Darlene Pasquill
Mizuho Americas LLC
Good morning, everybody. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Darlene Pasquill, and I run the Americas Equity division at Mizuho. On behalf of myself and others on Mizuho’s leadership team, Jerry Rizzieri, our President and CEO and Head of the Corporate Investment Bank as well as Michal Katz, both of whom I’m sure will be wandering around shortly. Michal runs our investment and corporate banking. It’s a pleasure from us to welcome you to New York City into the Conrad Hotel. It’s an electric time to be in New York City. For those of you who might have had the experience of being at Penn Station last night, it was certainly very electric. We’re looking for a better outcome on Wednesday night, but it was a great night to be out.
Many of you have traveled across the country and across the world to be here, and we’re generally grateful for your time and for the trust you have in us, it means everything to me and for the franchise. We’re convening here at a remarkable moment in time. Technology has always been a driver of change. But what we’re witnessing today with artificial intelligence feels different in kind. It’s reshaping. AI is reshaping how we live actually, you know how businesses operate, how consumers engage in the world and how capital flows towards opportunities.
Last week at Mizuho, we did a 2-day mandatory offsite for the leadership team, and many of our members of our management teams under
