Alison Davis

Alison Davis is the Chairman and Managing Partner of Blockchain Coinvestors, a premier global venture capital firm. Under her leadership, the firm has invested in over 1200 blockchain ventures in America, Europe, and Asia - including more than 75 blockchain unicorns. She is an experienced corporate executive, public company board director, an active investor in growth companies and a best-selling author of four books on the topics of new technologies and innovation. Alison is currently a non-executive director of Bitwise, Kraken, Pacaso and SIVB. She is also the Chairman of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, a board member of NACD Northern California and the Chair of the Advisory Board for Blockchain Capital. She is a former director of many public companies including City National Bank, Diamond Foods, DMSC, First Data Corporation, FISERV, Janus Henderson Group, LECG, Ooma, RBS/NatWest, Unisys and Xoom, and of many private companies. 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. Prior to this, Alison was the Chief Financial Officer of Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), the world’s largest institutional investment firm with more than $1.5 trillion of assets under management. Earlier in her career, Alison spent 14 years as a strategy consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with A.T. Kearney where she built and led the global Financial Services Practice. She is a bestselling author (The Intelligent Investor – Silicon Valley, Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era).