Richard W. Vague

Richard Vague is a managing partner of Gabriel Investments, an early stage investment fund.  He is also Chairman of The Governor’s Woods Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic organization, and managing director of The Miletos Group.  Previously, he was co-founder, chairman and CEO of Energy Plus, an electricity and natural gas supply company operating in states throughout the U.S. that was sold to NRG Energy in 2011. Vague was also co-founder and CEO of two credit card companies - First USA, which grew to be the largest Visa issuer in the industry and was sold to Bank One in 1997, and Juniper ... Read More

Steve C. Clemons

Steve Clemons is Washington editor-at-large for The Atlantic and editor-in-chief  of AtlanticLIVE and QuartzLIVE. He is also editor-at-large for Quartz. At AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s premium events division, Clemons develops concepts and editorial content and leads programs as an interviewer, moderator, and host. Clemons joined The Atlantic in June 2011 from the New America Foundation, a think tank devoted to pragmatic, non-ideological policy innovation, and intellectual entrepreneurship. He helped launch the Foundation  twelve  years ago, served as its executive vice president for eight years, founded its American Strategy Program, and continues to serve there as a senior fellow. Clemons also served as ... Read More

Peter P. Burns

Peter Burns is the senior payments advisor at Heartland Payment Systems Inc, working with the company CEO on industry policy issues and internal strategies. He also serves as a director of Barclays Bank Delaware and chairs its audit committee. Additional board and advisory roles with Consumer Credit Counseling Services of the Delaware Valley, the National Foundation for Consumer Credit Counseling Services, the Global Interdependence Center and the advisory Board of the Boston Fed’s “Survey of Consumer Payment Choice”. From 2000 to 2009 he served as vice president and founding director of the Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of ... Read More

Anthony M. Santomero, Ph.D.

Richard K. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Anthony M. Santomero holds the title of Richard K. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his 30-year tenure at Wharton, he held a number of academic and managerial positions, including Deputy Dean of the School. He served as the ninth President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2000 to 2006. While at the Fed, he also was chair of the System’s Committee on Credit and Risk Management, a member of the Financial Services Policy Committee, and the Payments System Policy Advisory Committee. In addition, he was the Vice ... Read More

Paul McCulley

Senior Fellow, Financial Macroeconomics, Cornell Law School's Jack G. Clarke Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets

Paul McCulley is Senior Fellow in Financial Macroeconomics for Cornell Law School’s Jack G. Clarke Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets. Prior, he was the Chief Economist and Managing Director at PIMCO where he served as a member of the Investment Committee in Newport Beach, and authoring the publication, Macro Perspectives. Paul previously retired from PIMCO at the end of 2010, after a decade as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager. He also headed the firm's Liquidity and Funding Desk, as well as led PIMCO’s Cyclical Economic Forums and authored the monthly research publication, Global Central ... Read More