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Melissa Wisner is a Managing Director at PwC. Previously, she served as Director of Internal Controls and Governance at Paxos, Director of Legal and Compliance Operations at BlockFi, and Vice President of Crypto Risk at Mastercard. She is a graduate of Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.
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