Chris helps companies from the Americas access capital through equity listings on London’s public markets and has helped nearly a hundred companies from the Americas to complete this journey.

He is a specialist in capital raising, liquidity and exits in the small and micro-cap space, with a unique perspective spanning multiple geographies, sectors, and public and private financing/exit alternatives.

He has more than 25 years of corporate finance experience in New York and London for Barclays, Salomon Smith Barney, Citi and Schroders. His expertise includes executing more than 130 transactions including IPOs, listings, financings, and M&A in the U.S. and Europe, collectively valued over $100bn. He is also currently Advisory Board Chair for a US based microcap focused technology M&A advisory firm.

He holds a First Class Honours Bachelors Degree in International Business and German from Aston University, a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Randy joined Pinnacle Associates in 2012 and serves as lead Portfolio Manager of the firm’s various international and global products and is responsible for the firm’s overall international investment strategy. In the first quarter of 2019, the International Small Cap strategy he manages was ranked among the top 10 ten players in its respective universe.* In the second quarter of 2020, he was the #1 ranked manager globally among international small cap funds with an overall quarterly return of over 56%.* He is also responsible for the firm’s Turnaround strategy, which subscribes to the thesis that sometimes high-quality businesses fall (temporarily) out of favor; he also serves as a member of the Investment Committee for the firm’s All-Cap strategy.

Previously, Randy was Senior Securities Analyst at SM Investors, an investment partnership in New York, where his responsibilities included security analysis in various industries encompassing wireless telephony, cable television, food, and publishing. Before SM Investors, he worked at JP Morgan and Lazard Freres. Baron’s experience also encompasses an early role alongside Gabelli Asset Management, which is known for its stock-picking expertise.

Randy received a B.A. in International Studies with a concentration in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He earned his M.A., with highest honors, from Hopkins’ Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where his course of study focused dually on International Economics and Latin American studies.

Jeff Stewart offers a rare vantage point on IPOs. He’s a serial founder who built Inc. 500 companies, an investor who’s backed ambitious entrepreneurs, and a FinTech CEO who successfully scaled across borders. After seeing the corrosive impact of companies staying private for too long, Jeff became somewhat obsessed with understanding the opportunity of multi-jurisdictional public offerings.

By 2018 he co-founded the GPO Fund, a growth-stage venture capital firm focusing on founder-lead, disruptive businesses that can benefit from accelerated international expansion and public market access.

Jeff made his first public market investment and started his first company before high school. He started his career at Ernst & Young consulting for the Nasdaq regulatory group, the predecessor to FINRA, an experience that later proved invaluable as a Fin-tech founder who worked with regulators across two dozen countries.

As an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Jeff has lectured on the impact of technology on global capital markets and international policy affairs.

Having been on both sides of the table—raising capital as a founder and deploying it as an investor—Jeff understands what it takes to build great companies and back them at the right time. He believes passionately in the power of startups to drive innovation and create wealth, not just for founders but for investors who recognize their potential early.

Kevin Maney is a bestselling author, award-winning columnist, and founding partner at Category Design Advisors (CDA).

His critically-acclaimed book, Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets, introduced business to the idea of category design and has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide. As a founding partner of CDA, Kevin has helped leadership teams at more than 100 companies focus their strategic thinking through category design.

His latest book, The Category Creation Formula, published by HarperBusiness in 2026, is based on a decade of field research about category creation and design.

Kevin had a decade-long writing relationship with Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst. Their book, The Transformation Principles: How to Create Enduring Change, is a 2025 national bestseller.

Their previous books are Intended Consequences: How to Build Market-Leading Companies with Responsible Innovation; UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance; and Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future.

Kevin co-authored, with TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadive, the New York Times bestseller The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future...Just Enough. It anticipated much of the conversation we’re now having about artificial intelligence.

Kevin authored the definitive history of IBM: The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM.

Kevin’s well-reviewed novel, Red Bottom Line. Is set in Moscow in 1991, based on his reporting as a journalist covering the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Kevin has been a contributor to Newsweek, Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company, CNN and ABC News, among other media outlets. He was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio during its run from 2007 to 2009. For 22 years, Kevin was a columnist, editor and reporter at USA Today.

He’s appeared frequently on television and radio, including CBS Sunday Morning and NPR, and has lectured at conferences and universities, including New York University, UNC in Chapel Hill, and his alma mater, Rutgers. 

Jeff Weinstein is a Partner at FJ Labs, a New York–based venture capital firm that invests in online marketplace startups and network-effect businesses. He co-heads the firm’s investment team, which has backed more than 1,000 startups globally—including Alibaba, Betterment, Coupang, Delivery Hero, Fanduel, Flexport, and Rappi—and leads FJ’s external fundraising efforts.

Before joining FJ Labs, Jeff spent four years at venture firm Lux Capital and previously worked at a fund of hedge funds. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Kauffman Fellow, and a member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle.

Outside of work, Jeff is a husband and father of two, as well as a competitive distance runner with personal bests of 4:05 in the mile and 2:30 in the marathon.