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Stephanie Campbell is the co-founder and General Partner of The Artemis Fund, which leads seed rounds for tech companies in fintech, commerce, and care that create resilient families, individuals, and businesses. Artemis is currently deploying Fund II, backed by institutional LPs including Bank of America, BMO, TIAA Nuveen, Amazon, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Before Artemis, Stephanie was the Managing Director of the Houston Angel Network (HAN), one of the most active angel networks in the country. She started her career in DC as a government relations associate at the lobbying firm Potomac Partners DC and served as an executive recruiter for Fortune 500, hedge funds, and investment firms. She earned a bachelor's from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL and an MBA from Rice's Graduate School of Business.

 

Chia-Shing “Maxson” Yang is Regional President with Sound Physicians, one of the nation’s largest risk-bearing inpatient practices. She also serves on the board of The Alaska Hospitalist Group, a multi-specialty private practice, and as an Operating Advisor for The98, a venture fund focused on the strategic scaling of women-led technology businesses. 

Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M, Dr. Yang is currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM). An Echols Scholar, Harrison-Bush winner, and McIntire alumna at the University of Virginia, she completed her M.D. at Eastern Virginia Medical School and her residency at Jefferson Medical College. 

David Zusman is the Managing Partner of GoPoint Ventures and Talara Capital, investment partnerships he founded in 2010. The firm’s PE investments are real asset focused, while its venture investments have focused on workflow/data orchestration, AI solutions, energy and power grid resilience, and the creator economy.  Mr. Zusman has invested over $1bn along-side visionary founders, serving on numerous boards. David began his career in finance at Credit Suisse before becoming Managing Director at North Sound Capital, a hedge fund, and Partner at Perella Weinberg.David serves as Chair of the UVA VC Collective—an alumni network connecting venture investors to support UVA-affiliated startups. Mr. Zusman earned a B.S. in Commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. 

Abby Fifer Mandell is the Director of the Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UVA McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to joining the faculty at UVA, Abby served for 17 years at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where she directed the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab; co-taught the Min Family Challenge with the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship group at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; produced the USC Social Venture Coaching Competition (SVCC); and co-produced the Aging is Now | Aging is the Future Entrepreneurship Symposium. 

Stephanie Campbell is the co-founder and General Partner of The Artemis Fund, which leads seed rounds for tech companies in fintech, commerce, and care that create resilient families, individuals, and businesses. Artemis is currently deploying Fund II, backed by institutional LPs including Bank of America, BMO, TIAA Nuveen, Amazon, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Before Artemis, Stephanie was the Managing Director of the Houston Angel Network (HAN), one of the most active angel networks in the country. She started her career in DC as a government relations associate at the lobbying firm Potomac Partners DC and served as an executive recruiter for Fortune 500, hedge funds, and investment firms. She earned a bachelor's from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL and an MBA from Rice's Graduate School of Business.

 

Paul Cherukuri serves as a Special Advisor to the Provost for UVA Innovates, a pan-university entrepreneurship initiative. He served as the inaugural vice president for innovation and chief innovation officer at Rice University since 2022. At Rice, he spearheaded initiatives that redefined the university’s innovation enterprise, from launching the Rice Biotech Launch Pad and RBL LLC to rapidly advance lifesaving technologies, to forging the $12.5 million Woodside-Rice Decarbonization Accelerator to transform greenhouse gases into next-generation materials, and creating the Rice Nexus hub at Houston’s Ion District to scale AI-driven startups—efforts that firmly positioned Rice and Houston at the forefront of global innovation. 

Mark Galant is the Founder of GAIN Capital/FOREX.com, a leading online FX trading firm. He served as CEO from its beginning in 1999 until 2007. Mr. Galant continued as Chairman until December 2010, when the firm went public on the NYSE. Before GAIN, his Wall Street trading career included Global Head of Options for Credit Suisse. He followed GAIN with the founding of Tydall Trading, a high-frequency algorithmic trading firm, trading over $10 billion a day. He currently is the CEO of Tydall Holdings, a real estate development and startup investment firm. Mr. Galant holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Commerce (Finance) from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

David Zusman is the Managing Partner of GoPoint Ventures and Talara Capital, investment partnerships he founded in 2010. The firm’s PE investments are real asset focused, while its venture investments have focused on workflow/data orchestration, AI solutions, energy and power grid resilience, and the creator economy.  Mr. Zusman has invested over $1bn along-side visionary founders, serving on numerous boards. David began his career in finance at Credit Suisse before becoming Managing Director at North Sound Capital, a hedge fund, and Partner at Perella Weinberg.David serves as Chair of the UVA VC Collective—an alumni network connecting venture investors to support UVA-affiliated startups. Mr. Zusman earned a B.S. in Commerce at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.