Mave Houston

Mave Houston

Mave Houston is the Head of UX Research, Inclusive Design and Research & Design Operations at Disney.Her team includes researchers, designers, and operations specialists for Disney+, Hulu and Star+. Mavebelieves that people find something magical in themselves when consuming stories that reflect relevance totheir lives. Her team facilitates a human centered & inclusive thinking mindset at Disney to inspire and delight customers with content streaming experiences that matter to…

Pratik Karia

Pratik Karia

Pratik Karia joined Bloomberg as an intern 16 years ago, and now oversees development on one of the company’s most vital products. His team, which has tripled in size over the last six years, builds and manages the company’s buy-side trading platform, a premium product used by hundreds of buy-side…

Kimberly Smith

Kimberly Smith

Kimberly Smith is Chief Capital Formation Officer at Techstars, in this capacity she is responsible for the firm’s fundraising and investor relations activities as well as new business development. Previously, Kimberly was a Partner/Director of Marketing and Investor Relations at Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P. Where…

Nahiba Syed

Nahiba Syed

Nabiha Syed is the CEO of The Markup, a media nonprofit that challenges technology to serve the public good. Forbes has called Nabiha “one of the best emerging free…

Pavan Arora

Pavan Arora

Mr. Arora is the Chief Technology Officer of Cerberus Technology Solutions (“CTS”), a subsidiary of Cerberus focused exclusively on leveraging emerging technology, data, and advanced analytics to drive…

Trier Bryant

Trier Bryant

Trier Bryant is the President of 82VS, Alloy Therapeutics’ affiliated venture studio that builds and invests in next-generation biotech companies. She is also the Co-Founder and CEO of the…