Annemarie Tierney

Annemarie Tierney is the Founder and Principal of Liquid Advisors, a consulting firm offering strategic advisory services around primary and secondary liquidity structuring, including for digital assets and private crypto investment funds. Annemarie is a member of the Board of Directors of Deltec International Group and Realto, Inc. Annemarie also serves as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Chamber of Digital Commerce and on the executive team of Project Chill Limited/Jambo Technology, a recent token project empowering the next generation of Africans via Web3. Annemarie is a seasoned financial services executive with substantial legal, regulatory and strategy experience, as well as experienced in broker dealer regulation, blockchain legal and regulatory issues, securities transactional work, SEC rules and regulations, corporate governance, and international expansion. Annemarie has led a broad range of regulatory and legislative thought leadership initiatives in the private alternative asset space and is a frequent speaker on a range of private asset issues. Previously, Annemarie was the Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel of Templum, Inc., a registered broker dealer/alternative trading system approved to conduct primary offerings and secondary trading in unregistered digital securities. She also served as Head of Strategy at Nasdaq Private Market and as the General Counsel of SecondMarket Holdings, Inc. (now Digital Currency Group), where she led the efforts to structure, launch and obtain OTC QX approval to publicly trade the Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), and to trade bitcoin through SecondMarket’s broker dealer (now Genesis Global Trading). Annemarie has also worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, the NYSE and NYFIX. Annemarie is the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Association of SEC Alumni and a former member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. She earned her BA/BS in Finance and International Relations from the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware and her JD from the Catholic University of America. Annemarie is also FINRA series 7, 63 and 24 licensed.