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Doors open at 6:30PM
Event begins at 7PM
Speakers:
Wenyi Cai
Wenyi Cai is the Founder & Managing Partner of Polymath Ventures, an emerging-market-focused company builder with offices in Bogota, Mexico City, & Shanghai. Polymath has built 7 companies in a range of industries, including mobility & financial services, & raised over $20M USD in early-stage funding. Polymath is a strategic partner of Mesoamerica, a leader in private equity in Latin America, with a dedicated $40M USD fund to invest in Polymath's portfolio. Prior to founding Polymath, Wenyi was the COO of Milo.com, a consumer internet startup that sold to eBay in 2010. Earlier in her career, Wenyi was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in the Middle East, Africa, & South Asia, & a qualitative trader in the hedge fund industry. Wenyi graduated cum laude from Harvard College, & studied philosophy & physics.
Marie Bourreau
Journalist for RFI & le Monde.
Atima Lui
Atima Lui was born to a Sudanese refugee father & Black activist mother in Topeka, Kansas where her dark skin tone never quite fit in with the standard of beauty in her community. Today as Founder & CEO of fashion & beauty tech startup NUDEST, Atima licenses patent-pending skin tone matching technology to help fashion & beauty brands produce & sell products for women of all skin tones. Named one of Shopper Marketing Magazine's "People to Watch" in 2013, Atima led the digital brand marketing initiatives at Walmart US before graduating from Harvard Business School in 2016 with her MBA. She has experience working for Google, YouTube & Apple in online ad sales, product marketing, & media roles. She earned her BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis where she started a full-service hair, nail & tanning salon targeted toward multicultural customers while triple majoring in International Business, Marketing & Spanish. Atima is also a graduate of Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Claude Silver
Prior to joining VaynerMedia, Claude Silver held senior leadership posts at both J. Walter Thompson & Publicis in each firm's London office. In both positions, she steered development of brand strategies, agency partnerships, product teams, media, sales, & internal management.
Apart from her work across the marketing & media ecosystem, Silver co-founded & served as Managing Director at GirlsAdventureOUT, a women-focused outdoor adventure enterprise. A lifelong affinity for outdoor pursuits that led her to become a certified Outward Bound instructor.
It is her track record of hiring & nurturing exceptional talent & leading large-scale global teams that propelled the creation of her current position, one specifically tailored to my capabilities & experience. A native of New York City, she is overjoyed at finally returning to the city of origin.
At VaynerMedia, Silver oversees anything & everything that has to do with people, including but not limited to: talent management, employee experience & retention, learning & development, coaching, culture, internal communications & recruitment for over 750 employees.
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