Katherine Dowling is the President and Board Director of Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR). Prior to BSTR she was a member of the Executive Committee at Bitwise Asset Management as well the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. She currently is a Senior Strategic Advisor for Bitwise. She also previously served in General Counsel, CCO, and COO roles at several financial and private equity firms, and was a co-founder, Managing Director and COO of Luminate Capital Partners, a software private equity firm in San Francisco. A Harvard Law School graduate, Ms. Dowling spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where she worked with the FBI, SEC, IRS and other agencies to prosecute insider trading, fraud, and money laundering cases, among others. She serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations.