Meaghan Kennedy Townsend is a businesswoman, non-profit founder, speaker, and instructor. For over 20 years she has been a passionate advocate for health and wellness. She is the founder of Updog Yoga & Cycling in West Hollywood, CA and the cofounder and chief fitness officer of the Kennedy Fit Club, a nonprofit created to improve the health and wellbeing of an entire generation of kids. Its program developed in conjunction with some of the world’s leading experts in physical education has been implemented in over 400 schools and has helped thousands of students to achieve a healthier and happier life.

Her inspiration for fitness stems from her great uncle, John F. Kennedy, who spearheaded the Presidential Council on Fitness which introduced the first physical fitness curriculum into U.S. schools. It is this connection that brought Ms. Kennedy to the Robert Kennedy Community Schools in Los Angeles, CA (named after her grandfather) where she taught fitness, movement skills and yoga to at-risk students.

Meaghan has been a sought after thought leader and expert in health and wellness with a particular emphasis on yoga and meditation. She has given more than 20,000 yoga classes and workshops for private clients, corporations, communities and schools. Meaghan is the co-author of an upcoming book about her personal and professional life growing up in one of the most famous and influential families in the world. Meaghan graduated from Harvard University and currently resides in Santa Monica, CA

Sergio Fernández de Córdova is a Peruvian Born, internationally recognized entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist working at the intersection of media and leveraging public-private partnerships for social impact. In 2011, he co-founded IMGH – Infrastructure Media Group Holdings, a holding company focused on global infrastructure, energy, commodities and public-private partnerships which launched P3 Global Management (P3GM, p3gm.com) a Public-Private Partnership company, enhancing cities through continuous innovation by Investing in municipal infrastructure. In 2012 he co-founded, as Chairman, PVBLIC Foundation (pvblic.org), which focuses on repurposing millions of dollars’ worth of unused media space around the globe to non-profits each year and Sergio co-founded Fuel Outdoor Holdings (fueloutdoor.com) in 2003, growing the company to over 4,000 outdoor advertising locations in nine markets nationwide, making it one of the top 3 largest, privately owned companies in the industry.

Sergio has had the honor of being chosen to serve in a delegation for the past Presidents of Latin America at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival and the Biennial Gathering of the Americas. In addition over the last few years he has been a keynote or public speaker at the White House, United Nations, Clinton Global Initiative of the Americas, 65th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference, Economic Forum of the Americas, Smart City Start Ups, City Innovate, Forum for Global Cities, World Energy Forum, European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, African 36th World Congress, Womensphere Global Summit, NEXUS Youth Summit, Australian American Leadership Dialogue, New York Global Leaders Dialogue, UN Media for Social Impact, Rio+20 Social, Bloomberg Empowered Entrepreneur Summit, Bloomberg Government, SALT Alternative Investments, TEDx Wall Street, Green Business Summit, +Social Good Summit, +SocialTravel, Meet LATAM, AIESEC International Congress and the Hostelling International USA Peace Conference; speaking about next generation leadership, public private partnerships, business development with a social impact focus in emerging countries and using media for social impact.

Sergio was Knighted in Madrid, Spain to the Order of St. Lazarus, by Don Carlos Gereda y de Borbon, Marques de Almazan; in 2011 and is a member of the prestigious Friars Club, in New York City.

Lisa Firestone von Winterfeldt is an investor and philanthropist.

In 1997, Lisa founded the Lisa S. Firestone Charitable Fund. In 2011, the fund merged to become the Firestone von Winterfeldt Family Fund. Lisa and her husband Caspar von Winterfeldt recently became major donors to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and have supported the Sundance Institute, Challengers Boys and Girls Club of Los Angeles and a host of organizations focusing on the arts, inner city youth, education, environmental, animal and wildlife protection.

Lisa continues a long history of family philanthropy originating with the Firestone Foundation whose most visible gift is the “Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library,” the central library of Princeton University and one of the largest university libraries in the world.  At the age of 19, Lisa gave a personal donation to the new addition of Firestone Library. Lisa is a cum laude graduate of Princeton and served as a co-captain of the Princeton Women’s Varsity Ice Hockey team.

