Bela Bajaria

Chief Content Officer
Netflix

Bela Bajaria joined Netflix in 2016 and was named chief content officer in January 2023. She oversees the teams responsible for all Netflix content from around the world including series Stranger Things, Squid Game, Wednesday, Bridgerton, Heeramandi, Lupin, and films including Leave the World Behind, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Academy Awards winners All Quiet on the Western Front and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Bajaria led Netflix’s push into live events and sports with specials such as The Roast of Tom Brady, Jake Paul v Mike Tyson, and multiyear deals with the NFL and WWE.

Prior to Netflix, Bajaria was president of Universal Television. Past honors include TIME’s “100 Most Influential People of 2022,” and Fortune’s “100 Most Powerful Women” list for the past five years, The Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment Power 100” list, and Variety’s “Power of Women.”  She serves on the boards of The Coca-Cola Company and the Paley Center, among others.

Jalen Brunson

Point Guard, New York Knicks
Co-Founder, Second Round Foundation

Jalen Brunson is a dynamic and skilled guard who has established himself as one of the League’s most reliable clutch performers. In 2023-24, he achieved career-high averages in points and assists, tallied 36 games with 30+ points, and played a pivotal role in leading the Knicks to the NBA Playoffs.

The South Jersey native was a two-time NCAA champion at Villanova. He earned numerous college accolades, including the Bob Cousy Award as the nation’s top point guard, consensus first team All-America selections, and consensus player of the year honors.

Off the court, Brunson has business partnerships with Nike, Chase, Faherty, Body Armor, and DoorDash, among others. In 2022, he co-founded the Second Round Foundation (SRF), which plants seeds to create equity for young people through education, sport, and community. The foundation’s goal is to empower young people to determine their own success, regardless of background or circumstance.

Ian Charles

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Arctos Partners

Ian H. Charles is co-founder and managing partner at Arctos Partners. In addition to his investment responsibilities, Charles directs investment strategy, firm governance and investor relations for Arctos Partners.

Prior to the formation of Arctos Partners, Charles served as a member of the private equity and infrastructure investment committees and partner at Landmark Partners, a leader in the global private equity, real estate and infrastructure secondary markets. At Landmark, Charles helped design and execute the firm’s private equity strategy; helped build the firm’s quantitative research group; and sourced and structured large, innovative liquidity transactions across the firm’s investment verticals.

Prior to joining Landmark Partners, Charles was a co-founder of Cogent Partners, the first secondary market sell-side advisor. Cogent, which was acquired by Greenhill & Co., is widely recognized for transforming the private equity secondary market.

Ken Chenault

Chairman & Managing Director, General Catalyst
Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, American Express

Ken Chenault is the chairman and a managing director of General Catalyst. From 2001-2018, he was chairman and CEO of American Express. Upon his retirement from American Express, Warren Buffett, the company’s largest shareholder, stated, “Ken’s been the gold standard for corporate leadership and the benchmark that I measure others against.”

Chenault has been honored by multiple publications including the TIME100 “Most Influential People” list, which celebrated him together with Ken Frazier in 2021 for mobilizing hundreds of corporate leaders to advocate for equitable voting rights in the U.S., and for co-founding OneTen, a coalition of leading organizations committed to upskilling, hiring, and promoting people without four-year degrees into family-sustaining jobs.

Chenault serves on the boards of Airbnb, Berkshire Hathaway, Bilt Rewards, Chief, Guild Education, and the Harvard Corporation. He also serves on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations.

Rick Cordella

President, NBC Sports

Rick Cordella was named president, NBC Sports in September 2023, and oversees all aspects of NBC Sports’ collection of brands and platforms, which includes NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, Golf Channel, NBC Sports Digital and two transactional sports businesses, GolfNow and SportsEngine. He also oversees sports on Peacock.

