Jennifer O’Rourke is an Executive Director at DTCC Digital Assets. Within this role, she works across the business and with clients and third-party providers to identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies for new product development with a focus on the future of money and digital cash and settlement.

Prior to DTCC, she co-founded and served as President of Attest, a distributed ledger technology-enabled digital identity company. She also served as the State of Illinois Blockchain Business Liaison and as the Deputy Director of the Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology at the Illinois Department of Commerce. She held a number of strategic and market development positions in the financial services industry.

Jennifer is a SIFMA’s Blockchain Roundtable and the Digital Dollar Project’s Advisory Board member. She attended the University of London, where she received a Master of Arts, and the University of Illinois, where she received a Bachelor of Arts.