NEW YORK CITY MAY 27 – 31, 2019 /
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 31 – June 3, 2019
Andrew brings nearly 15 years of experience in building high growth go-to-market teams. He is currently the VP of Global Enterprise Sales at Walkme. Prior to joining Walkme, he held leadership roles at Talkdesk and Zendesk. At Zendesk he helped lead and scale the sales organization through one of 2014's most successful IPO's with a market cap of more than $9 billion. Before Zendesk he worked at Salesforce.com, Parature (Acquired by Microsoft), and Get Satisfaction (Acquired by Sprinklr).
Laurence D. Fink is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, Inc. He and seven partners founded BlackRock in 1988, and under his leadership, the firm has grown into a global leader in investment and technology solutions to help investors build better financial futures. Today, BlackRock is trusted to manage more money than any other investment firm in the world. Mr. Fink has been named one of the "World's Greatest Leaders" by Fortune, and Barron’s has named him one of the "World's Best CEOs" for 12 consecutive years.
Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Fink was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation.
He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University (NYU) and is Co-Chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Nature Conservancy. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing and on the Executive Committee of the Partnership for New York City.
Mr. Fink earned an MBA with a concentration in real estate from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976 and a BA in political science from UCLA in 1974.
Dr. David Kelly is the Chief Global Strategist and Head of the Global Market Insights Strategy Team for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. With over 20 years of experience, David provides valuable insight and perspective on the economy and markets to the institutional investor and financial advisor global communities.
David’s research focuses on investment implications of an evolving economic environment. He has written extensively on all aspects of the U.S. economy and his proprietary U.S. economic forecasting model helps shape his views on both the economic landscape and prospective asset class returns. He currently sits on JP Morgan Fund’s operating committee.
Throughout his career, David has developed a unique ability to explain complex economic and market issues in a language that financial professionals can use to communicate to their clients. He is a keynote speaker at many national investment conferences and a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and other financial media outlets.
Prior to joining J.P. Morgan Asset Management, David served as Economic Advisor to Putnam Investments. He has also served as a senior strategist/economist at SPP Investment Management, Primark Decision Economics, Lehman Brothers and DRI/McGraw-Hill.
David is a CFA® charterholder. He also has a Ph.D and M.A. in Economics from Michigan State University and a B.A. in Economics from University College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.
Richard Mathieson, CA, Managing Director, is a member of the Scientific Active Equity division within BlackRock's Active Equities Group. He is a Portfolio Manager responsible for global equity strategies.
Prior to this he led the Investment Strategy team in EMEA for Scientific Active Equity. Mr. Mathieson's service with the firm dates back to 2002, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to rejoining BGI in 2008, Mr. Mathieson was an equity analyst for a specialist investment company focused on European financial stocks. Previously he was with BGI as a senior portfolio manager, where he was responsible for managing both long only and market neutral strategies.
Mr. Mathieson qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Glasgow.
Robert H. McCooey, Jr. is a Senior Vice President of Nasdaq’s Listing Services unit. He is responsible for New Listings as well as Relationship Management with Nasdaq’s 3,500 listed companies in the Americas and throughout Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining Nasdaq in 2006, Mr. McCooey founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Griswold Company, a brokerage firm, from 1988 until 2006. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange Board of Executives from 2003-2006. Mr. McCooey served on the NYSE’s Group Market Performance Committee, was chairman of the NYSE’s Technology and Planning Oversight Committee and served on the Boards of the NYSE Foundation, the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) and the Committee for Review, part of NYSE Regulation. He is a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP).
Mr. McCooey is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Eric Ripert is the chef and co-owner of the acclaimed New York restaurant Le Bernardin. Born in Antibes, France, Ripert moved to Andorra, a small country just over the Spanish border as a young child. His family instilled their own passion for food in the young Ripert, and at the age of 15 he left home to attend culinary school in Perpignan. At 17, he moved to Paris and cooked at the legendary La Tour D’Argent before taking a position at the Michelin three-starred Jamin. After fulfilling his military service, Ripert returned to Jamin under Joel Robuchon to serve as chef poissonier.
In 1989, Ripert seized the opportunity to work under Jean-Louis Palladin as sous-chef at Jean Louis at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. Ripert moved to New York in 1991, working briefly as David Bouley’s sous-chef before Maguy and Gilbert Le Coze recruited him as chef for Le Bernardin. Ripert has since firmly established himself as one of New York’s—and the world’s—great chefs.
In September 2014, Ripert and Le Coze opened Aldo Sohm Wine Bar, named for their acclaimed wine director Aldo Sohm. That same month, the two expanded Le Bernardin’s private dining offerings with Le Bernardin Privé, a dynamic space above Aldo Sohm Wine Bar that can accommodate a range of events.
Ripert is the Vice Chairman of the board of City Harvest, working to bring together New York’s top chefs and restaurateurs to raise funds and increase the quality and quantity of food donations to New York’s neediest. When not in the kitchen, Ripert enjoys good scotch and peace and quiet.
Three-time olympic gold medalists in ice dancing, and the most decorated figure skaters of all time.
What does it take to make history on—and off—the ice? It begins with recognizing that you are limitless.
Fresh from two show-stopping gold medal wins at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games, the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history have a lot to say about meeting singular goals. Magnetic both on and off the ice, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir deliver insights into their once-in-a-generation creative partnership, competitive fire, and artistic depth: everything they’re known and loved for.
“Virtue and Moir have maintained their elite international standing for nearly a decade with the speed, power, control and passion of their performances.”
— The New York Times
Three-time World Champions. Five-time Olympic medal-winners (three of them gold). Stars on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Iconic figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are celebrated for their mesmerizing ice dancing, athletic grit, and personal charm. But they didn’t get there by accident. Their remarkable twenty-year creative partnership is filled with thousands of hours of training, sacrifice, and unimaginable competitive challenges. As they discuss in their talks, it began with “cultivating a code of respect” for each other, kicked off at the age of seven and nine respectively, and continuously reinforced decades later.
How does competition drive them, and what have they learned over the years from their competitors? Endlessly charismatic, thoughtful, and honest about their game-changing art, this golden duo offers audiences heart-rending, beautifully-stated personal stories of triumph, trials, and record-breaking championship.