Sandra Ro

Sandra is a fintech entrepreneur, blockchain / crypto keynote speaker, hackathon judge, crypto trader, angel investor and advisor, focusing on delivering financial access and products to people and communities using technology to enable next generation market infrastructure and financial products. She was named to the Innovate Finance, Women in Fintech 2016 Power List and holds directorships / founding memberships on several industry boards including Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), Mauritius Blockchain Center of Excellence (MBCE), as well as advises a number of start ups across robotics, security, infrastructure, hardware, & blockchain/crypto. Recently, Sandra joined the US Department of State’s Speakers Bureau as a blockchain technology speaker. She also served as a former Treasurer and founding board director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and founding member of the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL), founding member of Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger. She is the former Executive Director, Head of Digitization at CME Group. Sandra founded and was responsible for the firm’s digital assets and blockchain / distributed ledger technology (DLT) initiatives, including CME Bitcoin Futures and Bitcoin index pricing prices. Previously she was Head of Foreign Exchange (FX) and Metals Research and Product Development as well as a derivatives financial engineer at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank.

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