Sean
Lee
Sean is an accomplished executive in Web3 innovation and FinTech, and has been quoted in Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, CoinDesk, amongst others.
He is a senior advisor and Asia Policy Lead for the Crypto Council for Innovation (https://cryptoforinnovation.org/), a global alliance of crypto industry leaders with a mission in regulatory advocacy and to demonstrate the transformational promise of digital assets and currencies. In this role Sean has direct engagements with dozens of global regulators and policymakers to provide insights on industry feedback and policy recommendations, among them the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Financial Stability Board (FSB), Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA), European Banking Authority (EBA), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), etc.
Previously Sean was the CEO of the Algorand Foundation, an MIT incubated layer-1 blockchain protocol and reached top-10 by network valuation during his tenure. Before entering into crypto and blockchain, Sean spent 10 years and held leadership positions in cloud computing and open source software development companies. He holds an Executive MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada.