Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early angel investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

She currently serves as the CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the largest leading non-profit association for the blockchain, digital assets, and emerging technology community, with more than 500 institutional members across 100+ jurisdictions and industry sectors.

In 2023, she was appointed to the CFTC Chair’s Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), Digital Asset Market Subcommittee (DAMS) and cochairs the Taxonomy and Tokenization Infrastructure workstreams within the subcommittee. She also serves on the Japan Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Trade (METI) blockchain advisory group as well as the Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation blockchain research group and several other key committees and councils across AI and digital assets.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions as well as the first corporate digitized gold solution with UK’s HMT’s Royal Mint called RMT. She filed and received some of the earliest cryptocurrency and derivatives related patents.

Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange, interest rates, and equities markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment, culminating in a final thesis on “A History of the Proliferation of Chemical and Biological Warfare in the 20th Century”.