Chief Operating Officer
BitGo, Inc.
Jody Mettler is the Chief Operating Officer of BitGo and is also responsible for managing BitGo Trust companies to meet high standards of customer care and to ensure the safe and secure custody of their assets. Prior to joining BitGo, Jody was the Director of Global Transformation at Citicorp. She spent over 20 years with Citicorp in various capacities ranging from corporate accounting to operations management primarily within the Institutional Client Group servicing large corporations to develop payment facilitation methods. Jody also served as a member of the Board of Directors for Citicorp South Dakota Trust Company and is a member of the digital asset legislative task force to facilitate trust administration digital asset laws.
Scaling the Next Era of On-Chain Finance: Operational Rigor, Regulatory Alignment, and Secure Custody
In the race to institutionalize on-chain finance, infrastructure will determine who wins. Few executives understand that reality better than Jody Mettler, COO of BitGo and President of BitGo Trust Company. A longtime banking executive with more than two decades at Citigroup, Mettler brings a rare combination of deep operational expertise, regulatory fluency, and institutional risk discipline to the digital-asset ecosystem.
Under her leadership, BitGo has helped pioneer the regulated infrastructure required for institutional participation. The firm’s trust entity received approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a federally chartered digital-asset bank in 2025—an important step in bridging traditional finance and blockchain markets. In this fireside chat, Mettler will discuss how institutional-grade custody, settlement, staking, and financing infrastructure are reshaping market structure in digital assets—and why operational rigor, regulatory alignment, and secure custody may ultimately become the foundation for scaling the next era of on-chain finance.