Bryant Stibel

Peter Delgrosso is a founding and managing partner of Bryant Stibel focused on venture and private equity investments.

March Capital

Gregory Milken is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Gaming at March Capital Partners, where he focuses on investments in digital media, gaming, and esports.

Touchdown Ventures

Selina Troesch Munster joined Touchdown in 2014 and has launched and managed funds with a number of the firm’s corporate partners. In 2019, she collaborated with the firms founders to develop and launch Touchdown’s CVC benchmarking offering. She also leads the firm’s research efforts.

Baron Davis Enterprises

Entrepreneur, investor, and two-time NBA All-Star and record-holder, over a thirteen-year career, Baron Davis played for the Charlotte Hornets, the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the New York Knicks. Known for his electrifying style on the court, Davis was a powerful point guard, who won national acclaim for executing in crucial, high-pressure moments, when his team needed him the most. As a businessman, Baron was one of the original investors for Vitaminwater and helped launch Thrive Market.

Baron is also the founder of several companies, including Sports and Lifestyle in Culture (SLIC), The Black Santa Company, BIG and No Label—each with the objective of combining creative talent with original publication and production to develop and provide educational and heartwarming stories that appeal to global audiences of all ages.

Griffin Gaming Partners

Managing Director, Griffin Gaming Partners

Chairman, Immortals Gaming Club

Prior to Griffin, Levin served as President of Interactive Ventures & Games at Lionsgate.

Bonfire Ventures

Jennifer Richard is a Principal at Bonfire Ventures. Prior to Bonfire, Jen sourced and executed seed stage investments at Vitalize VC and Cross Culture Ventures. Before beginning her career in venture, Jen was a founding member of three venture-backed startups and saw two of them through successful acquisitions. She has been responsible for building e-commerce platforms from the ground up and has scaled online commerce to reach over 30 countries worldwide. Her expertise revolves around technical product management, global supply chain, and (most importantly) a deep understanding of customers across a variety of verticals and geographies. She has a BA from Emory University and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She is based out of her hometown of Los Angeles.

Upfront Ventures

Investor, entrepreneur, and general manager with experience ranging from product management and performance marketing to business development and corporate finance.

The 22 Fund

As the Founder and Managing Partner of The 22 Fund, Tracy is passionate about diversity and inclusion. Decades of experience in engineering, venture capital, non-profits, government and public affairs.

MaC Venture Capital

• Co-Founder Managing Director at M Ventures
• Founding Team Member Head of Digital at Macro Media
• Acting COO CFO at BeautyCon
• General Manager at Venture-Backed eCommerce Startup TopFloor
• Startup Consultant at LA-Based Incubators/Accelerators Science and Amplify
• Head of Business Development for Overbrook, the Will Smith Family Media Entertainment Company
• William Morris Agency Talent Agent
• Controller at Indie Record Label Reincarnate Music
• Equity Analyst at Chicago-based Hedge Fund Coghill Capital Management
• Student Mentor at Young Storytellers
• DePaul University

BAM Ventures

Corazon Capital

Phil Schwarz is a venture investor at Corazon Capital, investing in early stage tech companies. From 2014-2016, Phil served as CMO of Tinder, overseeing the company’s brand, growth and retention marketing efforts worldwide.

Skyview Ventures

Matt Thompson oversees business operations and strategy at various Skyview Capital portfolio companies including his roles as the SVP of Corporate Development at NewNet Communications Technologies and as Chief Strategy Officer for Mimio LLC.

Mr. Thompson brings nearly two decades of experience in private equity, finance, consulting and operations. Prior to joining Skyview, he worked with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises, with a specialization in the telecom, media, and high technology sectors. He was Vice President of Finance at The Gores Group where he served on the Board of J Mendel Inc and led the Audit Committee. He also served as Director in the Communications Media and Entertainment group of FTI’s Corporate Finance practice in Los Angeles. Earlier in his career, Mr Thompson worked as a Director in the Business/Corporate Development group of Sony Pictures Television International where he completed over $600 million of acquisitions and divestitures of media assets across the globe.

