Charlene Fadirepo is a financial empowerment speaker, a Bitcoin activist and former US regulator with 15 years of experience in the traditional finance world. As the CEO of her digital assets consulting firm, Mango Digital Strategies, Charlene helps global financial services organizations future-proof their growth through cryptocurrency. Prior to founding Mango Digital Strategies, Charlene held financial analysis roles at Citigroup and Cherokee Investment Partners. She also held a senior consulting bank regulation role at PWC and led bank supervision policy audits at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Charlene is the creator of the Bitcoin education podcast the Bitcoin In Africa Show, a co-author of the Bitcoin policy primer Bitcoin & the American Dream and has been featured in BBC, Time Magazine, Yahoo Finance, CNN, and Coindesk. Charlene was also named one of 5 Women to Watch in Crypto by NextAdvisor in 2022. Charlene studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia and has a Masters In Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.