The PREDICT speaking faculty brings together the full ecosystem — platform builders, regulators, legal architects, investors and traders — covering the business of prediction markets from every angle. These are the people moving the sector from niche curiosity to institutional infrastructure. The final program will feature 100 of the top professionals in prediction markets.
Tyler Badgley is the General Counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In that role, Mr. Badgley leads the agency’s Legal Division and serves as the Commission’s chief legal advisor. He was appointed General Counsel in January 2026.
Prior to joining the CFTC, Badgley served as the Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and was the first Executive Secretary under Secretary Scott K.H. Bessent. Mr. Badgley was previously a Senior Counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. There, he focused on complex litigation and regulatory issues, particularly in connection with capital markets.
Badgley also practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, served as a Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as articles editor for the Virginia Law Review. He also received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Government from the University of Virginia.
He graduated with a Master’s in Computer Science from Auckland University, and moved to London from New Zealand in 2005. Matt worked as a software engineer in a range of industries, always aligning engineering work with business value. Within financial services, he spent time at Societe Generale and Barclays, before co-founding Adaptive in 2012.
Driven by a belief that high-quality engineering and client-centricity go hand in hand, Adaptive crafts cutting-edge, bespoke trading technology solutions for capital markets firms across asset classes. Adaptive is for those firms who value differentiation via technology.
Dan Berkovitz is Vice Chairman, External and Regulatory Affairs at Millennium. Dan has served as General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and General Counsel and Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He also has been a partner at the law firm of WilmerHale and Counsel for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Dan currently also is a Lecturer in Law teaching derivatives regulation at Columbia University Law School. He received an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.
Ric Best is Head of Prediction Markets at Susquehanna, where he has spent his career since joining the firm in 2014. In 2023, Susquehanna became the first major financial institution to launch a Prediction Markets trading desk, which Mr. Best has led since its inception. Under his leadership, Susquehanna has become the leading institutional liquidity provider across multiple prediction market venues, trading event contracts on sports, elections, crypto, financial indices, and other emerging markets.
Prior to leading the Prediction Markets desk, Mr. Best traded fixed income derivatives at Susquehanna. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University.
Lloyd Danzig is the managing partner at Sharp Alpha, a growth capital firm investing in things people love, with a special focus on sports, gaming, and entertainment.
Dorothy D. DeWitt is the founder and CEO of independent monitor and compliance advisory firm Tölt Strategies. Her experience regulating and advising companies in emerging and traditional regulated financial services sectors allows her to provide clients with pragmatic, customized solutions that consider the client’s requirements, organization, and culture, among other factors, and are supportive of responsible innovation and growth. Ms. DeWitt recently served as the first woman director of the Division of Market Oversight (“DMO”) at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”). Ms. DeWitt was responsible for the licensing, regulation, and examination of derivatives trading platforms, and oversaw the approximately $400 trillion notional commodity derivative markets regulated by the CFTC. Ms. DeWitt led a staff of approximately 100 lawyers and economists. She oversaw five departments responsible for regulating and licensing designated contract markets, SEFs, FBOTs, and Swap Data Repositories; examining those entities; and identifying and advising the full Commission on emerging risk, trends, and market structure across regulated derivatives markets and the underlying spot markets to support policymaking and enforcement.
Troy Dixon is Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Markets at Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq:TW), a global leader in electronic trading. A member of Tradeweb’s Executive Committee, Dixon co-leads the firm’s global markets strategy, driving organic and inorganic growth across products, regions, and client segments.
As markets become increasingly interconnected, Tradeweb technology helps clients to transfer risk efficiently across fixed income, ETFs, and money markets. Tradeweb serves more than 3,000 clients across 85 countries, including banks, market makers, asset managers, hedge funds, and corporate treasurers.
Prior to joining Tradeweb in 2025, Dixon was the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hollis Park Partners, which he launched in 2013. He previously led Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Trading at Deutsche Bank, where he was a member of both the Corporate Banking & Securities Americas Executive Committee and the Rates and Credit Trading Executive Committee. Earlier in his career, he was Head of Pass-Through Trading at UBS.
Dixon serves on the boards of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, New Heights Youth Inc., and as a Trustee of Brunswick School. He has previously served on the boards of Tradeweb Markets and SIFMA’s RMBS Executive Board.
Dixon earned his B.A. from College of the Holy Cross, where he was a two-sport varsity athlete, lettering in both football and baseball.
