John Ryan is executive chairman of HF Marketing Inc. HF Marketing Inc. specializes in the marketing of emerging hedge fund managers (sub $1b aum). HF and its team members assist managers in the creation of either Irish or Luxembourg UCITS versions of sustainable ongoing strategies. John Ryan started his career as a member of the Chicago Board of Options exchange where he was a market maker in the SPX options pit. John Ryan was an investment banker in New York City for AG Becker Inc. a company that specialized on market research and reverse take-overs. Mr. Ryan currently resides in France.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
Public Equity, Hedge Funds
Walt Anderson
Avealto
Walt Anderson has played a major role in the development of the competitive telecommunications industry in the USA and Europe.
He has demonstrated a consistent track record creating shareholder value: his four most significant companies were all successful, and collectively generated shareholder exit value of approximately US$2.1 Billion.
Mr. Anderson has also been a trailblazer in the commercial development of outer space, both commercially and through his charitable and educational activities, including the co-founding of the International Space University in 1988.
In 2007 New Scientist Magazine named him one of the “Top 10 influential space thinkers”.
Keynote
Private Company
Telecoms, Space
James Kenefick
Azafran Partners
James F. Kenefick is a serial entrepreneur,
tech leader, speaker, noted executive, advisor,
board director,mentor, and investor. With 25+
years as a Chairman, CEO, senior executive in the
Technology, Media and Telecommunications
(TMT) sector. Over this time, Mr. Kenefick has also
been a noted leader in the global CEO network,
YPO.
Mr. Kenefick now serves as Managing Partner of
Azafran Capital Partners (ACP), which he
co-founded in 2017, assembling a world-class
team of industry leaders, partners, and talented
specialists to orchestrate deep research, strategic
execution, capital formation, while building and
maintaining a thriving corporate culture. For more
information:
Keynote
Venture Capital
Technology
Dr. Michael Viana
UBS Asset Management
Michael is Global Head of GFO Client Services. He is responsible for Great Wealth Advisory & Wealth Planning with experts sitting in Zurich, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York. In addition, he drives the GFO Marketing strategy, Client platforms and Content marketing. Prior to his current function, Michael was Head of the UHNW Client Strategy Office, Global Head of UHNW Client Development and COO of UHNW & GFO Europe and WM Nordics team.
He has been with UBS for 20 years and held several senior positions in Zurich, Tokyo and Singapore.
Former positions in UBS Group include UHNW Head for Japan Domestic in Tokyo and Regional Head for Key Client Solutions APAC in Singapore.
Michael holds a PhD degree in Law from University of Zurich & Basel as well as an MBA degree in General Management & Finance from Rollins College, Orlando.
Keynote
Thought Leadership
Market Analysis
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
HF Marketing
John Ryan
Huntress Dividend Strategy UCITS utilizes a proprietary system to execute a hedged equity dividend strategy on S&P 500 dividend paying equities. Long equity positions are hedged with short, near or at-the-money call options and long out-of-the-money put options.
Executions are timed to enhance income from dividends and produce capital gains while risk is limited and defined.
A disciplined risk-centric approach to harvest dividends from large capitalization dividend paying securities with options.
Equity options are employed to enhance dividends and provide a definitive hedge.
Options are used to enhance the return profile and not as a directional transaction.
Keynote
Asset Management - Boutique
Public Equity, Hedge Funds
Avealto
Walt Anderson
AVEALTO., a United Kingdom company, is in the final stage of developing a viable High Altitude Platform (“HAP”) to support high value telecom infrastructure payloads. The successful completion of this development will make AVEALTO the lowest cost & highest quality provider in an existing $25 Billion market.
HAPs can provide broadband capacity exactly where needed at a much lower cost than satellites and serve remote areas that traditional ground-based infrastructure cannot easily reach.
Customers are waiting for service in 4 primary market segments:
● Maritime communications
● Mobile backhaul
● VSAT direct link to office and homes
● High Speed Trading Links
Avealto HAP vehicles will only be placed in service to support existing demand to create instant profitability with recurring revenue.
Keynote
Private Company
Telecoms, Space
Azafran Partners
James Kenefick
Azafran Capital Partners is a Deep
Transformational Technologies Venture Fund.
Azafran Fund II is vintage 2020, investing in
companies in North America and Europe utilizing
disruptive voice, acoustics/sensory, and imagery
technologies embedded with Augmented AI /ML in
the Health, Wellness and Enterprise markets, a
$200B opportunity by 2025.
Azafran has 7 transformational companies under
LOI for Fund II and $30M to deploy with an internal
research team and 38-city Eastern North America
and Western Europe feeder network already built
out and ready to seek, invest and scale in ~25
companies overall.
Company
Keynote
Venture Capital
Technology
UBS Asset Management
Dr. Michael Viana
UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in Switzerland. UBS's strategy is centered on our leading global wealth management business and our premier universal bank in Switzerland, enhanced by Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The bank focuses on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital efficient, and have an attractive long-term structural growth or profitability outlook.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices over 50 regions and locations, including all major financial centers, and employs over 68,000 people around the world. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors.
