As Founder and Managing Principal of Lapis Advisers, Kjerstin has worked as a portfolio manager and acquisition specialist in alternative investment for over 25 years. She is a member of several organizations including the American Bankruptcy Institute and 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Kjerstin frequently speaks on specialized securities. She received her BA in Political Economy of Industrialized Societies from the University of California – Berkeley.

Watch highlights of Crestone’s 13^th Annual, and first virtual, Finding Meaning in Money Conference – with speakers Andre Agassi and Bobby Turner of Turner-Agassi Charter School Fund, Amy Castoro and Scott Coady of The Williams Group, Jerry Colonna of Reboot, Alexandria Lafci of Hometeam Ventures, and Adventurer, Photographer, and Academy-Award Winning Director Jimmy Chin.

Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and mountain sports athlete known for his ability to capture extraordinary imagery and stories while climbing and skiing in extremely high-risk environments and expeditions. He began his professional career in 1999, and his talents were quickly recognized by top expedition leaders and outdoor brands. In 2002, he secured a breakthrough assignment to be the cinematographer for a high-profile National Geographic–sponsored trek across Tibet’s Chang Tang Plateau. In 2006, he became one of the only people to ski off the summit of Mount Everest. A longtime member of The North Face Athlete Team, he has led dozens of exploratory expeditions and completed first ascents around the globe, working with the best adventure athletes in the world.

Jimmy has garnered numerous photography awards from Photo District News (PDN), Communication Arts, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and others. As a filmmaker, his years of experience in the adventure and extreme sports world enables him to bring an authentic and unique perspective to his storytelling. His 2015 film Meru won the coveted Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was on the 2016 Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary. Jimmy’s latest documentary Free Solo won a BAFTA, 7 Emmy’s and an Academy Award for best Documentary Feature in 2019. Jimmy’s photos have appeared on the cover of National Geographic and The New York Times Magazine, among others, and he has directed commercial film projects for a diverse range of clients that includes Apple, Chase, Pirelli, Red Bull, The North Face, and RSA Films.

Jimmy splits his time between New York City and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife, filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi, their daughter, Marina, and son, James.

Alexandria is the founder and Managing Partner of Hometeam Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on construction technology that will reduce housing costs. Prior to launching Hometeam, Alexandria was the co-founder and COO of New Story, a non-profit listed as one of the "Most Innovative Nonprofit's in the World" four times by Fast Company. She led the team that constructed over 3000 homes in Latin America and printed the first 3D printed housing community in the world, featured in the Apple TV+ docuseries, Home.

Alexandria is a Y Combinator alumni, Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur, and recipient of the 2018 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Architectural Digest, CNN, and more. As a former tenant of Section 8 housing and teacher to homeless sixth-graders, Alexandria has committed her career to direct technology and innovation toward housing as a human right.

Jerry Colonna is the CEO and cofounder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to the notion that better humans make better leaders. For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organizations to help entrepreneurs and others to lead with humanity, resilience, and equanimity. Prior to his career as a coach, he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. Previously, he led New York City-based Flatiron Partners, which he founded in 1996 with partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became one of the nation’s most successful, early-stage investment programs. His first leadership position, at age 25, was editor-in-chief of InformationWeek magazine. Jerry lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Amy is the president and Chief Executive Officer of The Williams Group, which prepares families for the smooth transfer of wealth among generations.

For ten years, Amy has specialized in preparing high-net-worth families to successfully transition their wealth while keeping their families united and in control of their assets. She is an accomplished author, keynote speaker, and senior family coach. Amy’s clients recognize her for her honest and compassionate approach that yields long-term relationships and results.

Amy has more than two decades of experience building high-performing individuals and teams that build trust quickly, coordinate effectively, and build resilient relationships. She leads family members; high-net-worth advisors; business leaders; executive managers; and teams from Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits to innovate, lead, and work better together. Amy's experience with The Walt Disney Company, Adecco Corporation, and Grant Thornton Management Consulting provide her with a strong foundation of leadership in organizations.

She holds a bachelor of arts degree in organizational psychology from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, and is a Master in Somatic Coaching through the Strozzi Institute. Also, Amy completed a three-year business course with Hecht and Associates that emphasized the design of new offers and optimizing threats and opportunities in business. She is engaged in continuing education with Dr. Fernando Flores, focused on the dynamics of working on teams.

In 2020, Amy’s chapter, “Ladies, Take a Seat,” was published in a book titled Stepping into Your Power: An Embodied Approach to Developing Women Leaders. She appears frequently on podcasts; Motley Fool Rule Breaker Investing ranked one of her appearances among its top ten.
 
Amy is the author of Bridging Generations—Transitioning Family Wealth and Value for a Sustainable Legacy (2017).

Scott’s work focuses on transformational leadership, high-performance team development and creating cultures that awaken and harness the brilliance of everyone in an organization enabling clients to achieve extraordinary results. Over four recent engagements, Scott has helped his clients produce an average annual increase in profitability of 56% ($11.3 Million per client). 

Scott has dedicated his professional life to learning, embodying and applying emerging technologies from the areas of somatics, philosophy, linguistics, athletics, integral studies, experiential and action learning and applying these disciplines to leadership, high-performance teambuilding and creating cultures that create healthy and thriving teams and cultures.

A third-generation Californian, Scott received his BA in Business Administration from Cal Lutheran University and his MBA from Pepperdine University. His continuing education includes extensive study with Dr. Fernando Flores, Julio Olalla, and Dr. Richard Strozzi Heckler. He was certified as a coach by the Newfield Network in 1992, and as a Master Somatic Coach by the Strozzi Institute in 2002. Scott has been an adjunct professor at George Mason University, Virginia where he co-led a graduate-level course entitled Coaching and Organizational Learning and has been a Mentor Coach and Program Facilitator for the Newfield Network's coaching certification and graduate programs.

Personal experiences enrich Scott's teaching, consulting and coaching. Scott got his first taste of high-performance teamwork and leadership as a navigator in the U.S. Navy's Assault Craft Unit One, performing "insertions" and "extractions" on missions with the US Navy SEAL Teams. Participation in competitive sports has provided further insights. In 1996 Scott set the record for the flying 200-meter time trial set at the National Sports Center Velodrome and competed at the World Championships.

Scott resides in the Ojai, California where he cheers on his daughter Olivia from afar as she pursues a career as a doctor of Chinese medicine. His passions include surfing, standup paddle boarding, cycling, adventure travel and flying small planes.

Bill Maris is the founder of Section 32, a venture capital fund investing at the frontiers of technology and biology.  Bill has invested in over 500 companies, resulting in more than 30 IPOs, 100+ mergers and acquisitions and 50+ companies that have exceeded $1B valuations, including Aurora Innovation, Nest (acquired by Google), Uber (NASDAQ: UBER), Crowdstrike (NASDAQ: CRWD), Coinbase, 23andme, Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche), Foundation Medicine (acquired by Roche), The Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto), and Adimab.

Bill is the founder and first CEO of Google Ventures, where he was also Vice President of Special Projects. He worked closely with Google X, Waymo and Verily, and led global investment activities for Google and Alphabet. Bill is also the founder of Calico, a multi-billion dollar company focused on understanding aging and extending life. Bill is the founder of one of the world’s first web-hosting companies, and prior to that he worked with Sweden’s Investor AB.

In the mid-2000s, he partnered with entrepreneur David Green to transfer a novel hydrophobic acrylic lens to Aurolab to treat and cure cataract blindness in the developing world. It has since helped prevent or cure cataract blindness in more than 40 million people worldwide. Bill has a degree in neuroscience from Middlebury College, and his background includes research at the Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology.