Dorothy D. DeWitt is the Founder & CEO of Tölt Strategies, providing independent monitor, third-party compliance consulting, and board advisory services for innovative industries. Prior to that, she served as Chief Finance Counsel to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, developing the Lummis-Gillibrand crypto legislation. As the first woman Director of the Division of Market Oversight at the CFTC, she lead teams that license, regulate, and examined regulated exchanges; oversee $400 trillion commodity derivative and spot markets; promulgated rules, and approved novel product listings in innovative markets such as cryptocurrency, climate, and prediction markets.
Ms. DeWitt served as Coinbase’s General Counsel for Business Lines and Markets, guiding the company in launching and expanding custody, staking, and trading products and services. She previously served in senior legal/compliance roles for Citadel Securities, S&P, and Davis Polk. Ms. DeWitt spent nearly a decade as a hedge fund analyst/portfolio manager. She clerked in the SDNY after graduating Harvard Law School and the University of Texas.