Ed Lantz is an entertainment technology engineer, entrepreneur, immersive experience designer and innovator in giant-screen digital cinema. He left aerospace engineering in 1990 to transform old-style planetariums into 360-degree immersive visualization environments, designing over a dozen dome theaters worldwide while at Spitz, Inc. including the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, National Space Center in Leicester, UK, the Glasgow Science Center in Glasgow, Scotland and Papalote Museo del Nino in Mexico City.  He also led the product development of the SciDome digital planetarium which has sold over 100 units worldwide.

Ed co-founded Vortex Immersion Media in 2007 to bring VR, immersive and interactive experiences into mainstream arts and entertainment markets. Vortex produces immersive and interactive media experiences for themed entertainment, VR Cinemas and numerous Fortune 500 companies including Condé Nast, EMC², IBM, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Nestle, NFL, Nike, Nokia, Sprint and Turner Broadcast. The company has produced 360 concert dome venues as large as 60 meters in diameter with capacity of 3,000 people for artists including Scrillix, Diplo and DJ Snake (dot Party for Production Club) and Childish Gambino (Pharos for Live Nation).

Vortex also operates the Vortex Dome, the first commercial immersive media production studio and events venue located in downtown Los Angeles. The Vortex Dome hosts a wide range of arts and entertainment co-productions including live stage shows (Pasión, BollyDoll), fine arts performances (Blue Apple ballet), live concerts (Ceremony with James Hood) in addition to immersive arts educational activities (classes for CalArts, USC and Relativity University).

Ed has published numerous articles in journals and trade publications on immersive media and virtual reality, is a public speaker on panels and keynote talks including at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and is a regular contributor to ACM/SIGGRAPH. Ed’s personal focus is on the unique cognitive properties of next-generation multisensory “sentient” environments, the merging of virtual and real storytelling worlds, and the development of fulldome theaters as next-generation entertainment and performance venues. Ed holds two U.S. patents on immersive theater technologies, was awarded a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with minor in Quantum Physics and Electromagnetics from Tennessee Tech University, and is a founder of the trade association IMERSA. He co-authored DIGSS 1.1 (Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications) in cooperation with the Giant Screen Cinema Association, is a member of ACM/SIGGRAPH and IEEE, co-chaired the VR Village at SIGGRAPH 2015, is a board delegate on the Producer’s Guild of America’s New Media Council and chairs the Boards of nonprofit organizations c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and Create Now.

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Jonathan M. Conrad is the Chairman, CEO and founder of AdmieMobile LLC, an early stage software company.  He is the co-inventor of AdmieMobile’s peer-to-peer software, whereby data can cross multiple platforms in the mobile and desktop space in a secure and private/trust and verify environment, without storage in the cloud.  His “Systems and Methods for Establishing and Maintaining Virtual Computing Cloud”, patent was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and published November 4, 2014. On November 3, 2014 a second patent was filed.  Mr. Conrad is a member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) cyber security round table which includes some the nation’s leading experts in the field.  He has also participated at West Point Military Academy’s Army Cyber Institute briefings. Mr. Conrad’s experience in senior management positions has been with organizations ranging from a large national bank, to operating a mid-size public company as an executive officer, to working with early stage companies, often as a principal or CEO in fields which usually included cutting edge technologies.    

Mr. Conrad was instrumental in the creation of the federal legislation enabling broad-based use of leverage Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). During the Reagan Administration, he was appointed to the Commercial Space Advisory Committee of the US Department of Transportation, created by executive order of the President.  He served as a Senior Advisor to the original X PRIZE for space travel.  Mr. Conrad was a member of the “Harvard North Pole Discovery Centennial Commemorative Committee” to honor Robert Peary and Matthew Henson, for their historic accomplishment for being the first to reach the North Pole in 1909.   In a related prime time PBS documentary, he appeared in “North Pole Promise”, a timeless story of these two iconic American explorers. Mr. Conrad is a Medalist of The Explorers Club as well as a former Director and Officer. He has led discussions at the Club for a series of “green dinners” on the impact of certain food groups on health, climate change and wildlife. He also serves on the International Board of WildAid.org. Mr. Conrad is a graduate and Trustee of Washington and Jefferson College, and resides in New York.