Matt Enriquez is Legal Director at DraftKings, where he helps shape the legal and regulatory strategy for the company’s prediction markets initiatives. His work is focused on a fast-developing area of market structure that brings together derivatives regulation, consumer protection, product governance, market integrity, and the practical challenges of building a new regulated financial product within an established consumer technology company.
At DraftKings, Matt works across legal, compliance, product, operations, and government affairs to turn novel regulatory questions into workable business strategy. He has helped guide DraftKings’ engagement with federal policy developments affecting event contracts, including public-comment processes before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and brings an operator-minded legal perspective to the design of durable, trusted market infrastructure.
Before joining DraftKings, Matt practiced law at Jones Day, where he advised clients on complex legal and compliance issues in the financial services and regulatory space. He earned his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas.
Jesse Forster leads equity market structure research at Coalition Greenwich. He has almost 20 years of institutional sell-side experience with deep expertise in algorithmic trading, analytics and equity market structure. Jesse has consulted and advised both global asset managers and broker-dealers on market structure and trading-related solutions, including fragmented markets, inefficient routing, inaccessible liquidity, new order types and trading venues, regulatory pilot programs, and Reg NMS.
Before joining Coalition Greenwich, Jesse built and launched a new electronic equities platform at Berenberg Capital Markets focused on healthy venue selection and fee-agnostic order routing. Prior to that, Jesse was a senior member of the equities trading teams at EvercoreISI and Instinet, focused on global asset manager and broker-dealer clients.
Charles Gasparino is one of the most recognized and incisive voices in financial journalism today. As a Senior Correspondent for the FOX Business Network, and a columnist for the New York Post, he delivers expert on-air reporting and consistently breaks some of the biggest daily stories across Wall Street and Washington. Known for his unfiltered reporting style and unparalleled Rolodex, Gasparino brings audiences behind the closed doors of corporate boardrooms and political corridors to explain the real forces moving the markets.
Over the past three decades, Gasparino built a formidable reputation breaking market-moving scoops at CNBC, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. He was at the absolute forefront of the 2008 financial crisis, delivering the first reports of the Lehman Brothers collapse and the AIG government bailout. His relentless investigative work has earned him the New York Press Club award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award, and the editors of the Wall Street Journal submitted his work covering financial dotcom bubble scandals for a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Beyond his daily reporting, Gasparino is a bestselling author of critically acclaimed books, including The Sellout and Go Woke, Go Broke, which unpack the mechanics of modern finance, corporate culture, and political regulation. As a keynote speaker, he provides audiences with a candid, hard-hitting look at the intersection of economics and culture, translating complex market dynamics into accessible insights that equip business leaders and investors to navigate an increasingly volatile global economy.
Dustin Gouker has been an executive, analyst, writer and editor in the gambling industry for more than a decade after a career in journalism. He currently runs a consultancy in the gaming and content industries and publishes two daily newsletters: The Closing Line on the gambling industry and The Event Horizon on prediction markets.
He helped build a number of sites that covered the rise of daily fantasy sports and sports betting in the United States, including Legal Sports Report. That role led to him become the vice president of content at Catena Media, a publicly traded gambling affiliate company.
He’s also worked at The Washington Post and has been cited as an expert in a number of national publications, including The New York Times, Axios and CNN. He graduated from The George Washington University (’00) with a degree in political communication.
Joe Green is Vice President of Business Strategy for the Global Derivatives group at Cboe Global Markets (Cboe).
His current focus is on prediction markets and other growth opportunities related to retail and alternative investments. Over the past 15 years, Joe has held roles within Cboe’s Legal, Labs, Indices and Data Vantage teams.
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Indiana University, a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Chris Grove is a nationally recognized subject matter expert whose insights on sports betting, casinos, and prediction markets are regularly trusted by analysts, media outlets, publicly-traded companies, and policymakers. His work has been cited by outlets including Bloomberg, ESPN, Forbes, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Grove is a Partner Emeritus at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, Co-Founding Partner at the VC fund Acies Investments, Co-Founding Partner at EKG Ventures, and an Operating Advisor at Arctos Partners.
