Michelle Gitlitz

Michelle is a sought-after leader, speaker, and writer who frequently collaborates with federal and state regulators and legislators on blockchain and digital asset issues. Previously, Michelle served as the Global Head of Crowell & Moring's Blockchain and Digital Assets practice, and co-led Crowell & Moring's Financial Services Practice. In this role, she regularly advised emerging and established companies on how to best bring blockchain technology applications to market, raise capital, list tokens on digital currency exchanges and platforms, establish new blockchains and nodes, and navigate state and federal money transmission and payments laws.

Michelle offers extensive experience with virtual currency money transmission to Flexa, and most recently authored "An Introduction to Virtual Currency Money Transmission Regulation" in Global Legal Insight's Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation treatise. She is a board member of the MIT Computation Law Report and a member of and contributor to the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance and the Digital Chamber of Commerce. She also founded and serves as president and director of Diversity in Blockchain, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to creating equal, open, and inclusive opportunities in the blockchain industry, as well as the Art & Antiquities Blockchain Consortium (AABC), a non-profit committed to reimagining cultural heritage solutions through the use of blockchain technology and its guiding principles. In recognition of her leadership, the National Law Journal and New York Law Journal have named Michelle a Trailblazer and Crain's New York Business has recognized her as a Notable Woman in Law.