Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Zack Miller.

While retail interest in digital assets peaked in 2018, crashed and is rebounding now, institutional interest has been steadily growing. Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto is helping that happen. Previously the COO of the ISE, she’s a managing director at Gemini.

She joins us on the podcast to discuss what it means to be a licensed digital asset exchange and the value it provides for institutional investors. We dive into her experience running exchanges and how Gemini is both similar and different than traditional setups. Jeanine shares her views on what it will take for digital asset exchanges to become more influential to expand crypto ownership. We talk about Gemini’s custody business as well.

Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto is my guest today on the Tearheet Podcast.