Harry Shum
Dr. Harry H.Y. Shum is a renowned computer scientist and former Executive Vice President of AI & Research at Microsoft, where he led Bing, Cortana, XiaoIce, and Microsoft Research initiatives. After 23 years at Microsoft, he transitioned to academia as an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University and took on several angel investments and board/chair roles.
Jay Long
Jay Long is a Senior Managing Director at The Townsend Group (joined 1994), where he chairs the Investment Committee, leads the ESG Team, and oversees global macro strategy. He’s a CFA charterholder with extensive experience in private market investments, real estate co-investments, and secondary transactions across Asian and European markets
Justin Smith
Justin Smith is Managing Partner at Recharge Capital and founder of Chaos Ventures. He brings deep expertise from financial services, healthcare, fintech infrastructure, and digital asset investing. With a background at Tusk Ventures and Providence Equity and an MBA from Columbia Business School, he excels in due diligence, GTM strategy, and enterprise scaling.
Jeffrey Wald
Jeff Wald is a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and active angel investor. He founded WorkMarket (acquired by ADP in 2018 after raising $100 M), Spinback (acquired by Salesforce), and Sonero (acquired by MediaFly in 2022). His latest venture, Boomerang Intelligence, focuses on employee lifecycle management. Jeff began his career in finance, including roles at […]
Wenda Millard
Wenda Harris Millard is a veteran media and digital advertising leader. She has served as Co‑CEO & President at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo! (revenue growth from $700M to $6B), and EVP at DoubleClick—scaling it to over $500M revenue. Currently, she’s Vice Chairman of MediaLink, a strategic advisory firm in media, marketing, and […]
Leif Abraham
Leif Abraham is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Public.com, a social investing platform democratizing fractional stock, ETF, crypto, and bond investing. He previously co-founded AND.CO (acquired by Fiverr) and co-created Pay with a Tweet (acquired by HanseVentures), and served as a Partner at Prehype. He built early creative roles at R/GA, CPCB, and Jung von Matt […]
Darrell Silver
Darrell Silver is a seasoned entrepreneur and angel investor who co-founded Thinkful—acquired by Chegg for $100 M in 2019—and Perpetually, acquired by Dell in 2012. He serves on the boards of organizations like The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights and Fiveable. Known for active angel investments in edtech and HR tech, as well as advising startups […]
Etienne Leroy
Etienne Leroy is a serial product and marketing executive turned angel investor. He co-founded Sharalike—known for innovative photo and video apps (Sharalike, Instantify, V360)—and later OpenFrame. Formerly head of product at Everest Casino and IBM. He is on the board of La French Tech Côte d’Azur and an active angel in tech, sustainability, and platform startups
Salmanson
L.D. Salmanson is the Co‑Founder and CEO of Cherre, a leading real estate data & analytics platform raising over $105M (most recently $30M Series C) to unify and standardize fragmented property data for enterprise clients. Previously, he co-founded Greencrest Capital and led Oppenheimer’s Private Shares Group. He has an MBA in Finance from Wharton and […]