Previous Speakers
Previous speakers at our Annual Summits, campus events, and city-based chapter events include....
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis has served as the Governor of Florida since 2019. He previously represented Florida’s 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. A former U.S. Navy JAG officer, he is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.
Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir Technologies in 2003, along with Addepar and OpenGov. He is the founder and managing partner of 8VC, a major early-stage VC firm overseeing billions in capital, and has backed numerous high-profile tech companies while supporting initiatives like the University of Austin and the Cicero Institute.
Cliff Asness
Cliff Asness is a renowned hedge fund manager and co-founder of AQR Capital Management, a leading quantitative investment firm managing billions in assets. A former managing director at Goldman Sachs, he holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Eugene Fama, and is known for pioneering factor-based investing strategies.
Erik Prince
Erik Prince is an entrepreneur, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and founder of Blackwater (now Academi), the prominent private military and security contractor established in 1997 that provided services to the U.S. government during conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He later founded Frontier Resource Group and remains active in global business ventures.
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Heath Tarbert
Heath Tarbert is an American attorney and financial executive who currently serves as the President of Circle. He previously held prominent public and private sector leadership roles, including Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Legal Officer at Citadel Securities.
Scott Kupor
Scott Kupor currently serves as the Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Prior to his government service, he was Managing Partner at the prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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Konstantine Buhler
Konstantine Buhler is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he focuses on seed and early-stage investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, backing category-defining companies like Verkada, Citadel Securities, and Dust. Prior to joining Sequoia in 2019, he was a Principal at Meritech Capital Partners and earned his BS, MS, and MBA from Stanford University.
Jay Bhattacharya
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya serves as the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is widely recognized for his extensive research on the economics of health care and vulnerable populations, as well as his prominent public advocacy as a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pierre Yared
Pierre Yared currently serves as the Acting Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). He is currently on leave from Columbia Business School, where he has been a faculty member since 2007, serving as the MUTB Professor of International Business and previously holding leadership positions including Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs.