Building the market for alternative ownership.

Alan is the founder and CEO of aShareX. He is also the Managing General Partner of Shinnecock Partners, a 33-year-old family office investment boutique, and its investment funds — including ArtLending.com, which currently manages over $120 million in secured fine art lending for collectors and dealers.

Before aShareX, Alan was the founder, CEO, President and Chairman of Answer Financial Inc. and Insurance Answer Center, which became the largest seller of auto and home insurance in the United States that was not itself a carrier, and is now owned by Allstate. He has served as CEO of Aurora National Life Assurance, President and COO of First Executive Corporation, and Executive Vice President and Board Member at Dean Witter Financial, the predecessor to Morgan Stanley, where he was one of a three-person team that formulated the launch of Discover Card. He is a former Chairman, President and Board Member of the Western Los Angeles Boy Scout Council.

Alan is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Joel has worked with aShareX founder Alan Snyder for 35 years, across multiple companies. Most notably, he has been responsible for the financial and operational areas of Shinnecock Partners L.P., a private money manager, since 1998. Together the two have launched seven investment funds, including fine art lending, plus a number of private deals amounting to over $100 million.

He previously assisted with aShareX's formation and operations as a consultant. Joel holds a Bachelor's degree from Columbia College.

Gabe is a branding and marketing veteran working across major industries and sectors. He is the former President of Landor, the world's largest branding agency. Before that he worked with IBM and sold them two companies — Resource and Ammirati — and has served as President for three marketing agencies on both the East and West Coasts.

Gabe thrives on creativity and disruption, and has helped inspire design work for McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Fox Sports, Toyota, Nestlé, Neutrogena, JetBlue and Bacardi, among many others. Recent industry recognition includes 12 Transform Awards North America in 2023, 18 in 2022, 4 in 2021 and 1 in 2019, along with awards at World Retail 2021, RDI 2021, the German Design Awards 2023, The Drum 2022, the Red Dot Design Awards 2022 and The One Show 2022.

Gabe attended California State University, Northridge.

Seth is Senior Director, Technology at aShareX. He has been building and shipping on the web since 2005, with a background spanning product delivery, analytics and performance measurement.

He founded and ran a web design and development studio in Los Angeles before moving into technology-enabled growth and reporting. At aShareX he leads technology strategy and execution across product, data and platform operations.

Nick is outside General Counsel of aShareX. He retired as a partner from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in 2012, where he spent over 30 years focusing primarily on corporate and tax matters. Since then he has served as CFO and General Counsel for QRI Group, an oil and gas consulting firm, and continues to serve as outside General Counsel to former clients.

Nick holds a BS in Business Administration and Finance and a JD from the University of Arizona.

Andre is a global technology and fine arts executive with over 30 years' experience structuring and scaling businesses for industry leaders including Bonhams, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Technologies. Most recently, as Bonhams' first Chief Transformation Officer, he led the acquisition of several auction houses across Europe and the United States. Those acquisitions, combined with the company's digital transformation, helped drive Bonhams to an all-time high $1.2 billion hammer in 2023, with over half its revenue generated online.

Andre previously led the Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region for HP, a $6 billion technology business, and before that oversaw the Western Europe region for Dell. He is a graduate of Sciences Po in public administration and of the Sorbonne Business School with a master's in finance, and an alumnus of the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD.

Eric is the Paul G. McDermott Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Research, Co-Director of the Clark Center for Global Markets at Chicago Booth, Co-Director of the Chicago Booth Economics PhD Program, and the Krane Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

He is best known for his market design inventions for financial exchanges and matching markets, and has conducted research on market design theory, event ticket markets, blockchains and cryptocurrencies, patents and innovation, and Covid-19 economic policy. He holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Amherst College, an MPhil in Economics from Oxford (Nuffield College), and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. His awards include the Marshall Scholarship, the Sloan Fellowship, the Arrow Award and the AQR Insight Award.

Marco is an art advisor to aShareX and the founder and CEO of Oblyon Group, where he has orchestrated over $225 million in art-secured loans on behalf of individuals, investment funds, gallerists, family offices and private estates. He has also transacted art sales of more than $300 million across various categories.

Marco holds a degree in Law from the University of Bologna and a Master's in International Banking Law from ESADE Business School in Barcelona.

Jonathan is the Co-Founder and former Partner at Inversion Art, a non-profit that provides support and opportunity to thousands of artists. He has 20 years' experience as an arts educator, writer, critic and editor.

He was the Founding Director of the Center for Business & Management of the Arts at Claremont Graduate University and of Sotheby's Institute of Art–Los Angeles, a Contributing Editor of Art Review, and a Board Member of Defy Ventures. He has written extensively on contemporary art and artists, and has contributed essays for museum and gallery catalogues and exhibitions.

Randy is a general management advisor to aShareX. He was a Corporate Partner at Latham & Watkins, where his practice centered on corporate acquisitions, dispositions and corporate finance, with particular expertise in leveraged buyouts. Between periods in the Corporate Department as Partner, he served on the five-person Executive Committee overseeing the firm, before simultaneously becoming Chair of the Finance and Real Estate department and Acting CFO.

He holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated Cum Laude from Harvard Law School.

Steve is a business and technical advisor to aShareX. He was a Vice President and Partner at IBM, and before that spent eight years as a Consulting Partner at Deloitte. He specializes in top-line and bottom-line improvement through enterprise and digital transformation for global companies, with 30 years of consulting experience across four major firms.

He covers a broad spectrum of industries and business processes, chiefly media and entertainment, manufacturing and distribution. Steve holds a BS in Accounting and Management from Lehigh University and a Finance MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.