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.
He graduated with a Master’s in Computer Science from Auckland University, and moved to London from New Zealand in 2005. Matt worked as a software engineer in a range of industries, always aligning engineering work with business value. Within financial services, he spent time at Societe Generale and Barclays, before co-founding Adaptive in 2012.
Driven by a belief that high-quality engineering and client-centricity go hand in hand, Adaptive crafts cutting-edge, bespoke trading technology solutions for capital markets firms across asset classes. Adaptive is for those firms who value differentiation via technology.
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.
Ric Best is Head of Prediction Markets at Susquehanna, where he has spent his career since joining the firm in 2014. In 2023, Susquehanna became the first major financial institution to launch a Prediction Markets trading desk, which Mr. Best has led since its inception. Under his leadership, Susquehanna has become the leading institutional liquidity provider across multiple prediction market venues, trading event contracts on sports, elections, crypto, financial indices, and other emerging markets.
Prior to leading the Prediction Markets desk, Mr. Best traded fixed income derivatives at Susquehanna. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University.
Lloyd Danzig is the managing partner at Sharp Alpha, a growth capital firm investing in things people love, with a special focus on sports, gaming, and entertainment.
Dorothy D. DeWitt is the founder and CEO of independent monitor and compliance advisory firm Tölt Strategies. Her experience regulating and advising companies in emerging and traditional regulated financial services sectors allows her to provide clients with pragmatic, customized solutions that consider the client’s requirements, organization, and culture, among other factors, and are supportive of responsible innovation and growth. Ms. DeWitt recently served as the first woman director of the Division of Market Oversight (“DMO”) at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”). Ms. DeWitt was responsible for the licensing, regulation, and examination of derivatives trading platforms, and oversaw the approximately $400 trillion notional commodity derivative markets regulated by the CFTC. Ms. DeWitt led a staff of approximately 100 lawyers and economists. She oversaw five departments responsible for regulating and licensing designated contract markets, SEFs, FBOTs, and Swap Data Repositories; examining those entities; and identifying and advising the full Commission on emerging risk, trends, and market structure across regulated derivatives markets and the underlying spot markets to support policymaking and enforcement.
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.
Charles Gasparino is one of the most recognized and incisive voices in financial journalism today. As a Senior Correspondent for the FOX Business Network, and a columnist for the New York Post, he delivers expert on-air reporting and consistently breaks some of the biggest daily stories across Wall Street and Washington. Known for his unfiltered reporting style and unparalleled Rolodex, Gasparino brings audiences behind the closed doors of corporate boardrooms and political corridors to explain the real forces moving the markets.
Over the past three decades, Gasparino built a formidable reputation breaking market-moving scoops at CNBC, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. He was at the absolute forefront of the 2008 financial crisis, delivering the first reports of the Lehman Brothers collapse and the AIG government bailout. His relentless investigative work has earned him the New York Press Club award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award, and the editors of the Wall Street Journal submitted his work covering financial dotcom bubble scandals for a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Beyond his daily reporting, Gasparino is a bestselling author of critically acclaimed books, including The Sellout and Go Woke, Go Broke, which unpack the mechanics of modern finance, corporate culture, and political regulation. As a keynote speaker, he provides audiences with a candid, hard-hitting look at the intersection of economics and culture, translating complex market dynamics into accessible insights that equip business leaders and investors to navigate an increasingly volatile global economy.
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.
Joe Green is Vice President of Business Strategy for the Global Derivatives group at Cboe Global Markets (Cboe).
His current focus is on prediction markets and other growth opportunities related to retail and alternative investments. Over the past 15 years, Joe has held roles within Cboe’s Legal, Labs, Indices and Data Vantage teams.
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Indiana University, a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Chris Grove is a nationally recognized subject matter expert whose insights on sports betting, casinos, and prediction markets are regularly trusted by analysts, media outlets, publicly-traded companies, and policymakers. His work has been cited by outlets including Bloomberg, ESPN, Forbes, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Grove is a Partner Emeritus at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, Co-Founding Partner at the VC fund Acies Investments, Co-Founding Partner at EKG Ventures, and an Operating Advisor at Arctos Partners.
