Sandra Ro

Sandra is a proponent of ‘human-centric tech’. She left a career in derivatives, investment banking, and currency markets to focus on emerging technologies for sustainability, access, and resiliency, particularly in financial systems. She is an early investor and an advocate of crypto and digital assets. Sandra currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), a Swiss-based non-profit as well as an angel investor in emerging technologies, Board member, advisor, keynote speaker, and co-founder of several start-ups, non-profits, and key blockchain industry networks.

She is currently Board Director of Global Digital Finance (UK) NYS Senate appointee on the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, Fintech Advisory Council of Astana International Financial Center (AIFC Kazakhstan), Board Treasurer of BitGive Foundation, member of EU Public Funds, and New Green Economy Consortia, Chair of Open Impact Foundation (Switzerland), Advisory Council of Filecoin Foundation, Health Tech Chair of Yale Alumni Health Network (YAHN), and member of Open Transparency Initiative (Denmark), member of World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium (DCGC), US Department of State Speakers Bureau, Standards, International Securities Services Association (ISSA), amongst others.

Whilst at CME Group, she founded and led Digitization, developed the CME CF Bitcoin pricing indices, followed by the CME Bitcoin Futures. Ro was a founding member of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA Board), Post Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, Linux Foundation, Hyperledger, and GBBC Board. Previously, she was a derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, based in London. She is a graduate of Yale University, B.A. double major, and London Business School, MBA.