Jasmine Burgess

CRO/COO at Coinbase Asset Management

Speaker

Jasmine is the CRO of Coinbase Asset Management, a digitally focused asset manager creating solutions for the convergence of traditional and digital investments. In March 2020 Jasmine lead the spin out of Brevan Howard’s infrastructure in the United States, Coremont, a SaaS and services company supporting full FTB operations for multiple asset managers and hedge Funds. Jasmine built the US team covering all roles and designing and managing the build needed to support varied digitally focused clients. Jasmine joined Coremont from Brevan Howard, where she sat on multiple Global Committees and Chaired the US Executive Committee from her role as Head of Risk of the New York office, a position held since August 2016. Prior to joining Brevan Howard, Burgess was Chief Risk Officer at Prologue Capital, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund (April 2013 to July 2016). Prior to this buy-side focus, Jasmine held several roles at Macquarie Bank from August 2006 to March 2013, starting as a Senior Manager leading the Market Risk Team in Sydney, Australia, then being transferred in 2009 to New York as an Associate Director on a small team to build the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities trading floor. Whilst in her role as Head of FICC Risk, Jasmine started and lead Macquarie’s first quantitative strategy team with initial focuses on Vol arbitrage, FX and commodity futures trading strategies. Jasmine started her career at Citibank in 1999 before joining JP Morgan as an Analyst within the Debt Capital Markets team in 2002. Jasmine graduated from University of New South Wales, Australia with a Bachelors of Commerce in Finance (hons) and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2002).