Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Merrilee Matchett is the head of Global Customer Service & Operations and a member of the  Strategic Advisory Group for MetLife. In this role, she directs a team of more than 10,000 associates responsible for managing the operations and servicing teams that support and enable the U.S. Group Benefits, Retirement & Income Solutions, MetLife Holdings, and Asia, EMEA and  LATAM businesses across more than 40 global markets. She is also the Chairperson of  MetLife Europe, and MetLife Europe Insurance. 

Matchett joined MetLife in 2021 from Bank of America, where she was responsible for service  and operations for global wealth management, private banking, and institutional and personal  retirement businesses supporting more than $3 trillion in client balances. She was also the  Chairperson of Financial Data Services, LLC, responsible for the end-to-end operational  support of domestic and offshore mutual funds. 

Matchett has been an advocate for diversity and women in financial services throughout her  30-year career and has been recognized with numerous market awards for outstanding service  and operations performance. She is a member of the MetLife enterprise Diversity, Equity &  Inclusion Council, and represents MetLife on the board of INROADS, helping to provide career  pathways for talented diverse youth across the United States. 

She holds a B.A. in management with a law major from the University of Canberra, Australia.  Additionally, she is FINRA accredited and licensed to trade and run a broker dealer.

Alex Fuentes has 20 years of experience in start-up and rapid-change environments and is currently Brickeye's Executive Vice President of Strategic Growth and Business Development.

He provides a deep understanding of infrastructure development and cleantech to Brickeye, having served in senior roles within the energy storage and renewable energy sectors. Alex holds an MBA from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Troy Vosseller is the Co-Founder of gener8tor–a Midwest-based venture capital firm and startup accelerator network. Since 2012, gener8tor has worked with more than 1,000 startups that have cumulatively raised more than $1.4B in follow-on venture capital. Troy came to gener8tor from the University of Wisconsin Law School's Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, a program providing free legal services to startup businesses and entrepreneurs, where he worked as an Assistant Clinical Professor/Supervising Attorney. As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Troy founded the most cliché student startup imaginable–a t-shirt company. It was a success, and today Sconnie Nation continues to market a line of apparel that focuses on celebrating the Wisconsin lifestyle.
Before discovering his love of startups, Troy held brief stints at Qualcomm and Intuit. He holds a BA, MBA and JD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Duran Alabi is the chairman of The AGIC Group (TAG) Holding Corporation, a California Holding that oversees all the company's worldwide assets. TAG owns an International Business Corporation (IBC) dully registered in Belize, Central America to manage all the global activities of the holding in different continents & countries.

TAG features companies in banking: Fintech and micro finance, renewable energy development: PV Park investment, ownership, power generation and clean energy storage devices with mobile applications, organic commercial agriculture development, ownership and processing. Duran Alabi oversees the entire global operation of the holding with companies present in North America, Africa, Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, Middle East and the Pacific Rim. The focus of TAG holding and its affiliated companies are to be very active in renewable energy, environmental sustenance, remediation, organic agricultural development and Fintech.

TAG's renewable and clean energy focus includes technology areas such as solar, wind, Ethanol generated power conversion technology and power generation floating vessels utilizing LNG. Duran Alabi is a top-tier professional with over 37 years of strategic business development and acquisition, Alabi has tangible experience in emerging enterprise technology, evolving energy innovation solutions and services market. Insightful and articulate with strength in analytic, problem solving, strategic planning, and savvy investment motivation.

Duran Alabi possess proven ability to lead the development, implementation, and successful completion of a diverse range of strategic businesses in publicly traded, pre/post-IPO, start-up environments. He is a leader with quantifiable results in building new businesses, strategic relationship / merger, improving gross profit, sustaining market share growth, and delivering increased customer / venture partner satisfaction. Duran Alabi currently resides in San Diego California, United States of America with his wife and children.

Lena is a startup veteran with demonstrated expertise in propelling business growth for growth-stage fintech companies. In her role as Chief Revenue Officer at leading life insurance technology company Bestow, Lena Chukhno oversees B2B partnership growth for advisor, embedded and enterprise partners. Companies of every size — from startups to public companies — leverage Bestow's software to launch and sell digital life insurance and improve efficiency and profitability by managing the business online.

Prior to joining Bestow, Lena had a combined role as the General Manager of Student Loan Refinancing and Head of Strategy at Earnest, a mission-driven fintech in San Francisco. Under her leadership, Earnest grew to become the market leader in the education financing space.

Previously, she led business development and growth strategy for the Multi-Asset Solutions division at JPMorgan and spent time at McKinsey & Company in management consulting.

A native of Ukraine, Lena earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance from Kyiv National Economic University, and an MBA from INSEAD.

John Hekman is a director at Berkeley Research Group, LLC. He has taught macroeconomics and monetary theory at the University of Southern California, the University of North Carolina, Boston College and the University of Chicago. He was previously the Director of U.S. Economic Forecasting at Claremont Economics Institute.  He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Erin Levy, head of financial systems advisory at CNA.

Brian Schaefer is Vice President and Wealth Portfolio Manager at Johnson Financial Group. He works with individuals, public entities and non-profit organizations to create customized investment solutions. Brian is a member of JFG's Fixed Income Group and Investment Research team.

Jim Bone is General Manager at We Insure, a national insurance franchise agency that's disrupting the industry with an innovative business model focused on customer experience and exceptional agent support. The franchise offers unprecedented access to carriers and complete operational, IT, service and marketing support to its agency owners. We Insure is expanding rapidly across the U.S. with more than 300 retail locations.

Mark Davies is CEO of S3, a full-service compliance and trade analytics software company.