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Mr. Bennardo is the CEO and founder of Favara, LLC, the family office that serves several generations of the Bennardo Family.

John is the grandson of immigrants that were very proud to be Americans and gave their children and grandchildren a sense of purpose as well as the urge to build and grow as they continue to look towards the future.

Having graduated with a BS in Business Management and Policy from the Harriman School of Business at Stony Brook, John embarked upon a decade long career in finance with Paine Webber (now UBS).

While working in the financial markets, John met and married his wife Michele,  a second generation family member,  who would go on to run her families’ operating company that primarily focuses on construction in the NYC metro area (started by her father in the 1980’s). John was intrigued and left Paine Webber to work alongside her.  There he spent several years working with both generations of the family and learning the business and what it meant to run a family enterprise.

After several years, and armed with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, John left and started the first of several companies he would come to own.  Legacy Builders is a General Contracting, Construction Management, and Development Company licensed in several states.  It was to become the first of several companies owned by the family.

Today the day to day operations of Legacy Builders is run by John’s nephews as he continues exploring new opportunities in the ever changing market of both investment and acquisition.

John is passionate about next generation and millennial issues as well as charity and spends a great deal of time and energy on those topics.

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Investor, angel investor, serial entrepreneur, enjoys developing and commercializing disruptive, global scale, technologies for better life to people and businesses.
Ofir Paz is the CEO of Cell Buddy and the chairman of Market Windows and the former CEO of InspireMD, a US publicly traded medical company he founded in 2005.
Paz also served as the CEO of Peach Networks, a company he founded and was acquired by Microsoft.
Mr. Paz received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, graduating cum laude, and a M.Sc. from Tel Aviv University.
Specialties: Mobile technologies, Internet, angel investing, medical devices, mobile phones & systems, algorithmic trading, patents, computer science and Internet networks.

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Hoyt David Morgan is an experienced entrepreneur with a successful track record of building meaningful businesses. Hoyt’s philosophy and skills focus on acquiring and providing exceptional value for customers, building and nurturing great teams, developing smart strategy and executing across the board. Hoyt’s companies have been acquired by AOL, Microsoft, Ole and private equity firms providing strong returns for founders, employees and investors.

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Omar Ahmad, Ph.D. is the Director of Innovative Engineering in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and also the Director and Chief Creative Engineer of the Kata design group in the Department of Neurology. He is responsible for Kata’s creative output and all Kata personnel. His strategic vision focuses on four fundamental aspects:

1.      Fostering the best entertainment content possible through artistic/emotional mastery, scientific research, and creative technological innovation
2.      Creating visceral user experiences based upon neuroscience and physics based animations for engendering movements beneficial for motor recovery and brain repair
3.      Overall vision for all Kata products, bridging the gap between academia and commercial-quality engineering
4.      Applying the creative output of Kata to medical therapeutics on the clinical floor and iterating through design with physicians and clinical staff

Dr. Ahmad is the inventor of a number of physics-based real-time technologies and algorithms to create visceral user experiences that engender specific movements for greater brain plasticity after brain injury. He is responsible for maintaining tangible product output for KATA, so that it exceeds, in quality and innovation, what would be expected from academic or commercial production in isolation.

He received his BS, MSE, and PhD degrees in Computer Science, from the Johns Hopkins University, GWC Whiting School of Engineering.

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The Florida Wealth Management & Family Office Conference 2016 and Luxury Events Week

Join over 150 of the top high net worth individuals and family office executives in a unique setting brought to you by the producers of the East Coast Family Office conference. Enjoy our first tier conference alongside a series of luxury Art and Lifestyle events throughout the Art Basel week. We at DC Finance always provide our guests with a different kind of wealth management experience. We deliver first tier content, top notch, geographically varied and some of the speakers you never heard before, with the opportunity for family members to meet new peers that one won’t meet anywhere else. This year’s keynote speakers are Mr. Romero Britto, International Artist, Mr. Tomas Pedro Regalado, Mayor of Miami, Mr. Chaim Katzman, Founder & CEO of Gazit Globe and Mr. Bob Diener, Founder of Hotels.com and Getaroom.com. A Week of Wealth Management, Art and Lifestyle In the heart of one of the world’s most important art happenings,  DC Finance will host its sixth highly praised US wealth management conference at the W South Beach Hotel, a day before the opening of Art Basel and followed by a week of luxury events dedicated to our guests. It’s not the content, attendees and the variety of speakers that make this event one of the more unique events in this field. This is the only art related wealth management event in the world that mixes art and pleasure together with wealth management and family business related topics throughout an entire week that includes special lectures by some of the top names in the art world, yacht parties and special cocktail nights – all week long. Following the conference our guests will enjoy a series of luxury, art and lifestyle  events throughout the Art Basel week including a grand yacht party, a healthy beach brunch, and a variety of satellite events including cocktail parties and VIP previews of leading art exhibitions: Nov 29th 