Joaquin Gubb, SVP, Head of Securities Legal, Head of Enforcement and Head of Clearing at CDNA/Nadex joined Crypto.com in May of 2022. Joaquin has over 25 years of legal experience advising equities and derivatives market participants, with a focus on equities and derivatives rulemaking and enforcement. Joaquin’s primary focus at Crypto.com is supporting CDNA, a CFTC-registered DCM and DCO, as well as providing legal support to Foris Capital US LLC, a SEC registered Broker/Dealer registered with FINRA and SIPC. Joaquin also advises Crypto.com’s spot cryptocurrency markets in North America, Crypto.com’s state Trust entity in the US, and helps support new product development in North America. Prior to joining Crypto.com, Joaquin served in FINRA’s Enforcement Department for 15 years and was then promoted to serve as an Associate General Counsel in FINRA’s Office of General Counsel. Prior to joining FINRA, Joaquin was an associate at the law firm Perkins Coie, LLP in Washington, D.C.
Jackson Gutenplan, CFA, Market Structure Research Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Jackson Gutenplan is a Research Analyst in the Bloomberg Intelligence Market Structure group. Jackson conducts and publishes research on electronic trading and market structure issues, leading the team’s coverage on US equities, options, and prediction markets, as well as their data and analytics strategy. Previous to his tenure at Bloomberg, Jackson was an equity trader and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Economics. He is a CFA Charterholder.
Warren Hatch joined Good Judgment as a volunteer forecaster in the research project sponsored by the US government, became a Superforecaster, and is now CEO of the commercial successor, Good Judgment Inc, a world leader in applying innovative probabilistic solutions to real-world decisions to forecast the future. He has assisted governments and private companies around the world to improve their foresight and quantify uncertainty. Warren’s prior career was on Wall Street where he started at Morgan Stanley before co-founding a boutique investment firm. He earned his PhD from Oxford University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder.
Rick Heaslip, Esq. serves as Kalshi Inc.’s General Counsel and Chief Regulatory Officer. Rick has oversight over all legal matters at Kalshi, including litigation, commercial deals, and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining Kalshi, Rick practiced law at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and at Duane Morris, LLP. In addition to his legal expertise, Rick has a deep understanding of trading and market dynamics, with years of experience in event contract trading and as a professional poker player. Rick is a 2008 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a 2014 graduate of Harvard Law School.
Professor Hanson has pioneered prediction markets since 1988. He was the first to write in detail about creating and subsidizing markets to gain better estimates on a wide variety of important topics. He was a principal architect of the first internal corporate markets, at Xanadu in 1990, of the first web markets, the Foresight Exchange since 1994, of DARPA’s Policy Analysis Market, from 2001 to 2003, and of IARPA’s combinatorial markets DAGGRE and SCICAST from 2010 to 2015. Professor Hanson developed new technologies for conditional, combinatorial, and intermediated trading, and studied insider trading, manipulation, and other foul play.
Oxford University Press published his book The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth in June 2016, and his book The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, co-authored with Kevin Simler, in January, 2018.
Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto is Senior Vice President, GM DraftKings Predictions. Previously, she served as the Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer of EDX Markets. From 2020-2022, Jeanine was the CEO of Atomyze LLC, which was a tokenization platform and marketplace for physical commodities. From 2018-2020 Jeanine served as the Managing Director of Operations at Gemini Trust Company, LLC, which operates a digital asset exchange and offers custodial services. From 2004-2017, Jeanine held several leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer, at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), a NASDAQ subsidiary that operates three securities exchanges. Jeanine started her career in 1998 as a Financial Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking group of Wachovia Securities. Jeanine serves on the Board of Digital Prime Technologies and serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (GDCA). Jeanine was named to the TABB Forum Top 40 Financial Market Innovators List in 2022 and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Powerful Women list of 2020. She is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Economics and Biology.
Sudhir Jain is the chief compliance officer and head of regulatory affairs at Kalshi.
Jain began his career in risk management at a trading firm before joining JPMorgan, where he worked across market risk, hedge fund credit, and risk policy. In 2016, he joined the National Futures Association (NFA) and managed a large team of examiners responsible for overseeing swap dealers operating domestically and abroad. During his tenure, he led the rollout of the NFA’s swap proficiency certification program, designed the NFA’s margin and capital oversight function, and worked closely with the CFTC’s Market Participants Division and Division of Enforcement on many regulatory and investigative matters.
In 2021, Jain was recruited to Patomak Global Partners, where he built and ultimately led the firm’s derivatives practice. He also served as head of Patomak’s New York office and as a member of the firm’s executive committee. His practice focused on regulatory licensing, enforcement, and remediations across the full spectrum of CFTC and SEC-regulated entities. He also served on the CFTC’s Agricultural Advisory Committee.
