Lily Liu, CoFounder Earn.com Lily is a cryptocurrency investor and advisor, with a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US and China. Most recently, Lily co-founded Earn.com which was recently acquired by Coinbase. Previously, Lily was the CFO of Chinaco Hospital Corporation, where she built a 500-bed, international standard general hospital in Cixi, just outside of Shanghai. It was China’s first foreign joint venture, private general hospital. Lily also worked at KKR in New York as well as McKinsey in New York and Beijing. Lily received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford, and studied East Asian Studies at Harvard.
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Monette Stephens Head Corp Dev Tokensoft #blockchainwomen
Monette Stephens Head Corp Dev Tokensoft Monette has a unique combination of entrepreneurial, investing, technical, banking, sales and marketing expertise. As the Head of Corporate Development of TokenSoft, she has been instrumental in building the sales and partnership pipeline supporting over 20 fully compliant Security Token Offerings with investors from over 170 countries. Monette co-founded and ran a FINRA registered Broker-Dealer obtaining Series 7, 24 and 63 registrations and had multiple exits through IPO or M&A. She has BS and MS degrees in CS/ECE.
Audrey Chaing, Founder Blockchaing #blockchainwomen
Audrey Chaing, Founder Blockchaing Audrey is a cryptocurrency trader and blockchain analyst, and runs the news site blockchaing.org. She has been trading Bitcoin since 2013 and is a member of Oakland Blockchain Developers and SF Ethereum Developers. Through her consulting work at Blockchaing, she is CTO at a new blockchain protocol called Infinium and launching a crypto investment fund with Precursor Ventures. Previously, she co-founded 2 companies, through which she participated in Start-Up Chile and Singularity University Global Solutions Program. She has a decade of experience on Wall Street as an investor, trader, and research analyst at companies like Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo, and BlackRock. Audrey has a degree in Computer Science from MIT with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, and earned her MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a frequent speaker at events like Google International Women’s Day, Global Blockchain Forum, Crypto@Dropbox, LendIt/BlockFin, and OneWorld Blockchain at Davos. She created the MIT Applied Blockchain Series, helping founders get from idea to demo-able product.
Jamie Finn, CoFounder Securitize
Jamie Finn, CoFounder Securitize Jamie is a well traveled executive who has worked in 6 countries with startups & corporates. He is currently the co-founder and President of Securitize, the leading platform for Security Token Issuances. During his more than 18 years of experience he has participated in over $500m worth of transactions including Kontera, Sansa Security, Jajah, Tokbox, RingRing Media and Zingy and has seen his share of meeting rooms across the globe. His previous employers include Ericsson, Telefònica o2 and AT&T and he has worked at numerous startups including Zingy, RingRing Media, Thumbplay, Kontera and Sansa Security and Aki Technologies. He has been in San Francisco for the past 5 years after spending 6 years in London and becoming a Chelsea supporter. Jamie grew up in Puerto Rico and is a native English and Spanish speaker.