Global Alts 2025 - Miami | MFA | 27 January 2025 | Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Ctr Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA

MFA is partnering with iConnections to create a comprehensive alternative investment event. This partnership brings together iConnections’ and MFA’s flagship capital raising and business development events. The co-hosted event is expected to attract over 6,000 attendees, featuring nearly 200 speakers comprised of the top voices across every alternative asset class, including hedge funds, private equity, private debt, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, and digital assets. The event 2025 will give attendees access to the leading alternative asset managers and allocators, authoritative content and programming, and a variety of opportunities to network.

2025 Speakers

David J. Adelman
Partner, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment

Gavin Baker
Managing Partner and CIO, Atreides Management

Todd Boehly
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Eldridge Industries

Elizabeth Burton
Managing Director, Client Investment Strategist, Goldman Sachs

Steven Cohen
Founder, CEO and President, Point72

Anne-Marie Fink
CIO, Private Markets & Funds Alpha, State Of Wisconsin Investment Board

Brad Gerstner
Founder & CEO, Altimeter

Antonio Gracias
Founder, CEO & CIO, Valor Equity Partners

Robyn Grew
CEO, Man Group

Jean Hynes
CEO, Wellington Management Company

Meredith Jenkins
CIO, Trinity Church Wall Street

Kim Lew
CEO & President, Columbia Investment Management Company

Eli Manning
Partner, Brand Velocity Group

Howard Marks
Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management

Pete Muller
Founder, PDT Partners

Kimbal Musk
Chef, Food Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur

Michael Novogratz
CEO and Founder, Galaxy

Alexis Ohanian
Founder; Co-Founder, Seven Seven Six; Reddit

Shaquille O'Neal
Former Professional Basketball Player (NBA), Entrepreneur

Michael Ovitz
Chairman, Treville Capital Group

Stephen Ross
CEO and Chairman, Related Ross

David Rubenstein
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group

Robert Smith
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Vista Equity Partners

Josh Harris
Founder, 26North & Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment; Co-Founder, Apollo, 26North

Daymond John
Star of ABC’s Shark Tank, Entrepreneur

Jorge Mora
Co-Managing Partner, Jacmel Partners

George Pyne
Founder & CEO, Bruin Capital

Igor Tulchinsky
CEO, WorldQuant

Michael Wilson
CIO and Chief US Equity Strategist, Morgan Stanley

Dr. Adam Back
CEO, Blockstream

Jody Gunderson
Managing Principal, AB CarVal Investors

Steve Kurz
Global Head of Asset Management, Galaxy

Kaitlin Malin
COO, iConnections

Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman, Microstrategy

Erik Serrano
CEO, Stable

Micah Springut
Founder & CEO, Monumental Labs

Mario Therrien
Head of Investment Funds & External Management, CDPQ

Tony Yoseloff
Managing Partner & CIO, Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP

David Zervos
Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies

Cleo Abram
Video Journalist, Huge If True

Jeff Assaf
CIO, ICG Advisors

Dr. Christiana Bardon
Co-Managing Partner & Head of Public Investing, MPM BioImpact

Robert Bittencourt
Partner & Co-Head of Opportunistic Credit, Apollo Global Management

Paul Chai
CIO, Kansas State University Foundation

Dr. John Claisse
Group CEO, Albourne

Porter Collins
Portfolio Manager, Seawolf Capital

Nicholas Cormier
Portfolio Manager, CPP Investments

Christian Dery
Head of Macro Strategy, Capital Fund Management (CFM)

Thomas Doyle
Partner, Head of NAV Financing, Pemberton

Martín Escobari
Co-President and Head of Global Growth Equity, General Atlantic

Sara Foster
General Partner, Oversubscribed Ventures

Greg Friedman
Managing Principal & CEO, Peachtree Group

Joshua Friedman
Chairman & CEO, Canyon Partners LLC

Amanda Groves
General Partner, PLUS Capital

Erin Harkless Moore
Managing Director, Investments, Pivotal Ventures

Rick Heitzmann
Founder & Partner, FirstMark Capital

Karen Horn Welch
Deputy CIO, Spider Management

Kristen Jones
Head of US Private Credit, Partner, Albourne

Geeta Kapadia
CIO, Fordham University

Karen Karniol-Tambour
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates

Ken Kencel
President & CEO, Churchill Asset Management

Steve Kuppenheimer
Partner, Lord Abbett

John Kushner
Head of Relationship Management, Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services

Melissa Lee
Host, "Fast Money," CNBC

Scott Litman
Managing Director, GCM Grosvenor

Timothy Lower
CEO & CIO, Willow Tree Credit Partners

Hugh MacArthur
Chairman, Global Private Equity, Bain & Company

Joe Magazine
Commissioner, City of Miami Beach

Alisa Mall
CIO, Dell Family Office

Enrico Massignani
Chief Risk Officer, Abu Dhabi Investment Council

Clare Mellet
Capital Introduction - Head of Strategy for the Americas, UBS Investment Bank

Katherine Molnar
Chief Investment Officer, Fairfax County Retirement Systems

Rahul Moodgal
Partner, Parvus Asset Management

Jo Natauri
Founder & Managing Partner, Invidia Capital Management

Michael Nierenberg
CEO & President, Rithm Capital

Anthony Novara
Partner, Research Director, Fiducient Advisors

Andrew Palmer
CIO, Maryland State Retirement Agency

Jim Pittman
EVP, Global Head of Private Equity, British Columbia Investments

Zach Reitano
Co-Founder & CEO, Ro

Steve Rocco
Partner, Co-Head of Taxable Fixed Income - Investments, Lord Abbett

Phil Schwarz
Partner, Corazon Capital & Advisor, Oversubscribed Ventures, Corazon Capital / Oversubscribed Ventures

