8:00 AM - 8:50 AM | New York Academy of Sciences (40th Floor)

Registration opens for members on the 40th Floor of the New York Academy of Sciences. Members will meet with the Cavendish team to review the Forum schedule, speakers, and work with the Digital Services team to set up Cavendish IQ profiles, schedule one-on-one meetings, and enjoy a delicious breakfast with premier networking.

Photo feature: Facade of 7 World Trade Center, home of the New York Academy of Sciences.

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM | The Auditorium

The Forum will begin with opening remarks, celebrating Cavendish’s 20th event in five years and updating members on the newest developments within the Cavendish network.

Photo feature: Cavendish Global’s Managing Partner, Tom McKenzie, delivered opening remarks at the 2018 Chicago Forum.

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Panel Discussion led by Lili Gil Valletta, Founder and CEO, CulturIntel, Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Business Strategist, Hispanic Market Expert and Media Commentator; featuring Conrod Kelly, Executive Director and US Marketing Leader, Merck; Juliet Nevins, MD, Medical Director, Aetna; and more to be announced!

Did you know April is Minority Health Month? It is - as designated by the CDC, NIH and Office of Minority Health!

Minorities are disproportionately affected by chronic disease and are reported to achieve up to 40 percent worse health outcomes than the rest of the population, despite having increased access to healthcare.

By the year 2040, America will be a majority minority nation which challenges traditional models of clinical trial design, personalized medicine and overall patient understanding and engagement as the profile of our patients rapidly change. Unless current healthcare models and even the science proactively evolve to anticipate these demographic shifts, we may fall short in delivering innovative health and wellness solutions that are inclusive and truly personalized to meet the needs of all patients. This session will bring together leading experts in clinical, data analytics, pharma, payor and other sectors who are innovating today to deliver inclusive healthcare innovations to anticipate the needs of a changing world.

Photo feature: Conrod Kelly, Lili Gil Valletta (panel moderator) and Juliet Nevins, MD

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Cavendish Innovation Partners

Cavendish Innovation Partners, individually-curated early-stage biohealth companies, will deliver impact presentations on their latest breakthrough work.

Interested in becoming a Cavendish Innovation Partner and presenting at our next Forum in Chicago (June 19, 2019)? Contact Gwen Snyder.

Photo feature: Brian Windsor, PhD, CEO, Lung Therapeutics; one of the Innovation Partners presenting at the 2019 New York Forum.

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Lobby on the 40th Floor

Immediately following Innovation Partner presentations, members will enjoy a mid-morning break to grab coffee, meet one-on-one with fellow attendees and continued conversations with Innovation Partners on the details of the presentations, in the exhibition space. The Lobby is offers everyone a giant’s eye-view of the city; on a crystal clear day, one can see from river to river with notable landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building, and the George Washington Bridge.

Meetings are set in advance on the Cavendish IQ digital platform. Interested in joining Cavendish IQ? Contact Gwen Snyder.

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | David Teten, Managing Partner, HOF Capital

David Teten is a Managing Partner with HOF Capital, an international venture capital fund based in New York and backed by 70 conglomerates and large family offices across 21 countries. David has particular interest in fintech, sales tech, and HR tech. He was previously a Partner for 6 years with ff Venture Capital, one of the best-performing seed- and early-stage venture capital firms in the U.S. David also has advised clients such as Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, and other institutional investors. He earlier was a serial fintech entrepreneur. David holds a Harvard MBA and Yale BA.

11:25 AM - 12:00 PM | Moderated by Stan Kachnowski, PhD, Chairman, HITLAB, featuring Denmark West, Partner, Connectivity Capital Partners; Ramphis Castro, Co-Founder and Managing Director, ScienceVest; Josh Cohen, Managing Director, City Light Capital; and David Teten, Managing Director, HOF Capital

Photo feature (clockwise): Stan Kachnowski, PhD, HITLAB; Denmark West, Connectivity Capital Partners; Josh Cohen, City Light Capital; and Ramphis Castro, ScienceVest

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Lobby on the 40th Floor

Break bread with fellow Cavendish members and speakers over a casual buffet lunch at the New York Academy of Sciences. Cavendish luncheons do not feature keynote speakers, leaving attendees uninterrupted to network, meet and dine.

Photo feature: Lobby on the 40th floor, providing ample breakout space for dining, networking and exhibiting.

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Featuring David Weild, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Weild & Co., and former Vice Chairman, The NASDAQ

David is the founder of Weild & Co., which is working to revolutionize investment banking by harnessing the power of the cloud.   One of the fastest growing investment banks (and investment banking networks) in the United States, Weild & Co. attracts and enables proven and independent investment bankers to better serve the growth and middle market economy (underserved but critical markets to job formation and upward mobility) from anywhere in the United States.  

