KRISTIN RAMES is a Client Strategist at Coinbase Asset Management. Kristin has a decade’s experience in institutional asset management and digital assets. Prior to joining Coinbase Asset Management, Kristin worked for Elwood Asset Management. Based in London, Elwood Asset Management combined an institutional heritage in finance with a deep knowledge of blockchain technologies to create solutions for global investors in the digital asset space. Prior to Elwood, Kristin worked for Morgan Stanley in New York City and London. While on the Equity Capital Markets team, she aided in the aggregate asset raise of more than $150 billion for European, US, and Japanese corporations. At Morgan Stanley, Kristin also spent time in Institutional Equities and Prime Brokerage. Prior to Morgan Stanley, she interned with BP in Chicago on their distillates trading desk. Kristin graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. She co-founded and presented in the first-ever Duke Bitcoin Conference. She is originally from Houston, Texas.