Agenda:

Nov. 29th,2016 Agenda:

8am – 6pm – The Florida Family Office Conference, The W, Miami Beach

6pm – 8pm – Building Legacy Opening Night Preview, Design Miami

6pm – 8pm – VIP Cocktail at Untitled Art

6pm – 8pm – VIP & Press Preview – Scope Miami

Nov. 30th

09:30am-11:15am – DC Finance’s Healthy Brunch at Manna Life Food

10am-12pm – VIP Preview, Design Miami

6pm – 10pm – Red Dot Miami ‘s Opening Night Preview Party   Dec. 1st 10am – 1pm – VIP Private Preview Brunch at Pulse Miami 5pm to 7pm – VIP lounge and Young Collectors Cocktails at Pulse Miami  Dec. 2nd Cocktail Party at Red Dot Miami

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Emilio T. González, Ph.D., is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Miami-Dade Aviation Department. He oversees operations at Miami International Airport (MIA) and four general aviation (GA) airports in the Miami area, which together generate $33.7 billion in business revenue and support more than 280,000 direct and indirect jobs. MIA leads the way, handling more than 44 million passengers and more than two million tons of cargo annually, placing it among America’s busiest international passenger and cargo airports.
Under González’s leadership, MIA is aggressively expanding its extensive route network into untapped world markets, while leveraging technology to improve the customer experience at the airport. Dr. González has overseen the completion of one of the largest airport expansion programs in the U.S., a $6.5-billion capital improvement program that has added new terminals, roadways and other infrastructure to MIA and the County’s GA airports. He is now leading the planning process for another major infrastructure expansion at MIA. In addition, Dr. González personally directs the Department’s government affairs functions at the local, state, federal and international levels.

Dr. González has spent most of his career involved in leader development, strategic planning, foreign affairs and international policy. He completed a distinguished 26-year career in the U.S. Army and retired with the rank of Colonel. He has served as Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House and was later appointed – and subsequently confirmed by the U.S. Senate – as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an Under Secretary position within the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. González has also held several executive-level positions in the private sector, including Senior Managing Director for Global and Government Affairs at a major Miami law firm, CEO of his own international and governmental affairs consulting firm, and President & CEO of Indra USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Spain’s Indra Sistemas, S.A., a leading multinational IT company.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. González earned a B.A. in International Studies from the University of South Florida; an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University; an M.A. in Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval War College; and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Miami. He has also served as a member of various boards in the banking, technology and social services industries. A recognized civic leader, Dr. González has been awarded the Boy Scouts of America 2014 Hispanic Heritage Award, Latin Builders Association 2014 Public Administrator of the Year Award, Friends of the American Latino Museum American Latino Influencer Award, and the 2015 Greater Miami Aviation Association Juan Trippe Award.

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Appointed to the position of CEO by the Foundation’s Board of Directors in July of 2012, Eric Eikenberg has extensive policy and political experience in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. During his time in public service, he served as Chief of Staff to former Governor Charlie Crist and former U.S. Representative E. Clay Shaw. Immediately preceding his joining the Everglades Foundation, Mr. Eikenberg served as senior policy advisor at the law firm of Holland & Knight, LLP, co-chairing the firm’s Florida Government Advocacy Team with former Governor Bob Martinez. As the CEO of the Everglades Foundation, he leads the Foundation’s science, advocacy, communications, and legal teams, which are nationally recognized for their expertise in Everglades restoration. A graduate of the American University and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Eric and his family live in Miami.

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President of LHH – DBM Peru and Chile.(www.lhh.pe). Both companies are the leading career transition and executive coaching organizations in their respective countries.

