Ayesha Kiani is a Faculty Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering where she's teaching and researching on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology. She is also a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners and a mentor at Techstars.

 

Previously, Ayesha was a Managing Director for Republic Crypto, where she successfully led Republic’s fundraising efforts for its Security Token presale. Before Republic, Ayesha was an early employee of Consensys, within SingularDTV. She is currently an Investor Board Member at Ventures for America and a Venture Partner at NextGen Ventures.

 

She is a graduate of NYU Law and started her career at Skadden Arps.

Grace Ng is a member of the Investment Team at Point72 Ventures, where she co-leads consumer investing.

 

Prior to joining Point72, Grace was a growth equity and venture investor at The Raine Group, where she invested in and advised high growth tech and media companies. Earlier, she led strategy and business development at AwesomenessTV, a digital media company sold to Comcast NBCUniversal. She also worked on Disney’s Corporate Strategy team, focused on direct-to-consumer initiatives and next-gen consumer internet investments in Los Angeles. She started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York and Hong Kong.

 

Grace holds a BA in Mathematical Economic Analysis & Visual Arts from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kejia Sun is the portfolio manager of the MW Global Technology strategy. She joined the firm in 2020.

 

Before joining Marshall Wace, Kejia spent five years at Citadel Global Equities as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to this, she was an investment analyst at JAT Capital Management and Moon Capital, and as a Private Equity Associate at Bain Capital. Before working in investment management, she was a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.

 

Kejia holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Biological Sciences from Stanford University.