Director/Consultant

Danielle specializes in providing Directorship Services to web3 funds, DAOs / foundations and OpCo’s based in Cayman Islands and BVI, combining her wealth of knowledge and experience as an independent director with her passion for all things crypto. 

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She has over 8 years of experience in the digital asset industry, over 9 years offshore and 12 years of experience in financial services and operating companies. Danielle has extensive experience in fund services and private proprietary crypto trading entities, with a particular focus on regulatory requirements, compliance and accounting. 

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She serves as an independent director on the first fully regulated tokenized mutual fund in the world, leading the fund through a variety of hurdles due to tokenization and providing guidance from a technical and operational side. Danielle currently serves as an independent director across a variety of digital asset entities, both in the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. 

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Prior to joining Verdant, Danielle was an independent director at Hash and prior to that the Manager leading the Digital Asset Fund department for The Catalyst Group, where she established a mature and viable Digital Asset product offering, developed and implemented proprietary Digital Assets Valuation Policies and Procedures, Cayman compliant AML Policies and Procedures and Subscriptions in-kind AML Procedures. Prior to this, Danielle was a Senior Fund Accountant in the Investment Funds team of Harmonic Fund Services, a leading fund administrator serving some of the biggest investment banks.

She administered one of the first Cayman Islands crypto funds and has been immersed in the digital assets space since then. She also has extensive experience as an auditor having perform complex audits of multinational hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands, United States and Canada. 

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She is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) and Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) with the Crypto Currency Certification Consortium (C4). She obtained her Honours and Bachelors in Accounting at the University of Stellenbosch. 

Danielle is the founder of Woman in Blockchain Cayman Islands with the mission of educating, empowering and promoting women in the crypto industry.