Blythe Masters — Disruptor Awards

Blythe Masters is a financial services and technology executive, and Founding Partner at the FinTech private equity firm Motive Partners. She has been a financial pioneer throughout much of her career, popularizing credit portfolio management techniques, credit derivatives and synthetic securitization in the 90's, carbon markets in the 2000's and blockchain technology for enterprise in the 2010's.

She is the former CEO of Digital Asset - provider of the world's leading smart contract language DAML. She was previously a senior executive at J.P. Morgan for 27 years, where she was a member of the Corporate & Investment Bank Operating Committee and firmwide Executive Committee. Positions included Head of Global Commodities, Head of Corporate & Investment Bank Regulatory Affairs, CFO of the Investment Bank, Head of Global Credit Portfolio and Credit Policy and Strategy and Head of Structured Credit.

Masters is a Board Member of GCM Grosvenor, CAIS, Forge Global, Credit Suisse Group, and Chair of Credit Suisse Holdings (USA). She is an Advisory Board member for the US Chamber of Digital Commerce, Sandbox AQ, Figure Technologies, and Maxex. She is a member of P.R.I.M.E. Finance (the Hague-based Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance), and Chair of Wilshire's Digital Assets Advisory Group.

Masters is a graduate and Senior Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge where she received a B.A. in Economics. She lives in Florida.