Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest private transaction banks, over a dozen central banks (CBDCs), top healthcare and insurance networks, 80% of the world’s supply chain leaders, top retail companies, organizations such as Swift, World Bank, IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks. 

Sophia helped launch the IBM Blockchain Platform, the industry’s first blockchain-managed service. She held executive P&L responsibility for IBM's blockchain product portfolio. Previously, Sophia held multi-billion dollar P&L executive roles at IBM for its enterprise software and hardware lines of business. 
 
Sophia currently serves on the Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board. She is an advisor to blockchain and digital assets startups, has delivered digital assets sessions at Davos, spoken about blockchain at forums such as the Milken Institute, and provided mentorship in Web3 programs such as the ConsenSys Tachyon accelerator. Sophia has an engineering degree from Harvard University and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.