A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mondaire Jones is a partner at Friedman Kaplan. He leverages a wealth of legal and public service experience to represent clients across a range of complex commercial litigation and government investigations matters, as well as advise on strategic, policy, and crisis management issues.
During his time in Congress representing New York’s 17th District, Mondaire served on the Judiciary, Education and Labor, and Ethics Committees. He is a frequent commentator on broadcast and cable television networks, including CNN, MS Now, CBS, and NewsNation, is regularly quoted in major national media outlets, and has made dozens of appearances on legal and political podcasts.
Gary E. Kalbaugh is a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel leading its Commodities, Futures, and Derivatives Group. Previously, Gary served as Deputy General Counsel at ING, where he chaired regulatory committees and provided strategic counsel to the board on global regulatory matters. Previously, he was Executive Director and Counsel at a European bank, where he chaired global Dodd-Frank and underwriting committees and advised executive leadership. Gary is the author of Derivatives Law and Regulation (3rd ed. 2021) and Editor-in-Chief of the Futures and Derivatives Law Report. He also teaches derivatives as Special Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School.
Daniel Kaufman is the founder of Kinetic Alpha, an AI-native quantitative research portfolio shipping working dashboards on prediction-market margining, energy-futures decomposition, and cross-venue arbitrage. He most recently served as Head of FCM Risk for the United States at Clear Street, where he managed the firm’s approval as the first FCM clearing member of Kalshi, opening federally regulated event and predictive markets to retail and institutional clients. Before Clear Street, he held senior risk roles at Wells Fargo Securities, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon Clearing, and Marex Spectron over a 20+ year career in cleared derivatives. He sits on the ISDA SIMM Methodology Committee.
With a varied background as a former regulator with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and as former senior in-house counsel at a large investment bank, clients respect the diverse and highly informed perspective Carl Kennedy provides, partic ularly as it relates to the commodities and derivatives markets. His deep experience in the financial services industry makes him a trusted advocate to large and small financial institutions, asset managers, clearinghouses, intermediaries, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms.
Oscar Levy is the co-founder and CEO of River Markets, building the prime brokerage and execution layer for prediction markets. Before founding River Markets, Oscar was a quantitative trader at a $2B ex-Millennium fund and a VP Quant on a $6B pod at BlackRock. On nights and weekends, Oscar and his co-founder Antonin traded millions in prediction markets using the product River Markets now sells. He holds a Master of Financial Engineering from UC Berkeley, along with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Jay Malavia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kairos, a professional trading terminal for prediction markets backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Geneva Trading, and the University of Illinois. Kairos unifies platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket into a single, seamless interface, empowering sophisticated traders with integrated execution, real-time data, and live news feeds. Prior to founding Kairos, Jay worked in quantitative research at CBOE, where he contributed to early prediction markets initiatives. He also served as a data scientist at Geneva Trading and as an ML engineer at NASA. Jay holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Data Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Sean Patrick Maloney is an attorney, strategist, and former diplomat who has spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of government, politics, and the private sector. Most recently, he served as U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where he helped advance U.S. priorities on global economic cooperation, digital innovation, and market transparency.
From 2013 to 2023, Maloney represented New York’s 18th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving on the House Intelligence, Agriculture, and Transportation & Infrastructure Committees. As a member of the New Democrat Coalition and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, he built a reputation as a pragmatic dealmaker and led efforts on issues ranging from infrastructure and veterans’ services to human trafficking prevention and environmental conservation in the Hudson Highlands.
Maloney also chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2022 cycle, bringing significant experience in building broad coalitions, leveraging data, and running competitive national campaigns. Earlier in his career, he served as a senior West Wing adviser and White House Staff Secretary to President Bill Clinton and later held leadership roles in technology and law, including as chief operating officer of risk-management firm Kiodex and as a partner at major international law firms.
Renato Mariotti is a partner at Paul Hastings and a leading authority on prediction market litigation and regulation. A former federal prosecutor who led the nation’s first criminal spoofing prosecution, he has built his practice at the intersection of CFTC enforcement, derivatives, and digital assets. He represents prediction markets, trading firms, and intermediaries in the prediction market space. Renato has authored frequent analyses of the evolving legal landscape for prediction markets. He co-hosts The Policy Protocol on CoinDesk and is Chambers-ranked in derivatives enforcement nationwide (Band 1) as well as white collar and government investigations.