Mr. Thompson earned an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School and a B.A. in Biology and Economics from Pomona College. He is also a Certified Insolvency Restructuring Advisor and has published featured telecom and restructuring articles in TMA Topics and AIRA Journal. Mr. Thompson currently serves as President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.

MiLA Capital

At Boeing, Noramay had P&L and personnel oversight of hardware teams focused on manufacturing, affordability, and integration of aviation and space programs. Noramay holds three engineering and business degrees from MIT.

Verizon

Wavemaker Partners

Eric Manlunas is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage cross border venture capital firm he founded in 2003 that’s dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. Eric is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who has a proven track record as an early investor in over 300 early-stage businesses. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Eric founded two technology start-ups, one in e-Commerce (Interfoods.com) in 1996 and the other in Internet services (Sitestar) in 1999, both of which were successfully built and eventually sold to strategic buyers.

Eric began his career as a consulting associate with Arthur Andersen’s retail management consulting division from 1991-1995. He earned an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1995 and an undergraduate degree in Communications from Florida International University in 1990.

Griffin Gaming Partners

James started in entertainment finance at ICM Partners before joining Interactive Ventures at Lionsgate. He was also the liaison for Lionsgate’s investment in Immortals Gaming Club.

Kathryne Cooper

Partner at Jumpstart Nova

Andrew Chan

Investor at Builders VC.

Alex Rubalcava

Partner of Stage Venture Partners

Startup Mavericks - SUM Venture Capital

Garrett is the founder of Startup Mavericks, Maverick Investment Properties, and Chairman of the Band of Angels Los Angeles Group. He is an entrepreneur, investor, Afghan War veteran, and former USAF Captain, with cross-functional leadership experience leading family offices, angel groups, and seed funds. His investments and experience stretch across aerospace and defense, consumer products, life science, cybersecurity, and fintech. During his Air Force career, Garrett served as a procurement contracting officer and was responsible for negotiating, awarding, or administering $2.4 billion in government contracts. While deployed in Afghanistan, he was responsible for 439 construction contracts totaling $224M and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal.

TLI Bedrock - Benenson Family Office Venture Arm

Trousdale Ventures - Unicorn VC 

Knollwood 

UHNWI Single Family Office

KAI Family Enterprise - Kyrie Irving Family Office 

MultiFamily Office

Single Family Office

CBIZ MHM, LLC

Mark is a business development strategist and leader with over 30 years of experience.  He has been an entrepreneur, and held leadership positions in several industries with public and private companies. Mark is currently Director of Business Development at CBIZ MHM, LLC.  CBIZ is one of the nation’s leading providers of professional advisory services, focused on accounting, tax, benefits and insurance, HR and payroll solutions.  He also serves as an Advisory Director to Stanton Chase, a global retained executive search firm.  

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP. 

Caroline Cherkassky is a partner of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP.  Caroline’s practice focuses on advising venture capital firms, angel investors and emerging growth, development stage, and middle market companies on a variety of matters, including venture capital and other financings, employee compensation, securities laws compliance, technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, stockholder agreements, equity incentive plans, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters. She regularly serves as outside general counsel to early-stage companies and also advises executives regarding employment and compensation matters.

CBRE

As Executive Vice President, Jake leads a tenant representation team based in the CBRE Headquarters in Los Angeles focusing on compines in media, technology, and entertainment industries.

Invest in Grenoble -Alps Isere

Sharon is an Economic Development professional for France in North America, from her base in Los Angeles.

Sharon assists dynamic French companies and labs in their endeavors in the US and Canada and promotes the Grenoble area and AURA region to US and Canadian tech-sector companies and manages ecosystem partnerships between France and North America.

Politiscope

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center

Amy Wood

Program Manager at Most Fundable Companies at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

IBA

Michael McClune runs the SoCal based International Business Accelerator (IBA) which catapults startups and high-growth companies into global growth. The IBA prepares US companies for new market expansion by leveraging its proven curriculum, a peerless network of international business experts and access to traditional and non-traditional growth capital. 

Darren established leadership presence in LA’s venture ecosystem during the dot-com era overseeing the rapid expansion of VIC, LA’s dominant association for the venture-backed “new media” industry. After two decades of executive and entrepreneurial leadership, Darren now leads the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) & CozDev, LLC.

