Eric Kramer, Managing Partner, CEO and CIO, Crestone Capital and Michael McGowan, Managing Director of Investment Research, Crestone Capital discuss machine learning, our market views, and what investment actions we are taking.

Eric Kramer, Managing Partner, CEO and CIO, Crestone Capital, Michael McGowan, Managing Director of Investment Research, Crestone Capital and Miles Cooke, Executive Director of Investment Research share our perspective on the current investment environment, as well as insights and takeaways from our recent travels to London.

Watch highlights of Crestone’s 15^th Annual Finding Meaning in Money Conference – with speakers Kim Lear, Writer and Researcher, Dave Phillips, CEO/Founder Leadership Mentor, Oliver Burkeman, Author of Four Thousand Weeks, and Yanda Erlich, Chief Operating Officer at Weights & Biases.

Yan-David (Yanda) Erlich is the COO & CRO at Weights & Biases, the developer-first MLOps Platform. He was previously a General Partner at Coatue, focused on the early stage venture capital practice (Seed through Series B) and the enterprise software investing practice.

Prior to Coatue, Yanda was a 4-time venture-backed Founder/CEO. Most recently, he founded Parsable, the Connected Worker platform for industrial teams. Parsable counts leading Global Fortune 500 industrials as customers and is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs. Mr. Erlich also founded ChoiceVendor, a B2B services marketplace which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2010. He was also the founder & CEO of Mogad and of Happiness Engines.

Yanda has also been an active early-stage investor and advisor and is among the earliest backers of Mixer Labs (acquired by Twitter), Thumbtack, MasterClass, CircleUp, ApartmentList, and Buddybuild (acquired by Apple). He also helped start Mucker Lab, a venture accelerator in Santa Monica, and has been an EIR at Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures.

Yan-David started his career with software engineering and product management roles at both Google and Microsoft. He has a Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Millar Scholar. Mr. Erlich has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist and Sunday Times bestselling author who writes about the quirks and contradictions of human behaviour. He’s been a frequent columnist for The Guardian, The New York Times, and other top-tier publications for over a decade. He is a highly engaging speaker who has attracted legions of global fans with insightful, entertaining, and stylish writing and speeches, perfect for anyone looking to make sense of the strange complexities of modern life.

Based in New York, Oliver has been a top contributor to The Guardian for over ten years, providing features and articles on psychology, self-help and productivity. His work focuses on the skeptical exploration of self-help trends, happiness advice, productivity tips, and all things designed to making life more fulfilling. Reporting from Washington, London and New York, he published a popular weekly psychology column This Column Will Change Your Life from 2006-20.

Oliver is a revered author who has published several books that are welcome antidotes to the widespread culture of self-help and positive thinking. Help! How to Become Slightly Happier (2011) reads like an essay compilation about self-improvement and self-help, but with a straightforward approach cutting through a lot of the fluff. The Antidote (2012) examines the belief in positive thinking and how people mentally deny failure, highlighting how such ideas typically lead to disappointment and self-blame rather than enjoyment. Oliver’s instant Sunday Times bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks (2021), introduces readers to methods for building a meaningful existence by accepting rather than denying their limitations and encourages the reader to reject “getting everything done”, which is prevalent in modern life. It was named a Guardian, Financial Times and Observer book of the year and in The Daily Telegraph’s 75 best books of the year.

Oliver was awarded Young Journalist of the Year and Science Story of the Year from the Foreign Press Association. He was shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year from the “What the Papers Say” series and the Orwell Prize.

As a speaker, Oliver has a gift for taking complex topics and making them easy to understand – which is why his columns are beloved by readers around the world. He challenges traditional views of success and argues that negative thinking can be a powerful tool for change, encouraging readers to embrace uncertainty, accept failure, and find solace because life is messy. He argues that we can learn to live more meaningful lives by accepting these truths.

Dave Phillips is an experienced executive mentor and speaker for high performance CEO’s and business leaders across North America. His work covers topics in some of the most challenging and even troubling areas of the leaders’ life.

Dave not only supports CEO’s and business leaders, but also their teams to make a greater impact and provide long-term solutions.  Regardless of your business size and revenue, the tools and capacity-building programs that Dave offers will improve business communication and the overall health of the business.

Dave Phillips was born and raised in Vancouver as one of three boys in his family. He was involved in athletics for his entire life including professional skiing. Dave competed in various sports at a national level, and at an international level in snow skiing as a member of Canada’s National Freestyle Snow Ski Team. He enjoyed several top ten performances in World Cup Competition during his time on the national team. After retiring from active competition, Dave coached at various levels including the National Team during their Olympic debut in Calgary.  He is currently an internationally ranked slalom water skier and has represented Canada in competitions in the United States, Europe, and South America.

He has been a professional ski show performer and stunt man for movies, commercials, and TV programs. Dave and his wife, Kathy (Kreiner) – 1976 Olympic Gold Medallist, operate programs for athletes and business people that focus on overcoming psychological barriers to achieve peak performance.

Dave achieved a Guinness World Duration Record in 1986, where he and partner Gerry O’Neill snow skied for 83 hours and 17 minutes to break the World record. In 1994, he and partner Ralph Hildebrand, broke another Guinness World Record for Water-Ski Duration both skiing 1337.46 miles in 57 hours. It was at this event that Dave stared into the question of 'What is the purpose of my life?' 

Dave is the recipient of the Bronze medal for Bravery from the Royal Canadian Humane Association for involvement in a life saving effort.

Kim Lear is a writer, researcher, and founder of Inlay Insights. She is known for skillfully weaving eye-opening statistics, insightful stories, and relevant case studies to make presentations come alive. Previously, Kim was the content director at BridgeWorks, a research firm dedicated to generational and millennial trends. Her undergrad research focused on baby boomers and longevity, and her post-grad work centered on millennials and social media trends. She is currently in her ninth year of a longitudinal study on leadership.

Kim was recently named one of today's best speakers by Meetings and Conventions Magazine, and she appeared as a keynote speaker before some of the most renowned companies in the world. She has received rave reviews from clients such as American Express, Cisco Systems, Deloitte, Disney, General Mills, LinkedIn, Mastercard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wells Fargo, and more.

In addition to speaking, Kim was head of research on the book Gen Z @ Work. She has written whitepapers on generational wealth transfer, retirement trends, and Gen Z's impact on higher education. Kim has been featured on NPR and national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and TIME magazine.

She is a highly sought-after generational expert and serves as an advisor to The Tuesday Company, a political tech startup focused on the millennial and Gen Z vote. She also volunteers for The 78 Cents Project, an organization dedicated to helping young women develop strong presentation skills.