Lisa served as a trustee for 24 years and as the treasurer for 14 years of a family foundation. Lisa served on the board of directors for the Challengers Boys & Girls Club from 1997-2013. In 2012, she was a co-honoree at the Challenger’s gala and received the “Mark Dantzler Champion of Youth Award” honoring over two decades of service to the organization.

Lisa served on the Taft School (Watertown, CT) board of trustees and investment committee from 2008-2011 and served as a trustee from 1993-1997. Lisa served on the African Wildlife Foundation board of trustees and investment committee from 2008-2013. Lisa is currently a member of the board of the Sun Valley Film Festival.

Lisa recently returned from a conservation and scuba expedition to the Gulf of California with Sylvia Earle, Founder of Mission Blue and the Sylvia Earle Alliance. Sylvia named the region one of her “top hope spots” in 2009 and vowed to bring attention and support to the area.

Mr. Uri Levine is a passionate serial entrepreneur and mentor to other entrepreneurs. He co-founded Waze, the world’s largest driving traffic and navigation app, with more than 200M drivers around the globe. Which was acquired by Google on June 2013 for more than $1.1 billion.

After Waze he co-founded and is active chairman at FeeX, which addresses the biggest secret in the world, $600B of financial fees that no-one knows they are paying. FeeX allows users to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in their retirement savings and long term investment plans.

Levine focuses solely on consumer services, specifically those which create a lot of value to a lot of users, like saving money, time and empower them– in other words, doing good and doing well.

In addition to FeeX, Levine is also co-founder and board member in half a dozen startups:

Chairman and first Investor at Zeek – a marketplace for unused store credit. Addressing $100B of loss store credits every year.

Member of the board and godfounder of Roomer – a marketplace for non-refundable hotel reservations, a $20B annual loss.

Founder, Chairman and 1^st investor at FairFly – which addresses the biggest secret in the travel industry – what happened to airfare after the booking. FairFly monitors the airfare of your own itinerary after you made reservation and allows you to rebook the same flight or a better flight once price drops.

1^st Member of the board of Moovit – which is like Waze but for public transportation, and today, serves about 25M passengers in 600 cities around the globe.

Founder, Chairman and the 1^st investor at Engie – which deals with our frustration and helplessness at the mechanics, with an app that connects to the car computer, running diagnostic before and gathers quotation before we go to the mechanic, and empowers the driver.

Uri is also working on couple of new startups which follow the same theme – creating a lot of value to a lot of users, all in the consumer space.

Uri has been in the high tech business for the last 30 years, half of them in the startup scene, and has seen everything ranging from failure, middle success and extreme success. Thanks to his long and proven experience, Uri is able to deliver highly engaging keynotes to entrepreneurs and companies and offer them a cookbook, a recipe for success.

Uri has worked in all possible business areas from product development, marketing, business development, running startups and mainly coaching CEO’s. Over the last years he has coached and given keynotes to CEO’s, entrepreneurs and corporate staff from all over the world.

Manny Medina is one of South Florida’s most successful tech entrepreneurs noted for selling his Terremark data services company in 2012 to Verizon Communications for $1.4 billion.  He has since opened a private equity firm that recently announced the closing of the firm’s first fund with $182 million of committed capital.  Medina will focus on early growth-stage companies in cyber-security, big data, mobility and cloud computing.  Medina also recently founded eMerge Americas, which will hold its second annual technology conference in Miami Beach this May.  The mission of the eMerge and Medina’s Technology Foundation of the Americas is to help establish Miami as a tech hub for the Americas

Paola is a NextGen member of the Urrea Family, owners of the Colombian intimate apparel company Leonisa, industry leader in Latin America. Born in Colombia as the firstborn of five children, she later grew up in Florida and currently resides in the NYC area.

