SPEAKERS

Mary-Catherine Lader is the President & Chief Operating Officer of Uniswap Labs. Since joining Labs in

2021, she has led the company’s commercial strategy and operations, overseeing all non-engineering

functions — finance, business development, people, marketing, customer support, legal, and public

policy. During this period, Labs has launched consumer and institutional products, raised $165 million,

grown from 15 to 150 employees, and scaled to profitability. Uniswap Labs products are the most used

applications in decentralized finance.

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Previously, she held senior leadership roles at BlackRock and started the firm’s digital assets initiative in

2015. She was the global COO of BlackRock Digital Wealth, and founder and global head of Aladdin

Sustainability & Aladdin Climate. Lader also led the firm’s strategic investments in fintech companies

including Acorns, Envestnet, and ClarityAI, and started the firm’s AI Labs with Stanford University. Lader

began her career as an investor in Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group during the financial crisis.

She has spent the last 15 years building technology businesses aimed at making the financial system

more accessible to people, at the world’s largest financial firms, as a startup executive, and as a startup

founder.

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She serves on the board of Tech:NYC, the tech industry association for New York, and is a member of the

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee. She earned J.D. and

M.B.A. degrees from Harvard and a B.A. from Brown University.