Chrissy Hill has acted as a trusted advisor for some great names with even greater vision: Sir Tony Blair, Konstantin Lomashuk, Dr Gavin Wood, Barclays and Linklaters. Originally from Charleston, SC, she moved to London in 2002 and over the past three decades has gained broad exposure across the global legal, regulatory, investment banking, charity, not for profit, blockchain, AI, robotics and adjacent tech sectors. Chrissy is an award-winning innovation champion and tackles non-traditional, pioneering roles. Her experience includes: - Supporting a visible world leader for almost a decade as the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel as well as Board Secretary and member of multiple committees of two different entities; - Steering the leading technical contributor to Polkadot (which was founded by the computer scientist who coined the term “Web 3.0” in 2014 and a co-founder of Ethereum) through legal, operational and regulatory challenges in the emerging technology space as Chief Legal Officer & interim Chief Operating Officer of Parity Technologies; - Serving as a critical friend on the Advisory Board for two Web3 visionaries founding businesses focussed on ethical commodities and digital asset business support; - Setting the standard in the then groundbreaking area of advisory compliance pre-, during and post- financial crisis by guiding evolving commercial teams (such as FIG, Equities, and M&A) at Barclays Capital, particularly post-Lehman acquisition; and - Working as an equity & debt markets lawyer on IPOs (at the time the largest and second largest IPOs on the LSE) and high-yield debt deals (winning a number of awards for best bond deals) in developing global markets. Chrissy has a track record of enabling businesses to transform in a dynamic yet controlled manner - scaling up and down. She is an empathetic, effective leader and teammate with experience managing large teams from all support functions (finance, IT, operations, HR, communications, legal and compliance). One of her central values is promoting merit, innovation and inclusion. She believes “diversity of thought” is central to innovation and seeks to model these values through thought leadership and adeptly setting enduring, inclusive business solutions. Most importantly, Chrissy is the proud mom of 2 exceptional redheaded girls.