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Pialy is an investor and operator. She is the Chief Strategy Officer of Republic, an investment platform for pre-seed to pre-IPO companies. She is also a General Partner of WOCstar Fund, which is focused on female founders and diverse teams. Pialy’s operating experience includes Founder of the fashion-tech pioneer, Mintbox, and senior operating roles within two publicly traded companies: ShopYourWay (division of Sears Holdings) and Donna Karan (division of LVMH). Pialy holds a BS from NYU Stern and an MBA from Harvard.

Justin Lenarcic is a senior global alternative investment strategist for Global Alternative Investments (GAI), a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute. GAI manages proprietary and non‐proprietary alternative investment products and services—including derivative strategies, hedge funds, private debt, private equity, and private real estate offerings—that complement traditional investment portfolios. In his current role, Mr. Lenarcic researches alternative strategies, including developing strategy convictions, sourcing, constructing recommended portfolios, and publishing alternative investment commentary. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2007, Mr. Lenarcic worked as a quantitative equity analyst. He has more than 17 years of experience in financial services Mr. Lenarcic earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA℠) designee and is located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Wally Okby is a senior analyst for Aite Group’s Wealth Management practice, focusing on international private banking and socially responsible investments. He has covered the offshore private banking space for 10 years while living in Luxembourg and Dubai. His mandate was to provide hands-on investor relations as well as private banking and wealth management solutions to ultra-high-net-worth and family offices in emerging markets. Accounts and trusts were opened in various global jurisdictions, such as Zurich, Geneva, Singapore, Luxembourg, London, and New York.

Dick has over 25 years of experience in the wealth advisory and financial services with an emphasis on diversifying traditional portfolios with alternative strategies. In 2015, he founded AlphaCore, which has become a leading wealth advisory and financial technology firm. He serves as AlphaCore’s CEO and managing member of the Investment Committee. Throughout his career he has successfully navigated changing market conditions on behalf of hundreds of entrepreneurs and investment professionals. As a partner at Altegris, Dick democratized access to elite asset managers previously not available to the mainstream investor. In 2010, Dick and his partners sold Altegris to a Fortune 500 company. Earlier in his career, Dick started as a technical analyst and floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He managed the Global Trade Desk for Dean Witter Reynolds. In addition, Dick is a part of the inaugural class of Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts. (CAIA) Dick provides investment insight to the San Diego Foundation Investment Committee, the USD Emerging Leaders Council and served as a board member for Voices for Children, a charity focused on helping foster children throughout San Diego.

Jennie Wang is the Head of Product for InvestCloud’s Digital Warehouse, Aggregation, Analytics and Reporting (DWAAR) Division. I nvestCloud is a California founded company that has grown from an idea in a garage to a platform with 700 clients & over $1.7 trillion of assets in just 7 years. At InvestCloud, Jennie is responsible for two major product lines, InvestCloud Black, an integrated, cloud-based performance and risk platform that has been designed to empower managers to better analyze their portfolios – simply and flexibly – across all asset classes, and InvestCloud Orange, the financial industry’s leading data aggregation and digital warehousing platform.