Kevin McPartland is the Head of Research for Crisil Coalition Greenwich’s market structure and technology practice. He has nearly 30 years of capital markets industry experience with deep expertise in market structure, electronic trading and financial technology.
Prior to joining the Coalition Greenwich, Kevin was with BlackRock, where he was a Director on the Electronic Trading and Market Structure team. Prior to joining Blackrock, he was a Principal at TABB Group, where he founded and led the firm’s Fixed-Income research practice. Kevin also spent time at JPMorgan, UBS and Deutsche Bank primarily focused on the development of trading technology.
Kevin has presented at a wide range of industry conferences and is quoted regularly in the financial media including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg News, The Economist, Reuters, and numerous other industry publications. He has also provided live and taped commentary for Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Bloomberg Radio, and National Public Radio.
Kevin provided testimony discussing the Dodd-Frank Act to the US Senate’s Banking Committee in 2011, presented three times to the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and presented to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee.
Kevin earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
David I. Miller is the Director of Enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In this role, he leads the Division of Enforcement, which investigates and prosecutes alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations.
David joined the CFTC from private practice, having served as a litigation partner at two global law firms, Greenberg Traurig and Morgan Lewis. As a Chambers USA-ranked white-collar litigator and experienced trial lawyer, his practice has focused on white collar defense, government and internal investigations, securities and commodities enforcement (including insider trading, market manipulation, accounting/financial fraud, and regulatory matters), complex civil litigation, cryptocurrency enforcement and regulatory issues, and cybersecurity, anti-money laundering, and national security matters. David has represented clients before the Department of Justice/U.S. Attorney’s Offices, CFTC, SEC, state attorneys general offices, and self-regulatory organizations, and he has litigated and tried criminal and civil cases in courts across the country.
Previously, David spent nearly a decade in government service. He most recently served for five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), over half that time as a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. He also served as a terrorism prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, and as an Assistant General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Before government service, David began his career in private practice in New York.
David has been recognized as a leading New York white-collar lawyer by Chambers USA, as a “key lawyer” in his former firm’s white collar/corporate investigations and blockchain/fintech practices by The Legal 500, as a “Future Leader” by Who’s Who Legal, and as a New York Super Lawyer in the area of white collar defense. David has also been recognized for his public service with Department of Justice and Central Intelligence Agency awards.
David was a technical advisor for the popular Showtime drama series “Billions.”
David received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.
Dr. Mintas is the CEO & Founder of 365Prediction. She is a high-profile entrepreneur, investor and thought leader in the technology, sports and sports betting and iGaming industry on a global level. She has been involved in various roles as a high Executive and in several deals as Strategic Advisor in the space.
Often described as a Veteran in the Sports Betting industry, Dr. Mintas has received for her Personal Achievements, the most prestigious awards and honors in the Sports and Sports Betting industry.
Howard Mittman is a board member of Galactic Markets. Mittman is a high-impact C-Suite executive and board member whose career is defined by scaling world-class brands at the intersection of sports, media, and emerging technology. As the former CEO of Bleacher Report, Mittman drove the brand to its highest revenue production in history, transforming it into a social media powerhouse and a Fast Company “Most Innovative Company”.
Most recently, as President of 888 William Hill, he spearheaded the landmark partnership with Authentic Brands Group to launch and scale the SI Sportsbook and Casino, later overseeing the asset’s strategic sale. His tenure also included directing 888’s B2B operations and the World Series of Poker’s online network in partnership with Caesars. Previously, as Chief Business Officer at Condé Nast, Mittman led digital transformations for GQ and WIRED, where he was named Advertising Age’s Publisher of the Year and Conde Nast Executive of the Year.
A recognized industry leader, his accolades include Crain’s New York Business 40 under 40 and inductions into the AAF and MIN Halls of Fame. Today, as Founder of Record Scratch, Mittman advises firms like KKR, TPG and Galactic Markets on operational remixing. He also serves as Board Advisor for Galactic Markets, providing strategic oversight for Predictor.io, a pioneering media-first prediction market engine.
