Provenance Blockchain Foundation hires Valerie Wagner as Senior Director of Onboarding and Adoption
Engineering veteran with previous senior roles at Figure and SRI International brings significant blockchain adoption expertise to Origin Blockchain Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO, 22 August 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Provenance Blockchain Foundation, an organization focused on supporting the development and use of DeFi applications leveraging the Provenance Blockchain, is pleased to welcome Valerie Wagner as Senior Director of Onboarding and Adoption. In her new role, Valerie will support financial services participants in leveraging Provenance Blockchain for tangible business and customer value, and ensure a seamless onboarding experience for Provenance Blockchain’s users and developers.
Wagner joins the Provenance Blockchain Foundation after most recently serving as Director of Engineering at Figure, where she led efforts to integrate figure lending into the Provenance Blockchain. Prior to her time at Figure, Wagner spent over a decade as a senior software engineer at SRI International, working on projects ranging from bioinformatics, ground-penetrating radar, artificial intelligence, and speech emotion analysis.
“Valerie combines deep, hands-on blockchain engineering experience with great partnership and collaboration skills,” says Morgan McKenney, CEO of the Provenance Blockchain Foundation. “As our users and developers are entities focused on improving financial services, we are excited to have Valerie in this role to help make adoption and building on the Provenance Blockchain easy.”
Provenance Blockchain is uniquely positioned as a platform built specifically for regulated institutional financial services. Provenance Blockchain allows the world’s leading financial institutions, fintechs and asset managers to enable the entire lifecycle of digital assets on the blockchain: from origination to financing, financing and trading. And Provenance Blockchain successfully transforms lending, securitization, payments and exchanges, and supports above 10 billion dollars in transactions. The USDF consortium is also building a bank-based tokenized deposit network on the Provenance Blockchain to allow banks to leverage the blockchain for instant payments 365x24x7 and programmable money with robust KYC/AML capabilities.
“I am thrilled to have joined the Provenance Blockchain Foundation team – and look forward to serving as a solution architect and adoption catalyst for financial institutions leveraging the Provenance Blockchain,” says Wagner. “This is a defining moment for the future of financial services, and I’m excited to help users adopt the full suite of Provenance Blockchain’s solutions.”
SOURCE Provenance Blockchain
