400 Capital Management

Alex Cha is a Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at 400 Capital Management. He serves as a member of the Investment and Executive Committees. Alex is responsible for asset allocation, sector selection, asset selection, trading and risk management. He joined 400CM from Banc of America Securities where he was the Head of ABS Credit Trading, responsible for a team of traders and quantitative analysts committing capital in private label residential mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives, whole loans and residuals. During his fourteen-year tenure at BAS, Alex also spent time in London developing the firm’s expertise in dollar and non-dollar denominated ABS as Head of European ABS trading and syndicate. Prior to London, Alex‘s trading responsibilities included Head of Structured Finance, Collateralized Debt Obligations (“CDOs”) trading and syndicate, Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (“CMOs”) trading and ABS trading. Before joining the financial industry, Alex worked at Lockheed Martin where his primary responsibility was Naval Weapons Systems design for the U.S. Navy. Alex holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Alex also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Bond Capital

Daegwon is a General Partner at Bond Capital and has led investments in Halter, inDrive, Kavak, OpenAI, Revolut, and Wiz, among others. Prior to Bond, he was a Principal at Kleiner Perkins, where he invested in Brex, Peloton, and Robinhood. Daegwon began his career at Goldman Sachs in their Special Situations Group, where he invested in private technology companies as a member of the Private Capital Investing team.

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Carlyle

Alex Chi is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Global Credit and Head of Direct Lending at Carlyle. Mr. Chi is also Chief Executive Officer and President of Carlyle’s affiliated Business Development Companies and serves on the Global Credit Investment Committee. He is a member of the firm’s Leadership Committee and is based in New York.

Mr. Chi joined Carlyle in 2026. Prior to joining Carlyle, he was a partner at Goldman Sachs where he spent 31 years and most recently served as Co-Head of Americas Direct Lending within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He also served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President of Goldman Sachs’ affiliated Business Development Companies and was a member of the Asset & Wealth Management Private Credit Investment Committee.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Chi spent 25 years in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs in a variety of leadership roles across the Financial and Strategic Investors Group, Leveraged Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Fixed Income Capital Markets and Information Technology in New York, Hong Kong and Seoul. He also served on the firm’s Global Diversity & Inclusion Council and was global head of the Asian Network which he co-founded.

Mr. Chi currently serves on the National Advisory Council of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM), the Board of Directors of the JED Foundation and the National Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. He also previously served three terms on the Board of Directors of the Korean American Community Foundation (KACF).

Mr. Chi earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Wells Fargo

Tom is a Managing Director and the Head of Technology M&A for Wells Fargo Corporate and Investment Banking Group based in San Francisco. Tom has 30 years of experience in the investment banking industry and is currently responsible for originating and executing M&A and strategic advisory engagements in the broader Technology sector for public and private corporate clients. Prior to Wells Fargo, Tom spent over 20 years as the Head of TMT M&A at Deutsche Bank Securities primarily focused on software, digital media, and semiconductor industries.

After receiving his BSc. from the University of California at Berkeley, Tom started his career in New York before moving to San Francisco in 1997, and worked for UBS, Credit Suisse and most recently Deutsche Bank before ultimately joining Wells Fargo in 2024. Tom and his wife currently live in the Peninsula part of the Bay Area with their 2 daughters.

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Avis Budget Group

Brian Choi assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Avis Budget Group in July 2025, after holding the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer from 2024 to 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Choi was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2020 to 2024 and served on the Company’s Board of Directors from 2016 to 2020. Before joining Avis Budget Group, Mr. Choi was a partner at SRS Investment Management, LLC and certain affiliates, where he held various roles from 2008 to 2020. Earlier in his career, Mr. Choi served as an analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group at Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Choi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard University.

