Tom Jessop, President, Fidelity Digital Assets
Tom Jessop is the President of Fidelity Digital AssetsSM. In this role Tom is responsible for daily business operations while directing the company’s long-term vision to create full-service brokerage and asset management capabilities for digital assets of all types.
Tom joined Fidelity in January 2018 as Head of Corporate Business Development. In this role, he led a team focused on identifying and executing strategic opportunities including acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments and partnerships.
Tom joined Fidelity from Chain, a leading provider of enterprise blockchain solutions to global financial institutions. Prior to joining Chain, Tom was global head of Technology Business Development at Goldman Sachs where he led efforts to invest in and partner with early stage
technology companies across several enterprise domains including blockchain, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Tom was also a founding member of and senior leader in Goldman’s Principal Strategic Investments group (PSI). In this role he managed a global team focused on investments in exchanges, e-trading platforms, post-trade networks, and other fintech solutions across the fixed-income, currency, commodity, and equity markets. From 2008 to 2012 he built and led PSI’s Asia-Pacific efforts out of Hong Kong. In 2015 he was named to Institutional Investor’s inaugural “Fintech Finance 35” list.
Tom holds an MBA in Finance from New York University and a BA in Economics from The College of the Holy Cross. He is an advisor to the Digital Dollar Project and serves on the board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority.