Catherine Gu

Catherine Gu heads Visa’s Global CBDC program and blockchain protocol research and development, building digital payment solutions with central banks, financial partners and global infrastructure technology companies. Prior to Visa, Catherine worked in quantitative finance at J.P. Morgan and Man Group. She spent 2 years on stablecoin research at Stanford University with Prof. Dan Boneh. She also worked at 2 crypto startups: Anchorage and Gauntlet. Catherine graduated with M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, and B.A. and M.Phil in Economics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.