She is also Chairman of the Board of CARE Peru, (www.care.org.pe) the leading non-profit humanitarian organization fighting the injustice of poverty in Peru with focus on gender equality and girls education.

Author of the national best-seller Usted S.A. Empleabilidad y Marketing Personal,(https://www.facebook.com/InesTemple.Oficial) published in 2010 and now in its fifteenth edition. Usted S.A. was second in overall sales in Peru in 2012 and again in 2014 and first among business books in 2013.

She has been recognized as the “#1 Referent in Peru for Internet Presence” in 2016, by a study published by the leading newspaper El Comercio and as one of the “Top 13 Business Leaders in Peru by Reputation” by Merco & Diario Gestion in 2016. Also recognized as the  “CEO with Most Internet Presence” in Peru by Revista G de Gestion in 2015 and again in 2017.She has also been recognized among the 15 most powerful women in companies in Peru by Diario Gestión in 2016.

She received the “Leadership Award” by the Peruvian Diario Trome and the LHH “Worldwide SuperStar Award” (www.lhh.com) both in 2014.

She has published over 700 articles and videos in various magazines and newspapers in Peru, Latin America and now in the US, including withDiario El Comercio, the leading newspaper in Peru. Her videos have over 5.5 million viewers.

Member of the International Advisory Board of CENTRUM Catolica, she is also member of the board of Transparency Peru, of Apoyo Comunicaciones S.A., Angel Ventures Peru, YPO Peruand of the League Against Cancer.  Previously, she was Chairman of the Board of Peru 2021, the leading non-profit civil association that promotes corporate social responsibility in Peru. She was also Chairman of the Board of OWIT Peru, an organization for women in business in Peru and President of CADE Universitario 2009. She was Vice-President of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru.

BS in Business Administration from New York University (NYU) in New York and MBA from Adolfo Ibañez School of Management, Miami, Florida. She has attended leadership courses at various universities, includingHarvard, Kellogg, Georgetown and Singularity.

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Euclid Walker is the managing partner of Parkway Investment Management LLC, an alternative investment management and advisory firm. Prior to founding Parkway, he was a founding member of a middle-market investment firm. He also founded Renascent Capital group in 2004 to provide strategic and capital-raising advice to corporate clients and family offices. Prior to forming Renascent, Mr.Walker was an executive director of Morgan Stanley, where he worked for over 10 years in various capacities, including private equity investing; managing the Johannesburg South Africa office; and serving as operations officer for Corporate Finance and Banking Departments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and as executive director for Midwest investment banking business. Mr. Walker is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he currently serves as chair of the Trusteeship committee of Morehouse’s Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Palm Beach County Investment Policy Committee.

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David McCombie is founder and chief executive officer of McCombie Group LLC, a collection of influential families actively seeking to invest long-term capital into established family-owned businesses. A thought leader on private equity, he has been a featured speaker at various international investment conferences and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. David also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Business. Prior to forming his firm, David worked at McKinsey & Company and Citigroup. David graduated from Harvard Law School, and also did extensive coursework in corporate finance at the Harvard Business School. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Miami with a degree in Economics and Finance. He is also a licensed Florida attorney.

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Robert G. Blabey III co-founded Align Private Capital to serve the investment needs of single-family offices. Specifically, Align works with family members or their family office investment professionals to create tailored investment solutions based on their needs. Engagements have included: comprehensive portfolio analysis/construction/management, direct real estate investing, manager review/selection, distressed workouts, direct investing vetting/due-diligence/post-investment oversight/sale/disposition, family-to-family partnership execution and co-invest, and private company balance sheet management. For the ten years prior to forming Align Private Capital, Rob worked as chief investment officer for two large single-family offices (the Collier family and the Statler family) and for a multi-family office that specialized in the alternative investment vertical. In each of these positions, he managed both public market and private investing initiatives for families with sophisticated investment requirements and diversified holdings. Before working in the single-family space, he was an investment partner at Trident Partners, a private equity and hedge fund firm. He began his career in the International High Yield Investment Banking and CapitalMarkets Division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York and London and prior to that in the International High Yield Capital Markets Group at Chase Manhattan

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The New York Times called her pharmaceutical product the drug of a generation and Fortune called her a tireless force of nature. Associates of hers call her unapologetically pink. Cindy Whitehead is a highly regarded women’s health advocate and serial entrepreneur. Over a distinguished 22-year career in healthcare, in only the last 10 she has started and sold two businesses for more than $1.5B. She co-founded and last served as CEO for Sprout Pharmaceuticals where, in 2015, the company broke through with the first ever FDA-approved drug for low sexual desire in women dubbed “female Viagra” by the media. She started Sprout only one day after selling another that she also co-founded, Slate Pharmaceuticals, which redefined long lasting testosterone treatment for men.

