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Elaine Asher is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Eve Wealth, a new digital asset investing platform open to all, but geared towards women, featuring the extensive education and robust community that women want in order to feel more confident investing in this new asset class. After eight years in the crypto industry at firms such as Bitwise Asset Management, Anchorage Digital and CMT Digital, Elaine was frustrated by the lack of women investing in the space and determined to not let the wealth creation potential of crypto pass women by. Eve Wealth is the realization of her dream to financially empower more women through investing in digital assets. Prior to falling down the crypto rabbit hole, Elaine was a Vice President in J.P. Morgan’s Private Wealth Management division. She also served as the West Coast Director for Plum Alley, a women’s angel investing collective. She previously had a decade-long career in the non-profit realm, raising funds for institutions such as SFMOMA and the California Academy of Sciences. Elaine holds a B.A. from Duke University, where she is actively involved in the annual student-led Web3 Summits.

Isabelle Corbett Sterling is a commodity and derivatives lawyer with a focus on blockchain technology and digital assets. She advises clients on regulation of digital assets, commodities, and derivatives, and represents them in enforcement investigations brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), exchanges, and other Self-Regulatory Organizations. Isabelle routinely advises on the implementation of new technologies and the development of innovative products, such as virtual currencies and blockchain-based assets. Prior to joining BakerHostetler, Isabelle worked in-house as a lawyer and global head of government relations at a blockchain company. Before that, she was at large law firms and a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., specializing in CFTC related issues including the creation and implementation of the new regulatory regime for swaps.

Jason Miles, CAIA has over 25 years of experience executing capital structure strategies for global private and public companies. He specializes in venture capital, private equity, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Currently, Mr. Miles advises and invests in early-stage and growth companies as the founder of Amenti Capital Group. Before founding Amenti, Jason led global financial technology venture capital investments and innovation focused strategic partnerships at Volvo Group. Prior to that, he was Head of Strategy at Progress Investment Management Company, where he created private equity and hedge fund products. He was also Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Bank of America, where he led corporate development transactions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Miles was Senior Associate and founding member of Viant Capital, Associate and founding member of the Private Equity Placements Group at Banc of America Securities, and an Investment Banking Analyst in the Private Capital Markets Group at Robertson Stephens. Mr. Miles earned a Bachelor of Arts in corporate finance from Morehouse College and a Master of Business Administration with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurial management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and has FINRA Series 7, 79, 82, 63, and 66 licenses.

Matt Moravec is the CIO and a Founding Partner at Permian Capital, an eight-figure digital asset hedge fund that has delivered over 1,000% returns since inception. He brings a rare blend of technical fluency and investment discipline to serve institutional and high-net-worth investors with transparency, performance, and security. His investment strategy emphasizes rigorous risk management and the pursuit of asymmetric opportunities across the evolving crypto landscape. Matt is also the CEO of Satoshi Safe, a next-generation custody orchestration platform that integrates best-in-class custodians to streamline secure treasury operations for crypto-native teams. Prior to founding Permian, he served as an Engineering Manager at Splunk and was CTO of a blockchain infrastructure startup. Earlier in his career, he developed large-scale personalization systems for companies including The New York Times, CNN, and Disney. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a minor in Economics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Kyle Stanford is Director of Research, US Venture at PitchBook, where he oversees a team of analysts covering the US venture market, and lead the expansion of PitchBook Research into APAC. He has developed PitchBook’s coverage areas within nontraditional VC investment, venture debt and VC ecosystem development, as well as our breakout of the venture growth stage of the VC market. He also contributes to quarterly core reports, produces thematic analyst notes on various topics and speaks at industry conferences and events. Prior to this role, he worked on PitchBook’s publishing team, building and designing custom reports across all asset classes while also supporting the analyst team’s core report development. He is regularly cited in top-tier publications including Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Axios, and has been featured in segments on CNBC, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance.