Kristi Põldsam is the Co-Founder of Sommelier, the decentralized asset management protocol whose mission is to make DeFi more accessible, profitable, and efficient for everyone.  Before beginning her journey as a blochcain founder, she built out a decade long career in the world of traditional finance, serving as a Merril Lynch analyst, Investment Banker at Rodman & Renshaw and as a Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald. She is a classically trained economist, earning a degree at Harvard before pursuing her Masters in computer science. Kristi is passionate about enabling more people around the world to leverage the expertise of finance professionals while also benefiting from the transparency and self-custody that blockchains allow. She's also keen on making decentralized finance about more than just crypto - to move beyond the experimental phase of  crypto-native impact towards  the real world impact, bringing real-world assets onto these new financial rails.