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Tekton Ventures

Tekton Ventures is a global early-stage venture firm with an integrated investing model that backs both early stage technology startups and emerging venture managers globally. Prior to co-founding Tekton, Jai was a Partner at Partech beginning in 2006, where he led early-stage investments across the U.S., Asia, and Latin America. He brings over 25 years of early stage venture investing experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and global technology investor, and has backed more than 180 startups since Tekton’s inception, including Coupang (NYSE: CPNG), Toss, PayJoy, Outdoorsy, Frontier Car Group, GrubMarket, and Candex, among others. Jai has also held partner roles at Ignite Ventures. Earlier in his career, he began at PA Consulting Group, co-founded On-Air Networks (acquired by Loudeye), and was an early employee at OnePage Software (acquired by Sybase). He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

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Capital Group

Karen Choi is a partner and fixed income portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 29 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 19 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, as a fixed income investment analyst, Karen covered utilities, regional banks, and non-bank financials in the U.S. Prior to joining Capital, she was a senior vice-president and fixed income analyst at AllianceBernstein and before that with Prudential Financial. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Wellesley College. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Karen is an appointed member of the Edison Electric Institute Wall Street Advisory Group (WSAG).

Karen is on the Board of the New York Women’s Foundation and previously served as Co-chair of the Board, and she is also active in local and global non-profit organizations. Karen is the co-founder and organizer of Women in Power and has chaired one of the inaugural inclusion committees in her workplace. Karen is also on the Board of Trustees at Horace Mann School.

Karen resides in CT with her husband/partner and four daughters.

Karen is the 2021 recipient of the Pioneer Award by the Korean Community Services (KCS), the 2023 recipient of the Exemplary Award by the Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC), the 2025 recipient of the Phoenix of the Year Award by Womankind, and the 2025 recipient of the Fighting Award by Korean Finance Society (KFS).

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King Street Capital Management

Young Choi is a Partner and the Global Head of Trading at King Street and the Portfolio Manager of Rockford Tower Capital Management. He is based in New York and is a member of the Management Committee, Global Investment Committee, US and European CLO Investment Committees, Risk Committee and Pricing Committee.

Prior to joining King Street in 2006, Young worked at Citadel Investment Group as a Credit Analyst in the Distressed/High Yield Group and was Portfolio Manager of the firm’s $2 billion US leveraged loan and CLO portfolio. Prior to that, Young consulted at Bain & Co.

Young received a B.A. in Economics and a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, where he graduated summa cum laude.

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Equilar

David has led Equilar since its inception to become one of the most trusted names in the executive intelligence community. David has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance” by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Disruptor Award by 2020 Women on Boards and Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. David speaks publicly on corporate governance matters, including events hosted by The Conference Board, Deloitte, EY, HR Policy Association, KPMG, NACD, NASDAQ, NYSE, The Society for Corporate Governance and Stanford’s Directors’ College.

David serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Club World Affairs, PGA Reach, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG). He is on the advisory boards of Nasdaq’s Center for Board Excellence and Catalyst’s Women on Board. David is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and a former board member of the Wharton Center for Entrepreneurship and the Asian Pacific Fund Community Foundation of San Francisco.

Before founding Equilar, David was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. Before DLJ, David was a management consultant with Bain & Company and also Kenan Systems, a telecom software developer.

David earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

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Juxtapose

Patrick is Founding and Managing Partner of Juxtapose. As Managing Partner, Patrick is active across the firm's key pillars, working closely with the fund's leaders in concept development, user research, and talent identification. Patrick also participates meaningfully with the portfolio and its CEOs, including involvement at the board and advisory level. Prior to co-founding Juxtapose, Patrick spent a significant portion of his career building businesses at the inception stage, including partner level experience at early stage and company creation-oriented firms such as Thrive Capital and Accretive. Prior to his building experience, Patrick was a venture and growth equity investor at Bain Capital Ventures and Francisco Partners. He started his career at McKinsey & Company. Patrick has a BA from Harvard College, an MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Extell

Andrew Chung founded Innovo Property Group (“IPG”) in 2015. Prior to starting IPG, Andrew Chung was a Partner at The Carlyle Group in the U.S. Real Estate Fund. He served as head of the New York office for the Real Estate Fund for 10 years.

Mr. Chung is currently a member of the Advisory Board for NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. He was also recognized by ranking in the New York Observer’s “Power 100: The Most Powerful People in NY Real Estate” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Mr. Chung graduated from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics.