Cindy has made waves, and made her own success, in the field of sexual medicine and creating mission driven companies that deliver big. Her results became a widely covered business success story featured in major media outlets: The New York Times, Associated Press, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS, Fox, Yahoo and the cover feature of Entrepreneur Magazine. Cindy has been an invited speaker at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women, at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, SXSW and Inc. Women about what it takes for breakthrough business success.

For all of her accomplishments, she is most proud of the profoundly positive impact that her products have had in people’s lives and her company’s outcomes have had for her teams. Cindy has a new mission to mentor, invest in, launch and build other women led or focused businesses. In 2016, she opened the doors to The Pink Ceiling — a cross between a VC firm, a ‘pinkubator’ and a consulting enterprise — where she is CEO. In very rare moments she is hard at work trying not to work. You cannot miss Cindy. What she touches turns to Pink.

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Rolando is a serial entrepreneur passionate about mentoring corporate leaders.
He is Founder, Investor and CEO of Visage Capital Group, a Strategic Business Development company that invests and advice mid market companies for exponential growth. Active invested sectors include Financial Services, Investment Banking, Neuroscience, Leadership Development, Retail, Real Estate development, among others. Advisory includes Strategic Boards Structuring, Financial advisory, M&A and Strategic Growth Advisory with presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

He also serves as Managing Director of STS Capital Partners, a financial advisory firm focused in M&A practice.

On his philanthropic endeavors, Rolando is author of Awakened Leaders and founder of Awakened Leaders Institute, a mentoring program that has earned credentials from IESE Business School, Spain. transforming leaders to become active agents of positive change in their family, their businesses and their communities.

He has been also a guest speaker at several national and international organizations including the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Universities, among other.

As an active member of YPO he currently serves as Past-Chair for Latin America and served in the international board of WPO.

In 2015, he co-founded Citizen Council for the Progress of the Americas, a US non profit that promotes the values of Life, Freedom, Property and Entrepreneurship as pillars of every society.

Rolando also seats on the board of PVBLIC (Latam), a non-profit media organization that harnesses the power of media to drive social change.

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Mayor Gabriel Groisman represents District 5 on the Bal Harbour Village Council. Mayor Gabriel Groisman was elected as Mayor of Bal Harbour in November 2016. He was first elected to serve as a Councilman for District 5 of Bal Harbour Village in November 2014. Mayor Groisman is a lawyer, writer, speaker, and a father to four beautiful girls. Mayor Groisman is active in the community on various fronts, including speaking regularly to groups about fighting anti-semitism and becoming active and contributing members to society, as well as presenting to attorneys about the intricacies of trademark law. Mayor Groisman has also been invited to speak on two occasions at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, as a legal scholar on combatting unjust and illegal commercial and academic boycotts. Mayor Groisman also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of both the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, Greater Miami Chapter.

Mayor Groisman is also a Shareholder with the law firm of Coffey Burlington, PL, where he has been practicing law for over a decade. He focuses primarily in the areas of international commercial litigation and counseling, international anti-corruption and anti-money laundering compliance, international trademark law, and complex commercial litigation. There, Mayor Groisman serves as the Chair of its Intellectual Property team, and the Co-Chair of its International Commercial Law team.

Mayor Groisman also maintains blogs on The Times of Israel and Huffington Post and has been a guest on various radio and television programs in the United States and abroad.

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Dooma Wendschuh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Province, a Toronto-based highly disruptive startup in Canada’s legal cannabis industry.  Province’s products promise a better class of psychoactive, the first true alternative to alcohol.  Following twenty-nine speaking engagements, thirteen times on national television, and nearly sixty media appearances, Mr. Wendschuh has emerged as a leading voice in the burgeoning cannabis industry.  He is known for advocating and helping bring about a new paradigm where top quality cannabinoid-derived products serve as a safer and healthier alternative to alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and prescribed and illegal psychoactives.

