summary: Amber Baldet was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan.
content: Amber Baldet was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan. She led the team that developed Quorum (Blockchain), the J.P. Morgan in-house Blockchain project. Baldet lives in New York City. She has been called the "Madonna of Blockchain". In 2018, Baldet left JP Morgan to build her own startup. Career Baldet joined J.P. Morgan in 2012. She was previously a Senior Consultant at Capco, a Managing Partner at Blackwire, a Business Analyst at Old Lane, and an Application Developer at Avalon Research Group. She launched Quorum, an open-source code based on Ethereum and is designed to cater to big-business’s needs such as scale, performance, and privacy. Accolades Baldet was selected 31 on Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 and 9 for CoinDesk's Most Influential People in Blockchain; Both accolades were earned by Baldet in 2017.