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Blackstone

Ann Chung is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Consumer for Blackstone Growth based in New York. Since joining Blackstone in 2020, Ms. Chung has led investments in Oatly, Spanx, Supergoop, and Weee.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Chung held roles at Fremont Private Holdings, the direct investing arm of the Bechtel family office, and J.H. Whitney Capital Partners where she led all consumer and consumer-impacted investments. Ms. Chung has also held positions with Swander Pace Capital, L Catterton, and Wachovia Securities and served on the boards of Alphia, Accupac, and Merrick Pet Care.

Ms. Chung serves on the Board of Directors of Spanx and Supergoop. She received her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her BS from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

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Summit Partners

Peter is currently a director of Empower RF Systems, HyperLight, Sound Physicians, Striim and Syndigo. Peter's previous board and investment experience includes E-TEK Dynamics (NASDAQ: ETEK, later merged with JDS Uniphase in a transaction valued at over $18 billion), A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN), Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA, later acquired by Cisco), AltoCom (acquired by Broadcom), Card Capture Services (acquired by E*Trade), Ditech Networks (NASDAQ: DITC, later acquired by Nuance Communications), Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR, later acquired by Coherent), GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation), MACOM (NASDAQ: MTSI), NightHawk Radiology (NASDAQ: NHWK, later acquired by Virtual Radiologic), Parts Town, SeaBright Insurance (NYSE: SBX, later acquired by Enstar Group Limited), Sirenza Microdevices (NASDAQ: SMDI, later acquired by RF Micro Devices) and Splash Technology (NASDAQ: SPLH, later acquired by Electronics for Imaging).

Prior to Summit, Peter worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He holds an AB in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Peter has been named to the Forbes Midas List multiple times and is an Emeritus Trustee of the California Academy of Sciences. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Friends of Harvard Football, the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund and the Board of Directors of the National Park Foundation. Peter previously served as a trustee of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Trust, a board member of the National Venture Capital Association, a director of the Asian Pacific Fund, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army’s Golden State Division.

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Hudson Bay Capital

Ed Han is the Chief Financial Officer of Hudson Bay Capital, having most recently served as the firm’s Deputy Chief Operating Officer since joining in 2024. Prior to Hudson Bay, Mr. Han was a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group at Bank of America, where he led strategic advisory for clients in the alternative asset management, specialty finance, and financial technology sectors. He joined Bank of America in 2013.

Before that, Mr. Han was part of the Financial Institutions Group at Deutsche Bank Securities, focusing on specialty finance, where he began in 2008. Earlier in his career, Mr. Han served as a United States Marine Corps Infantry Officer, attaining the rank of Captain and earning combat distinction during the Global War on Terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom (1994–2006).

Mr. Han received his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Quantitative Economics from the United States Naval Academy. He is a Class of 2022 Presidential Leadership Scholar, a member of the Economic Club of New York, serves on the Board of Directors of the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and is an Advisor to Brave Capital.

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Paul Hastings

David K. Hong is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office.

With his deep knowledge in both cash and synthetic credit products, David advises sophisticated investors and corporations in identifying and implementing creative liability management transactions, bespoke credit transactions, opportunistic private credit financing transactions and CDS transactions.

David has been involved in the design and implementation of some of the most complex liability management transactions, such as Envision Healthcare, West Marine and Dish. He represents ad hoc groups of creditors in stressed and distressed situations and advises investment managers on complex, bespoke and structured financing transactions by helping to formulate financing opportunities within the parameters of existing debt covenants.

Prior to joining Paul Hastings, David was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. Prior to Kirkland, he was a senior investment counsel at King Street Capital Management, a leading global credit-oriented investment firm, where he played a critical role in identifying legal value drivers, structuring private credit and derivative transactions, and co-leading many of the firm’s most successful and high-profile stressed and distressed investments.

David also has extensive experience in CDS, having been a member of ISDA’s CSC leadership team and playing a key role in the structuring, drafting and the implementation of the various rules governing CDS since 2008, including the Determinations Committee rules, the Big Bang Protocol, the 2014 Definitions and most recently, the 2019 NTCE Supplement.

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Ascend Capital Partners

In Seon Hwang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ascend Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm devoted to improving the quality, affordability and accessibility of healthcare to underserved and disadvantaged communities. Prior to founding Ascend, In Seon was the global head of the Healthcare Group and member of the Executive Management Group at Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, In Seon worked at GSC Partners, Goldman Sachs and the Boston Consulting Group.

