Yahoo!, Yelp, and Evernote. Max is a serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, philanthropist, and active investor in more than 100 startups. 

Prem Natarajan

Prem Natarajan, PhD,  EVP, Chief Scientist and Head of Enterprise AI, Capital One

Prem is Executive Vice President, Chief Scientist and Head of Enterprise AI at Capital One. He leads the technology strategy, architecture, research, and development for all AI initiatives as well as all data technologies at Capital One.

Prior to joining Capital One, Prem was VP of Amazon’s Alexa AI organization and was EVP of Speech, Language, and Multimedia at Raytheon BBN Technologies. 

Prem has also served as the Senior Vice Dean of Engineering in the USC Viterbi School and Executive Director of the Information Science Institute. He sits on the boards of the Partnership on AI and the University of Virginia School of Data Science, as well as the Columbia University Engineering Board of Visitors. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is the author and co-author of more than 200 published papers in AI research.

Leigh Phillips

Leigh Phillips is the President and CEO of SaverLife, a national nonprofit using technology and data to improve the financial health of low- to moderate-income households. Over 700,000 low- to moderate-income Americans have joined SaverLife, setting aside almost $1 billion in savings. She previously led the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment, where she launched Bank On San Francisco and Kindergarten to College. Leigh co-founded the Cities for Financial Empowerment Coalition, serves on the CFE Fund board, and has held community advisory roles with the FDIC and CFPB. Originally from the UK, she holds degrees from the University of Manchester and lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Senator Mike Rounds

On January 6th, 2015, Senator Marion Michael “Mike” Rounds was sworn into the United States Senate. Senator Rounds serves on five committees: Senate Appropriations; Senate Armed Services; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Indian Affairs; and the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Rounds previously served as the 31st governor of South Dakota from 2003 – 2011. From 1991 to 2000, he was elected five times to the South Dakota State Senate. In 1995, his colleagues selected him to serve asSenate Majority Leader, a position that he held for six years. During his time in state government, Rounds was committed to growing the economy, keeping taxes low and strengthening South Dakota families.

A lifelong South Dakotan, Senator Rounds was born in Huron, the eldest of 11 children. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from South Dakota State University. In the private sector, Rounds built a successful insurance and real estate business with offices throughout the state. He resides in Fort Pierre and is the proud parent of four grown children and 11 grandchildren.