Joaquin Gubb, SVP, Head of Securities Legal, Head of Enforcement and Head of Clearing at CDNA/Nadex joined Crypto.com in May of 2022. Joaquin has over 25 years of legal experience advising equities and derivatives market participants, with a focus on equities and derivatives rulemaking and enforcement. Joaquin’s primary focus at Crypto.com is supporting CDNA, a CFTC-registered DCM and DCO, as well as providing legal support to Foris Capital US LLC, a SEC registered Broker/Dealer registered with FINRA and SIPC. Joaquin also advises Crypto.com’s spot cryptocurrency markets in North America, Crypto.com’s state Trust entity in the US, and helps support new product development in North America. Prior to joining Crypto.com, Joaquin served in FINRA’s Enforcement Department for 15 years and was then promoted to serve as an Associate General Counsel in FINRA’s Office of General Counsel. Prior to joining FINRA, Joaquin was an associate at the law firm Perkins Coie, LLP in Washington, D.C.
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.
Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto is Senior Vice President, GM DraftKings Predictions. Previously, she served as the Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer of EDX Markets. From 2020-2022, Jeanine was the CEO of Atomyze LLC, which was a tokenization platform and marketplace for physical commodities. From 2018-2020 Jeanine served as the Managing Director of Operations at Gemini Trust Company, LLC, which operates a digital asset exchange and offers custodial services. From 2004-2017, Jeanine held several leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer, at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), a NASDAQ subsidiary that operates three securities exchanges. Jeanine started her career in 1998 as a Financial Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking group of Wachovia Securities. Jeanine serves on the Board of Digital Prime Technologies and serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (GDCA). Jeanine was named to the TABB Forum Top 40 Financial Market Innovators List in 2022 and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Powerful Women list of 2020. She is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Economics and Biology.
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.
Daniel Kaufman is the founder of Kinetic Alpha, an AI-native quantitative research portfolio shipping working dashboards on prediction-market margining, energy-futures decomposition, and cross-venue arbitrage. He most recently served as Head of FCM Risk for the United States at Clear Street, where he managed the firm’s approval as the first FCM clearing member of Kalshi, opening federally regulated event and predictive markets to retail and institutional clients. Before Clear Street, he held senior risk roles at Wells Fargo Securities, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon Clearing, and Marex Spectron over a 20+ year career in cleared derivatives. He sits on the ISDA SIMM Methodology Committee.
Neal Kumar is the Chief Legal Officer of Polymarket. He previously worked at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a Partner. Neal Kumar attended King’s College London, where he took a Master of Laws in International Business Law, and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he earned a Juris Doctor.
Kumar has extensive expertise in derivatives and commodities law, advising financial institutions, trading companies, and investment funds on regulatory compliance and transactional matters. They have a deep understanding of CFTC and self-regulatory organization obligations, coupled with robust experience in enforcement defense for entities facing investigations. Prior to their role at PolyMarket, Kumar held a Partner position at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where they represented a diverse clientele in complex regulatory, enforcement, and transactional issues. Their advisory work also encompassed providing sophisticated legal counsel for cross-border business operations, drawing on broad international experience.
Kumar also contributed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel.
Renato Mariotti is a partner at Paul Hastings and a leading authority on prediction market litigation and regulation. A former federal prosecutor who led the nation’s first criminal spoofing prosecution, he has built his practice at the intersection of CFTC enforcement, derivatives, and digital assets. He represents prediction markets, trading firms, and intermediaries in the prediction market space. Renato has authored frequent analyses of the evolving legal landscape for prediction markets. He co-hosts The Policy Protocol on CoinDesk and is Chambers-ranked in derivatives enforcement nationwide (Band 1) as well as white collar and government investigations.
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.
Howard Mittman is a board member of Galactic Markets. Mittman is a high-impact C-Suite executive and board member whose career is defined by scaling world-class brands at the intersection of sports, media, and emerging technology. As the former CEO of Bleacher Report, Mittman drove the brand to its highest revenue production in history, transforming it into a social media powerhouse and a Fast Company “Most Innovative Company”.
Most recently, as President of 888 William Hill, he spearheaded the landmark partnership with Authentic Brands Group to launch and scale the SI Sportsbook and Casino, later overseeing the asset’s strategic sale. His tenure also included directing 888’s B2B operations and the World Series of Poker’s online network in partnership with Caesars. Previously, as Chief Business Officer at Condé Nast, Mittman led digital transformations for GQ and WIRED, where he was named Advertising Age’s Publisher of the Year and Conde Nast Executive of the Year.
