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Dan Polonka

Sr. Product Marketing Manager
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Affinity

Dan Polonka is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Affinity, where he leads go-to-market strategy, product launches, and demand-generation programs tailored for venture-capital and private-equity audiences.

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Bailey Dickey

SVP Networks
Notable Capital

Bailey Dickey

SVP Networks
Notable Capital

Bailey Dickey is the SVP Networks at Notable Capital, where she leads strategy and execution for business development, network expansion, and portfolio community engagement. To support founders and their companies as they scale, Bailey co-created Founders + Leaders, a leadership development platform for portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Notable, Bailey built sales, marketing, and professional services teams at Medallia and worked with SPMB, a tech-focused search firm, on executive-level placements in venture-backed companies. Bailey holds a B.A. from Colgate University.

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Jinny Lee

Senior Venture Operations
Samsung Next

Jinny Lee

Senior Venture Operations
Samsung Next

Jinny Lee is leading Venture Operations at Samsung Next, where she leads portfolio management for over 350+ companies at the Samsung Next Fund. Prior to joining Next, she was a Senior Consultant in EY Korea's digital transformation team, advising clients on strategy and operational excellence.

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Andrew Brackin

Partner
Gradient Ventures

Andrew Brackin

Partner
Gradient Ventures

Andrew Brackin is a Partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, Andrew co-founded Vial, a tech-enabled clinical trial platform that raised over $100M in venture capital from top-tier firms. Prior to Vial, he was part of the founding team and the Head of Growth at Newfront (YC W18), an AI-powered commercial insurance brokerage valued at $2.2BN, insuring numerous Fortune 500 companies. His career began at Jobr, a mobile job search business that Monster.com acquired in 2016.

Andrew was a 2013 recipient of the Thiel Fellowship. Outside of work, he loves reading about global affairs, working out at Barry’s Bootcamp, and enjoying live music.

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David Hefter

AI Champion for Investments - Private and Public
BlackRock

David Hefter

AI Champion for Investments - Private and Public
BlackRock

David Hefter leads BlackRock’s internal AI strategy and adoption for investments, working across public and private markets. He chairs the AI governance committee and produces a weekly internal AI Newsletter. With over two decades experience at BlackRock, David has been driving AI initiatives for the past 5 years, having studied computer science and AI at Columbia University.

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