Jack Murphy is a senior counsel in Akin Gump’s White Collar and Government Investigations practice, where he represents financial institutions, public and private companies, and their key stakeholders in a range of internal and government investigations, enforcement actions, and litigation. Prior to joining Akin, Jack served as a senior trial attorney and head of the Digital Asset Task Force in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement, where he prosecuted violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, with a focus on fraud, market manipulation and regulatory compliance in financial markets.
Deborah North is a partner in Cleary Gottlieb’s Financial Institutions Group, focusing on transactional and regulatory derivatives and structured finance matters. Her transactional work spans asset classes, notably SRTs and backleverage transactions. She counsels market participants, infrastructure providers and trade associations on cleared and uncleared derivatives regulation and appears before CFTC, SEC and prudential regulators. Her recent focus includes cross-margining relief for US Treasury Clearing and products including digital assets, prediction markets and perpetual contracts.
Matt Ober is a managing partner at Social Leverage. Matt was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point where he built the data analytics and technology platform used to enhance the firm’s investment capabilities in equity, structured credit, venture capital and cryptocurrency. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in fintech, data, and technology companies. As an active angel investor for over 10 years, Matt brings his data and analytics expertise to each company with whom he partners.
Matt holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and sits on the board of governors for his alma mater, California State University Chico.
Alper Ozgit is an economist and legal commentator who explores the intersection of law, markets, and financial innovation. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lexicon Labs, a specialized media and intelligence platform focused on financial markets. His forthcoming book, Predictable, examines how law has shaped—and will continue to shape—the future of prediction markets. Through Lexicon Labs’ flagship products—LexCurrent, a legal intelligence platform for prediction markets, Full Court Press, his legal commentary newsletter, and LexBeyond, his podcast—he analyzes how legal frameworks shape markets, what markets expose about the law, and why those questions matter.
Alper holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA and spent nearly two decades as a tax consultant at PwC before founding Lexicon Labs.
John Aristotle Phillips serves as CEO of Aristotle and PredictIt, where he has earned a reputation as an innovator, entrepreneur and valued advisor in the field of politics.
Mr. Phillips is a pioneer in the strategic applications of technology to politics and political communication. He has addressed the membership of the International Association of Political Consultants, the European Association of Political Consultants and the American Association of Political Consultants.
Mr. Phillips graduated from Princeton University in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. While at Princeton, Mr. Phillips received international recognition for his design, made from publicly available documents, of an atomic bomb. He is the co-author of Mushroom: the Story of the A-Bomb Kid.
Carolyn Pokorny is a partner and co-chair of the White Collar Crime and Government Investigations Practice at Akerman LLP in New York. A former acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, she led one of the nation’s largest U.S. Attorney’s Offices. She has also served as inspector general of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Special Counsel for Public Integrity in the New York Governor’s Office, and counsel to a U.S. Attorney General. She writes and speaks on white collar enforcement, including emerging issues in sports gambling and integrity.
Robert Prior is the CEO of Forecastex, a CFTC-regulated exchange offering contracts on topics ranging from climate events to elections. With more than 40 years of experience in global markets, Rob began his career in 1986 with Interactive Brokers Group as a floor trader on the American Stock Exchange. He went on to run brokerage and market-making operations across Europe — in Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Ireland — and played a key role in expanding the firm’s European presence. Most recently, he served as CEO of Interactive Brokers Ireland (IBIE). At Forecastex, Rob combines his expertise in trading, fintech innovation, and brokerage to grow the exchange’s membership and product offerings, while advancing the role of prediction markets in the global trading community.
Nick Roos is chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force at the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He joined the office in
2016 and has served as part of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force since 2021. Mr. Roos was a lead prosecutor in United States v. Samuel Bankman-Fried and in related FTX cases, and has prosecuted and supervised over a twenty insider trading investigations and prosecutions, including those involving cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and prediction markets. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont, the University of Chicago, and Stanford Law School.
Lisa Balter Saacks is President of Trillium Surveyor. She guides Trillium Surveyor’s strategy and growth, bringing deep expertise in B2B, SaaS, and fintech to solve complex business challenges.
She works with teams on trade surveillance and best execution workflows as market structure and regulatory expectations evolve.
Trillium Surveyor delivers powerful, intuitive trade surveillance and best execution analytics. It is designed to help compliance and trading leaders elevate oversight, meet evolving regulatory expectations, and drive real performance gains.