He joined NBCUniversal in 2006 and has served in a variety of leadership roles. In 2022, Cordella was named president, programming, NBC Sports and Peacock Sports, where he led NBCU’s sports programming strategy across broadcast, cable and streaming. Cordella previously served as chief commercial officer, Peacock; executive vice president and general manager, digital media, NBC Sports; and general manager, fantasy sports.

Prior to joining NBCU, Cordella served as Rotoworld’s general manager.

Cordella earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Providence College and an MBA from Boston College.

Eddy Cue

Senior Vice President, Services
Apple, Inc.

Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.

Cue oversees the full range of Apple’s services, including Apple Music, Apple News, Apple Podcasts, the Apple TV app, and Apple TV+, as well as Apple Pay, Apple Card, Maps, Search Ads, Apple’s iCloud services, and Apple’s productivity and creativity apps. His team has an excellent track record of building and strengthening world-class services that meet and exceed the high expectations of Apple’s customers and offer creators and storytellers the opportunity to bring their creative visions to people around the world.

Cue joined Apple in 1989 and leads a large organization of amazing people. He was instrumental in creating the Apple online store in 1998, the iTunes Store in 2003, and the App Store in 2008. He also played a key role in developing Apple’s award-winning iLife suite of applications. In his early years at Apple, he was a successful manager of software engineering and customer support teams.

General Martin Dempsey

General, U.S. Army, Retired

General Martin E. Dempsey was the 18^th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Following 41 years of military service he now teaches leadership at Duke, consults the NBA on leader development and social responsibility, and serves as the chairman of USA Basketball. Dempsey is a best-selling author, a decorated soldier, and recipient of numerous foreign awards, including an honorary knighthood bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II in 2016. He and his high school sweetheart, Deanie, have been married for 48 years and live in Wake Forest, N.C. They have three children—each of whom served in the Army—and nine grandchildren.

Scott Guthrie

Executive Vice President
Cloud + AI, Microsoft

As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud + AI group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for a set of hyperscale cloud computing solutions and services including Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, generative AI solutions, data platforms, business applications, and developer solutions. These platforms and services help organizations across the globe solve urgent challenges–and transform for the future.

Since joining Microsoft in 1997, Guthrie has been a key contributor to Microsoft’s fundamental cloud, server, and development technologies. Under his leadership, Azure has evolved into a robust cloud platform, providing a wide range of services and solutions to thousands of businesses worldwide–including 95% of the Fortune 500.

Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke. He serves on the board of directors of the London Stock Exchange Group.

Connor Hayes

Vice President, Head of GenAI Product
Meta

Connor Hayes leads the product management team for the Generative AI organization at Meta. He joined Facebook in 2011, and since then has worked on a variety of consumer product initiatives such as Stories, Reels, video calling and Threads. He is based in the Bay Area and loves the Boston Celtics.

Mike Hopkins

Head, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
Amazon

Mike Hopkins is head of Prime Video (PV) and Amazon MGM Studios, a role in which he oversees all aspects of Amazon’s video entertainment business. Hopkins leads the strategic vision, product development and technology behind Amazon’s industry-leading video service, while also overseeing Amazon MGM Studios’ film and television divisions, as well as PV’s live sports and licensed content offerings. Hopkins joined Amazon in February 2020.

Under Hopkins’ leadership, Prime Video has seen an unprecedented level of growth in both viewership and content offerings, including the launch of live coverage of the NFL, Premier League Soccer, UEFA Champions League Soccer, the Olympics, an exclusive 11-year media rights deal with the NBA beginning with the 2025-26 season, and other live sports, all in addition to the award-winning films and series that have defined Amazon Studios since its inception.

Prior to Amazon, Hopkins was chairman of Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and CEO of Hulu.

Jensen Huang

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
NVIDIA

Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as president, CEO, and as a member of its board of directors.

Since its founding, NVIDIA has pioneered accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, and ignited the era of modern AI. NVIDIA is now driving the platform shift of accelerated computing and generative AI, transforming the world’s largest industries and profoundly impacting society.

