Jesse Lund

Jesse Lund leads Blockchain and Distributed Ledger market development for IBM. Within his role, Jesse is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and accelerating the commercialization of industry solutions to transform the landscape of global commerce. Jesse is a financial services veteran with two decades of industry experience. He joined IBM from Wells Fargo, where he enjoyed an 18-year executive tenure leading a wide range of responsibilities within Community Banking, Consumer Products, Commercial Banking, Payments, Wealth Management, Risk Management, Information Technology, and Research & Development. In his prior role as Head of Wells Fargo’s Innovation Lab, Jesse and his team led Wells Fargo’s cloud computing and DLT programs for the enterprise. Jesse holds a B.S. in Finance and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Pepperdine University, and an M.Div. in Theology & Ethics from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is based in Southern California; of which he is a native.

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