In Seon serves on the boards of the Institute for Translational Medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Hope for New York, The Gillen Brewer School and First Tee. In Seon received a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Jaisohn is head of Akin’s finance team and a partner in the integrated special situations and capital solutions practices. Jaisohn has extensive experience advising private credit funds and other investors in direct lending transactions, liability management transactions, debtor-in-possession financings and out-of-court restructurings. Jaisohn received a J.D. from The George Washington University and a B.A. in History from Yale University.

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Altos Ventures

Han Kim is a Managing Director and co-founder of Altos Ventures, focusing on investments in the areas of mobile and software services. Altos Ventures established the first foreign VC fund dedicated to Korea in 2014with committed size of $60 million.

Subsequently, Altos Ventures organized its second dedicated Korea fund of $110 million in 2015.Han currently serves on the boards of numerous Korea based private companies. Before co-founding Altos Ventures in 1996, Han worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton as a consultant, solving strategic and operational issues for global media, retail and distribution companies. Han received an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

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Delight.ai

John S. Kim is the CEO of Delight.ai, an enterprise AI agent platform built upon the robust infrastructure of Sendbird. Leveraging Sendbird’s technology—which serves over 300M monthly active users for global leaders like DoorDash, Netflix, Match Group, and Yahoo!—John is now focused on the next generation of AI-driven customer service.

John led Sendbird through Y Combinator and raised over $220M in funding from ICONIQ Capital, Tiger Global, SoftBank Vision Fund, and others. His entrepreneurial journey began with Paprika Lab, a social gaming company he founded and sold to GREE.

Beyond operations, John is a General Partner at ASQ & Valon Capital, a venture firm specializing in AI, deep tech, and longevity. A frequent contributor to Forbes and TechCrunch and a guest lecturer at Stanford University, John graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Computer Science and from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He remains driven by a mission to change the trajectory of humanity through technology.

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Ascenta Capital

Lorence Kim, M.D. is the co-founder and a Managing Partner of Ascenta Capital, a biotech venture capital firm. Previously, he was a Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures from 2020 to 2022. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Moderna from April 2014 to June 2020, raising $4.4 billion of capital for the company and deploying resources to discover and advance a pipeline of 24 development candidates across infectious disease, oncology, rare disease and autoimmune disease, including the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Kim joined Moderna after an investment banking career at Goldman Sachs from 2000 to 2014, where he was a managing director and co-head of the U.S. biotechnology investment banking effort.

Dr. Kim currently serves on the boards of directors of Ascenta portfolio companies ADARx Pharmaceuticals, focused on RNA-targeting therapeutics, Tubulis, focused on antibody-drug conjugates, and Triana Biomedicines, focused on molecular glue degraders. He also serves on the boards of directors of Revolution Medicines (NASDAQ: RVMD), a clinical-stage oncology company developing novel targeted therapies for RAS-addicted cancers and Cencora (NYSE: COR), a global healthcare solutions provider. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross. He previously served on the boards of Cowen (NASDAQ: COWN), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Prep for Prep.

Dr. Kim graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. in biochemical sciences in 1995. He earned an MBA in healthcare management as a Palmer Scholar from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine in 2000.

He lives with his wife and three children in New York City.

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Standard General

Mr. Kim is the Chairman of Bally’s Corporation and has served as an independent Director since 2016. He is the founding partner of investment firm Standard General and is the firm’s Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Kim has been investing in special situations strategies since 1997, starting at Bankers Trust Company, as a Principal at Och-Ziff Capital Management, and a Partner at Cyrus Capital Management. Mr. Kim is currently a Director of Intralot SA (GA:INLOT). He is a Director of Pursuit (fka Coalition for Queens), Vice Chairman and Director of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Director and former President of the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association. In addition to this, Mr. Kim is a former member of the Board of Directors of Greektown Superholdings and Media General, Inc., and the Board of Managers of ALST Casino Holdco.

