Tom Jessop
Tom Jessop is the President of Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto enterprise branch of financial services giant, Fidelity Investments. He is responsible for daily business operations while directing the company's long-term vision to create a full-service institutional brokerage. Prior to joining Fidelity in 2018, he was President of Chain, a leading provider of enterprise blockchain solutions to global financial institutions, responsible for all facets of Chain's commercial strategy including sales, marketing, and strategic business development. Prior to joining Chain, he spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs most recently as Global Head of Technology Business Development. He led the firm’s efforts to invest in and partner with early stage technology companies across several enterprise domains including blockchain, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Before that, he held a variety of business and product leadership roles at Standard & Poor's.
Tom Jessop Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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President
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Head of Corporate Business Development
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Managing Director of Technology Business Development
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Managing Director, Americas
Academic History
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M.B.A., Finance and International Business
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B.A., Economics
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Advisor, Digital Dollar Project
Tom also serves as the President of Fidelity Brokerage, responsible for overseeing an organization dedicated to optimizing, modernizing, and personalizing the self-directed, customer experience.
Tom joined Fidelity in 2018 as Head of Corporate Business Development.
He was responsible for identifying and executing strategic opportunities including acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments and partnerships.
Tom also served as Founding Member and Senior Leader in the firm's Principal Strategic Investments Group.
He managed a global team focused on investments in exchanges, e-trading platforms, post-trade networks, and other fintech solutions across the fixed income, currency, commodity, and equity markets.
He built and led PSI’s Asia-Pacific efforts out of Hong Kong and was named to Institutional Investor’s inaugural “Fintech Finance 35” list.
As Managing Director, he led a team responsible for macroeocnomic research, overseeing sales, marketing, finance, technology, and operations.
He also managed a global team in New York, London, and Hong Kong, focused on all aspects of the firm's marketing efforts.
He developed and launched Globalmarkets.com, a web-based research offering gor global financial professionals.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Tom has been featured or quoted in MarketWatch, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block and Real Vision.