Christine is a business leader with over a half decade proven track record in blockchain technology, crypto, NFTs, DeFi, and the metaverse. In her most recent role as Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, Christine oversaw its firmwide Blockchain/Crypto/Metaverse strategy and defined its program through initiatives in digital assets, tokenized payments, internet-of-things, digital identity, digital collectibles, and virtual worlds. Christine also led Liink, a data marketplace for financial institutions and corporates that enables faster, cheaper, and safer cross-border payments. Christine has emerged as a highly trusted and respected leader that has the ability to bridge Wall Street and crypto natives – delivering results by cultivating strong relationships, structuring new and innovative solutions, recruiting and training strong interdisciplinary diverse teams, and designing/delivering enterprise-grade tech at scale through a variety of roles in Investment Banking, Markets, Asset Management and Technology. She is a graduate of Brown University. Christine was named in Fortune’s The Ledger 40 Under 40 list of “the most impressive, young superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.” Christine led the following [publicly disclosed work]: - Launched JPM as first Bank in the Metaverse (Feb 15, 2022) - Published “Opportunities in the Metaverse” (Feb 15, 2022) - Created JPM’s first Crypto Economy Forum and issued JPM’s first NFTs (Dec 3, 2021) - Published WEF Op-Ed on cryptocurrencies and financial inclusion (Jun 21, 2021) - Contributed to an academic paper on Decentralized Identity with Cornell Tech & IC3 (May 21, 2021) - Accepted to IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium - Added new corridor for Liink’s Confirm service to enable cross border payments account validation (Apr 12, 2021) - Expanded Liink to corporates (Mar 20, 2021) - Took the cryptoeconomy public through Coinbase’s direct listing (Feb 25, 2021) - Launched Space Payments across two satellites in lower earth orbit (Feb 24, 2021) - Created new tradable product Intraday Repo that has transacted $230 bn (Dec 20, 2020) - Scaled Liink network as a decentralized data marketplace with privacy (Oct 27, 2020) - Co-founded Onyx by J.P. Morgan, new business unit focused on digital assets & blockchain (Oct 27, 2020) - Advocated for JPM to bank regulated crypto companies including Coinbase & Gemini (May 12, 2020) - Connected vehicles and blockchain using telematics (Nov 22, 2019) - Issued tokenized bond & invented JPM Coin (May 16, 2018)
Partner, Head of Digital Assets at Apollo Global Management Inc.
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