MARINA SPINDLER
Marina is the founder of SPINDLER EDGE, a consulting firm dedicated to the future of money and blockchain technology. Some of her clients include Chaincode Labs, Ava Labs, IOV Labs, Peak Shift, Hyper Island and Falabella. She is also leading Torogoz.dev, a developer training program based in El Salvador that aims to give local programmers the opportunity to opt for better job opportunities and have the skills and knowledge necessary to contribute value in the development of Bitcoin & Lightning. In 2021, Marina wrote a global report on women and financial freedom and joined the board of ACJR.
As the former CEO of the Group of Fifty (G50) for over a decade —a business network founded with the support of the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace— Marina identified and recruited forward-thinking business leaders and global thinkers. She also tripled the participation of female executives and launched the Millennium Leaders (ML50), a network of entrepreneurs under 40 years of age. Marina seamlessly bridged cultures to forge partnerships with global corporations, academic institutions and government organizations in 11 cities including Palo Alto, New York, Cambridge, Singapore, Madrid, Beijing, Shanghai, Santiago and Washington, D.C.
Bilingual and multicultural, Marina holds a master of public administration from New York University and a bachelor of arts in international affairs from The George Washington University. Throughout her career, she has advised startup founders and important social ventures including Des Femmes Magazine, Code for Venezuela, Participatory Budgeting Project, Social Rocket Factory, and PACEMD. She is a speaker at important regional conferences and has been a featured guest in various podcasts on business strategy and crypto adoption.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ⎮ GO-TO-MARKET ⎮ OPERATIONS ⎮ SCALING ⎮ COMMUNICATIONS
