Ethan Blevins is a senior legal fellow at Pacific Legal Foundation.

Abhishek Nagesh is vice president of regulatory policy oversight at Barclays. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in global banking and financial risk management.

Xavier Oustalniol, CPA, CFF, CIRA, is a partner at StoneTurn and an expert in forensic investigations and compliance advisory. He focuses on complex forensic accounting issues, fraud investigations and prevention, and anti-corruption matters, and provides consulting services regarding damages analysis, securities class action litigations, arbitration, accountant malpractice and purchase price disputes, including providing expert testimony.

Bond yields are shooting up for the second time in as many months. Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller attributes the volatility to concerns about rising national debt levels.

Benjamin Littell is a director at Stout. He has over 15 years of experience providing cost segregation, capitalization, and construction administration services to both public and private sector clients. Prior to joining Stout, he spent 10 years working in capitalization and cost segregation at Ernst & Young LLP and eight years working as an architect at Francis Cauffman Architects.

Paul Brody is Global Blockchain Leader for EY (Ernst & Young). Under his leadership, EY is established a global presence in the blockchain space with a particular focus on public blockchains, assurance, and business application development in the Ethereum ecosystem. He can be found on X at @pbrody.

Brooke Ybarra is senior vice president for Innovation and Strategy at the American Bankers Association.  

Dana Edwards is focused on designing and developing digital products for the US and UK Simply Business businesses. He has a track record of running product, technology, and data teams using the latest customer-centric, agile practices.
His passion is helping engineers, business teams, product teams, data teams, and enterprises work in a way that produces high quality products for customers. This drives him to create an environment of empowerment and inclusivity.
Dana joined Simply Business in 2022 with an extensive background in financial services. Previously, he held roles as Chief Technology Officer for firms such as PNC Financial Services and MUFG Union Bank. His career started with roles in product and technology development, and academics

Sam Rea is the chief technology officer at Aspire General Insurance, bringing over 20 years of experience leading IT organizations in the insurance industry. Prior to joining Aspire, he served as CTO for the PEAK6 InsurTech portfolio, overseeing technology across an agency franchise, MGA, SaaS platform, BPO service, and a national flood insurance processor. He previously held senior roles at National General Insurance as EVP and CIO, and at Zurich Insurance as assistant vice president.

Curt Hess is the U.S. Executive President at Vitesse, where he is leading the company's strategic expansion in the American insurance market. Curt brings over 25 years of experience across fintech and global banking, most recently as Chief Operating Officer at 10x Banking, helping scale operations at one of the UK's most innovative fintech firms. Prior to that, Curt held multiple C-level roles during a 12-year tenure at Barclays, including Chief Executive Officer of the US Consumer Bank and Chief Executive Officer of Europe Retail and Business Banking. Earlier in his career, Curt held senior finance leadership positions at Citi as well as with Bank of America in the U.S. His deep expertise in digital transformation, operational scale, and client-centric innovation uniquely positions him to drive Vitesse's U.S. momentum in the insurance space.

Valentin Neiconi is chief risk officer of Stax.