SPEAKERS

Rachel is a television news anchor and sits on the board of various digital asset companies, including cryptocurrency exchange MidChains, the world’s first Shariah-compliant cryptocurrency Islamic Coin, and Web3 gaming company Chain X Game.

Based in the Middle East since 2008, Rachel spent almost a decade at Mubadala Investment Company - one of the Middle East’s largest sovereign wealth funds - in their Capital Markets & Treasury team. A CFA Charterholder and chartered treasurer, in 2014 the Association of Corporate Treasurers named Rachel “The One to Watch” in Treasury.

Rachel began her career as a journalist and spent 5 years with the BBC. She currently hosts two shows produced by FintechTV (Digital Asset Report and TheIMPACT) which broadcasts daily from their studio in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. She acts as MC for numerous international high-profile events such as SALT, Crypto Bahamas, the SWFI Summit Series and the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

Passionate about helping others become more confident public speakers, Rachel is also the Co-Founder of “The Speakeasy Club”, an online training course for Public Speaking that empowers individuals to hone leadership-level speaking skills and build personal confidence.

In 2009 Rachel published her first book - Jandal Prints on the Globe – and helped to establish a charity called Espoir so that sale proceeds could go towards supporting youth entrepreneurship in New Zealand. She is also a member of Mensa and an advisory board member at the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.