M&T SUMMIT

Saturday, April 5, 2025

One day. Countless big ideas that will impact the world.

An annual signature event to celebrate and connect students, alumni and faculty.

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JOIN THE 2025 M&T SUMMIT

The M&T Summit is our annual event where industry leaders and M&T students gather for one full day to discuss advancements that will drive the future of business and technology.

Registration for the 8th annual M&T Summit is open. The signature event celebrates students and connects alumni, strengthening the M&T network, deepening the M&T experience, and creating big ideas with the potential to power innovative solutions.

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This year’s M&T Summit will be held at Amy Gutmann Hall, 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: RAMANAN RAGHAVENDRAN

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We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Barer keynote Ramanan Raghavendran, M&T’89. Ramanan Raghavendran (ENG’89, W’89, LPS’15) is the Managing Partner of Amasia, a thesis-driven global venture capital firm investing in climate and sustainability companies. He co-founded Amasia with a fellow Penn alumnus in 2013.

Mr. Raghavendran serves on the Board of SF Goodwill and the Advisory Council of the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University. Over the years, he has been a seed funder and board member of several NGOs and remains closely associated with Magic Bus, an NGO that works with 500,000 at-risk children in South Asia.

At Penn, Mr. Raghavendran is Chair of the Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee and is a member of the University’s Investment Board. He also serves on the Board of Penn Medicine and its Executive Committee. In addition, Mr. Raghavendran serves on the International Advisory Board of Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and is on the Asia Leadership Committee. He is a former member and Chair of the Board of Advisors of the School of Arts and Sciences. He is the Alumni Global Coordinator of the Penn Alumni Interview Program, as well as a member of the Penn Libraries’ Orrery Society. Mr. Raghavendran supports the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Penn Libraries, and a variety of efforts within Alumni Relations.

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Accommodations

For visitors coming from outside Philadelphia, we suggest any of the following accommodations:

The Inn at Penn

The Study at University City – Please contact Gili Cohen and reference the M&T Event

AKA – Book via phone  215.372.9000 and inquire about the Penn Rate

Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel

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Agenda: The 2025 M&T Summit Program

April 5, 2025

Building a Sustainable Future: Empowering the Next Generation

 

7:30 am – 8:45 am Registration & Breakfast Amy Gutmann Hall Lobby           

8:45 am – 9:00 am Welcome & Introductory Remarks Stavis Family Auditorium

Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean & Professor, Penn Engineering

9:00 am – 10:00 am Barer Keynote Fireside Chat Stavis Family Auditorium

Ramanan Raghavendran, M&T’89, Managing Partner, Amasia, Chair, Board of Trustees

Fireside chat led by Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean & Professor, Penn Engineering

10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee Break Amy Gutmann Hall Lobby

10:30 am – 11:30 am Sustainability Panel Stavis Family Auditorium

Andrea Biernat, M&T’09, Managing Director, Impact Investing, Apollo, Jason Halpern, M&T’10, Founder & CEO, Gridless Power & Rob Weber, M&T’82, Senior Business Development Director, Navitas Semiconductor

Moderated by Vanessa Chan, Professor of Practice, Vice Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Penn Engineering

11:30 am – 12:40 pm Lunch Amy Gutmann Hall Lobby

12:45 pm – 3:00 pm Integration Lab Presentation Stavis Family Auditorium

Judges: Karen McCord, M&T’91, Chief of Staff, CorVista Health, Allie Rogers, M&T’87, Director, Aimee Pearl Holdings, Chris Wong, M&T’08, Founder CEO, Flight Health & Katie Wu, M&T’09, Director, KKR

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Coffee Break Amy Gutmann Hall Lobby

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Dave A. Liu, M&T’93 and Lauren Wu Prize Stavis Family Auditorium

Judges: Dave Liu, M&T’93, Founder and CEO, Liucrative Endeavors, Co-Founder and President, La Mesa Capital & Reshma Sohoni, M&T’98, Founding Partner, Seedcamp

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Coffee Break Amy Gutmann Hall Lobby

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Student Speed Networking Classrooms 105A & 105B

