STEPHEN MEADE
Independent Strategic Advisor
STEPHEN MEADE is an American entrepreneur, executive and business founder who is passionate about creating companies that make a difference in the world. He has the ability to catapult an idea from pure concept to the creation of a thriving business. In the past 20 years, he has created, incubated and architected nine (9) successful technology-based companies. He is a seasoned business advisor and leader who frequently speaks on the art of networking at executive leadership conferences and startup communities (i.e. executives, entrepreneurs, start-up founders, co-founders, students) around the world. In 2005, he founded Big Bamboo, LLC to serve as the incubator for ideas that are worth building a team around and bringing to market. Currently, all ideas come solely from the Founder and the company does not take on or incubate outside business or services. He is currently the CEO of MonetaPro.IO, which is a FinTech Blockchain company for Global Companies to participate in Corporate Trade. MonetaPro.IO competed in and won the Silicon Valley d10e Global ICO contest, which to date was the largest ICO competition in the World featuring 32 companies. MonetaPro has placed in the following competitions: Fintech Zurich (1st Place), Los Angeles Crypto (1st Place), Malta (2nd Place), South Korea (3rd place), and more! Meade is also the CEO of MagMo, Inc., a B2B Platform focused on technology around Media, Entertainment, and Influencers. MagMo (which stands for Magic Moments) is a photo sharing tool primarily for major brands to create stories and share it with their existing audience. MagMo can provide monetization for social media audiences of the brand through a patent pending process known as the “back cover.” His roster of successful businesses includes MyBlueEarth, Cenoplex, RONAstar, ComCom, CuCme, etc. For a complete Bio, visit: http://thebullseyeguy.com/about/
JENNY Q. TA
Founding GP & Chief Wealth Strategist
JENNY Q. TA is the Founding GP and Chief Wealth Strategist of WEAL28H, a private fund and strategic institutional advisory firm focused on digital assets, fintech, blockchain, AI, regulated capital markets, and institutional-scale capital strategy. A Wall Street veteran, multi-exit founder, venture capitalist, and globally recognized Chief Wealth Strategist, Ta has built her career across finance, technology, capital markets, and digital-era innovation. Ta is a former market maker and the founder and former CEO of two registered broker-dealer and investment banking firms with Nasdaq market-making operations. Earlier in her career, she founded and led Vantage Investments, an internationally recognized investment bank that was successfully acquired, and Titan Securities, a full-service broker-dealer and investment banking firm that was also acquired in the 2000s. Under her leadership, the firms, together with their online trading subsidiary VietTrading.com, collectively oversaw assets equivalent to roughly $10 billion today across public and private markets. Her operating experience spans Nasdaq market making, market analysis, IPO co-underwriting, reverse mergers, SPACs, private-market deal structuring, institutional capital strategy, valuation, market structure, transaction architecture, and the broader capital lifecycle. She has structured and led multi-billion-dollar investments worldwide and works across the intersection of traditional finance and frontier technologies. In 2022, Ta launched Web3VC Funds, which was rebranded in 2024 as WEAL28H. Today, WEAL28H operates as a private fund and strategic institutional advisory platform, working with investment banks, broker-dealers, banks, asset managers, RIAs, institutional allocators, family offices, founders, and strategic operators on capital strategy, valuation, market structure, deal architecture, M&A readiness, strategic combinations, secondary liquidity, governance, dilution, transaction structuring, institutional positioning, AI tooling, blockchain infrastructure, and technical strategy. As an investor and builder in digital assets and emerging technology, Ta has also backed and founded ventures at the intersection of blockchain, artificial intelligence, fintech, and traditional finance. In July 2024, she became the sole backer of Tetherball ($TBALL), an AI-driven hybrid utility digital asset initially listed on Solana ($SOL) at a $10 million valuation. The asset subsequently reached a reported all-time high of $15 million within three months. Ta also founded VCNetwork.co and CoinLinked.com in 2021, platforms designed to bridge traditional investors and marketplaces with blockchain-based innovation. Both ventures were subsequently acquired following their growth and adoption. Her current work extends beyond investment into the architecture of institutional-scale financial and technology systems. The advantage behind WEAL28H's public work is operating experience, not opinion alone. Ta has operated inside the machinery that prices, distributes, structures, supervises, and sells securities. Her work examines not only what a financial or AI-enabled product claims to do, but what it actually does, which entity stands behind it, where the economic incentives sit, what must be disclosed or supervised, and who is accountable when the system is wrong. At WEAL28H, her work spans capital formation, compliant raise preparation, institutional transaction readiness, mergers and acquisitions, market structure, product architecture, governance, institutional risk, and emerging technologies. She and her team work across complex SEC, CFTC, and FINRA frameworks while developing strategies that connect blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital assets, fintech, and traditional finance. Ta's perspective is direction-neutral and grounded in independent analysis of product structure, market structure, governance, incentives, institutional risk, and capital strategy. Her work is intended to help founders, investors, institutions, and strategic operators understand the architecture behind emerging opportunities and prepare those opportunities for institutional-scale consideration. Ta has never disclosed her birth year in any interview, in the United States or abroad. Ages attributed to her online are estimates, often reverse-engineered from career milestones, and none is based on a statement from Ta. Readers are free to guess; they should not treat those guesses as fact. The only description she has given, in multiple X (formerly Twitter) Spaces, is that she belongs to the younger half of Generation X, a few years before the line where Millennials begin.
CURTIS SPEARS
Independent Strategic Advisor
CURTIS SPEARS, President of Andes Capital Group. Mr. Spears brings over 30 years of expertise in asset management, capital raising, and broker-dealer services. He oversees the firm’s strategic direction and daily operations, ensuring growth, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence in an ever-evolving financial landscape. Mr. Spears brings extensive leadership and investment experience, having held senior roles at Gray & Company, Gardner Rich, Fifth Third Asset Management, and The Northern Trust Company, where he focused on client relationships, strategic initiatives, and investment product marketing. Recognized for his leadership in asset management and broker-dealer services, he is also highly regarded for his commitment to social responsibility and ethical finance. A native of Chicago, he also sees it as his duty to give back to the community. He currently serves on the Governing Board for UCAN and has served on auxiliary boards for the Steppenwolf Theater, the Field Museum and the Primo Center for Women and Children where he has raised funds crucial to operations, and helped to increase awareness. Mr. Spears received his B.S. in computer science from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from DePaul University. He holds the Series 24, 7, 63, 65 and 79 securities licenses.