Scott Sadin is the co-founder and Co-CEO of IC360. Integrity Compliance 360 (IC360) is a global regulatory technology and compliance consultancy firm specializing in comprehensive integrity solutions for sports, sports betting, gaming, iGaming and prediction markets. IC360’s mission is to assist regulated markets develop and mature by providing extensive services that support integrity, transparency and compliance.
Scott has played a pivotal role in the company’s evolution from a startup into a premier brand specializing in anomaly detection and prohibited betting tools. Scott is a frequent industry voice on the intersection of real-time, proactive monitoring and regulatory compliance, and has been on the front lines of dozens of sports integrity-related investigations. Prior to IC360, Scott worked in capital markets compliance and surveillance at a variety of RIAs and alternative investment managers, including Apollo Global Management and MSD & BDT Partners. Scott was born in New York City and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Lehigh University.
Rob Schack is Senior Vice President of Partnerships at Decision Desk HQ, the leading source for real-time U.S. election results and race projections. Drawing on nearly three decades at Thomson Reuters—where he led product and program management functions for flagship platforms including Eikon and Reuters Connect—Rob brings deep expertise in data and strategic partnerships. For Reuters, he led content projects and partnerships around major events including the Olympics and U.S. Elections, and now helps financial services firms turn political intelligence into actionable market insight.
Jonathan Schmalfeld is the Director of Policy at Digital Chamber. With a background that began in litigation and evolved into corporate and regulatory work for crypto-native companies, Jonathan remains dedicated to applying clear legal thinking to emerging blockchain-enabled business models. At the Digital Chamber, he focuses on shaping policy to create an innovation-friendly regulatory environment for digital assets and advocating for the crypto industry’s role in the future of internet commerce and true digital ownership.
Tony Sio is Head of Regulatory Strategy and Innovation at Nasdaq, where he leads strategy across financial technology solutions for surveillance. He ensures Nasdaq’s offerings stay ahead of evolving regulatory and technology trends for regulators, venues, and financial institutions globally.
Previously, Tony led Marketplace Regulatory Technology, overseeing Nasdaq’s SMARTS market surveillance platform used by over 50 marketplaces and 17 regulators worldwide.
With over 20 years’ experience, Tony has advised exchanges and regulators across the US, Europe, Middle East, APAC, and Africa, and is a recognized voice on regulatory technology, market structure, and innovation.
Nate Silver is today’s leading statistician known for his innovative and highly accurate models for political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. In 2012, he called 50 of 50 states. He is the founder of the award-winning statistical analysis website FiveThirtyEight and served as its editor-in- chief until 2023. Silver is the author of the bestselling book, The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t. He is currently working on a new book on gambling and risk, inspired by his experiences as a professional poker player, but extremely far-reaching in its exploration of risk. Nate publishes his insights and statistical assessments of cultural phenomena to over 36,000 subscribers on his Silver Bulletin Substack. He has been named one of Fast Company‘s 100 Most Creative People in Business, TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, and Rolling Stone’s 100 Agents of Change.We are pleased to have him here today. Give a warm welcome to Nate Silver.
Maggie Sklar is an attorney and policy professional with more than 20 years of experience in financial markets regulation, law, and policy. She currently serves as Chief Regulatory and Risk Officer at Forum.
Ms. Sklar has held senior roles across the federal government’s key financial regulatory agencies. At the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, she served as Senior Counsel to the Chairman, Senior Counsel to a Commissioner, Associate Director of International Affairs, the CFTC’s representative to the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and Special Counsel in the Division of Market Oversight. She also served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
In the private sector, Ms. Sklar was a partner in the banking and financial services practice of a major law firm, a Managing Director at SEDA Experts, and Chair of the Public Policy and Regulation Committee of the Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association. She is also a founding member of the Association of Women in Cryptocurrency.
Ms. Sklar received her B.A. and J.D. from Georgetown University.
Tom Sosnoff began his career on the CBOE floor in 1981, where he spent two decades as a market maker, money manager, and running a prop trading firm. In 1999, he co-founded thinkorswim, a new broker-dealer and the leading options boutique in the US. The thinkorswim platform provided retail traders with professional-grade analytics and HFT execution tools. The company went public in 2007 and was acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2009 for $750M.
Following the acquisition, Sosnoff co-founded tastytrade in late 2010. tastytrade quickly became the largest streaming digital network for finance. In 2017, tasty launched a next-generation brokerage platform offering the industry’s most advanced derivative trading technology. IG Group acquired tastytrade in 2021 for $1.1B.
