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As a Financial Representative at Guardian Life, Gayle helps individuals and businesses develop comprehensive financial strategies, including risk management, wealth preservation, and long-term planning. Her experience at industry leaders such as Northwestern Mutual and Guardian Life has given her a deep understanding of financial services, client relations, and business strategy.

In her role at Donohue Specialty Consulting, she collaborates with a team of industry-leading specialists to provide strategic guidance to clients looking to streamline operations, secure financing, and maximize business success. Whether facilitating key introductions, structuring complex deals, or developing customized solutions, Gayle is committed to helping clients achieve their financial and business goals.

In 2020, she moved to Singapore, where, building on her Silicon Valley roots, Maaike founded Epic Angels, now the world’s largest female investor network focusing on APAC innovation.

Today based in NYC, Maaike is on a mission to mobilize and empower female accredited investors, aiming to move billions and create significant change. She wears multiple hats as a Fractional CFO, Venture Partner for Family Offices, Board Member, and Professor at top universities.

Her drive for change is infectious. Maaike doesn’t just crunch numbers—she uses them to drive game-changing results in the investment world and beyond.

Tsolmon is the founder and managing partner of Jade Ventures, a global advisory and investment firm working on sustainable solutions to world’s complex challenges such as gender equality, climate change, access to finance and healthcare. As a limited partner, she invested in 20 companies in Founder Institute’s portfolio and is an active investor in pre-seed startups in Europe and the U.S. Tsolmon serves on the advisory board of the North Female Founder Collective, Visa Foundation/Village Capital’s Greentech Europe Program and Ventures Thrive deep tech accelerator funded by the European Innovation Council. She sits on the board of EVE, AI enabled cleantech company, and serves as an advisor to many startups in the ecosystem.

As a development economist, she managed north of $350 million U.S. government funded economic growth and investment projects supporting foreign direct investment, macroeconomic growth, job creation and small and medium enterprise revenue generation and global scale/growth. Notably, she worked on the winning proposal team for President Obama’s $9 billion global supply chain project in 20+ countries, and later managed project activities in Africa. She has a Distinction from Oxford University for her MBA, and a dual Economics and International Relations degree from American University for her Bachelor’s. She also holds master’s certifications from Yale School of Management and The George Washington University School of Business.

Kierith is a veteran human rights attorney, activist and community organizer with decades of experience in reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental justice, voting rights and election protection initiatives. She has worked with major organizations including: American Civil Liberties Union, Brennan Center for Justice, Center for Reproductive Rights, Empire State Pride Agenda, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, Lambda Legal, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Election Protection and Organizing For America. For over a decade, Kierith has served as a volunteer Pro Bono Arbitrator for the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), the largest independent abortion fund in the US, and the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Greater Palm Springs Animal Allies.

Previously, Kierith was an international corporate finance and governance attorney for Cleary Gottlieb (NYC and Paris) and later, Wilson Sonsini (Silicon Valley), where she worked for over a decade representing major institutional investment firms and multinational corporations on complex financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities regulation and compliance matters. She also advised Boards of Directors of public, private and philanthropic institutions. Kierith is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, L’Université Paris, La Sorbonne and New York University School of Law. She is a member of the Bar of the State of New York.

Wefunder (PBC) is an investment platform that helps startups raise capital. Wefunder’s platform allows founders to raise from their friends, family, customers, and community, with a mission to democratize startup investing. We’re driven to help more founders take their shot. To date, we’ve helped over 3,000 founders raise over $750M in funding.

Jocelyn has been a long-time volunteer in the Los Angeles community and has focused on improving the lives of children at risk. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Extraordinary Families and Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Program. She is a member of Visionary Women, Everychild Foundation, Fellows of Contemporary Art and the Photographic Arts Council and is involved with Exceptional Children’s Foundation and numerous arts and cultural organizations. Prior to the Skirball, Jocelyn enjoyed a 14-year career as a sales executive in the insurance industry at Johnson & Higgins and Chubb LifeAmerica. Jocelyn has a BA in psychology with minors in management and sociology from the University of New Hampshire.