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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chris Grove is a Las Vegas-based sports betting and online gaming leader whose insights are regularly trusted by analysts, capital allocators, media outlets, publicly traded companies, and policymakers.
His work is regularly cited by outlets including Bloomberg, CNBC, the Economist, ESPN, Forbes, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He has testified for lawmakers in states including California, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Texas, and Washington State.
Grove began his career in gaming as a professional poker player before shifting to industry-centric roles. He brings over two decades of experience to projects, including founding and senior executive roles at Catena Media, Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, and Fans Unite.
He is also a prolific venture investor with a portfolio of dozens of innovative gaming startups, an entrepreneur with multiple exits, and serves a strategic advisor to several of the world’s leading betting brands, the largest private equity firms, and numerous Fortune 500 companies.
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.
Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and was research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, master’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years of experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
