Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund.

His book The Psychology of Money has sold over one million copies and has been translated into 46 languages.

He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He serves on the board of directors at Markel.

Morgan has presented at more than 100 conferences in a dozen countries.

Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of The Biggest Bluff, a New York Times bestseller, one of the Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2020, and a finalist  for the Telegraph Best Sports Writing Awards for 2021. Her previous books are the bestsellers The Confidence Game, winner of the 2016 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, an Anthony and Agatha Award finalist. Maria is a regularly contributing writer for The New Yorker whose writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. While researching The Biggest Bluff, Maria became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings—and inadvertently turned into a professional poker player. Maria’s writing has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. Maria also hosts the podcast The Grift from Panoply Media, a show that explores con artists and the lives they ruin. Her podcasting work earned her a National Magazine Award nomination in 2019. She graduated from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University.

Scott Atkinson, the Founder of the Surf Conservation Partnership is a marine biologist who has worked in ocean conservation for the past 30 years. He has been with Conservation International for 14 years and specializes on empowering coastal communities to protect their marine environments, including coral reefs and fisheries. His work has taken him to Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Fiji, Micronesia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Hawaii and more. In founding the Surf Conservation Partnership in 2018, Scott's goal was to combine the passion driven lifestyle of surfing with protection of marine and coastal areas that surfing depends on.

Greg Long is one surfing’s most celebrated big wave riders. In a career that now spans two decades, Long has won virtually every award and title in the big wave riding arena.

As the son of an ocean lifeguard, Greg developed a deep respect for the sea, along with a methodical approach to both understanding and navigating through its constantly changing and challenging conditions.

Deeply thoughtful, he has become one of the sport’s most articulate spokesman, lending his perspective and credibility to a number of ocean-oriented environmental groups, and regularly leads ocean and surfing safety trainings to help those entering the sport do so in the safest way possible.

Testament to his devotion and connection to the sea, Greg shares “the ocean has been my arena for self-exploration, physically, mentally, and spiritually. It has been my greatest teacher in life, and to share my experiences and lessons learned within is an honor.”

In 2009 Navyn set out to help end the crisis of global malnutrition by founding Edesia, a U.S. non-profit, social enterprise, with a mission to treat and prevent malnutrition in developing countries worldwide. Her factory in Rhode Island produces a range of fortified, peanut-based products like Plumpy'Nut for humanitarian agencies like UNICEF, World Food Programme, USAID and other NGOs working in emergency and conflict zones. Since 2010, Edesia has reached over 16 million children in 60+ countries, including Somalia, Venezuela, Yemen and Syria. In 2020, she expanded her mission to include addressing hunger in the United States and works with the USDA in providing food for their COVID-19 emergency response efforts for both school lunch programs and food banks.

Navyn was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year/New England in 2018, New Englander of the Year by the New England Council in 2017 and New England Business Woman of the Year by Bryant University. She was awarded honorary degrees by her alma mater, Boston College (2012) as well as Bryant University (2014), Providence College (2017), Curry College (2018), and University of RI (2021). She is a Trustee of Boston College. She is a 2014 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Navyn’s father is from Tanzania and she has four daughters, all of whom were the inspiration for the creation of Edesia.

James is a founding Partner at Valar Ventures. Prior to Valar, he was COO and General Counsel of Peter Thiel’s global parent company, Thiel Capital, where he helped manage Peter’s network of investments and businesses.

Prior to joining Thiel Capital, James practiced law for seven years in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University.

Andrew is a founding Partner at Valar Ventures. Andrew’s career in technology has included business and corporate development roles at eCount (acquired by Citicorp) and Yahoo!. He joined PayPal in 2001, where he worked closely with Peter. After PayPal’s sale to eBay, Andrew helped launch Clarium Capital and later founded a restaurant group in San Francisco.

In 2008, Andrew rejoined Peter at Thiel Capital, where he led various international initiatives for Thiel Capital and Peter personally. Andrew received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country and declared “a threat to national security” for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies.

In 2008, Mr. Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered a massive fraud committed by Russian government officials that involved the theft of US $230 million of state taxes. Sergei testified against state officials involved in this fraud and was subsequently arrested, imprisoned without trial and systematically tortured. He spent a year in prison under horrific detention conditions, was repeatedly denied medical treatment, and died in prison on November 16, 2009, leaving behind a wife and two children.

Since then, Mr. Browder has sought justice outside of Russia and started a global campaign for governments around the world to impose targeted visa bans and asset freezes on human rights abusers and highly corrupt officials. The United States was the first to impose these targeted sanctions with the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Accountability Act in 2012, followed by the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act in 2016. Since then, Canada, United Kingdom and the European Union have passed their own versions of the Magnitsky Act. Mr. Browder is currently working to have similar legislation passed in other countries worldwide.

Tobin Marcus is Senior US Policy and Politics Strategist at Evercore ISI. He brings over a decade of experience in policy development, policy analysis, and political strategy in both the public and private sectors.

Mr. Marcus served for more than four years in the Obama-Biden administration, most recently as Vice President Biden’s economic policy advisor. He also served as the top policy staffer for the Vice President on the 2012 reelection campaign. In political consulting world, Mr. Marcus was a senior vice president at Benenson Strategy Group, where he conducted polling and consulted on campaign strategy for political candidates, ballot initiatives, issue advocacy organizations, and corporate reputation campaigns.

Born in Texas and raised in Maryland, Mr. Marcus is a graduate of Brown University, where he earned a degree in physics and political science. He is based in Manhattan.

Matt Walsh is Founding Partner of Castle Island Ventures, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. Castle Island Ventures invests in infrastructure and application companies that will enable these transformative protocols to power services for the next billion users.

Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector.

Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.