Casey Taylor is VP, Network & Development at Digital Currency Group. As VP of Development, Casey sits at the center of Digital Currency Group's expansive network of 150+ portfolio companies, subsidiaries, hundreds of co-investors investors, and industry partners, where she acts as the primary point of contact for post-investment support and strategic partnerships across their businesses. Having built a career off of supporting entrepreneurs full time - first in tech advocacy, then in VC - Casey has developed a pattern recognition and robust set of resources for the common challenges that teams face while scaling. She's is a world-class experience designer with expertise in community management, event production, and brand strategy and is an interdisciplinary thinker, applying alternative lenses to the challenges of the crypto industry. Before joining DCG, Casey served as the Director of Community at Female Founders Fund, an early-stage venture firm that invests in promising, women-led companies, and as the first-ever community manager for NY Tech Alliance - a 50K member trade organization that produced the world's largest Meetup group, NY Tech Meetup.