SPEAKERS

Cynthia Lo Bessette is head of Fidelity’s Digital Asset Management division where she has oversight and responsibility for setting the strategy and priorities for the division in building digital asset investment capabilities and solutions for Fidelity clients and investors across our platforms, offering investment products and advisory services designed to meet the growing needs of Fidelity’s retail customers and intermediary and institutional clients.

Ms. Lo Bessette leads the teams responsible for the development of the digital asset research and data platforms and research agenda, including evaluation of blockchain protocols, infrastructure, and financial applications. In addition, she leads the teams responsible for the establishment of the digital asset operating platform, the expansion of the strategic product roadmap for digital assets and the expansion of the business development function.

Ms. Lo Bessette has extensive experience working with asset management firms investing globally across asset classes and serving a worldwide investor base, including retail and institutional investors. She has broad experience working with global asset managers on strategic transactions and on start-up and establishment of new businesses in global markets, investment product development and distribution, and portfolio management matters involving US and foreign regulations and local market practices. She has been in the financial industry since 1995.

Previously, Ms. Lo Bessette was head of Asset Management and Digital Assets Legal.

Prior to joining Fidelity in August 2019, Ms. Lo Bessette was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of OppenheimerFunds, and was also a director of OFI International, Ltd, the UK affiliate of OppenheimerFunds, and OppenheimerFunds ICAV, a family of UCITS offered globally.