Paola epitomizes the description of the International professional woman. Her professional experience has been primarily in the US, but extends to Europe and Latin America. Today she manages the Avaunt Consulting Group, which serves high net worth clients interests in asset protection, estate planning and wealth management. Paola is also the principal of her family office where she manages her family’s investment interests in the US, Europe and Latin America. Paola serves as a member of the Family Council of the extended Urrea family.   She is the sole NextGen Representative and plays a critical role in governance and matters such as the generational transition of the family’s operating business.

She holds a BA in Political Science with emphasis in international development and a MA in International Business with concentrations in entrepreneurship and global management from the University of Florida. Her wide educational background includes extensive travel and studies in the USA, Europe, Asia, Brazil and Russia. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. On her spare time, Paola is an avid scuba diver, amateur photographer, and culinary aficionado.

Guy Schory is responsible for identifying and driving strategic initiatives for PayPal Inc. globally. His focus includes leading initiatives addressing the company’s top priorities through the establishment of R&D centers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and startup programs.

Previously, Guy served as the Head of Product for RedLaser, a leading mobile shopping and product search platform managed as an independent startup within eBay. In this position, he helped grow RedLaser’s user base to over 12 million downloads and to frequently rank among the top applications in the App Store.

Prior to RedLaser, he held a managerial position in eBay’s Corporate Strategy group, focused on M&A and strategic partnerships. Guy started his eBay career in 2006, where he was responsible for managing eBay’s industry-leading Internet Marketing platforms.

He is an inventor of six filed patents related to e-commerce & mobile, and a two-time winner of eBay’s global innovation competition. Guy holds a BA in International Relations with an Economics focus from Stanford University, and completed the Economics of the European Union program at University of Oxford (UK).

In 1986, Isaac Levy, together with his wife Orna, established the international luxury jewelry brand Yvel (a mirror image of Levy), whose award-winning fine pearls and gemstone collections are now sold in over 650 exclusive retail stores worldwide. The path to business success for Isaac Levy can be traced back to his personal journey, which began in 1963 as a four-year-old immigrant from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who faced many challenges growing up in his new home in Jerusalem. His memories are of harsh and difficult times, and a father who never allowed the financial problems to color his Zionist fervor. When his father, Moshe Levy, was tricked out of all of his savings by his partner in a sausage factory, Isaac vowed to rebuild his family’s wealth and to help new immigrants assimilate into Israeli society in the future.

Many years later, the same plot of land that once housed the sausage factory is today the headquarters of the multi-million dollar jewelry empire Isaac co-founded with his wife. The 50,000 square foot facility is also home to the Megemeria School of Jewelry and Art where Ethiopian immigrants learn the art of jewelry design and manufacturing. The facility and the philanthropic school represent Isaac’s commitment to his family and to new Israel immigrants.

With no formal education in gemological studies, Isaac began his jewelry career shortly after getting married. At the time, he was working as a supermarket delivery boy, and his wife, who is the fourth generation of the illustrious Moussaieff jewelry family, brought her knowledge of stringing pearls to the new partnership. With a US$2000 investment in raw materials, the couple began manufacturing and selling pearl jewelry.

Isaac studied the art of jewelry design from his mother-in-law and soon discovered his abilities and his passion with the gems, in particular irregular baroque pearls: He believes that he “finds perfection in imperfectly-shaped pearls.” Drawing inspiration from “imperfection,” he has created collections and unique pieces that follow the natural contours and shades of the pearls. Today, the company sells its products in more than 650 exclusive retail stores in five continents.

The jewel in the crown of Isaac’s corporate social responsibility program is the Megemeria School for Jewelry and Art, which he opened in September 2010, offering professional advancement and employment opportunities for Ethiopian immigrants. According to Isaac, this project is his contribution to tikkun olam, repairing the world.

“My way of repairing the world is to give others what I didn’t have as a child and to help repair the weakest links in Israeli society – our immigrants and, in particular, Ethiopian immigrants.”

Yvel has won many awards for its creative designs, including, among others, the Town and Country Couture Design Awards and the Centurion Design Award for the Pearl category.

