CBS Professor of 'Finance and the Art Markets,' Investment Banker and Hedge Fund Manager

Arturo Cifuentes, who brings more than twenty years of experience as an investment banker, hedge fund manager, scientist, university professor, consultant, and newspaper columnist, currently divides his time between New York and Chile. Previously, he served three years as a member and President of the Chilean Sovereign Fund investment committee (US$ 25 billion); and four years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He has written numerous academic articles (refereed papers) on topics related to finance, portfolio management, applied mathematics, and engineering. He has also lectured extensively about the art market from a financial viewpoint and published several studies on this topic. As a result of the subprime financial crisis, he was invited twice to testify, as expert witness, by the US Senate. Cifuentes holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Caltech; an MBA in Finance from New York University (Stern scholar award); and a Civil Engineering degree from Universidad de Chile.

Executive Chairman, Artbnk LLC, an artificial intelligence company focused on art valuation; Managing Partner, Artemus USA LLC, an art financing and leasing company

Asher Edelman started his career in 1961 and his Wall Street experience includes investment banking, money management, and derivatives trading. Mr. Edelman has served on Boards of Trustees of art and educational institutions including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Ballet Theater, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Prix de Lausanne, Gotham Chamber Opera, and more. He presently serves on the Board of Bard College, and was recently appointed Chairman of the Board of ARTBnk, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide real-time valuation for art work. In 2002, he created the company Edelman Arts, Inc., focusing on Impressionism through Post War art. He is also the Founder and President of ArtAssure Ltd., an art finance firm founded in 2010 which places art at auction, lends, purchases and guarantees the price of art at auction. In 2014, he launched Artemus, an art leasing business that buys art from owners and then leases it back. Mr. Edelman graduated Bard College in New York.

ASA FRICS, President and CEO at O’Toole-Ewald Art Associates, Inc. (OTE)

Elin Lake-Ewald, Ph.D. (New York University), ASA FRICS, President and CEO at O’Toole-Ewald Art Associates, Inc. (OTE). OTE is a fine art appraisal firm originally established in 1932 in New York and Venice that is now an international organization with associates in London, Geneva, Paris, Berlin, and Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Athens, and Tel Aviv. Known as experts in damage, loss, fraud reports in arts and antiques, and appraisers of artists’s estates, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Basquiat, Dennis Oppenheim, Louise Nevelson, Arman, as well as creators of innovative approaches to valuation challenges, such as leasing of art by collectors who have donated art to heirs and rent it back based on the OTE leasing fees, discounting of art inherited by multiple heirs in estate, appraisals of fine art and applied art for collateral loans, etc. Elin has authored hundreds of articles and publications about and lectured on: art, art and the law, appraisal functions in equitable distribution of properties, appraisal methodology and procedures. She has appeared in multiple trials as an expert witness and is a trained co-mediator in disputes concerning art-related subjects.

Art Dealer and Adviser specializing in museum quality fine arts

Carole Pinto received her B.A. in Architecture and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by an M.B.A. from Columbia University. She worked in Corporate Finance at Salomon Brothers and was hired by Sotheby's to launch their Art Investment Department, publishing monthly newsletters that analyzed various sectors of the art market. She was a consultant for the New York State Council on the Arts and was a regular contributor to "Art and Auction" magazine, examining legal and financial aspects of the art market. She has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums in New York, and is currently an art adviser and private dealer specializing in late XIXth and XXth century paintings. Carole currently teaches a class on the art market at Hunter School of Continuing Education, is a regular contributor to the "Fine Art Connoisseur" magazine and participates in art fairs around the country.

Founder of ArtCrossing.io and Art Market Symposia

Viktoria has been passionate about the arts throughout her life, has pioneered the Art Market Symposia for CBSAC and founded ArtCrossing.io—a forum where art market professionals, collectors, and art enthusiasts come together to discuss the most pertinent topics in today’s art market.

Partner, Head of the Global Art Practice, Withers law firm

Diana Wierbicki is the Global Head of the Withers' Art law group. Her clients include the industry’s top collectors, dealers, galleries, charitable organizations, artists, auction houses and museums. Diana has been quoted in numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg Business, BBC, as well as having written articles for various publications including Forbes, Trusts & Estates. As a contributor to the art and legal community, Diana serves as co-Chair of the Appraisers Association of America’s Art Law Day, as Chairof the New York City Bar Association’s Art Law Committee, on the Professional Advisory Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the Planned Giving Advisory Council of the New York Historical Society and as a member of the ArtTable Circle. Diana received a J.D. from Emory University and a B.A. from Georgetown University.

Global Head of Digital, Phillips Auctioneers

Racine Romaguera is Global Head of Digital at Phillips Auctioneers, a destination for international collectors to buy and sell the world’s most important twentieth-century and contemporary works of art, design, jewels, watches, photographs and editions. Racine has spent over 20 years ideating, designing and developing digital solutions. Before being recruited by Phillips in August, he led digital transformation, user experience and development for the financial firm AllianceBernstein where he was committed to building a culture of empathy and integrating user-centered design into everyday thought. Prior to a career in art and finance, he was immersed in eCommerce, first launching BarnesandNoble.com and growing that site to a multi-category Amazon rival. Post bn.com's IPO, he joined a 'bricks-to-clicks' eCommerce incubator in the late 1999, driving digital merchandise innovation and development, ultimately launching sporting goods giant DicksSports.com, cosmetics company ULTA.comand smart toy retailer ZanyBrainy.com. A native New Yorker, he graduated from School of Visual Arts with a BFA Design and is happy to be back working in the arts.

Former New York-based Managing Director, TEFAF

Sofie Scheerlinck was the New York-based Managing Director of TEFAF, the prestigious Dutch art foundation with fairs in Maastricht and New York until November 2020. She spearheaded TEFAF's digital practice, including the launch of its first online fair. Prior to TEFAF, she held leadership positions at art tech companies focused on software and data platforms for the art industry. As the Business Director of Auction Club, she helped define product strategy and development for an independent art information database, facilitating the sale of the company in 2018. At top VC-backed startup ArtBinder she ran business operations, strategy, and growth as the company built on-the-go inventory management and sales tools for galleries, collectors, and arts institutions. A Flemish native, she has been living in New York for the past decade.