In brief
- Jennifer Thornton transitioned from a traditional finance role at BlackRock to become a senior index fund portfolio manager at Bitwise in 2021.
- Thornton now manages unconventional investments like the Bitwise Blue-Chip NFT Index Fund.
- The crypto industry employed approximately 199,000 people as of 2023, with expectations of growth as institutions increasingly embrace crypto.
For years, Jennifer Thornton’s career had hummed along a fairly conventional path. A portfolio manager, she spent more than a decade at BlackRock, where her duties included trading risk-off assets like government bonds.
But, in 2021, Thornton’s career took a sharp turn—she left her post at the world’s largest asset manager and entered the world of Web3.
“There’s just a lot of opportunities here,” Thornton said of the crypto industry. That’s particularly true for women, she added, despite the fact that the space’s ranks are overwhelmingly…