Sebastian Stubbe is a partner and member of the board of Da Vinci Media Ventures, an analytically-driven film finance company. From 2001 to 2013, he was a founding partner and co-portfolio manager of Landmark Advisors, an alternative investment management firm in New York providing fund of funds and managed account solutions in the US, Europe and Asia. Previously Mr. Stubbe was a member of the US and European Investment Banking groups of Salomon Smith Barney in New York and London, where he was involved in a range of advisory assignments for clients in the luxury goods, apparel and entertainment industries. He is a regular speaker and panelist at alternative investment and family office conferences. Mr. Stubbe received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

In the heart of one of the world’s most important art happenings, DC Finance’s 2nd Florida wealth management conference was held at the Ritz Carlton hotel, a day before the opening of Art Basel and followed by a week of luxury events dedicated to the guests.

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Ezra Katz is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Aztec Group, Inc., a full-service real estate investment banking firm specializing in facilitating the acquisition, disposition, financing and capital needs of real estate projects for domestic and offshore investors, entrepreneurs and commercial developers as well as offshore clients. Aztec has long been recognized as the premier real estate capital markets intermediary in the Southeast, with over $20 billion in transactions during the past 25 years.
Ezra also founded Mayan Properties, LLC over 20 years ago to serve as a Merchant Bank for Ezra’s principal transactions to grow his personal investment portfolio. Mayan’s portfolio consists of over 30 hotels, over 8 million square feet of office buildings, significant land holdings and a variety of other properties throughout the Southeastern USA owned by over 60 partnerships.

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Tomas Regalado was born in Havana, Cuba, on May 24, 1947. He was the first son of Carmen, a house wife, and Tomas, an outstanding attorney and journalist that became the President of the National Association of Reporters and Journalists of Cuba. Tomas Sr. was also a political Prisoner in the island for 22 years due to his struggle for the freedom and democracy of Cuba.
At the age of 14, Tomas Regalado and his younger brother, Marcos, traveled to the U.S. under the Catholic Church program known as “Peter Pan”. Marcos and Carmen sent the boys to America with the hope of having them live in freedom.
The father’s vocation for journalism was quickly reborn in Tomas. At 17, Tomas obtained an internship at the Miami radio station “WFAB” and, shortly after, he became the youngest reporter of the station. His professional training was real quick. In 1970, Tomas Regalado had become an international news reporter. His first assignments were in Africa, at the time immersed in wars sprung from the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. Tomas reported the Angolan war, the bloody revolts in Soweto, South Africa, and the violent civil war in Mozambique.
In the 1980’s Tomas reported the guerrilla warfare in El Salvador and Nicaragua, where many reporters were also casualties.
His professional jump to the top came in 1983 when he became the first Cuban American journalist to integrate the White House Press Corp. Mr. Regalado traveled with Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton for several years, in addition to the daily coverage of the White House news.
Tomas Regalado has been a multi task journalist. Besides writing article on newspapers, he was TV anchor for Channels 23 and 20 of Miami, and news director for the “Spanish Broadcasting System.”
His social concerns pushed him to jump into the political arena. In September, 1996 he was elected Commissioner of the City of Miami. For his brilliant performance was reelected in 1999, 2003 and 2007, the latest one without opposition. In November 2009, Tomas Regalado was elected Mayor of the City of Miami.
Tomas has three sons: Tomas Jr., Raquel and Jose, and four grandchildren. After thirty seven years of marriage his wife passaway in 2008. He is currently married to Mrs. Ana Cristina Regalado.

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Professor Sury is the Chairman of INDORUS Holdings LP.  This single family office (SFO) was formed after the sale of the investment firm he founded and ran from 2000-2009—a nationally top ranked, multi-billion dollar investment adviser to wealthy families, institutional investors, and sovereign entities.  Professor Sury has also been the Executive Director of SIFIRM—a consortium of innovative scholars (whose board affiliates have included multiple Nobel Laureates in Economics), substantial investors, and practitioners in finance to investigate problems in risk management, portfolio optimization, and behavioral finance.  In certain cases, the group has co-invested in compelling opportunities.