Sosnoff now returns alongside co-founder Scott Sheridan with Lossdog, applying decades of experience in market transparency to professional and investment compensation. The platform uses intelligent, math-driven algorithms to calculate the optimization of both a user’s investment portfolio and career profile.
Seni Thomas is the CEO and founder of EDGE. With deep experience in trading and money movement, he built EDGE to address common payment friction points across fintech, prediction markets, and betting platforms.
Taking a first-principles approach to identifying challenges in emerging markets, Seni and his team identified significant inefficiencies in money movement and a lack of scalable financial safeguards for consumers. This insight led to the creation of EDGE.
Seni began his career at an early media trading desk during the rise of programmatic advertising. Adapting energy trading algorithms, he launched one of the first and largest liquidity layers for exchange-traded media, generating more than $180 million in revenue using concepts pioneered by Wall Street algorithmic traders.
Elliott Stein is a senior litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, the investment research platform of Bloomberg. Elliott focuses on litigation affecting the financials sector and is also the leader for BI’s Litigation and Policy Team.
Elliott previously litigated complex commercial actions, as well as regulatory and criminal cases, for almost 10 years, most recently at the law firm of Lowenstein Sandler. Prior to that, Elliott was an attorney in Dickstein Shapiro’s White-Collar Litigation group.
He earned his law degree from Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law and his Bachelors of Arts degree from Stanford University.
Matt Trudeau is president and co-founder of Rothera, a CFTC regulated prediction market and joint venture between Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group. Prior to Rothera he was COO at ErisX, a CFTC regulated exchange and clearinghouse acquired by Cboe. He has held executive roles in product, strategy, and operations at regulated exchanges and brokers including IEX, Chi-X Global, and Instinet. Matt has more than 25 years of industry experience including launching and operating 14 markets across asset classes in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Daniel Wallach is the founder of Wallach Legal, a law firm devoted principally to the burgeoning field of sports wagering and gaming law in the United States. Known as “The Sports Betting Attorney,” Dan advises professional sports teams, sports betting operators, fantasy sports companies, casinos, racetracks, skill-based gaming operators, video game developers, gaming vendors, sports integrity firms, sports data providers, peer-to-peer platforms, and start-up companies in navigating the complexity of U.S. gambling laws and regulations. He is a general member of the prestigious International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL), an invitation-only organization for attorneys who have distinguished themselves through demonstrated performance and publishing in gaming law, significant gaming clientele and substantial participation in the gaming industry.
Gil Wasserman is the Head of Prediction Markets for Galaxy Digital. He covers the Derivatives Franchise book, trading digital asset derivatives and is head of prediction markets. Prior to joining Galaxy, he worked at Morgan Stanley trading US Index Equity derivatives and at Balyasny Asset Management, specializing in equity volatility relative value. Gil graduated from Harvard College majoring in Statistics, with a minor in Computer Science. He is a published author in the field of computational musicology.
Brigitte Weyls is General Counsel of Gemini Preidctions, a CFTC registered DCM. Previously, she served for more than 17 years at the CFTC, including in the offices of Chairman Michael Selig and Acting Chairman Caroline Pham. During her tenure, she also served as the Designated Federal Officer for both the Global Markets Advisory Committee and Agricultural Advisory Committee. Prior to her government service, Ms. Weyls spent six years in private practice representing clients in complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters. She earned her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law and her B.A. in Economics from Denison University.
Mr. Young is a widely recognized interactive gaming expert with a successful track record of continuously being at the forefront of new gaming technologies and strategies.
Prior to joining High Roller, Young served as Chief Innovation Officer at PointsBet where he was responsible for strategic corporate development efforts including fundraising, partnerships, government and regulatory affairs, product development, M&A initiatives, and more. Young previously served as Chief Operating Officer at FSG Digital, Executive Director of Online Gaming at Foxwoods Resort Casino, and other executive roles throughout his career.
Young currently serves on the board of directors for Catena Media (STO: CTM) and Kinectify, and previously served on the board of Kindbridge Behavioral Health, EQL Games, and Aquimo Technologies.
Young was the recipient of the Innovation Group’s 2018 Emerging Leaders of Gaming Award and was named to Global Gaming Business Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in the same year. Young holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, with a double minor in Internet Studies and Legal Studies, from Brandeis University, and attended Harvard Business School for Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy, Execution, and Post-Merger Management.
