Cathy Yoon

GC at Wormhole Foundation

Speaker

Cathy is the General Counsel at Wormhole Foundation. Cathy has diverse and extensive work experience representing a wide range of clients including hedge funds and private equity firms, institutional banking, capital markets and market utilities. She now focuses on the growth of digital assets from a capital markets and infrastructure perspective.

Prior to joining Wormhole Foundation, Cathy was the Chief Legal Officer at MPCH Labs, a venture studio focused on applications of multi-party computation. She has also held roles as the general counsel for The INX Digital Company, Inc., co-head of the fintech and blockchain practice group for a major law firm, the general counsel for Genesis Block, a blockchain advisory firm and its affiliated broker-dealer and as managing director and senior counsel at The Bank of New York Mellon. She started her career as an associated at Schulte Roth & Zabel in its business transactions practice.

She is a leading voice in the development of the blockchain and crypto ecosystem, working as a member of several blockchain industry groups and speaking on the challenges which exist within the space. Cathy also serves as an advisory board member to the New York Department of Financial Services and is a founding member of Global Blockchain Convergence, a global blockchain policy think tank.