Unlock the Capital Markets in 2021

Alastair Goldfisher
Editor of Venture Capital Journal reporting on GPs and LPs

Howard Morgan

Howard Morgan is the Co-Founder and Chairman of B Capital. Previously, he co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund. Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. As a result of this early participation in the internet, he advised many corporate and government agencies on the uses of electronic and voice mail, implementing it throughout the Wharton School as early as the mid-1970s.

Chris Gaertner

Chris Gaertner is the Global Head of Technology at Rothschild & Co. Prior to this, Mr. Gaertner was a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and held roles as Head of Technology Investment Banking and Head of Global Software and Enterprise Technology Investment Banking. He was also previously a Managing Director and Head of Global Software at Lehman Brothers. Over his career, Mr. Gaertner has advised a number of leading technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, HP, Ansys, Cisco, Oracle, Lyft, Palantir, Dell, Google, Adobe, Apple, IBM and Amazon, among a host of others. Mr. Gaertner holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Ashley Fieglein Johnson

Ashley Fieglein Johnson is Planet's Chief Financial Officer. She is an expert in corporate strategy, business development and finance, and has extensive experience building and leading executive teams in the technology space at both public and private companies. Prior to joining Planet, Ashley was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Wealthfront, a next-generation banking service that helps young professionals manage their savings. She is multilingual, including fluency in Spanish and German, proficiency in Japanese and French and beginner Swedish. She also earned a bachelor's degree in International Relations and a master's degree in International Policy from Stanford University.

Blair Silverberg

Blair is the CEO and Co-Founder of Capital, a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. Blair’s passion for investing began at the age of 10 after growing $2.5K in Bar Mitzvah money into $100K. Before founding Capital, Blair was a principal investor at Draper Fisher Jurvetson where he sourced and managed venture investments for the firm focusing primarily on software-as-a-service and artificial intelligence during his four-year residency. Blair graduated from Stanford University’s d.school where he studied product design.

In Conversation with Alastair Goldfisher

Alastair Goldfisher is venture capital editor at Venture Capital Journal, which is owned by PEI Media. Alastair reports on the venture community, creating content for venture firms raising funds and seeking investment opportunities and limited partners looking for compelling investments in venture. Alastair has worked as a business journalist since 1994, and he’s been with the group that publishes Venture Capital Journal since 2003. Previously, he was founding editor of California CEO and before that was a reporter with the Silicon Valley Business Journal. He graduated from San Jose State with a bachelor’s in magazine journalism.