Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Exchange Professional of the Year—Karen O’Connor, TrueEX

A self-described “numbers person,” innovation is something that’s followed her career—her first job out of college was working for Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid instant camera—but she describes the fusion of finance and technology as “the perfect marriage” for her.

Indeed, her current work is firmly rooted in that innovative spirit. O’Connor regards distributed-ledger technology (DLT) as being “key to the future development of the global financial infrastructure,” and is currently