Session Details
Date:
3:30 PM
Where:
Wilshire Ballroom
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Douglas Heyman, Managing Director, BlackRock
Stemming from over two decades of investment banking, asset management, and principal investing, Mr. Heyman is an experienced investment and financial services professional with a demonstrated record leading multi-national teams to build portfolios of alternative investments and advise clients. He maintains a unique global network, which offers a continual pipeline of proprietary deal flow and acts as a source of market intelligence. He is skilled in origination, partnership creation, deal execution, investment analysis, portfolio management, and client development.
In particular, Mr. Heyman has broad private credit and equity investment experience, working across multiple asset classes, including corporate, real estate, infrastructure, structured, and specialty finance. His unparalleled sourcing and market intelligence activities are supported by long-standing relationships with investment managers, bankers, intermediaries, and management teams. His business efforts include both ad hoc transactions and multi-year partnership programs, and he leads teams to efficiently evaluate these opportunities and decide which projects to pursue.
Mr. Heyman is a team leader who encourages his people to pursue creative growth projects, as well as calculated portfolio management. He ties global investment and research teams, with varied areas of expertise, together, and this coordination drives accountability and performance. His consistent communication is critical to successfully navigating complex organizations, and Mr. Heyman has a track record building the prerequisite consensus across broadly distributed investment, administration, and operating functions.
Mr. Heyman is also responsible for developing long-term business plans, which guide scale and performance targets, staffing, and strategy expansion, and are dynamic enough to adjust for unexpected market changes. To drive the team's buy-in of the plan, clear communication from the leadership team and nurturing a united culture is critical, and Mr. Heyman embraces his role as a mentor and culture carrier by hosting regular, internal, one-on-one and group socials.
Looking externally, Mr. Heyman embraces his role as a firm ambassador to the private, alternative investment market, ensuring BlackRock's GFI platform is regarded as a sophisticated leader and natural home for a broad set of private investment opportunities.
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Christine S. Shin, Partner, Russ August & Kabat
Christine Shin is a partner in the corporate group at Russ August & Kabat and chair of the mergers & acquisitions/private equity practice.
Christine has represented U.S. Fortune 500 companies, international conglomerates and global private equity firms in their significant transactions. She has extensive experience in M&A, private equity, public company representation, cross-border investment, multi-jurisdictional deal execution and related corporate transactions. Christine leads and executes transactions for private equity funds active in the middle market and counsels their portfolio companies on operational matters.
In 2022, Christine was recognized among the Los Angeles Business Journal‘s Women of Influence: Attorneys. She was also named a Super Lawyer Rising Star by the publishers ofLos Angeles Magazine from 2022-2024. In 2020 and 2021, Christine was named “A Leader of Influence” among 2020 Private Equity Investors & Advisors by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Prior to joining Russ August & Kabat, Christine was part of the corporate practice at Latham & Watkins LLP. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and graduated with honors from Wellesley College where she majored in English and Economics.
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Anthony Zanontian, Managing Director, Crumble Capital
Anthony is the Managing Director of Crumble Capital and the original co-founder and CEO of Anthony’s Goods, where he spearheaded product development, e-commerce strategy, and operations.
Anthony’s Goods—acquired by Associated British Foods (LSE: ABF)—is a leading online health and superfood retail brand on Amazon, with products that outsell household names like Cheerios and Keurig Coffee Pods. Under Anthony's leadership, the company scaled its product line from a single SKU to over 250, while establishing a global supply chain, decentralized fulfillment network, and robust vendor/supplier relationships.
Before founding Anthony’s Goods, Anthony lead product development at true[x], a $45 million VC-backed ad-tech company that was later acquired by Fox Corp for $200 million. A pioneer in the engagement and value-exchange advertising space, he drove the development of real-time bidding and self-serve technology across web and mobile platforms. Anthony also authored and optimized three proprietary algorithms—Asynchronous Bidding, Bidding Estimator, and Reach Estimator—and is the inventor of U.S. Patent #13/236,211: "Self-Service Platform for Building Engagement Advertisements."
Beyond his own ventures, Anthony has served as a strategic advisor to multiple $100M+ businesses, including Manitobah, Lamkin, Beyond Yoga, and Country Life. He has guided these companies through M&A processes, optimized their e-commerce and Amazon strategies, enhanced online marketing efficiency, and driven significant margin recapture and profitability growth.
Earlier in his career, Anthony co-founded Taltopia, an angel-backed platform connecting creative talent with fans and entertainment professionals. At Taltopia, he oversaw product, engineering, and marketing. Taltopia gained recognition from outlets such as CNN, NBC, and VentureBeat, and was featured as an Apple.com Staff Pick.
Anthony graduated from the University of California, San Diego, where he earned his degree with Cum Laude distinction.
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Bill Lane, Vice President Sales - North America Banks, SS&C Intralinks (Moderator)
As the VP of North America at SS&C Intralinks, I lead a team of sales professionals who manage strategic relationships across a diverse portfolio of investment banks and law firms. After almost a decade in the organization selling our flagship solution and scaling the advisory sales team I specialize in customer relationship management, consultative sales management, consultative selling, talent management, territory management and GTM operations.
