Scott K. H. Bessent is the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, responsible for promoting a strong, stable, and prosperous economy while safeguarding the nation’s financial system and national security.

Over more than 40 years in global investment management, Mr. Bessent has engaged with leaders and central bankers across more than 60 countries and is regarded as a leading buy-side analyst and a specialist in currencies and fixed-income markets. Since 1985, he has correctly anticipated major financial dislocations, including the U.S. savings and loan crisis, banking crises in Scandinavia and Japan, and the global financial crisis. 

Mr. Bessent previously served as CEO and CIO of Key Square Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund he founded in 2015. He was earlier CIO of Soros Fund Management and Managing Partner of its London office from 1991 to 2000, where bets against the British pound and Japanese yen built his reputation as a leading macro strategist.

Mr. Bessent earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale, where he later taught economic history. He comes from a multigenerational South Carolina family in agriculture, publishing, and hospitality, and belongs to the French Huguenot Church in Charleston.

Mr. Bessent is active in philanthropy, supporting financial literacy and education. His family has endowed three Yale scholarships and the H. G. Bessent Library, and belongs to the Economic Club of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a Trustee of Rockefeller University, supports the Harlem Children’s Zone, and helped establish the McLeod Rehabilitation Center at Shriners Children’s Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. 

Michael Cembalest is the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy for J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, a global leader in investment management and private banking with 4.3 trillion of client assets under management worldwide as of July 2025. He is responsible for leading the strategic market and investment insights across the firm’s Institutional, Funds, and Private Banking businesses.

Mr. Cembalest is a member of the J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management Investment Committee and previously served on the Investment Committee for the J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan for the firm’s 256,000+ employees.

Mr. Cembalest was most recently Chief Investment Officer for the firm’s Global Private Bank for eight years. He was previously head of a fixed income division of Investment Management, with responsibility for high grade, high yield, emerging markets, and municipal bonds. Before joining Asset Management, Mr. Cembalest served as Head Strategist for Emerging Markets Fixed Income at J.P. Morgan Securities. Mr. Cembalest joined J.P. Morgan in 1987 as a member of the firm’s Corporate Finance division.

Mr. Cembalest earned an M.A. from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs in 1986 and a B.A. from Tufts University in 1984.

Jim Chanos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Chanos & Company (f.k.a. Kynikos Associates). As the world’s oldest exclusive short selling investment firm, Chanos & Company provides investment advisory services for domestic and offshore clients. Mr. Chanos launched Kynikos Associates in 1985 to implement investment strategies he had uncovered at the start of his Wall Street career as a financial analyst with Paine Webber, Gilford Securities, and Deutsche Bank.

Throughout his investment career, Mr. Chanos has identified numerous well-known corporate financial disasters and sold short their shares; among them, Baldwin-United, Commodore International, First Executive, Integrated Resources, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco, Tyco International, WorldCom, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Wirecard. His celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron’s as “the market call of the decade, if not the past fifty years.” The media has noted his prescience in alerting finance ministers and others about the global financial crisis well before it occurred. His views on financial market fraud, capital markets regulation and the Chinese financial system, among other topics, are regularly covered by news organizations worldwide. Mr. Chanos has testified before Congress and provided comments to regulations proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr. Chanos lives in Bucks County, PA, and has four adult children. He is currently a lecturer in finance at both the Yale School of Management and the University of Wisconsin School of Business, where he teaches a popular class on the history of financial fraud. Mr. Chanos received his B.A. in economics and political science in 1980 from Yale University.

Steven A. Cohen is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Point72, a global multi-strategy asset management firm.

Mr. Cohen founded S.A.C. Capital Advisors in 1992 and converted his investment operations to the Point72 Asset Management family office in 2014. The firm later transitioned to become a registered investment advisor and began accepting outside capital in 2018. 

Mr. Cohen has leveraged his lengthy career in the public markets to found Point72 Private Investments, which includes our global venture capital and growth equity strategies. 

Mr. Cohen bought the iconic New York Mets major league baseball team in 2020 and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the team.

An avid philanthropist and entrepreneur, Mr. Cohen has founded and holds active leadership roles in a number of nonprofit organizations. 

Mr. Cohen and his wife, Alexandra, founded the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation in 2001. The Cohen Foundation is committed to achieving lasting and meaningful change through commitments toward Lyme and tickborne disease research, underserved communities, children, the arts, and sustainability. Mr. Cohen created Cohen Veterans Network in 2015 to improve the mental healthcare, treatment, and quality of life for veterans and their families.

Mr. Cohen also serves on the Emeritus Board of the Robin Hood Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Board of Trustees.