Weild & Co. aspires to have profound social impact by enabling entrepreneurs, working mothers, investment bankers that don’t want ‘to be retired’ or those that want to leave larger investment banks to make a difference, especially in underserved communities, to better contribute.  David is a former Vice Chairman of Nasdaq and worked with luminaries including Steve Jobs (Founder of Apple and Pixar) and Tom Stemberg (Founder of Staples).  He ran corporate finance and equity capital markets at a top 10 Wall Street firm, pricing over 1,000 public equity offerings and was directly involved in early deals for Celgene (biotechnology company that has greatly extended lives for patients with multiple myeloma and helped kids with ADHD), NVIDEA (semiconductor company that sparked the growth in the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, parallel computing and helped ignite modern Artificial Intelligence including driverless cars), BlackRock (now the largest asset manager in the world), Chesapeake Energy (now a Fortune 500 company in land-based energy that was an early pioneer in horizontal drilling), Patterson-UTI Energy (largest land based drilling company in the US), and many others that made important contributions to the US and world economy.   He is more recently recognized for thought leadership that led him to be called the “Father of the JOBS Act.” The JOBS Act laid the foundation for forms of crowdfunding, private placements, Reg. A+ public offerings and the basis under which most securities token offerings (STOs) are now done in the U.S.     

David’s thought leadership has been frequently cited by legislators, regulators, academics, politicians and stock exchanges.  He has spoken or testified on stock exchange structure in the US Congress and at the SEC.  He has addressed the G-20, OECD (Europe and Asia), the European Federation of Securities Exchanges (Switzerland and Norway) and the Arab Federation of Exchanges in Jordan. Mr. Weild received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business.  He also studied at the Sorbonne  and on exchange at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris) and the Stockholm  School of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden).  Mr. Weild is married and the father of three teenagers.

Photo feature: David Weild IV

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Cavendish Innovation Partners

Cavendish Innovation Partners, individually-curated early-stage biohealth companies, will deliver impact presentations on their latest breakthrough work.

Interested in becoming a Cavendish Innovation Partner and presenting at our next Forum in Chicago (June 19, 2019)? Contact Gwen Snyder.

Photo feature: David Wolf, MD, EE, Astronaut, President and CSO, Spektron Systems, one of the Innovation Partners presenting at the 2019 New York Forum.

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM | Lobby on the 40th Floor

Immediately following Innovation Partner presentations, members will enjoy a mid-afternoon break to grab coffee, meet one-on-one with fellow attendees and continued conversations with Innovation Partners on the details of the presentations, in the exhibition space. The Lobby is offers everyone a giant’s eye-view of the city; on a crystal clear day, one can see from river to river with notable landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building, and the George Washington Bridge.

Meetings are set in advance on the Cavendish IQ digital platform. Interested in joining Cavendish IQ? Contact Gwen Snyder.

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Moderated by Carolee Lee, Founder and CEO, AccessCircles, together with Anula Jayasuriya, Founder, EXXclaim Capital

WHAM! is a donor-funded, non-profit, dedicated to improving and elevating the health of women to 21st century standards by applying precision medicine in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. WHAM!, Women’s Health Access Matters, has been created as an initiative of AccessCircles to focus on increasing awareness of women’s health issues and implementing strategies that will improve the inequities and bias in research and accelerate scientific discovery in women’s health.

WHAM! was founded by Carolee Lee in July 2018 to impact research and awareness of diseases which affect women exclusively, predominantly or differentially . AccessCircles is a by-invitation global network for women providing connectivity, knowledge and access while sharing the collective knowledge, expertise and influence of preeminent thinkers and leaders in their fields. As a 501c3, AccessCircles’ mission is to provide education, thought leadership and connectivity to create sustainable and meaningful change in women's lives. Carolee will be joined in this discussion by Dr. Anula Jayasuriya, Founder of EXXclaim Capital. They will share a dialogue on the opportunities to create change through heightened awareness and investment. in health-care technology and life science companies in this untapped space.

Photo feature: AccessCircles founder, Carolee Lee, and Anula Jayasuriya, Founder, EXXclaim Capital

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Brett Wayman, Vice President for Impact Investing, Envestnet

Envestnet is a leading provider of integrated portfolio, practice management, and reporting solutions to financial advisors and institutions. Envestnet’s open architecture platform encompasses a broad range of institutional-quality research, investment products, and advisory resources.

Photo feature: Brett Wayman, Envestnet

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Sergio Fernandez de Cordova, Co-Founder and Chairman

PVBLIC Foundation is an innovative non-profit media organization that harnesses the power of media to drive social change. An aggregator of media across all platforms, PVBLIC works strategically to pair media space with key non-profits at the local, national and global levels. We utilize existing and emerging technologies to increase issue awareness around important causes and help non-profits amplify their message. At PVBLIC, we believe that media and technology are the new currencies for sustainable development.

Photo feature: PVBLIC Chairman, Sergio Fernandez de Cordova, speaks at the SDG Media Zone at the UN General Assembly.

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Lobby on the 40th Floor

General Session programming will close with an immediate opening of the Evening Cocktail Reception.

Cavendish and Forum partners will deliver remarks, repeat the call for greater collaboration, innovation and impact, and highlight the upcoming 2019 Chicago Forum in June, at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

Photo feature: Scene from the evening cocktail reception at the 2018 Chicago Forum.