Chris Tyrrell is a financial executive, innovator, investor and advisor, specializing in risk and compliance management. He is currently Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets Controls for Citi Services. Chris previously served as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Ondo Finance, CCO of EDX Markets and Head of Americas Compliance at Blockchain.com.

At Goldman Sachs, Chris built and led Digital Assets Compliance and was head of Data Governance Risk. He is an expert in risk assessment, digital assets, venture and growth capital, regulatory compliance and controls, as well as institutional AI and data governance and privacy.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Chris was the founder and CEO of OfferBoard, a regulated investment platform that used proprietary technology and dating-style matching algorithms to raise growth capital. OfferBoard was acquired by Entoro Group in 2017.

Chris has more than 20 years of experience in risk management, entrepreneurship, financial law, technology and capital markets, having managed and founded two private technology companies and been involved in more than $20 billion of financing transactions. He specialized in asset-based finance at the Wall Street law firm Cadwalader and served as Managing Director for venture investments at Nehemiah Investments, a family office.

Chris started college at age 15 at the University of North Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Texas honors program and the University of Virginia School of Law. Chris also holds a masters degree in Practical Ethics from Oxford University, where his research focused on managing AI Risk.