As executive director, Darren rebranded and re-animated LAVA to a refreshed vision based on its investor-focused roots via fresh programs, expanded communities & new advisory boards of VCs, family offices, fund managers, and angel investors.  As cofounder and managing partner of CozDev, he creates high-return, lower-risk, tax-free capital gains investment funds by combining property ownership with ownership of green-industry tenants while meeting federal Opportunity Zone social impact goals.  

Previously, Darren gained invaluable experience as CEO, chairman and investor in Greenbelt Resources Corporation, and as executive director of multiple real estate development associations. Before VIC, he held management roles in the environmental sector, including directing teams of scientists & engineers at AECOM, the world’s premier infrastructure firm.

Darren graduated from Yale with a degree in environmental biology, is a member of the California Club, a proud father and a two-time Santa Monica YMCA Coach of the Year.

ZeroTier, Inc.

Marc is the Chief Operating Officer and a Board Director for ZeroTier, a cybersecurity company offering the fastest, most flexible solution to deploy and maintain secure peer-to-peer "zero-trust" networks.  An award-winning tech executive (mobile, security, VR, media), Marc and his teams have delivered innovation to a wide range of organizations, including the Fortune 500 and professional sports leagues.

Fox Rothschild

Jonathan is an Associate at Fox Rothschild and handles a variety of corporate matters including business formation and restructuring, contract management and equity financing. He also advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and other general commercial transactions as well as corporate governance matters. Additionally, Jonathan works with the firm’s cannabis practice group, assisting cannabis businesses with underlying corporate issues in governance and transactions and providing advice on regulatory matters.

ITV Alliance

Dollar is a recognized expert in digital media and a longtime champion of interactivity, specializing in accelerating early stage ventures. As CEO of the non-profit ITV Alliance, Allison Dollar has built a community representing leading Fortune 1000 corporations in interactive television, spanning advertising, programming, technology and distribution.

Robert Hall & Associates

Stephen Hall is the CEO of the family tax consulting firm. Growing up immersed in the family’s tax business, Stephen Hall learned early on the challenges businesses faced navigating the complex tax system. His desire to help grow small businesses in his community led Stephen to a degree in Business Administration from USC. As an Enrolled Agent and NTPI Fellow®, Stephen is a federally licensed tax practitioner who has demonstrated technical expertise in the field of taxation. As such, he is empowered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers for audits, collections, and appeals before all administrative levels of the Internal Revenue Service. Stephen Hall has advised, represented, and prepared tax returns for individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates, trusts and any other entity with tax-reporting requirements. Stephen Hall has also advised and invested in many early stage companies. When he is not aiding businesses and individuals with their taxes, Stephen enjoys playing soccer with his 2 children, tennis and rooting for the USC football team.

Armata Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Varnum is a biotech veteran with more than 25 years of experience. Dr. Varnum joined C3J Therapeutics, now Armata, in 2012 as VP of Product Development becoming Chief Development Officer in 2014. Dr. Varnum began his career with Amgen and spent more than 18 years at the biotech pioneer as that company grew from a start-up to a large and successful biotechnology company.  After retiring from Amgen in 2007, Dr. Varnum turned his focus to the start-up landscape, working in several capacities, including assisting investors, entrepreneurs and start-ups in the assessment of technologies for funding or in-licensing. In these capacities, he established research strategies and plans, and served as CSO for several companies, securing funding, and executing research contracts with large and mid-sized pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Varnum obtained his Ph.D. from UCLA . His drug development research experience includes hematopoietic growth factor discovery, oncology, auto-immune/inflammatory disorders, personalized medicine in IBD and infectious diseases.

Kim Salzer has spent her career building strong brands, most of it in the entertainment technology space. Notably, Kim has led globally known brands such as EA SPORTS, Activision (Call of Duty & Guitar Hero), and the DreamWorks Animation gaming portfolio.  Additionally, Kim has consulted, advised and invested in a myriad of gaming and consumer tech companies and startups, including Leapfrog, Alpha Draft (now part of DraftKings), MergeVR, Ozobot, IKIN, Elex, FanGuru, Majesco, Smule, and The Immortals Esports franchise.