Jonathan Padilla

Jonathan Padilla has a diverse background, having held roles such as Head of Blockchain Strategy at PayPal, Deputy Director at Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative, positions at the White House under President Obama, Google.org on clean energy, and various venture capital outfits in California and East Africa. He has also been involved in political campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels and was a member of the Democratic National Committee. Jonathan holds a degree in government from Harvard, a Masters of Public Policy from Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, and was a 2018 Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University.