Huang’s honors include election to the National Academy of Engineering; the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award; the IEEE Founder’s Medal; the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award; and honorary doctorate degrees from Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, and Oregon State. He has been named the world’s best CEO by Fortune, the Economist, and Brand Finance, as well as one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people.

Andre Iguodala

Executive Director
National Basketball Players Association

Andre Iguodala is the acting executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). In this role, Iguodala works on behalf of NBA players to ensure their rights are protected and they are fairly compensated for the tremendous value they bring to the sport, both on the court and as global ambassadors.

Iguodala is a four-time NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors, former All-Star, NBA Finals MVP, and two-time Olympic gold medalist. Since 2010, he has been at the forefront of venture capital and technology, with a portfolio that spans more than 50 companies. Known for his keen business savvy, Iguodala recently co-founded MOSAIC, a $200 million early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise, fintech, healthcare, and sports companies. In 2022, he partnered with former teammate Evan Turner to launch New Amendment, a content production company. Together with Vox Media they produce and co-host Point Forward, which consistently ranks in the top five sports podcasts.

Sabrina Ionescu

WNBA Player, New York Liberty
Philanthropist; Founder, SI20 Foundation

Three-time All-Star guard Sabrina Ionescu has become one of the most notable names in sports since being selected by New York with the first overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft. Before joining the Liberty, Ionescu played at Oregon, where she became the only player in NCAA history—male or female—with 2,000 career points (2,562), 1,000 career rebounds (1,040) and 1,000 career assists (1,091).

In 2023, Ionescu set the internet on fire with her performance in the WNBA 3Point Contest, when she scored 37 out of a possible 40 points, the most ever in an NBA or WNBA 3Point competition. In 2024, she led the Liberty to the WNBA championship and helped Team USA win a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

Off the court, Ionescu is a Nike signature athlete, the first woman to globally lead a unisex shoe and apparel collection for the brand, and she founded the SI20 Foundation to inspire kids to stay active through sport while building relationships with their teammates to foster deeper community connections.

Steve Kerr

Head Coach
Golden State Warriors

In his 11th season as Warriors head coach, Steve Kerr has led the team to four NBA championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022), six Finals appearances, and the NBA’s all-time wins record (73) in 2015–16. He owns the highest postseason winning percentage (.707) among NBA coaches with 25+ games. Kerr also coached USA Basketball to gold at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, becoming the second NBA coach with four NBA titles and an Olympic gold.

A five-time NBA champion as a player, Kerr is the only person to win at least three titles as both a player and coach. The NBA’s all-time leader in three-point percentage (45.4%), Kerr played 15 seasons and won championships with the Bulls and Spurs. Off the court, he’s a gun safety advocate and fundraiser for education initiatives. Born in Beirut and raised in California, Kerr and his wife, Margot, have three children: Nicholas, Madeleine, and Matthew.

Joseph S. Lacob

Co-Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Golden State Warriors

In his role as co-executive chairman & CEO, Joe Lacob is the managing member of the Golden State Warriors’ ownership group. Entering his 15^th year in this capacity, he serves on the NBA Board of Governors and is a member of the League’s Planning Committee and Labor Committee.

Under Lacob’s guidance, Golden State has enjoyed one of the most successful decades in the history of the sport. The Warriors won four NBA championships (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022) in an eight-year span, only the fourth franchise to accomplish that feat. Their success has also extended to the business side. In December of 2019, the Warriors were named “Franchise of the Decade” by the Sports Business Journal, an award that encompasses all 123 teams in the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL.

Lacob began his career in 1987 as a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He led investments in more than 50 start-up companies across multiple fields in life sciences and medical technologies, the internet and energy.

Neal Mohan

Chief Executive Officer
YouTube

Neal Mohan is CEO of YouTube, which is used by more than two billion people across the globe to watch and share video, access information, build community, and shape culture.

Before his appointment as CEO, Mohan served as the company’s chief product officer, where he was responsible for YouTube products, user experience, and trust and safety on all platforms and devices globally.

Prior to YouTube, he was senior vice president of display and video ads at Google. In this role, Mohan was responsible for the company’s ad products on YouTube, the Google Display Network, AdSense, AdMob, and DoubleClick, which are used by millions of Google’s advertising and media partners around the world.

Before joining Google, he was senior vice president of strategy and product development at DoubleClick, where he played a critical role in the sale of the company to Google, and subsequently led the integration.

Mohan earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Stanford.

Dr. Vasi Philomin

Vice President, Generative AI
Amazon Web Services

As vice president of Generative AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vasi Philomin leads the frontier of AI innovation, architecting solutions that are reshaping the technological landscape. He spearheaded the development of Amazon Bedrock, revolutionizing how enterprises build and scale generative AI applications. His leadership has yielded groundbreaking AI services across language processing, computer vision, and industrial applications, including transformative solutions for the NFL through Next Gen Stats. Philomin has been instrumental in establishing frameworks and tools that ensure ethical AI development while driving technological advancement.

Prior to Amazon, Philomin led Philips’ corporate venturing initiatives, where he pioneered connected lighting systems for iconic structures worldwide, from the Empire State Building in New York to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. A prolific innovator with more than 100 U.S. patents, he combines deep technical expertise with strategic business acumen.

Jimmy Pitaro

Chairman
ESPN

Jimmy Pitaro was named chairman, ESPN in February 2023, responsible for full operational control of ESPN, one of the three core business segments of The Walt Disney Company. This includes the management and supervision of the organization’s full portfolio of sports content, products and experiences across all of Disney’s platforms worldwide.

A visionary leader, Pitaro has identified and consistently communicated internally and externally the following business priorities–direct-to-consumer, innovation, storytelling and programming, and audience expansion–with diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging woven through it all.

Under Pitaro, ESPN has reached landmark rights agreements with the NBA, NCAA, NFL, MLB, NHL and more. ESPN continues to strengthen its hold on digital and social platforms, standing as number one among U.S. digital sports properties; the ESPN App is the clear number one U.S. sports app; and ESPN Social remains the top sports media publisher by far.

Ruth Porat

President & Chief Investment Officer
Alphabet & Google

Ruth Porat has been president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google since September 1, 2023.  In this role, she is responsible for the company’s corporate investments and investment vehicles, including GV and CapG, the Other Bets investment portfolio, Real Estate and Workplace Services, and other company infrastructure. She regularly engages with policymakers and regulators about the company’s business and impact across markets related to economic growth, job creation, and opportunity. She also oversees the company’s philanthropic efforts and work to expand access to digital infrastructure and skilling initiatives globally.

Before assuming her current position, Porat served as Alphabet and Google’s senior vice president and CFO from May 2015 until July 2024. She started her career at Morgan Stanley, with her last position there as CFO.

Porat serves on the boards of Blackstone, the Council on Foreign Relations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Michael Rubin

Chief Executive Officer
Fanatics

Michael Rubin, internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social justice advocate, is CEO of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform that is reimagining the fan experience across fan gear, trading cards, and sports betting. In addition to his entrepreneurial success, he is the co-chair of REFORM Alliance, an organization that includes some of the biggest names in sports, business and culture that’s dedicated to eradicating antiquated probation laws. Rubin was also the driving force behind Fanatics’ partnership with Make-A-Wish.

Named annually as one of the most prominent people in sports business, Rubin was named “Executive of the Year” by Sports Business Journal in 2022 and has also been named to the Bleacher Report’s “Power 50” list of most influential people in sports. He spent more than a decade as a partner of the Philadelphia 76ers before selling his ownership stake in June 2022 to focus his efforts on Fanatics’ expansion across the broader sports ecosystem.

Steve Stoute

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
UnitedMasters + Translation

Steve Stoute is an advertising entrepreneur and music industry pioneer. He is the founder and CEO of UnitedMasters Inc., which encompasses UnitedMasters and Translation. UnitedMasters Inc. is revolutionizing how brands and artists collaborate to shape and propel culture forward.

For two decades, Translation has helped ambitious brands leverage contemporary culture to overcome their greatest challenges by identifying, activating, and scaling cultural insights. Translation has partnered with iconic brands such as AT&T, Beats By Dre, and the NBA to craft innovative campaigns that resonate with today’s audiences.

In 2014, Stoute partnered with Google, Apple, and Andreessen Horowitz to found UnitedMasters, a technology platform that empowers 2M+ global independent artists to distribute their music and fulfill their potential creatively and financially. UnitedMasters’ artists retain full ownership of their master recording rights and are able to earn beyond streaming through connections with the world’s biggest brands.

Casey Wasserman

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Wasserman
Chairperson & President, LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games

Casey is the chairman and CEO of Wasserman, a global business at the forefront of sports, music, and entertainment. With its headquarters in Los Angeles, Wasserman operates across 28 countries and more than 68 cities, representing top talent, brands, and properties worldwide. Wasserman also serves as president and chairperson of LA28, leading the efforts to bring the Summer Olympics and Paralympics back to the U.S. for the first time in more than three decades. In addition, he is the president and CEO of the Wasserman Foundation, a private family foundation focused on advancing education, arts and culture, health, service, and global initiatives.

Kevin Weil

Chief Product Officer
OpenAI

Kevin Weil is the chief product officer of OpenAI, where he leads a team focused on applying research to products and services that benefit consumers, developers and businesses. Weil was most recently president, product and business at Planet Labs. He was previously the co-founder of the Libra cryptocurrency and VP of product for Novi at Facebook, VP of product at Instagram and SVP of product at Twitter.

Earlier in his career, Weil held software engineering and data science roles at Cooliris, Tropos Networks, Microsoft Research and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Weil graduated summa cum laude in physics and mathematics from Harvard and earned a master’s degree in physics from Stanford. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy and Black Product Managers Network.

Victor Wembanyama

NBA Player, San Antonio Spurs

Victor Wembanyama is a French professional basketball player, currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs.

Born on January 4, 2004, Wembanyama grew up in the Paris suburb of Le Chesnay. He was raised in a sport’s centric family: His mother was a pro basketball player and his father was a triple jumper. As the middle child, Victor grew up playing basketball with his older sister and younger brother, which helped develop his competitive and hard-working nature.

“Wemby”—who stands 7 feet 3 inches and has a wingspan that stretches well beyond 8 feet—started his career playing for Nanterre, in his hometown. Wemby was selected first overall by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2023 NBA Draft and went on to win the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, leading the league in blocks.

This past summer, Wemby led France to a silver medal in front of his hometown fans at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Now in his second NBA season, Wemby leads the league in blocks and has been selected to his first NBA All-Star Game.

Anne Wojcicki

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
23andMe

Anne Wojcicki co-founded 23andMe in 2006, three years after the first human genome was sequenced. Her goal was audacious: to help people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome and fundamentally change health care in the process. Prior to founding 23andMe, Wojcicki spent a decade on Wall Street investing in health care and felt frustrated by a system built around monetizing illness instead of incentivizing prevention. She flipped that model by building a business that provides people with direct access to genetic information so they can make decisions that could lower their risks for disease.

Wojcicki’s vision and persistence have powered an industry-first community approach to genetic research, inviting 23andMe customers to participate if they so choose. This novel, web-based research model has resulted in thousands of new genetic insights and allows 23andMe to rapidly recruit participants to multiple studies at once, reducing the time and resources needed to make discoveries. Through its research platform, 23andMe has brought personalized medicine directly to millions of consumers.