John Apostolides is a Managing Director in Rothschild & Co's Global Advisory business, where he focuses on Digital Infrastructure, Telecommunications, and technology-enabled infrastructure. Based in New York, he advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, strategic alternatives, capital raising, and financing solutions across the communications and digital infrastructure ecosystem.

With more than two decades of industry experience, John has advised, financed, and invested in companies spanning data centers, communications infrastructure, telecom, satellite, and emerging technology sectors. Prior to joining Rothschild & Co, he was an Investment Partner and member of the Investment Committee at Palistar Capital. He also held senior investment banking roles at Macquarie Capital and Evercore and began his career at Citigroup.

John is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences focused on digital infrastructure, telecommunications, and technology investment. He has participated in global forums covering the future of connectivity, data infrastructure, space communications, and the capital markets that support next-generation technologies.

He holds a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, with a minor in Music from Dartmouth College.

Alaina Bookstein is Head of Sales, North America at Siemens Energy, bringing extensive commercial leadership and strategic advisory experience at the intersection of energy, technology and infrastructure. Prior to joining Siemens Energy, Alaina served as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development at GridCARE, where she was the founding revenue leader and led strategic partnerships with data center developers, hyperscalers and utilities to accelerate grid interconnection and unlock critical capacity for AI-driven infrastructure.

Previously, Alaina led corporate development and strategic partnerships for energy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with utilities, renewable developers and technology partners to advance innovation and cloud-enabled transformation. Earlier in her career, she founded and led Bridge Strategy Group, a strategic advisor to utility and energy executives that was acquired by Houlihan Lokey. Alaina began her career at McKinsey & Company.

Liz Hocker is a business executive with more than 30 years of experience in capital markets, banking, business operations, and consulting. Prior to joining TXSE, she was the regional head of capital markets for The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and helped launch NYSE Texas last year.

Previously, Liz was Nasdaq's managing director of the Southwest United States. At Nasdaq, she led the executive teams of over 150 companies through successful new listings, representing over $117B in market value, including some of the most high-profile IPOs in recent years. (familiar names to the group may be: Bumble, Academy Sports & Outdoors, Intuitive Machines, Leslie’s Pools, Frontier Airlines, RocketLab, BigCommerce, LegalZoom and Virgin Orbit).

Liz is currently the lead independent board member of FireFly Robotics and previously served on the boards of Junior Achievement of Central Texas, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the Community Advisory Council for The Ronald McDonald House.

Liz earned her BA from Saint Edward's University and holds executive education certifications from The UT McCombs School of Business and Wharton.

Kim Padeletti leads AWS's Energy Data & AI Business Development, where she has built AWS into a foundational technology partner for the world's largest energy operators, utilities, and infrastructure customers navigating the convergence of AI and energy systems.

Kim brings roughly two decades of hands-on industry experience rooted in operations and capital project execution. At BHP and Oxy, she served as an International Project lead, managing a portfolio spanning US$50 billion in large capital projects upstream operations across four countries.

Her career arc from the field to enterprise-scale AI transformation gives her fluency across operations, risk management, capital markets, and energy infrastructure. Today she leverages that foundation to help energy companies operationalize Generative AI and emerging technologies at scale.

Kim holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mississippi. She was named to the 50/50 Women on Boards "50 Women to Watch for Boards" for her work on AI Advisory. She is based in Houston, Texas.

Amelia X. Zhang is a partner in the corporate, M&A and securities group. Her practice focuses on securities offerings, securities reporting, public and private M&A, international transactions and corporate governance including board advisory. Amelia's clients include corporations in the digital infrastructure, technology, energy, consumer products, banking, real estate and healthcare sectors. In addition, she has experience in general corporate matters like joint venture, international business reorganization and shareholder engagement. Amelia has an area of focus on the emerging corporate law, risk governance and disclosures related to artificial intelligence (AI), large language model (LLM) and transformative technology.

Clients value Amelia's technical experience and practical advice with commercial sense. Having previously served as the managing counsel for M&A and securities and Assistant Corporate Secretary for a NYSE-listed company, Amelia understands clients' business needs and shapes her services to achieve the business goal. Amelia has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer for M&A, and by Best Lawyers in America for her exceptional work in corporate governance, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law and securities/capital markets.

Amelia serves on the Society of Corporate Governance and the Audit Committee of the Board of Houston Ballet Company. She is a member of the State Bars of Texas and New York, and Asian American Bar Association of Houston.