Lee Becker, M&T’06, Managing Director, Capital Solutions, Warburg Pincus, Alan Frost, M&T’87, Private Investor & Advisor, Charles Lim, M&T’89, Chief Commercial Officer Hotel Equatorial Management, Bao Truong, M&T’96, Partner, Senior Managing Director, Centerbridge Partners, Himayani Puri, M&T’96, Partner, Portfolio Manager, Head of Research, First Manhattan, Danielle Rubin, M&T’16, Senior Director Strategic Operations, SpringWorks Therapeutics, Nonie Sethi, M&T’13, Boston Consulting Group, Partner, Wesley Sheker, M&T’20, Associate, Gunderson Dettmer & Amitoj Singh, M&T’14, Partner, Tenere Capital

5:00 pm – 5:20 pm Distinguished Alumni & Alumni Service Awards Stavis Family Auditorium

Honoring Matthew Schulman, M&T’16, Founder and CEO, Pave, David Quattrone, M&T’95, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Cvent & Nalin Moniz, M&T’05, CEO, Ionic Alternate Asset Management

5:20 pm – 5:45 pm Integration Lab Awards, Dave Liu Prize & Closing Remarks Stavis Family Auditorium

5:45 pm Alumni Cocktail Reception Amy Gutmann Hall Lobby

PAST SUMMITS

2024

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M&T Summit 2024

April 6, 2024

Digital World and Beyond

Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean & Professor, Penn Engineering

Barer Keynote with Joey Levin, M&T’01
Fireside chat led by Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean & Professor, Penn Engineering

Generative AI Panel
Brian Kravitz, M&T’99, Ryan Limaye, M&T’93 & Reshma Sohoni, M&T’98
Moderated by Prasanna Tambe Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions

Integration Lab Presentation
Judges: David Liu, M&T’93, Karen McCord, M&T’91, Allie Rogers, M&T’87 & Lauren Sholder, M&T’04

Student Speed Networking
Lee Becker, M&T’06, Boris Bogatin, M&T’98, Alan Frost, M&T’87, Debbie Chadi Gelb, M&T’06, Ronen Israel, M&T’95, Terence Lim, M&T’88, Mona Mahajan, M&T’00, Abhiraj Modi, M&T’11, Savan Patel, M&T’23, Vyas Ramanan, M&T’11, Gautham Venkatesan, M&T’17 & Steven Xing, M&T’15

Conversation with Distinguished Alumni Awardees
Ryan Limaye, M&T’93 & Lauren Reeder, M&T’16
Moderated by Gad Allon, Jeffrey A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions

Integration Lab Awards & Closing Remarks
Erika H. James, Dean, The Wharton School, Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise Professor of Management

Alumni Cocktail Reception

2023

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M&T Summit 2023

March 25th, 2023

Thriving in a Changing World                                                                          

Keynote Fireside Chat
Radhika Gupta’05 MD & CEO,  Edelweiss Asset Management Limited
Fireside chat led by Dean Vijay Kumar

Market Trends Panel
Alan Cook’95 Founder, Brilliant Pet 2; Mona Mahajan’00 Senior Investment Strategist, Edward Jones; Dan Zwirn’93 CEO & CIO, Arena Investors
Moderated by Prof. Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School

Integration Lab Presentation
Judges: Jesse Beyroutey’11 General Partner, IA Ventures; James Feldkamp,’ 96 Partner & Chief Risk Officer, Full In Partners; Lauren Sholder’04 Business Development, Winton; Chris Wong’08 Founder & CEO, Flight Health

Second Career Panel
Brian Kravitz’99 Group Product Manager, Google; Doug Lawrence’85 Meenal Lele’05 Founder & CEO, Lil Mixins; Lloyd Mandell’91 Tech. & Business Services Head, Glenview Capital
Moderated by Prof. Gad Allon

Student Speed Networking
Alan Frost’87 Investor & Advisor;  Dan Googel’96 PE & VC Investments, Spindrift Equities; Amit Gupta’20 Trader, D. E. Shaw;  Cathryn Herbst’15 Product Management, Verily; Chetna Johri’16 Sr Manager, Vynamic; Jeff Kessler’16 Director Service Delivery, Keolis; Terence Lim’88 Distinguished Scientist, Graphen; Danielle Rubin,’16 Strategic Operations, SpringWorks; Steven Xing’15

Conversation with Garrett Reisman, M&T’90
Professor of Astronautical Engineering, University of Southern California, Senior Advisor at SpaceX
Led by Prof. Gad Allon

