Alison Davis is chair and managing partner of Blockchain Coinvestors, a leading blockchain investment firm with a portfolio of more than 1,250 blockchain companies and projects including 110 unicorns. She is an experienced corporate executive, public company board director, active investor in growth companies, and bestselling author on the topics of technology and innovation.

Davis is currently a board director of Bitwise, Kraken, and Pagaya. She is also the chair of the advisory board for Blockchain Capital, chair of Renaissance, and a director of NACD Northern California, and Cambridge in America.

Davis has served on the boards of over 25 public and private companies as chair, audit committee chair, compensation committee chair, and technology and innovation committee chair. Public board roles have included City National Bank, Diamond Foods, Dispatch Management Services, Fiserv, First Data Corp., Janus Henderson Group, LECG (XPRT), Ooma, RBS (now NatWest), Silicon Valley Bank, Unisys, and Xoom. Davis is a frequent speaker on corporate governance with a focus on the role of the board in crises and in overseeing innovation and technology.

Davis was previously the managing partner of Belvedere Capital, a regulated bank holding company and private equity firm focused on investing in US banks and financial services firms, where she worked closely with the Federal Reserve, the OCC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and various state banking regulators. Prior to this, Davis was the chief financial officer of Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), the world’s largest institutional investment firm with more than $1.5 trillion of assets under management, where she was part of the leadership team that launched the iShares product range. Earlier in her career, Davis spent 14 years as a strategy consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards, and executive teams with McKinsey & Co. and as a practice leader with A. T. Kearney where she built and co-led the global financial services practice. She is a bestselling coauthor, with Matthew C. Le Merle, of The Intelligent Investor—Silicon Valley, Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, and Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era.

Davis is active in the community supporting nonprofits and social enterprises as a board director, fundraiser, and volunteer. She has been frequently named a “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times. She received a bachelor of arts honors and a master’s degree in economics from Cambridge University in England and a master of business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business after completing the first year at Harvard.