Partner, Blank Rome

Stephen Brodie has more than 40 years of experience as both a corporate and a real estate attorney. Steve primarily represents financial institutions in commercial and private bank lending transactions, and in workout and restructuring matters. Steve has represented commercial banks in secured and unsecured financings, including syndicated and single bank high-end middle market transactions; construction lending; IDA financings; mezzanine real estate financings; leasehold mortgage lending; asset-based lending; and in workouts and restructuring arising from such corporate and commercial loans, often involving complex intercreditor relationships. His practice is bolstered by his knowledge of New York's Lien Law and Real Property Law, and Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. In recent years, Steve's practice has expanded to include private banks and niche lenders in lending against different kinds of collateral, such as fine art owned by both collectors and dealers, hedge fund limited partnership interests, equity interests in closely held companies, and interests in professional sports teams. Many of these transactions involve cross-border lien perfection and similar issues. He also advises banks that are creating and revising written credit policies for both art and real estate lending. Additionally, Steve has represented owners, developers, and co-op and condominium sponsors in construction, building conversions, commercial leasing and buy/sell transactions, as well as foreign lenders in financings for U.S. borrowers secured by real estate, oil tankers, oil refineries, ski resorts, and other collateral. Steve is an active member of the professional community and frequently speaks at industry conferences and prolifically writes on such topics as problem real estate.

Founder & CEO, Rally Road

Chris Bruno is Founder & CEO at Rally, the company that pioneered fractional investing in premium collectible assets. Rally is a liquid financial marketplace for buying & selling equity in ultra-rare collectibles the same way you buy & sell stocks. Rally has on-boarded half a million users, IPO'd $60M worth of collectibles (cars, fine art, sports cards & memorabilia, luxury goods, rare books & comics, wine & whisky, intellectual property, culture, and natural history), set multiple world record exits across those categories, and changed the way people think about investing in alternatives. Chris is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience financing, managing, and scaling venture-backed companies. He co-founded Spotter, a data-driven content investment platform focused on financing YouTube creators, and Healthguru, a health education video platform acquired by Propel Media. Previously, Chris worked in venture capital as an associate with Village Ventures.

Director of Consignments and Numismatics, Stack's Bowers Galleries

James McCartney is the Director of Numismatics at Stack’s Bowers Galleries, America’s oldest and most prestigious auction firm for rare coins which was founded in New York City in 1933. Based in the firm’s Park Avenue gallery, James advises clients on building world-class numismatic collections and also curating the sale of existing collections and estates. His expertise has guided some of the most valuable single-owner collections to come to market in recent years including the Mocatta Collection ($7.07 mil), the Zito Collection ($4.29 mil), the Dr. Rogers Collection ($3.04 mil), the Piatigorsky-Rothschild Collection ($2.03 mil), and many others. Most recently, he has also spearheaded the firm’s Physical Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Program, which has introduced Stack’s Bowers Galleries to a new generation of collectors and achieved nearly $5 million in auction results since launching in 2021.

Global Head of the eBay Vault, eBay

Danielle "Danny" Mosse brings more than 15 years experience in the secondary market business. Currently at eBay, she is the Global Head of the eBay Vault, launching a state of the art 31,000-square-foot facility that enables eBay buyers and sellers to not only store their collectibles but collect, trade and transfer assets through digital portfolio tools. Danny built her career at Sotheby's and Christie's, managing global teams specializing in alternative assets categories across art, luxury and collectibles. As a Senior Vice President at Christie’s, she oversaw a 50+ person team across fifteen sales verticals that launched auctions of some of the world’s most iconic collectibles collections in categories such as books and manuscripts, sports memorabilia, musical instruments, and entertainment memorabilia. Prior to joining eBay, Danny drove significant growth and global expansion for Goldin as the VP of Revenue.

(CBS '17), Senior Director, Collectors Holdings

Jeremy has over 15 years of experience lending against art, wine, gems, watches & collectibles. He is a Senior Director at Collectors, the parent company of PSA, PCGS, and many other well-known brands in the collectibles industry. Collectors is the world’s leading issuer of collectibles-secured financing. Prior to joining Collectors, Jeremy was the Director of Originations at Yieldstreet / Athena Art Finance, where he sourced and underwrote asset-based loans. Jeremy previously spent 6 years at Christie's where he co-founded Christie's Art Finance and served as a Director, Vice President, and Portfolio Manager. In addition, his experience includes roles as COO for an art technology and investment firm, and as an Analyst at a consultancy to high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Jeremy holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, a Certification in Appraisal Studies from NYU, and a B.A. in Art History from Colgate University.

Collector, Journalist

Rovell worked for ESPN for 13 years, CNBC for six, and the Action Network for five. His next move is into the collectibles reporting space. Rovell has not only covered the collectibles space throughout his career, but has an eight-figure collection that includes Walt Disney signatures, Ferris Bueller’s vest and thousands of tickets and signed checks.

Founder & CEO, ArtCrossing.io; Founder of the Arts Committee and Member of the Board of Directors, CBS Alumni Club of NY

Viktoria Prigarina is a member of CBSACNY Board of Directors, the Founder of the Art & International Committee, and founder of ArtCrossing.io. She started her finance career at Morgan Stanley, followed by options trading and structuring at Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank. She has also worked in Brazil where she created a capital raising platform for what is now a $15 billion hedge fund—SPX Capital and has served as a Member of the Investment Committee of the firm. Viktoria holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University and a B.B.A. with concentrations in finance and comparative literature and minor in Latin American Studies from Baruch College. Viktoria has been passionate about the arts throughout her life, has pioneered the Art Market Symposia and founded ArtCrossing.io—a forum where art market professionals and art enthusiasts come together to discuss the most pertinent topics in today’s art market.