Mr. Cohen received a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his investing career at Gruntal & Co., where he managed proprietary capital for 14 years before starting his own investment business. 

Stanley Druckenmiller is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Duquesne Family Office LLC.

Mr. Druckenmiller founded and ran Duquesne Capital Management from 1981–2010. From 1988 to 2000, Mr. Druckenmiller was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Management, where he served as Lead Portfolio Manager of the Quantum Fund and Chief Investment Officer of Soros, and was responsible for funds with a peak asset value of $22 billion. Early in his career, he worked at Pittsburgh National Bank and The Dreyfus Corporation.

Mr. Druckenmiller is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Harlem Children's Zone, Chairman of Blue Meridian Partners, a Board member for Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Environmental Defense Fund, a member of the Investment Committee of Bowdoin College, and is Co-founder and Board member of Kasparov Chess Foundation.

Mr. Druckenmiller graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bowdoin College with degrees in Economics and English, and thereafter earned graduate degree credits in Economics from the University of Michigan.

David Einhorn is President of Greenlight Capital, which he co-founded in January 1996. Greenlight Capital is a value-oriented investment advisor whose goal is to achieve high absolute rates of return while minimizing the risk of capital loss. The firm believes that an investment approach that emphasizes intrinsic value will achieve consistent absolute investment returns and safeguard capital regardless of market conditions.

Prior to founding Greenlight Capital, David worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and at Siegler, Collery & Co., a buyout and investment management firm.

David is Chairman of the Board of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GLRE) and Chairman of the Board of Green Brick Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:GRBK). He is the author of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story, published in May 2008.

David is Founder and Trustee of Einhorn Collaborative, a foundation dedicated to advancing the science and practice of social connection and social cohesion to address America’s growing crisis of distrust and divisions. David is an Emeritus Member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University and currently serves on the Cornell Tech Council. He is also serving on the boards of City Year, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, and the Robin Hood Foundation.

David graduated summa cum laude with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, where he earned a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Scott Goodwin is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Diameter Capital Partners, a $28 billion global credit alternative asset manager. The firm invests across the credit spectrum through a multi-strategy platform spanning public and private markets, including a hedge fund, CLOs, direct lending, asset-based finance, and real estate credit. Mr. Goodwin oversees investment activities and risk across the platform, driving portfolio construction and capital allocation.

Previously, Mr. Goodwin was a Portfolio Manager and Global Head of Trading at Anchorage Capital Group, where he led the firm’s short credit strategy and served on the Investment Committee. He began his career at Citigroup, where he was Head of High Yield Bond and Credit Default Swap Trading.

Mr. Goodwin holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and serves on the Leadership Advisory Board of U.S. Soccer and the Board of the United Way. 

John A. Griffin is the Founder and President of investment partnership Blue Ridge Capital, which opened in 1996 and was converted to a family office in 2018. Prior to Blue Ridge, Mr. Griffin served in various positions at Tiger Management for nine years, becoming President in 1993. Previously, he was a financial analyst in the Morgan Stanley Merchant Banking group.

Mr. Griffin is the Founder and board chair of iMentor.org, a nonprofit mentoring organization, started in 1999. He also founded the Blue Ridge Foundation, an incubator of start-up nonprofits, which became Blue Ridge Labs at Robin Hood, on whose board he has served since 2011. Mr. Griffin is also the President of the Board of Trustees at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce Foundation.

He has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Mr. Griffin is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia, where he taught a semester-long investment seminar each year from 1999-2019. 

Paul Tudor Jones II is founder, Co-Chairman, CIO, and the controlling principal of Tudor Investment Corporation, engaged in trading across global fixed income, equity, currency and commodity markets for an international client base. His current philanthropic service includes among many others, Robin Hood, JUST Capital Foundation, The Everglades Foundation, African Community & Conservation Foundation, and the Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center. Jones holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. He and his wife, Sonia, have four adult children.

Philippe Laffont is the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Coatue. Philippe leads the firm’s public and private investing businesses. Prior to founding Coatue in 1999, Philippe was a research analyst at Tiger Management, where he focused on the telecommunications sector. He started his career as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company and spent several years as an independent consultant. Philippe graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. and M.Sc. in Computer Science.

Tarek Mansour is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kalshi, the worldʼs next-generation financial exchange. Founded in 2018, Kalshi created and established prediction markets as “event contracts,” a new financial asset class which allows traders to take positions on whether a future event will happen. Users can trade on real events to predict outcomes that have real-time market impact, such as elections, economic indicators, cultural moments, and more. Kalshi has driven a fundamental shift in consumer behavior, in which people have gone from passive watchers to active participants in whatʼs happening around them in the world.

