KIS Global Investors Conference 2024

Jacob DeWitte co-founded Oklo and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Oklo Board since its inception in July 2013. Jacob has experience working on a variety of advanced reactor designs, including sodium fast reactors, molten salt reactors, and next-generation pressurized water reactors, as well as nuclear fuel cycle technology development and analysis. Jacob also worked with experimental irradiation testing facilities. Jacob earned his BS in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida and his SM and PhD in nuclear engineering at MIT.

R. Craig Bealmear has served as Oklo's Chief Financial Officer since August 2023. Since April 2023, Craig has served as an executive advisor to Trindent Consulting, a management consulting firm. From April 2021 to December 2022, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Renewable Energy Group, Inc., a producer of advanced biofuels that was acquired by Chevron Corporation in June 2022. Prior to joining Renewable Energy Group, Inc., Craig held several positions at BP plc, including serving as the Chief Financial Officer — North America Downstream at BP plc from March 2015 to December 2020 and as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer; Refining and Marketing Segment at BP plc from January 2013 to February 2015. Craig held numerous prior roles in finance, strategy and commercial with BP plc and Atlantic Richfield Corporation over a 30-year career in both the United States and United Kingdom. Craig holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Business Administration from Bellarmine University.

Steven Ricchiuto is a Managing Director and Chief US Economist for Mizuho Americas, responsible for formulating the firm’s macroeconomic and interest rate forecasts. In this role, he provides Mizuho’s institutional and corporate clients with a strategic outlook on the U.S. economy and financial markets.

Prior to joining Mizuho, Steve worked at a number of global banks as well as domestic brokers. He has extensive experience as an economist, a strategist, and as the director of fixed income research.

He has more than forty years of experience in the financial services industry, is widely quoted in the print media, and regularly appears on business news television and radio programs.

“Deconstructing Credit Cycles” is his most recent book, it examines each of the last four business cycles and how the associated credit disruption affected not only the nature of the recession, but also the following recovery/expansion.

Steve’s previous books include: Disequilibrium (2016), Symptomatic to Systemic (2018), and Moneynomics (2020).

Masahiro Wakasugi is a senior analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, specializing in technology hardware industries, including semiconductor production equipment, semiconductors, electronic components, and consumer electronics. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he covered Japanese technology companies as a research analyst at BNP Paribas and Jefferies in Japan. Prior to his sell-side roles, Mr. Wakasugi worked for AllianceBernstein as a buy-side analyst in the growth equity department, covering Japanese technology companies. He also co-managed a mutual fund, Asian Technology Fund, which received Lipper Fund Awards in 2009. He holds bachelor’s degree of engineering and a master’s degree of engineering from Waseda University in Japan. He is a chartered member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (CMA).

Thomas Carroll joined Stifel in 2018. Based out of the New York office, Mr. Carroll is an Associate Vice President in the Market Strategy sector, covering Equity Macro & Sector Strategy. Mr. Carroll earned a B.S. from Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation (2022).

Prior to founding MetisX, a fabless startup for large-scale data acceleration based on Compute Express Link, Jin KIM worked at SK HYNIX as one of the youngest vice presidents of Engineering leading all of the SSD firmware developments and collaborating with Solidigm for Next Gen. SSD Architecture for PCle Gen 6. Before that, he led Software Team at SK Telecom and was a senior software engineer at Samsung Electronics. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Seoul National University.

KIM Lokwon is the visionary founder of DEEPX, a leading semiconductor company revolutionizing the industry with its cutting-edge technologies. Driven by a passion for pushing boundaries, Kim’s goal is to see his company’s low power, high performance AI chip technology integrated into all devices in the world. With a distinguished background in system semiconductors, Kim has held pivotal positions at global giants like Broadcom, IBM, and Cisco Systems. His key role in application processor design at Apple provided invaluable experience in the mass production of application processors including AI processors. With a Ph.D. from UCLA and a portfolio of publications in over 100 patents and 14 journal papers published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals, Kim’s expertise in system semiconductors is widely recognized.

Speakers TBC (Agenda: Japan Value up Program)

Speakers TBC (Agenda: ETF Market in Japan)

Chris Krueger joined TD Cowen Washington Research Group in August 2016 as the Washington Strategist. Mr. Krueger and the TD Cowen Washington Research Group were recently named #1 in the Institutional Investor Washington Strategy category, Mr. Krueger and the team have been consistently ranked for the past decade. Mr. Krueger publishes the DC Download, a must-read daily for Wall Street portfolio managers who want a quick look at the top Washington stories and their impact on the capital markets. Mr. Krueger covers DC macro, fiscal, tax and trade policy.

He held similar positions at Guggenheim Securities, MF Global, Concept Capital, and Potomac Research Group. Earlier he worked for nearly four years on the senior staff of the House of Representatives. He has also worked on several local, state, and federal political campaigns across the country.

Mr. Krueger holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MA in international relations from King’s College London. He appears frequently on CNBC and Bloomberg and is widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, FT, Axios, New York Times, Washington Post, and POLITICO. He also speaks regularly at industry events and conferences, including the Milken Institute Global Conference, National Organization of Investment Professionals, and the New York Stock Exchange. Material prepared by the TD Cowen Washington Research Group is intended as commentary on political, economic, or market conditions and is not intended as a research report as defined by applicable regulation.