Ted Seides
Managing Partner, Capital Allocators

Jeff Shen
Co-CIO of Systematic Active Equity, BlackRock

David Sheng
Managing Director, Aksia

D Ellen Shuman
Former CIO, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Investment Advisor

Marcus Storr
Head of Alternative Investments, FERI

Tina Suo
Head of Alternative Credit, Office of the New York City Comptroller

Derek Thompson
Staff writer at The Atlantic, podcast host of "Plain English," The Atlantic

Shawn Wooden
Partner, Chief Public Pension Strategist, Apollo Global Management

Jae Yoon
CIO, New York Life Investment Management

Chris Addy
CEO, Castle Hall Diligence

Emily Biscardi
Conference Concierge, Prosek Partners

Pablo Calderini
President and CIO, Graham Capital

Darren Cohen
Co-head and CIO of Growth Equity, Goldman Sachs

Caroline Cooley
Managing Partner, CIO, SummitTX

Aaron Cowen
Managing Member & Portfolio Manager, Suvretta Capital Management

Emma Davies
CIO, Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation

Matt Diestel
Partner & Head of US, QIC

Mo El Husseiny
Managing Partner, Ventura Capital

Francesco Filia
Founder & CEO, Fasanara Capital

Mark Haefele
CIO, Global Wealth Management, UBS

Ali Hamed
CEO, Treville Capital Group

Paul Horvath
CEO, Orchard Global

Rich Itri
Chief Innovation Officer, ECI

Seyonne Kang
Partner, Stepstone Group

Anthony Kettle
Managing Director & Senior Portfolio Manager, RBC Global Asset Management

Imran Khan
Founder & CIO, Proem Advisors

Michelle Knudsen
CIO, New York University

Dave LaValle
Global Head of ETFs, Grayscale

Richard Macklem
Portfolio Manager, CPP Investments

Nathan McCauley
CEO, Anchorage Digital

Richard Miller
CIO, Private Credit, TCW

Marlin Naidoo
Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Introduction, BNP Paribas

Rich Nuzum
Executive Director (Investments) and Global Chief Investment Strategist, Mercer

Lawrence Paramasivam
Senior Executive Director - Policy & Legal Policy & Legal Division, Abu Dhabi Global Market

Michael Patanella
US Asset Management Managing Partner, Grant Thornton Advisors

Gary Paulin
Head of International Enterprise Client Solutions, Northern Trust

Darrel Pfeifauf
VP Asset Allocation and Risk, Advocate Health

Rick Richert
Co-Lead CLO Platform, Polen Capital

Erick Russell
Treasurer, State of Connecticut

Jeff Schmidt
CEO, ECI

Jack Springate
Managing Director, Global Head of Hedge Funds, Goldman Sachs

Thomas Steenburgh
Ralph Owen Dean & Professor of Marketing, Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management

Hank Strmac
CEO, Capital Allocators

Chris Taylor
Head of Private Credit, Third Point

Nicole Valentine
FinTech Director, Milken Institute

Ali Von Furstenberg
Managing Partner, KIDS Capital

Jennifer Prosek
Managing Partner & Founder, Prosek Partners

Bryan Corbett
President & CEO, MFA

Vincent Daniel
Partner, Seawolf Capital

Steven Eisman
Businessman, Investor

Daniel Moses
Advisor, RiskReversal Media

Jennifer Saarbach
Co-Founder, The Wall Street Skinny

Meghan Reynolds
Partner & Head of Capital Formation & Talent, Altimeter

Dan Nathan
Co-Founder, RiskReversal Media

Kristen Kelly
Co-Founder, The Wall Street Skinny

Thomas Larsen
Senior Portfolio Manager, Norges Bank Investment Management

Daniel Dart
General Partner, Rock Yard Ventures

Guy Adami
Co-Founder, RiskReversal Media

Ron Biscardi
CEO, iConnections

Dr. Scott Gottlieb
Partner, New Enterprise Associates

2025 Sponsors

TITLE SPONSOR:
• Galaxy

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• ECI
• Lord Abbett

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• ADGM
• Atreides Management
• Bloomberg
• BTIG
• Castle Hall
• ChicagoAtlantic
• Fanatics
• Fidelity Investments
• From the Future
• General Atlantic
• Goldman Alternatives Sachs
• Haynes Boone
• Jefferies
• MAG Capital Partners
• Northern Trust
• Prosek
• Simcoe
• TD
• Tetragon
• TLG Capital
• Typhon
• Valor

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Apollo
• BlackRock
• CFM
• Clear Street
• Summit TX
• Delta
• Grant Thorton
• Hines
• Grayscale
• Marex
• NAV Fund Services
• Nuveen
• Orchard Global
• Parabilis
• Peachtree Group
• Polen Capital
• Global Asset Management
• Rithm
• TCW
• TJC Bruin Capital
• Willow Tree Credit Partners
• Withum

SILVER SPONSORS:
• 17Capital
• ADM
• Anchorage Digital
• Arrow Global
• Blockstream
• Brightstar
• CBIZ
• Clearlake
• Corbin Capital Partners
• DIFC
• Drawbridge
• Eisneramper
• EJF
• Fasanara
• Franklin Templeton Digital Assets
• Fundamental
• G Squared
• HarbourVest
• Ibex Investors
• Jupiter Asset Management
• KPMG
• Nasdaq
• Oaktree
• Pemberton
• PitchBook
• Radcliffe
• Schroders
• Spectra Capital
• Swiss Re
• Third Point
• Ventura Capital
• Veritas Capital
• Wells Fargo