Sheldon Sussman is a Managing Director and Global Head of Asset-Backed Private Credit Origination at Napier Park Global Capital. Before joining Napier Park, Sheldon was Head of EMEA at Cohen Circle executing the firm’s SPAC and Fintech investment strategies. Prior to Cohen Circle, he was a senior investment professional at Elliott Advisors and earlier, at Towerbrook Capital Partners. In both investment firms, Mr. Sussman originated financial services focused private equity and asset-based private credit investments. Before Towerbrook, Sheldon was Senior Executive Vice President and member of the Managing Board of Rabobank International in charge of Global Financial Markets and Asset Management. In this capacity, he built an asset management platform totaling more than $25 billion in asset-based and leveraged loan investments. Earlier in his career, Sheldon held senior roles in investment banking and financial markets at Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and Bankers Trust. Sheldon graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers College (BA in Economics) and has MBA (Finance) and MPH degrees from Yale University.

Tomas Maciulaitis is the CEO of Finbee verslui, a Lithuanian fintech lender focused on small and medium-sized businesses. Since 2017, Finbee verslui financed more than 4,000 businesses and originated nearly €200 million in loans, providing fast, unsecured working capital of up to €250,000 through its balance-sheet lending arm and its crowdfunding platform. Before Finbee, Tomas worked at iwoca, a European fintech lender to small businesses, and at the global payments company Paysafe.