Mansour previously worked as a quantitative trader at Goldman Sachs and Citadel. He received a bachelor degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a Masters in Engineering from MIT. Mansour is from Lebanon.  

Dina Powell McCormick is President and Vice Chairman at Meta, part of the leadership team driving the company’s overall strategy and operations. She co-leads Meta Compute, the team responsible for the capital formation and investment to build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta’s infrastructure. She has more than 25 years of experience at the highest levels of global finance, national security, and economic development.

Powell McCormick spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs as a partner in senior leadership roles, including serving on the firm’s Management Committee and leading its Global Sovereign Investment Banking business. During her tenure, she spearheaded some of the firm’s most influential and successful economic development initiatives, including 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses, and One Million Black Women — programs that have driven long-term economic growth and opportunity around the world.

In public service, Powell McCormick has served under two U.S. Presidents. She was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump and a Senior White House Advisor and Assistant Secretary of State for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice under President George W. Bush.

Most recently, Powell McCormick was Vice Chair, President, and Head of Global Client Services at BDT & MSD Partners. She has been on the Board of Directors at ExxonMobil since 2024, and serves on the Board of Directors at the Robin Hood Foundation.

Eric Menell is a Managing Director, the Global Head of Media and Communications Investment Banking, and the Global-Co Head of Sports Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in June 2008, Eric spent 11 years at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. where he began his career as an investment banking analyst in 1997 and primarily focused on large-cap media mergers and acquisitions. In 2017, he was profiled by Variety in its inaugural “New York Dealmakers Elite” list and named to the list again in 2018. Eric graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in political science.

Pete Muller is the founder and CEO of PDT Partners, a global investment manager devoted to quantitative research and trading, established in 1992.

Outside of his work in finance and mathematics, Pete is an accomplished musician and crossword constructor. He has released seven albums of original music, publishes crosswords in major publications, and hosts a monthly music-themed crossword contest at pmxwords.com. His philanthropic interests include music, education, and the environment.

He received a B.A. in Mathematics with honors from Princeton University. 

Adam Silver was appointed NBA Commissioner on Feb. 1, 2014.

Silver presides over a global sports and media organization built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League, and Basketball Africa League. Under his leadership, the leagues are dedicated to growing basketball worldwide, promoting health and fitness, and using the sport to bring people together.

Since joining the NBA in 1992, Silver has served as Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer of NBA Entertainment, Chief of Staff, and Special Assistant to the Commissioner before his own appointment as Commissioner in 2014.

Silver has been instrumental to many of the league’s signature achievements, including the development of the WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League, and Basketball Africa League; the creation of the NBA’s digital assets; and the establishment of NBA China and NBA Africa.

Silver was recognized by the Sports Business Journal as its “Executive of the Decade” and has been ranked No. 1 on its annual list of the “50 Most Influential People in the Sports Business.” He was also named to TIME’s “100 Most Influential People,” Fortune’s “50 Greatest Leaders,” and The Bloomberg 50. Silver also earned Sports Executive of the Year from Sports Illustrated and the 2026 Edison Achievement Award.

Silver is Chair of the Duke University Board of Trustees. He has received Distinguished Alumni Awards from Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School, as well as the University of Chicago’s Professional Achievement Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Paley Center for Media, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and is Vice Chairman of the Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation.

Before joining the NBA, Silver was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in New York. He is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School.

Kenneth G. Tropin is the Chairman and the founder of Graham Capital Management, L.P. (“Graham”), an alternative investment manager with approximately $20B AUM as of September 1, 2025. Mr. Tropin founded Graham in 1994 and over the last 30 years has grown the firm into an industry leading alternative investment manager focusing on global macro discretionary and quantitative hedge fund strategies. Mr. Tropin is currently the Chairman of the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees and a member of the firm’s Risk Committee. Additionally, Mr. Tropin is responsible for managing the strategic investment of the firm’s proprietary capital. Prior to founding Graham, Mr. Tropin had significant experience in the alternative investment industry, including five years (1989 to 1993) as President and Chief Executive Officer of John W. Henry & Company, Inc. and seven years (1982 to 1989) as Senior Vice President and Director of Managed Futures at Dean Witter Reynolds. Mr. Tropin has also served as Chairman of the Managed Funds Association and its predecessor organization, which he was instrumental in founding during the 1980s.

David Tykocinski serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer of Public Funds at Maverick Capital and is a member of the Portfolio Management Committee and the Maverick Growth Investment Committee. From 2014 to 2020, Mr. Tykocinski led the Media and Telecom sector before that portfolio was merged with the Consumer team. Prior to joining Maverick in 2011, Mr. Tykocinski was an analyst at Blackstone. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.