Prior to founding Province, Mr. Wendschuh was the co-founder of a successful, well-known Colorado-based cannabinoid research and consumer products company which he ran for two and a half years.  Before entering the cannabis industry, Mr. Wendschuh was co-founder and co-CEO of sekretagent Productions, Inc., a film and video game production company and advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles and Montreal. sekretagent is best known for its video game work, helping to develop and launch the wildly popular ASSASSIN’S CREED franchise, and providing development and story services on BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS, three games in the PRINCE OF PERSIA franchise, and many more. Collectively, sekretagent’s games grossed more than $5 billion worldwide. sekretagent’s advertising division created and produced award winning work for the Coca-Cola Company, General Motors, Polaroid, Diamond Resorts International, Mentos Mints, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and many others. Under Mr. Wendschuh’s leadership, sekretagent also sold eight motion pictures and one television series to major studios and produced THE PLAGUE for Sony Screengems.

Mr. Wendschuh graduated magna cum-laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and received his Masters from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema / Television Peter Stark Producing Program.

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David Homan serves as the Executive Director of the America-Israel, a multi-million nonprofit that supports emerging artists in Israel.  The youngest Director in AICF’s history, David has raised and allocated grants to support over 6,000 individuals and numerous institutions and programs during his decade in leadership.

He works as an advisor for private family foundations and individual philanthropists, as well as serving as an advisor for the Arthur Miller Foundation, Naomi Prawar Kadar Foundation, Nexus, Offsite, ConnectorConn, and many others.

He has founded and launched over a dozen nonprofits including the award winning dance company Ariel Rivka Dance, is an award winning classical composer, and has had his last three CD releases played on over 125 radio stations.

David’s primary work focuses on empowering philanthropy and connecting individuals to each other in the fields of business, start-ups, nonprofits, and charity.

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Sarah Cone is the founder and Managing Partner of Social Impact Capital.

Prior to founding Social Impact Capital, Sarah was a consultant to i(x) investments, an impact investing firm founded by Howard Buffett. Earlier in her career, Sarah was an Associate at Illuminate Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund with top decile performance investing in B2B SaaS. She got her start in venture capital working for the “emerging technologies” venture capital group at Omidyar Network.

Sarah has also worked in the legal department of Google, at the technology law firm Fenwick & West, Amazon.com, and at the technology policy non-profit Public Knowledge.

Sarah has a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the Evergreen State College and a JD from UC Berkeley. During law school she was a part of a Technology Policy Working Group with human rights NGOs, Google, Yahoo and other tech companies trying to find solutions for protecting human rights in China. She also volunteered for the C.A.R.C. Asylum Law Clinic helping represent people seeking asylum in the United States. At UC Berkeley, Sarah won the Advocacy Award for persuasive writing, the Jurisprudence Award for academic excellence, and her thesis “Reforming Federal Tax Policy to Support Social Entrepreneurs” received honors.

Sarah founded the “One Person at a Time Foundation”, which helps get the homeless of the street, and volunteers as a Venture Advisor to Build.org, and Defy Ventures.

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Marty Cass is BDO’s Southeast Region Private Client Services practice leader. He has more than 30 years of experience providing innovative tax services and financial advice to business enterprises, high net worth individuals and multi-generational families, athletes and entertainers, and family offices. He specializes in tax planning and compliance, estate and wealth transfer planning, philanthropic planning, wealth preservation strategizing, asset protection planning and succession planning. He has extensive knowledge and experience in all areas of state, federal, and international tax.

He has served clients in various industries, including real estate, construction, emerging business and technology, healthcare, publishing and entertainment, nonprofit organizations and family offices.

Marty also advises various businesses and individuals on a full range of tax matters and conducts business valuations and provides litigation support to attorneys and their clients. He has a significant amount of experience testifying as an expert witness with respect to diverse areas of the law.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, Board of Directors
East Coast Estate Planning Council
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, Audit Committee Chair, Financial Oversight CommitteeMeyer Academy
National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts
Palm Beach County Education Foundation, Board member
Palm Beach Estate Planning Council
Palm Beach Tax Institute

EDUCATION
B.A., Syracuse University, New YorkM.B.A., New York University

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