WHO WE ARE

Brian has over 30 years of experience in financial services, and he is currently Senior Advisor to several firms, including KKR & Co., Star Mountain Capital and others. Previously, he served as President of Credit Suisse First Boston and earlier Co-head of its Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He was also a Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Brian is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

With a deep passion for improving lives through technology, Osama has spent the last two decades pioneering consumer internet, e-commerce and payments services. Most recently, he led Wallet & Payments at Google. Prior to Google, Osama spent eight years running product development at PayPal and launching most of what made PayPal a household name.

Charles Songhurst is a Founding Partner of long-short equity hedge fund Katana Capital, and he also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds asset in a variety of private companies. Previously, he was Head of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft, where he focused on partnering and Mergers & Acquisitions. He graduated from Oxford University.

Max Levchin is CEO of Affirm, the next-generation financial services company offering consumer credit at the point of sale, which was launched out of his San Francisco-based innovation lab, HVF. Max is also Chairman of the Board at Yelp, and he serves on several other boards, including Yahoo! and Evernote. Previously, he was CEO of Slide as well as Co-founder and CTO of PayPal.