Alison Davis is Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Coinvestors - a leading investment firm in the blockchain sector with positions in over 1250 blockchain companies globally including 90 unicornsShe is an experienced corporate executive, public company board director, active investor in growth companies and a best selling author on the topics of technology and innovation.Alison is currently a non-executive director of Kraken, Pacaso and SIVB. She is a former director of Collibra, Fiserv (FISV), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS - now NatWest Group), Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Ooma (OOMA), Xoom (XOOM), and LECG (XPRT) where she chaired the Audit Committees, Diamond Foods (DMND) where she chaired the Compensation Committee, and City National Bank, (CYN), First Data Corporation (FDC), Unisys (UIS) and Dispatch Management Services (DMSC). Alison is the co-author of four best selling books “Blockchain Competitive Advantage”, “Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era", “Build Your fortune in the Fifth Era” and "The Intelligent Investor: Silicon Valley".Alison was previously the Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital, a regulated bank holding company and private equity firm focused on investing in US banks and financial services firms where she worked closely with the Federal Reserve, The OCC, the FDIC and various state banking regulators. Prior to this, Alison was the Chief Financial Officer and head of Strategy and Corporate Development for Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), the world’s largest institutional investment firm with more than $1 trillion of assets under management. Earlier in her career, Alison spent 14 years as an advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with Kearney where she led the global Financial Services Practice. Alison is active in the community supporting non-profits and social enterprises as a board director, fundraiser and volunteer. She is the board Chair of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center which helps thousands of low income clients start and grow their own businesses and serves on the boards of NACD Northern California and Cambridge in America. She has been frequently named a “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times. She received a B.A. Honors and a Master’s in Economics from Cambridge University in England, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.