Justin Ishbia - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

Justin Ishbia

Justin is the Founder and Managing Partner of one of the nation’s best performing private equity firms, Shore Capital Partners (“Shore”). Since the firm’s inception in 2009, Justin and the team have grown Shore from 4 to 209 team members managing over $17 billion in Regulatory Assets Under Management across more than 84 platforms representing…

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Clint Coghill

Clint Coghill brings over 30 years of experience as an investor, fintech entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Today, he devotes most of his time to leading Coghill Capital Management, a family office investing across public and private markets, which has incubated and launched four AI-focused businesses over the past year. Clint currently serves as Executive Chairman of…

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Samantha McLemore

Samantha McLemore launched Patient Capital Management, LLC in 2020 to bring her differentiated approach to value investing to the institutional market. Samantha worked for over two decades investing side by side with famed value investor Bill Miller. Patient Capital was initially a division of Miller Value Partners. In 2023 when Miller retired, Patient Capital acquired…

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Larry Gies - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

Larry Gies

Mr. Gies is the Founder and CEO of Madison Industries, one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Madison builds entrepreneurially driven, branded market leaders that are dedicated to making the world safer, healthier and more productive by creating innovative solutions that deliver outstanding customer value. The team at Madison…

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Mike Gamson - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

Mike Gamson

Mike is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at, an expansion stage venture capital firm. Before Permanent Capital V entures, Mike had a successful career as an operator and investor. Mike was previously CEO at Evozyne, a Chicago based A.I. biotech company that aims to make novel proteins that can solve long standing challenges in therapeutics…

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Rod Wong - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

Roderick Wong

Rod’s passion for innovative science and its power to impact people’s lives led him to launch RTW in 2009. His rigorous approach to analyzing the latest science and narrowing in on the ideas with the best potential formed the foundation of what the firm is today. Over the last 16 years, Rod has built a…

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Christian Zann - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

Christian Zann

Christian has over 25 years of investing experience and is CIO of Sourcerock. He was previously a partner and portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) where he ran both energy and industrials allocations for 15 years. Christian was consistently a top profit generator and became a partner three years after joining the firm. Within…

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Andrew Wellington - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

Andrew Wellington

Andrew is the Chief Investment Officer of Lyrical Asset Management, co-founded with his longtime friend, Jeff Keswin. Andrew Wellington has been a value investor for over a quarter century. After spending five years in management consulting, in 1996 Andrew joined Pzena Investment Management as a founding member and its first research analyst. Five years later,…

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David Einhorn - Invest For Kids Chicago Speaker

David Einhorn

David Einhorn is president of Greenlight Capital, which he co-founded in January 1996. Greenlight Capital is a value-oriented investment advisor whose goal is to achieve high absolute rates of return while minimizing the risk of capital loss. The firm believes that an investment approach that emphasizes intrinsic value will achieve consistent absolute investment returns and…

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