For more than twenty years, Professor Sury has been an internationally recognized expert in the fields of investment strategy and risk management.  He has served as a close, trusted adviser to some of the nation’s wealthiest family groups, sovereign wealth and government entities, and private organizations; including nearly a dozen of the Forbes 400.  Prior to retiring from the industry and forming his own family office, Professor Sury organized and led a nationally top ranked multi-billion dollar wealth management firm (as rated by Wealth Manager Magazine, Financial Advisor Magazine, and the Bloomberg Wealth Manager Survey); and built a highly respected global institutional broker dealer organization. Over the years, his professional investment R&D teams—comprised of innovative researchers with Ph.D.’s and other advanced degrees across financial and technical disciplines—have developed critically acclaimed, state-of-the-art techniques and strategies for client-optimized portfolio management and diversification.

His pioneering work in the areas of portfolio optimization, asset allocation, and risk management has been applied by sovereign entities, institutional investors, and family offices worldwide.  He is an award winning professor, having taught rigorous undergraduate and MBA courses in Investments, Corporate Finance, and Applied Portfolio Management at such innovative institutions as the University of California, Santa Clara University, DePaul University, and San Diego State University.

Professor Sury began his career in finance at Goldman Sachs in the early ‘90s, first recruited as a professional trader in the firm’s Equities Division, then as a Vice President in the Investment Management Division.  Prior to graduate school, Mr. Sury had worked in technology consulting and later as a criminal investigator, assisting in the development of one of the nation’s first multi-jurisdictional task forces dedicated to high tech, white-collar, and economic crime investigations as a member of the Bureau of Investigation at the Santa Clara Co. (Silicon Valley) District Attorney’s Office.  He had previously worked for the Greater Austin Area Organized Crime Task Force, as one of the youngest members of the elite federally-funded undercover unit.

Professor Sury received his MBA in Finance & Statistics (High Honors) from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree in Economics (High Honors) from the University of California.

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Montieth is the President of Montieth & Company, a global special situations communications consultancy. Montieth & Company provides corporate and financial, marketing communications, issues and crisis management solutions and services and is widely regarded as expert in litigation PR. The firm has worked on many of the biggest headline matters in the news, from the Madoff Fraud to the BP Oil Spill, the Department of Justice’s insider trading investigation, and the Panama Papers, amongst many other high profile engagements. Montieth & Company works with numerous high net worth individuals and family offices globally, providing management advisory, communications, thought leadership and media relations support on a wide range of matters including M&A, business disputes, shareholder activism, management transitions, IR, public affairs, regulatory actions and litigation, civil and criminal. 

 Montieth & Company operates through a ‘Centers of Excellence’ professional services model with offices in New York and London from which it projects its solutions and services into numerous money and media center markets throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East, directly and through partners.

Montieth M. Illingworth founded the firm in 2006. Prior to that he was head of office and ran the US operations of Gavin Anderson, a global special situations consultancy. He was also practice leader of the global corporate strategies group of Ruder Finn, one of the world’s largest independent PR agencies. Prior to that he was head of the e-business communications practice at Technology Solutions International. Montieth started in PR in 1995 at Development Counsellors International in New York representing governments worldwide on economic development marketing and media relations.

He began his career as a journalist and financial writer in New York and Los Angeles. He wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, the American Banker, and numerous other national and international publications. He is also author of “Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal” a biography of the former heavyweight champion. 

Montieth is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He lives with his wife and family in Westchester County, NY and is an avid cyclist and fly fisherman. 

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Joe was born in Portland, Oregon. He grew up as an avid watersports enthusiast on Lake Oswego, the Columbia River and the pristine Oregon Coast. At 15, Joe started working at Christensen Yachts as a general laborer in various construction crafts. In 1990, Joe moved into yacht construction planning and purchasing. From there, he worked in project management. In 1997, Joe became vice president of operations and, in 2001, Dave Christensen made Joe president and sales director of Christensen Yachts; Joe remained in this role until 2014. During his time at Christensen, Joe successfully guided the shipyard through multiple challenging recessions, numerous yacht product changes and refinements and added a system of total quality control, all of which helped the yard earn highest ranks in U.S. pedigree and sales for 2012, 2013 and 2014.

