Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Phillip Toews is the CEO and a portfolio manager of the Toews Funds and Toews Agility Shares ETFs. He is a co-founder of the Behavioral Investing Institute and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV/Radio, Fox Business News and is quoted frequently in financial publications. His most recent book is "The Behavioral Portfolio: Managing Portfolios and Investor Behavior in a Complex Economy" (Harriman House 2025).

Ulf Brüning is Principal and International Client Executive Leader at Global Risk Consultants based in Darmstadt, Germany. He has spent nearly 20 years with the company helping some of the world's most successful businesses identify risks and shape their risk management strategies.

Curtis Vincent is the CHRO of The Estate Registry, a digital estate management provider that utilizes cloud-based tools and services for inter-generational estate management. 

Dr. Shlomit Wagman is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Allan Lab. She previously chaired the Financial Action Task Force risk working group, held a senior role at the Egmont Group and MONEYVAL at the Council of Europe, and led Israel's Financial Intelligence Unit. She earned her Ph.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School.

Michael Magnan, founder and CEO of AdvizorPro, is a leading wealth management and financial advisor intelligence platform for smarter prospecting.

Prior to AdvizorPro, he was the vice president of new product development for Nasdaq eVestment.

Joey Pizzolato is a reporter at American Banker, covering all things payments, including stablecoins, agentic AI, buy now, pay later and earned wage access. He is based in New York.

Prior to reporting on payments, Joey spent nearly six years covering auto finance as the editor of Auto Finance News, and has also covered the mortgage and housing industry, bank technology and marketing, state and federal regulation, fraud and the asset-backed securities market. 

His work has earned him two Azbee Awards: One for investigative journalism examining the ease at which bad actors can obtain fraudulent employment verification needed to finance automobiles on social networks such as Facebook and Instagram; and one for enterprise news reporting that examined the lasting effects of inflation and COVID-19 pandemic on the subprime auto finance industry. In 2023, he was named a Goldschmidt FRED Fellow by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. 

Joey holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul University. 

Email Joey at joey.pizzolato@americanbanker.com. Reach him on Signal at @joeypizzolato.25

John Delaney is the founder and chairman of Forbright Bank. He served three terms in the U.S. Congress where he was a member of the House Financial Services Committee. He has founded and led multiple businesses, including two New York Stock Exchange-listed financial services companies.

Ryan Bowen is a principal at Deloitte Tax LLP in the International Services Group of the Washington National Tax Office. He joined Deloitte in 2017 following a seven-year career at the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel, International. While at the IRS he worked on guidance under Sections 367 and 721(c). He currently leads WNT's Pillar Two efforts and advises clients on general issues in outbound taxation.

Ryan Duchene is a partner and managing director in Deloitte Tax's International Tax Quantitative Consulting Services practice with extensive experience providing high value analytical consulting services to many industry sectors, including dozens of Fortune 500 corporations. He has led the development of Deloitte's Integrated International Tax Reform model and Deloitte's OECD Pillar One Model and delivered related modeling services to dozens of clients.