A 1989 graduate of Fairfield Dolan School of Business, Garvey leverages his public safety expertise to build high-growth solutions for the public sector. While a police officer, he founded www.licensemonitor.com, a real-time driver's license monitoring SaaS platform. Under his leadership, the company secured hundreds of customers across the government and private sectors and earned national recognition, winning Notre Dame University's National Business Plan Competition.

License Monitor was acquired by Solera Holdings Inc. in 2012. Currently, Garvey is the Co-Founder/CEO of a rapidly growing public safety AI startup operating in stealth mode. The company delivers proprietary AI solutions that streamline workflows and transform investigative capabilities. In just 11 months, the platform has seen widespread adoption, with nearly 200 registered users across 50+ law enforcement agencies.

Mariana Antaya is the founder and CEO of quantifAI, an infrastructure platform for the prediction markets, and founder of Product House, a community where she mentors students in AI, machine learning, and product management. Previously, Mariana was an AI Product Manager at Microsoft Teams, where she led AI voice agent evaluations and developed comprehensive evaluation frameworks for enterprise voice AI.

As a prominent AI and machine learning content creator with over 600k followers across Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn, Mariana creates educational content spanning AI product management, prompt engineering, and applied machine learning in sports analytics. She has partnered with and represents companies including NVIDIA, Anthropic, LinkedIn, Meta, and IBM.

Mariana's work bridges enterprise AI product development, financial technology, and technical education, with a focus on making advanced AI capabilities accessible and practical for both technical and business audiences.

Over the past two decades, Mary has built and scaled multidisciplinary clinical programs spanning outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient treatment, and partial hospitalization programs. Her work focuses on developing innovative care models that integrate psychiatric, nutritional, therapeutic, and performance-based approaches to mental health.

A frequent keynote speaker and advisor to schools, organizations, and healthcare systems, Mary specializes in the intersection of leadership, resilience, and performance psychology.

As a judge for today’s competition, she brings the perspective of a founder who has navigated the realities of launching and growing mission-driven companies—evaluating ventures through the lens of strategy, scalability, and real-world impact.

The firm has made over 180 investments since 2012, realizing 90 exits and 10 IPOs to date. His team provides business consultation and go to market support services to help portfolio companies validate product market fit, establish, and execute their scaling strategies.

In addition to his portfolio development work, Chris leads investment and board engagements in several DT Capital portfolio companies including Ibex (The most widely deployed AI powered platform for Digital Pathology), and MaxIQ (the market leader in Ai enabled Customer Journey Management.) Chris holds a BS in Marketing and Information Systems from Fairfield University, an MBA in Finance from the University of Connecticut, is a graduate from the General Management Program from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert W. Liptak joined Blackstone as part of its acquisition of Clarus in December 2018. Rob was a co-Founder and Managing Director of Clarus since the firm's inception in 2005. He has over 25 years of experience in the investment management industry focusing primarily on the establishment and management of various investment management businesses. Prior to his time at Clarus, Rob was General Partner at MPM Capital and a Partner with the Geometry Group.

Eric actively invests in and advises early-stage companies, with a focus on food and beverage, including Verb Energy, Hella Cocktail, Mr. Bing, and Waku. Previously, he held leadership roles at Daymon Worldwide, working with global retailers and manufacturers, and later advised companies on product development and sales and marketing strategy across multiple channels.