In his new role with Northrop & Johnson, Joe will use his vast yacht construction and sales experience to fuel his passion and ability to establish everlasting relationships with the world’s discerning yacht enthusiasts.

Joe and his wife Judy enjoy all types of watersports, downhill skiing, traveling and a variety of outdoor activities. They reside in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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A fourth generation Floridian, Crom grew up in Indialantic, with the Indian River as his front yard and the Atlantic Ocean out back.  Whether racing sailboats, rebuilding classic Chris Crafts or simply messing around with boats, Crom spent every spare moment in, on and by the water.  By the age of 13, he knew helping others enjoy his passion was his future.

Realizing that larger yachts required a new venue, Crom moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1981, where he was offered a position on the classic Americas Cup Committee boat, BLACK KNIGHT.  The desire to concentrate on the larger yacht market led him to take a position as captain on a large motor yacht, cruising and chartering throughout the Bahamas, East Coast and Great Lakes.

With two beautiful daughters back home, Crom made the transition to a land-based life and joined the firm of Merle Wood & Associates, where, he was deeply involved in both the sales and charter divisions for 15 years.

Crom served on the FYBA’s Board of Directors for 11 years, including a two-year term as president; he remains actively involved and was honored as Yacht Broker of the Year in 2015. Additionally, he currently holds a Board seat on the AYCA.  Crom brings his extensive knowledge and experience within the yachting industry to his role at Northrop & Johnson, based in the Fort Lauderdale office.

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Kate Roberts is the co-founder of Maverick Collective, a groundbreaking philanthropic initiative to end extreme poverty by investing in the health and rights of girls and women in the developing world. Co-chaired by Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Maverick Collective is redefining what it means to be a philanthropist by disrupting the traditional model.
In addition to her role as co-founder, Kate is Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy at Population Services International (PSI), one of the world’s leading global health nonprofit organizations with programs across 65 countries and a 43-year history dedicated to improving people’s health. Throughout her career, Kate has enlisted the support of celebrity
ambassadors and built lasting partnerships with a broad range of corporations, governments, and foundations, with the goal of making it easier for people in the developing world to lead
healthier lives and plan the families they desire. She is the founder of several highly successful public health initiatives, including YouthAIDS and Five & Alive, to increase public awareness around
HIV and prevent the spread of the disease among young people.

In 2005, she spearheaded a joint venture between YouthAIDS and ALDO, a global fashion footwear and accessories retailer, to develop a powerful celebrity-driven HIV education campaign, which
raised more than $5 million and reached 1.5 billion people in 25 countries. Kate has also produced four award-winning documentaries on the global HIV/AIDS crisis that aired on MTV, VH1, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic.
In 2007, Kate was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, where she serves on the Global Health Advisory Board and is the founding curator of WEF Global Shapers. She was also featured as a CNN Hero and received the Jack Valenti AIDS outstanding achievement award. In 2009, Vogue named her as one of its 100 women. She is an adjunct professor on social entrepreneurship at The George Washington University and an invited speaker at Aspen Ideas Festival, Davos, Wharton Business School, Columbia University, and Harvard Business School.
Kate speaks five languages, has a lifestyle business of real estate development and interior design, and is an accomplished contemporary artist.

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Chris’ main passion is turning complete strangers into close friends.  He is Founder + Curator of the 747 Club, an organization that connects people at the intersection of Food + Community through Authenticity, Empathy, Vulnerability and Safety.  59 Dinners and 1,000 people have been served since July 15th, 2015.