A recognized industry leader, his accolades include Crain’s New York Business 40 under 40 and inductions into the AAF and MIN Halls of Fame. Today, as Founder of Record Scratch, Mittman advises firms like KKR, TPG and Galactic Markets on operational remixing. He also serves as Board Advisor for Galactic Markets, providing strategic oversight for Predictor.io, a pioneering media-first prediction market engine.
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.
Matt Ober is a managing partner at Social Leverage. Matt was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point where he built the data analytics and technology platform used to enhance the firm’s investment capabilities in equity, structured credit, venture capital and cryptocurrency. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in fintech, data, and technology companies. As an active angel investor for over 10 years, Matt brings his data and analytics expertise to each company with whom he partners.
Matt holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and sits on the board of governors for his alma mater, California State University Chico.
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.
Carolyn Pokorny is a partner and co-chair of the White Collar Crime and Government Investigations Practice at Akerman LLP in New York. A former acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, she led one of the nation’s largest U.S. Attorney’s Offices. She has also served as inspector general of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Special Counsel for Public Integrity in the New York Governor’s Office, and counsel to a U.S. Attorney General. She writes and speaks on white collar enforcement, including emerging issues in sports gambling and integrity.
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.
Jonathan Schmalfeld is the Director of Policy at Digital Chamber. With a background that began in litigation and evolved into corporate and regulatory work for crypto-native companies, Jonathan remains dedicated to applying clear legal thinking to emerging blockchain-enabled business models. At the Digital Chamber, he focuses on shaping policy to create an innovation-friendly regulatory environment for digital assets and advocating for the crypto industry’s role in the future of internet commerce and true digital ownership.
Tony Sio is Head of Regulatory Strategy and Innovation at Nasdaq, where he leads strategy across financial technology solutions for surveillance. He ensures Nasdaq’s offerings stay ahead of evolving regulatory and technology trends for regulators, venues, and financial institutions globally.
Previously, Tony led Marketplace Regulatory Technology, overseeing Nasdaq’s SMARTS market surveillance platform used by over 50 marketplaces and 17 regulators worldwide.
With over 20 years’ experience, Tony has advised exchanges and regulators across the US, Europe, Middle East, APAC, and Africa, and is a recognized voice on regulatory technology, market structure, and innovation.
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.
Seni Thomas is the CEO and founder of EDGE. With deep experience in trading and money movement, he built EDGE to address common payment friction points across fintech, prediction markets, and betting platforms.
Taking a first-principles approach to identifying challenges in emerging markets, Seni and his team identified significant inefficiencies in money movement and a lack of scalable financial safeguards for consumers. This insight led to the creation of EDGE.
Seni began his career at an early media trading desk during the rise of programmatic advertising. Adapting energy trading algorithms, he launched one of the first and largest liquidity layers for exchange-traded media, generating more than $180 million in revenue using concepts pioneered by Wall Street algorithmic traders.
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.
Brigitte Weyls is General Counsel of Gemini Preidctions, a CFTC registered DCM. Previously, she served for more than 17 years at the CFTC, including in the offices of Chairman Michael Selig and Acting Chairman Caroline Pham. During her tenure, she also served as the Designated Federal Officer for both the Global Markets Advisory Committee and Agricultural Advisory Committee. Prior to her government service, Ms. Weyls spent six years in private practice representing clients in complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters. She earned her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law and her B.A. in Economics from Denison University.
Mr. Young is a widely recognized interactive gaming expert with a successful track record of continuously being at the forefront of new gaming technologies and strategies.
Prior to joining High Roller, Young served as Chief Innovation Officer at PointsBet where he was responsible for strategic corporate development efforts including fundraising, partnerships, government and regulatory affairs, product development, M&A initiatives, and more. Young previously served as Chief Operating Officer at FSG Digital, Executive Director of Online Gaming at Foxwoods Resort Casino, and other executive roles throughout his career.
Young currently serves on the board of directors for Catena Media (STO: CTM) and Kinectify, and previously served on the board of Kindbridge Behavioral Health, EQL Games, and Aquimo Technologies.
Young was the recipient of the Innovation Group’s 2018 Emerging Leaders of Gaming Award and was named to Global Gaming Business Magazine’s 40 Under 40 in the same year. Young holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, with a double minor in Internet Studies and Legal Studies, from Brandeis University, and attended Harvard Business School for Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategy, Execution, and Post-Merger Management.