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Covepoint Capital Advisors

Melissa Ko is the Managing Member and the Chief Investment Officer of Covepoint Capital Advisors, LLC, a family office located in New York City. Previously, she served as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co., a Partner at Blue Border Partners, the Head of Proprietary Trading in Emerging Market Currencies at Deutsche Bank, and the Head of the Latin American Currency Desk at Bankers Trust. Melissa has an extensive history as an Emerging Markets trader and investor going back to the early 1990s and was one of the architects of the Non-Deliverable Forward Market.

Melissa Ko earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, with a minor in Economics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also has a degree in Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Melissa serves as a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, a member of the MIT Political Science Visiting Committee and is on the International Advisory Board at the New York Philharmonic.

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Ducera Partners

Jason Koh is a Managing Director at Ducera Partners, where he advises companies, investors, and key stakeholders on restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, financings, and special situations. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including oil & gas, renewables, automotive, power, healthcare, industrials, mining, retail, real estate, and TMT.

Before joining Ducera Partners at its inception in 2015, Mr. Koh was part of FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance and Restructuring practice, where he advised clients on operational and financial turnarounds, liquidity management, and chapter 11 restructurings.

Mr. Koh holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Apollo Global Management

Theo Kwon is a Partner of Apollo Global Management, having joined in 2015. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Kwon was a Vice President at Angelo, Gordon & Co., from 2012 to 2015. Prior thereto, Mr. Kwon worked at Weston Presidio and was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Citigroup Inc.

Mr. Kwon serves on the Board of Directors as Chairman of Phoenix Education Partners, Inc. (NYSE: PXED), a publicly traded higher education services company, Board of Trustees of the University of Phoenix, a leading online university for working adult students, Board of Directors of Apollo Enterprise Strategies, a global services company that provides business critical solutions to Apollo’s strategic origination platforms, and the investment committee and oversight committee of Apollo Aligned Alternatives, a leading semi-liquid private markets fund with over $25 billion in diversified assets. Mr. Kwon previously served on the board of directors of The Fresh Market, Inc., a specialty grocery business, Vanta Education, an international higher education company, and Tegra Global, a sportswear apparel manufacturer. Mr. Kwon is also a board director of The Korea Society, a non-profit educational and cultural organization.

Mr. Kwon graduated with a B.S. in Economics and a M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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APG Asset Management

Albert Lee is a Senior Portfolio Manager with APG Asset Management US Inc., on the Infrastructure Americas team, based in the New York office. Albert is responsible for originating, structuring, and managing private infrastructure investments in the Americas. Prior to joining APG in December 2022, Albert spent close to 8 years at the University of California Office of the Chief Investment Officer (UC Investments) investing in diversified infrastructure, natural resources, and other uncorrelated opportunities for the ~$5 billion real assets portfolio. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Director with Barclays, in the Natural Resources Group. Albert received his undergraduate degree in Engineering Management Systems from Columbia University as well as an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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WEBTOON Entertainment

David J. Lee is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for WEBTOON Entertainment, where he oversees the company’s global finance and operations organization. A seasoned consumer and technology industry executive, Mr. Lee brings over 25 years of experience across a variety of leadership roles.

Prior to WEBTOON, Mr. Lee was the Founder and CEO of Inevitable Tech while serving as a public company board member for a few passion projects. Previously, Mr. Lee was the COO & CFO of Impossible Foods, where he successfully led the company’s launch of the Impossible Burger and its nationwide distribution. Prior to Impossible Foods, Lee was the public company CFO of Zynga, where he led the company’s finance and corporate development teams, and helped lead the company’s transformation from web-based to mobile. From 2004 to 2012, Mr. Lee held leadership roles at Del Monte Foods while it was public, and led its take-private transaction, overseeing at various times the consumer products business, corporate strategic planning, government relations, corporate communications, and financial planning. Mr. Lee also led corporate finance, strategy and development for Best Buy during its transformation from 2012 to 2014.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Lee worked in advertising at the Leo Burnett company and strategy at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Lee currently serves on the Board of Directors for Zevia ($ZVIA on NYSE) and WEBTOON ($WBTN on Nasdaq), where he has served on audit, comp, and nom/gov committees. Mr. Lee is a Fellow at the Council of Korean Americans and the Network of Korean American Leaders. He earned his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Harvard College.

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NBA Investments

David is SVP and the Head of NBA Investments, the corporate venture arm of the National Basketball Association. He has been leading the NBA’s efforts to make strategic investments in promising partners that help the NBA innovate on & off the court. David previously co-founded two different startup studios, one as part of SK in the chairman’s office and one with the Head of Private Equity Group at Bain & Company NY, where he previously worked as a strategy consultant. He also spent time at the early stages of Coupang and Nexon, which have since become decacorns. David received his Bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Sequence Holdings

Michael Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of Sequence Holdings, a holding company focused on acquiring and transforming businesses through the application of frontier technologies. Prior to founding Sequence, Michael served as the Head of Private Investments at Lone Pine Capital. Earlier in his career, he held investment roles at Apollo Global Management and Goldman Sachs. Michael is a graduate of Georgetown University.

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Abbott Capital

Mr. Lee reviews investment opportunities in venture capital and private equity opportunities across primaries, secondaries and co-investments. Mr. Lee also serves on several partnership advisory boards. Prior to joining Abbott in 2007, Mr. Lee was an associate at The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in Menlo Park, sourcing and leading due diligence on multiple asset classes including private equity, hedge funds, real estate, and others. Mr. Lee also worked as a product manager at Silicon Valley Bank and co-founded a company that matched university-based start-ups with angel investors. Mr. Lee received his B.A. in Economics from Stanford University, his M.B.A. from Columbia University and is a CFA charterholder.

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American Securities

Aaron Maeng joined American Securities in 2014 and is a member of the Operating Committee. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Aramsco and RealManage. Previously, Aaron was a Director of Foundation Building Materials, Henry Company, Hexion, Oregon Tool, The Aspen Group, and United Distribution Group.

Prior to joining American Securities, Aaron was an Associate at Battery Ventures, where he focused on growth and buyout transactions involving software & services and industrial technology. He also previously worked as an investment banking analyst at Jefferies & Company, Inc. in the TMT Investment Banking group and as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. Aaron started his career as a systems engineer at CenturyLink, Inc.

Aaron received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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SparkLabs Group

Bernard Moon is a Co-founder & Partner at SparkLabs Group, which is a network of accelerators and venture capital funds that has invested in over 600 companies across 6 continents since 2013. SparkLabs primarily invests in early-stage startups across various industries. These companies include OpenAI, Vectara, xAI, Andela, Anthropic, Nex Team, Kraken, LuneAI and others.

Previously, he was a Managing Director at the Lunsford Group, which is a private investment firm with holdings in real estate, healthcare and other industries. Bernard serves on the advisory board to Seoul National University's Graduate School of Data Science and is an Ambassador for AsiaBerlin, an initiative of the Berlin Government to connect startup ecosystems across Asia to Berlin.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

A partner in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison’s Finance Group and the Restructuring & Debt Capital Solutions Group and Chair of Debt Capital Solutions, Sung Pak has a diverse practice representing private equity sponsors, investment funds, creditors, borrowers, issuers and distressed investors in a wide range of transactions, including acquisition financings, distressed debt investments, liability management transactions and restructurings. Sung particularly focuses on special situations, working alongside attorneys in the Paul, Weiss Restructuring Department in creating solutions for some of the largest and most complex distressed capital structures and helping both investors and companies find opportunities in dislocated markets and businesses.

Sung is highly ranked in Chambers USA 2025: Private Credit. He has also been selected as one of Lawdragon’s “Leading Dealmakers in America” for 2024 and 2025.

Sung regularly advises alternative asset managers on a broad range of financings, including direct lending transactions, bespoke debt trades or debt portfolio transactions, liability management transactions, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings. He also has significant experience in syndicated loan facilities, high-yield bond issuances, public equity offerings, private placements, mezzanine financings, exchange offers and other out-of-court restructurings.

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Tenet Healthcare

Sun Park serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Tenet Healthcare. In this role, Sun is responsible for overseeing finance, investor relations, accounting, and other related functions for the enterprise.

Prior to joining Tenet, Sun served as Executive Vice President and Group Chief Financial Officer for AmerisourceBergen (now Cencora), a global healthcare distribution and services company.

Sun previously also held various leadership roles at MedImmune, AstraZeneca, and Merrill Lynch & Company.

Sun received his M.A. in Biotechnology from The John’s Hopkins University and B.A. from Yale University. He was originally born in Seoul and moved to Los Angeles with his parents as a young child.

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Curewell Capital

Ceron Rhee is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Curewell Capital, a private equity firm focused exclusively on building industry-leading healthcare companies. Ceron brings 18 years of experience investing in and collaborating with leading healthcare organizations and management teams. Prior to founding Curewell, Ceron was an Investment Partner at Pritzker Private Capital where he helped lead the firm’s investments in the healthcare sector. Ceron previously focused on healthcare private equity at TPG Capital and The Blackstone Group, where he worked with global market leaders across healthcare services, pharmaceutical services, medical devices and technology. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Alliance for Multispecialty Research, WeInfuse, and Wilmington PharmaTech. Ceron received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and received his undergraduate degrees in Biology and Economics from Stanford University.

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Nordstar

Ole Ruch is the co-founding Managing Partner of Nordstar. Nordstar was founded with the idea that operators can drive better outcomes - both during the investment process, as well as by working with the portfolio companies as they scale. The firm has built a successful fund management business bringing on board executives with experience from Airbnb, Uber/Uber Eats, Revolut, WeWork and Zalando, and have a special focus on international growth and global opportunities.

At Nordstar, Ole leads the Investment Committee and works with portfolio companies on strategy and growth, taking active roles to help shape their future. Previous to founding Nordstar, Ruch was Managing Director, Global Strategy at WeWork, and before that MD, Head of Asia, starting and overseeing WeWork’s expansion and operations in the Asia and Australia region.

Ole has deep experience investing in and advising growth companies on their international operations and expansion, where amongst others he served as Managing Director International at Airbnb leading the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to taking on the APAC region for Airbnb, Ruch opened the company’s offices across Northern Europe. Previous to Airbnb, Ruch was based in East-Asia and Russia managing international markets as VP International for Groupon.

He holds a Masters in Management from Imperial College Business School in London, prior to which he studied Entrepreneurship at Boston University and Law at the University of Oslo.

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Candid Therapeutics

Ken Song, M.D. is Chairman, President and CEO of Candid Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech company focused on leading the field of deep B-cell depletion using T-cell engagers to treat autoimmune diseases. He has over 25 years of combined entrepreneurship, investing, clinical medicine, and research experience. As an entrepreneur, he has been CEO or Executive Chairman of RayzeBio, Ariosa Diagnostics, Omniome, Metacrine, and Ablaze Pharmaceuticals, all of which have led to successful outcomes and collectively with RayzeBio provided over $5.5B in realized value to shareholders. He also currently serves as executive chairman of Averto Medical, board director at Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp, and board director at ElevAAte, a non-profit organization for East Asian American leadership in biopharma. Earlier in his career, Ken was a venture capitalist at Venrock and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Ken received a B.S. in biology from MIT and an M.D. from UCSF. Ken trained in internal medicine at UCSF and gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Washington, and was a scientific research fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

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Principal Venture Partners

Songyee Yoon is a leading venture investor and strategic advisor recognized for her early and insightful bets on artificial intelligence and frontier technologies. She is the founder and managing partner of Principal Venture Partners (PVP), a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture firm focused on AI-native companies. She is known for investment in iconic startups including Together.ai, Cartesia, and Sesame, earning a reputation for identifying companies that will define the next generation of technological infrastructure.

Known for her deep understanding of both technological inflection points and global market dynamics, Songyee brings decades of experience at the intersection of AI, systems design, and product innovation. As president and chief strategy officer of NCSOFT, she led the company’s AI transformation and oversaw strategic investments and partnerships across North America and Asia.

In addition to her investing work, Songyee advises on the future of AI policy and ethics as a member of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI (HAI) advisory council and Harvard University’s Generative AI initiative. She is also a member of the MIT Corporation and a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and HP Inc. She served on the Presidential Advisory Council for Science and Technology in South Korea under two presidents.

Songyee was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, elected to the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and recognized among the Wall Street Journal's 50 Women to Watch in Business. Her recent book, Push Play, explores how “play” acts as a driver of innovation across disciplines - from gaming to medicine to artificial intelligence.

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