Kathy Qian

Alumni, Global Shapers Community

Kathy is the co-founder of Code for Democracy, a civic technology nonprofit that fights disinformation and dark money through innovations in data engineering, and the founder of Tickermachine, a proprietary algorithmic trading firm specializing in cryptocurrencies, forex, and ETFs. Previously, she worked on civil rights litigation with the ACLU, where she helped secure a $3.4M settlement from the City of Milwaukee for violating the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and in the Innovation Labs of the World Bank, where she led a team of data scientists tackling a $400M+ multi-region policy portfolio aimed at cultivating communities of entrepreneurs and creating sustainable growth through innovation. Kathy started her career at APT, an enterprise software startup backed by Accel-KKR and Goldman Sachs that was acquired by MasterCard for $600M. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. See more details at kathyqian.com.

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