He is Producing Partner at OHenry Productions, whose productions have earned 6 Tony Awards, 3 NY Times Critics’ Picks and 1 Grammy Award.  Chris is the Lead Producer of the 5-Time Emmy Award-Winning one-man show, The Little Flower starring Tony Lo Bianco which has had over 70 productions in the United States and Italy.  During his time at MNA Productions under Tony Lo Bianco, the company invested in the 4-Time Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and China Doll starring Al Pacino.

Chris holds an appointment on the Philanthropic Board of Trustees of the Easterseals Foundation.  Easterseals is the largest Disability Services provider in the Nation, serving over 2,000,000 (million) people annually.

Schembra is the Marketing Manager for Just A Common Soldier, the 2-Time Emmy Award Winning National Tribute Campaign dedicated to Veterans which launched on Memorial Day, 2015 and has received 900,000 shares and 18,200,000 (million) views to date.

Chris studied International Business at Rollins College and attended the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Patagonia, Chile. Chris was involved in the sales team for Hilton Head Island Performance Group and worked in collaboration for 3 years with the NFLPA and the National Guard to provide a life skills program to high school student-athletes in 28 cities for the National Football League. The company presently produces a line of life learning weekly planners for students, executives, salespeople, and people in the world of sports.

He is also a Part-Owner at Schembra Real Estate Group on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Television debut: Summer, 2014 starring in Bravo TV’s, “The Singles Project”.

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Hailed by The New York Times as possessing “Virtuosity, a sense of humour, and an ear for musical dialogue” and by NPR / National Public Radio as “An interpreter of the Muse”,

Michael Fitzpatrick is the recipient of The Prince Charles Award for Musical Excellence conferred by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.  He has performed for The Pope

and the Vice-President of the United States at The Vatican, and musically shared the stage with His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, the late Muhammad Ali, and myriad world leaders

over the past thirty years. He performs as soloist around the world, with spotlight performances at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; the Hollywood Bowl; and as soloist with The Jerusalem

Symphony Orchestra. He comes from a family of musicians from Ireland, France, Catalonia,  the Ukraine, and Poland, including the legendary Jewish violin-soloist from Poland,

Bronislaw Huberman – Founder of The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. A member of the Aspen Institute’s Global Initiative on Cultural Diplomacy during its tenure and recipient of

the prestigious Aspen Music Fellowship, he is currently spearheading a seismic musical event for our time – EARTH’S CALL – the concert and global broadcast taking place on

September 10th, 2017 from the high mountains in Aspen, Colorado.   Mrs. Sylvia Howard Fuhrman, Special Representative to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, stated:

“Michael Fitzpatrick has the respect and friendship of government leaders and members of the performing arts community throughout the world.  I find his interest in all endeavors – artistic and intellectual, 

combined with his enormous talent and enthusiasm used by him to enhance his global commitment to using music to uplift humanity – a source of great encouragement to those of us engaged in reaching out 

to every race, creed and culture here at the United Nations, and around the world. As a close personal friend of the late Pablo Casals, I can think of no more exemplary artist.”  

www.michaelfitzpatrick.com

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Matthew has over 14 years of financial services experience across asset management and investment banking (mergers & acquisitions, capital markets), emerging market equities and derivatives. Matthew began his career as an accountant at Ernst and Young and spent over 5 years with JPMorgan Chase in the Consumer, Healthcare and Retail Investment Banking and Institutional Asian Equities and Derivatives before launching the Latin American investment vehicle Everlight Capital. He later joined the private family office investment vehicle Cap-Meridian Ventures as a partner.

Today, Matthew has over 5 years of early stage venture investing and operating experience taking active roles in the portfolio companies.  He is a director of Andina Acquisition Corporation II, a non-executive director of BeMe Intimates and Selong Selo Developments and senior adviser to P3 Global Management.

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in Finance and Accounting, and a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Biomedical Sciences, both from the University of Queensland, Australia. He is FINRA Series 7 and 63 certified.

He serves on the board and various event committees philanthropic organizations including; The Jefferson Awards, The River Fund, The Fortune Society and The Botanical Gardens.  Matthew is Vice-Chairman of the New York Global Young Leaders Dialogue.

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