Jerome Fisher M&T Distinguished Alumni Awards
Honoring Radhika Gupta, M&T’05 & Garrett Reisman, M&T’90

Closing Remarks
Erika H. James, Dean & Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, The Wharton School

2022

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M&T Summit 2022

March 26th, 2022

Shaping the Future with Creators and Leaders

Keynote Address

Fireside chat with Cliff Asness’88, Managing and Founding Principal AQR
Led by Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean & Professor, Penn Engineering

Founders Panel

Daniel Getelman’13, Co-Founder & CTO at Remix (acq by Via), Maneesha Ghiya’00, Managing Partner & Founder of FemHealth Ventures, and Angela Lai’94, Co-Founder & CEO BetterOmics

Integration Lab Judges

Tim Babich’99, CEO at Nexxus Holdings, Founder & Director at RUNX1 Research Program, Chris Wong’08, Founder & CEO at Flight Health, Allie Rogers’87, Director Aimee Pearl Holdings, Lauren Sholder’04, Business Development at NYDIG

Second Career Panel

Herald Chen’93, President and CFO at AppLovin, Gady Nemirovsky’85, Managing Partner at Inspiration Ventures, Ryan Sheftel’95, CEO Radkl & Partner of GTS, and Monika Shrestha’97, Portfolio Manager at Lazard Asset Management
Moderated by Gad Allon, Jeffry A. Keswin Professor and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions

Closing Remarks and Awards

Erika H. James, Dean of the Wharton School

2021

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M&T Summit 2021

March 20th, 2021

Navigating the Uncharted Waters of a Virtual World

Opening Keynote
A Fireside Chat with Hital Meswani ’90 – Executive Director and Member of the Board of Reliance Industries ltd – Moderated by Penn Engineering Nemirovsky Family Dean Vijay Kumar

Integration Lab Presentations
Judges: Ken Glass M&T’82, Allie Rogers M&T’87, Maneesha Ghiya M&T’00,
Lauren Sholder M&T’04, Danish Munir M&T’09

Closing Keynote
A Fireside Chat with Deika Morrison ’94 – Co-Founder, MD – Mdk Advisory & Consulting Ltd. – Moderated by M&T Director Professor Gad Allon

Closing Remarks by The Wharton School Dean Erika James

2019

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M&T Summit 2019

Disruptive Technologies: From Start to Scale
March 30th, 2019

Conversation with Jeff Fluhr M&T’96 – Entrepreneur & General Partner, Craft Ventures – Moderated by Dean Vijay Kumar, SEAS 

Panel – Challenges Associated with Scaling
Boris Bogatin M&T’98 – Entrepreneur & VC Investor
Peggy Choi M&T’06 – Founder & CEO, Lynk
Brandon Christie M&T’12 – Principal, NEA
Reshma Sohoni M&T’98- Co-Founder, SeedCamp
Moderated by Professor Saikat Chaudhuri

Structured Speed Networking
Tim Babich M&T’99, Prateek Bhide M&T’11, Peggy Choi M&T’06 Alan Frost M&T’87, Jonathan Haski M&T’11, Han Hu M&T’08, Doug Lawrence M&T’85,
Jeffrey Keswin M&T’90, Danielle Rubin M&T’16, Reshma Sohoni M&T’98

Fireside Chat with Josh Kopelman W’93 – Entrepreneur & Founder of First Round Capital – Moderated by Professor Gad Allon 

2018

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M&T Summit 2018

Big Data & Personalized Health
March 24th, 2018

Opening Keynote – Jeff Luhnow M&T’89, General Manager for Houston Astros
Pro Sports in the Era of Big Data & Wearables

Panel 1- Big Data Analytics in Health
Gary Eichenbaum M&T’95 Vice President, Preclinical science & safety, J & J
Clifford Jones M&T’07, Founder & CEO of AllazoHealth
Jay Komernani M&T’05 Founder & Chair, Human Diagnosis Project

Panel 2- Technology Innovation & the changing Business of Health
Jesse Beyroutey M&T’11 Partner, IA Venture
Kunal Ghosh M&T’03 Founder & CEO, Inscopix
Meenal Lele M&T’05 Director, Clinical affairs, VelanoVascular

Afternoon Keynote – Scott Snyder SEAS ’87, Partner, Digital and Innovation at Heidrick & Struggles
From Fintech to Health tech-Technology trends for the next 5 years

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