About the speaker

Aza Benyatov is the founder of Art Asset Class™, a live media platform connecting experts, creators, and collectors with a shared passion and curiosity for the arts. Based between Manhattan and London, Aza is a journalist, editorial director, entrepreneur, and angel investor with more than 15 years of experience producing flagship programming around the globe for mega media brands like Bloomberg LP, Institutional Investor, Washington Post Live, Fortune Live Media, and more. At the core of her career is mastering information - deciphering and curating content for a discerning global investor audience, identifying niche opportunities for capital holders and investors worldwide, and providing a platform for startup founders, thought-leaders and visionaries around the world.

Brought up in a multi-faceted artistic environment, Aza has always been deeply attuned to the social and cultural impact of art, and immersed in executing many transformative projects from skeleton to completion. Through exclusive, invitation-only salons hosted around the world, Art Asset Class™ is designed to break barriers in conversation between creators, experts and investors, empowering collectors with research-based intelligence, compelling ideas, showcasing multidisciplinary projects that elevate the conversation into the next stratosphere. 

Art Asset Class (AAC) provides an erudite analysis for today’s patrons and investors amid visceral understanding of the blast radius ignited by strategic investment in art and cultural projects. 

Aza is a graduate of New York University and Sotheby's Art Institute.