Amber Baldet was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan. She led the team that developed Quorum (Blockchain), the J.P. Morgan in-house Blockchain project. Baldet lives in New York City.^[1] She has been called the "Madonna of Blockchain".  In 2018, Baldet left JP Morgan to build her own startup.^[2]

Career

Baldet joined J.P. Morgan in 2012.^[3] She was previously a Senior Consultant at Capco, a Managing Partner at Blackwire, a Business Analyst at Old Lane, and an Application Developer at Avalon Research Group.^[4]

She launched Quorum, an open-source code based on Ethereum and is designed to cater to big-business’s needs such as scale, performance, and privacy.^[5]

Accolades

Baldet was selected #31 on Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 and #9 for CoinDesk's Most Influential People in Blockchain; Both accolades were earned by Baldet in 2017.^[6][7]