Caitlin Long
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Caitlin Long
Founder and CEO
Custodia Bank
Caitlin Long is Founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, a depository institution designed to solve the settlement risk inherent in integrating digital assets with the traditional financial system. A 22-year Wall Street veteran, Ms. Long became involved with Bitcoin in 2012. She was a managing director who ran Morgan Stanley’s pension solutions business in New York (2007-16), held senior roles at Credit Suisse in New York and Zurich (1997-2007) and began her career at Salomon Brothers (1994-97). She jointly spearheaded a project for delivering market index data to Vanguard using a blockchain, which is now in production at multiple buy-side firms, while chairman and president of Symbiont from 2016-18. She has helped to define a legal and regulatory regime for digital assets in the U.S., including helping her native state of Wyoming enact 29 blockchain-enabling laws since 2018 (parts of which have since been copied nationally). She is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD, 1994), the Kennedy School of Government (MPP, 1994) and the University of Wyoming (BA, 1990).