Opening Remarks
Jennifer opens the Fall Forum with a look at where Kajora's community stands today and what's ahead — setting the tone for a day built around candid conversation between family offices, operators, and the people building the next generation of capital and culture.
Speaker: Jennifer Katrulya, Founder & CEO, Kajora Global Family Network | Partner, PKF O'Connor Davies
A Fireside Chat with Daphna E. Ziman
An intimate, candid keynote conversation bridging media, technology, and purpose-driven leadership — exploring Daphna's work across philanthropy, film, and advocacy, and what it means to build influence across industries without losing sight of impact.
Speaker: Daphna E. Ziman, President, Cinémoi Network (North America) | Co-Chair, CinéMersion | Founder, Children Uniting Nations | President & Founder, Justice for Women International.
In conversation with: Jennifer Katrulya, Founder & CEO, Kajora Global Family Network | Partner, PKF O'Connor Davies.
The Algorithmic Edge
Venture capital has spent a decade digitizing its edges — deal flow, diligence checklists, portfolio dashboards — while leaving the judgment calls largely untouched. David Teten has spent his career on the other side of that assumption, building funds and advising family offices on where automation actually changes outcomes versus where it just moves paperwork faster. This conversation looks at what's genuinely different about sourcing, evaluating, and backing founders when a fund is built AI-native from day one — and what that means for every other allocator watching from the sidelines.
Speaker: David Teten, Partner, Orange Collective | Advisor to family offices and institutional investors | Formerly HOF Capital, ff Venture Capital, Coolwater Capital
Kajora Updates
A fast-moving look at where Kajora stands heading into year-end — new members, new programming, and what the community can expect next.
Speaker: David Luftglass, Co-Founder & CEO, Renaissance Assets
Finding the Next Generation in Media
Two decades of network and studio production meets a creator who built a following of 5.5 million from scratch. Spencer Stander and Isaiah Miranda arrive at the same instinct from opposite directions — in a media landscape where platforms rise and fall overnight, staying ahead means never standing still. A conversation on what's coming next for media, and the capital behind it.
Speaker: Spencer Stander, Producer / Executive Producer / Brand Storyteller, Stander Productions
Speaker: Isaiah Miranda, Actor / Creator / Producer / Serial Entrepreneur (@isaiahmiranda22)
The $3 Billion Puzzle
Every deal looks whole from the outside — a business, a track record, a number on a term sheet. It rarely stays that simple once you're inside it. As family offices move past passive allocation into direct deals, add-ons, and the GP seat itself, this session unpacks the quality-of-earnings adjustments, industry-specific blind spots, and cross-border complexity that separate what a business looks like from what it actually is.
Speaker: Jonathan Moore, Managing Partner of Client Services & Partner-In-Charge, Advisory Services, PKF O'Connor Davies
The Intelligence Dividend
Every portfolio now has an AI question somewhere in it — a vendor pitching a platform, a founder promising a moat, a board asking whether the firm is behind. For family offices, the real work isn't chasing the hype cycle; it's figuring out where artificial intelligence actually changes the economics of a business versus where it's simply a feature. This session looks at how allocators are separating durable AI-driven value from noise, and what diligence looks like when the technology is moving faster than the frameworks built to evaluate it.
Speaker: Dean Palmiter, Co-Founder & CEO, Asseta
Runway to Revenue
Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin's family built Grand Central Terminal. This fall, she becomes the first Vanderbilt to host anything there since — a runway show built to fix what runways have always gotten wrong: designers get exposure, not ownership. Built alongside media entrepreneur Michaela Seewald, her co-founder in Vanderbilt & Seewald Global Studios, and powered by "Click-to-Buy" commerce technology, this session is about turning a 150-year-old legacy into a platform that finally pays the people it was built on — timed to the public launch of Vanderbilt & Seewald during New York Fashion Week, with its runway debut inside Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall.
Speaker: Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, Founder & CEO, SoHo Muse | CEO, House of Vanderbilt | 7th Generation Vanderbilt | Co-Founder, Vanderbilt & Seewald
Bridging Family Legacy with Modern Wealth Strategy
A wide-ranging conversation on investing across real estate, sports, technology, and philanthropy — and what it actually takes to keep a family aligned through the generational wealth transition everyone's talking about.
Speaker: Katie Dunn, Principal and Senior Wealth Consultant, Mariner | Owner, JE Dunn Construction Company (Fourth-Generation)
Speaker: Aaron Manoucheri, COO & Co-Founder, Manoucheri Brothers LLC
Moderator: Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin
What Winners Won't Tell You
Drawing on his book "What Winners Won't Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender," a former NFL champion turned real estate investor and developer on the discipline behind lasting success — what elite performers refuse to compromise on, on the field and in the boardroom.
Speaker: Malcolm Jenkins, CEO & Founder, Malcolm Inc. | Two-Time Super Bowl Champion
The Wellness Economy
Kajora's Performance & Longevity Council co-chair on building Bad Mermaid Energy Drink — where wellness, performance, and entrepreneurship meet, and what it takes to bring a founder-led brand to market.
Speaker: Joelle Paul-Cook, Ph.D., CEO, Bad Mermaid | Partner, Valiant Holdings | Founder, The Mansion Society | CEO, Joey and Co | Co-Chair, Kajora Performance and Longevity Council
Leadership Under Pressure
A conversation on leadership under pressure and rebuilding trust in media — lessons from the newsroom that apply directly to leading through scrutiny in any industry.
Speaker: Chris Licht, Founder & CEO, CLC Partners | Former Chairman & CEO, CNN
The Rise of the Trades
The workforce gap in skilled trades isn't a future problem — it's already reshaping how family offices think about talent, philanthropy, and long-term community investment. This session explores what it looks like when family capital moves beyond the check and into building pipelines: partnering with vocational programs, funding apprenticeships, and creating real pathways for young people into trades and technical careers. It's a conversation about impact that compounds, not just returns that do.
Speaker: Julia Delgado, Skilled Trades & Workforce Grantmaker, The BlackRock Foundation
Ethical AI: Promise, Power & Peril
A debate-style session weighing the possibilities and power of AI against the ethical concerns now shadowing it — will AI stay a hot investment, or could social pressure make it the one category no one wants to be publicly tied to?
Speakers: Leo Schrantz, Head, AI & Data Transformation, Americas Client Business, BlackRock
Closing Remarks & Announcements
A wrap on the day's biggest takeaways and a look ahead to what's next for the Kajora community.
Speaker: Jennifer Katrulya, Founder & CEO, Kajora Global Family Network
