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Christina Guerola Sarchio focuses her practice on general commercial litigation, class actions and white collar defense, with significant experience in the consumer products, financial, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, sports and transportation industries. A former prosecutor and an experienced trial lawyer, Ms. Sarchio has successfully tried several jury trials before federal and state courts. She also regularly appears before a number of agencies and regulators, including the DOJ, FDA, SEC and various U.S. Attorney offices.

Ms. Sarchio has been recognized as a leading lawyer for her work in general commercial disputes in The Legal 500 U.S. 2017. She was also recently selected as a 2017 Rainmaker by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) and named among the Top 250 Women in Litigation in the U.S. for 2017 by Benchmark Litigation, where she is also listed as a D.C. litigation star.

Ms. Sarchio serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School.

Prior to joining Dechert, Ms. Sarchio served as a partner at another international law firm where she acted as chair of the class action strike team as well as a member of the board of directors. Her previous experience includes serving as prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

Lucas Nelson is a managing director at Lytical Ventures, a Corporate Intelligence focused early stage venture fund. He focuses on cybersecurity, crypto currencies, and enterprise application technologies and brings over two decades of investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience to his role.

Lucas is a proud geek; a hacker turned VC. He brings a unique mix of technical depth and business knowledge to bear when Lytical works with a company and is excited by companies that are trying to use technology to make a dent in the universe.

In the year prior to joining Lytical Ventures, Lucas was a principal at Evolution Equity, an international venture capital investor leveraging deep sector expertise to help exceptional entrepreneurs develop market-leading companies. The firm has a focus on cyber-security, enterprise software and consumer related opportunities and brings significant resources to companies seeking to expand in international markets.

Before Evolution, Lucas spent over 5 years with DFJ Gotham, an early stage technology investor focused on the New York ecosystem. While at Gotham Ventures Lucas sat on the board of Adstruc, Verterra, and Widetronix and was a board observer of Yipit Data and StellaService.

Prior to working as a venture investor Lucas held several operational security roles at companies including Adobe and Symantec. He worked as a penetration tester, legally breaking into computers, and a security consultant helping banks and technology companies secure their applications and networks.

He started his career at a series of startups, each of which was acquired.

Lucas co-authored The Art of Software Security Testing and chaired DefCon – the largest hacking convention in the US – for 10 years. He has been a member of the NY tech community since 1999. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU teaching the class “Entrepreneurship for Hackers”, and is a mentor at Singularity University.

Lucas received a B.S. in computer science from Purdue University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Lucas is a is a Kauffman Fellow and sits on the NJ EDC Venture Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of Health Assessment Labs, an organization whose goal to advance the state-of-the-art tools for monitoring health care services and health outcomes from the patient / consumer point of view.

Lucas lives in Queens with his wife Jeannie and their son Milo. He is also world ranked pinball player and still manages to code once in a while.

Benjamin Reeves is a contributing editor at Worth magazine and a freelance journalist and documentary director and producer. Previously, he was senior editor at the magazine, and his work has appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, Miami Herald, Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McClatchyDC, USAToday, PRI's The World and GlobalPost, among others. He is also a contributor at Columbia Business School's thought-leadership publication, Ideas At Work. He holds an MA in Humanities & Social Thought from New York University, a BA in Latin and History from Knox College, and is an MFA candidate at Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.

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Sarah Levinson Rothman is a Managing Director at the Entertainment PR powerhouse 42West where she currently oversees the Strategic Communications division based out of 42West's headquarters in New York. She advises a wide range of entertainment, media and consumer product companies, individuals, and organizations on their day-to-day communications activities, including corporate communications, brand strategies, public affairs, events, and crisis management. Rothman brings to her role at 42West close to 20 years of PR experience working in the media and entertainment industry.

Rothman's clients at 42West have included Adidas, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Anonymous Content, Lady Gaga's Born this Way Foundation, Cinemark, Facebook, Francis Ford Coppola's wineries and resorts, Illumination, Alicia Keys' Keep A Child Alive Foundation, March for Our Lives, Michael Kors, Netflix, PepsiCo, Producers Guild of America, RealD, Revolt TV, Rolex, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Time's Up. Before joining 42West, Rothman spent eight years working for Miramax and then at The Weinstein Company, most recently as the company's Vice President of Corporate Communications, serving as the spokesperson for the company and managing the department.

 Rothman graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in Communications from North Carolina State University and earned a master's degree in Strategic Communications from Columbia University.