Jyoti Ponnapalli

Jyoti Ponnapalli is the SVP, Head of Blockchain Innovation Strategy at Truist. She has more than 18 years of experience leading emerging technology and complex digital transformations for fortune 500 companies across a range of industries including Finance, Telecom, Airline, Energy, and Food & Beverage. Prior to joining Truist, she was a Director of Blockchain at DTCC leading strategic initiatives in support of efforts to modernize the financial industry post-trade market infrastructure such as optimizing the trade settlement cycle from T+2 to T+0 as well as tokenizing securities for private capital markets. In addition to Fintech, she has also delivered strategic solutions and roadmaps for Value Chain using Blockchain for Retail supply chains, Chemical and Energy Industries.

Jyoti holds an Executive M.S. in Technology Management from Columbia University, New York, and a Bachelor of Science, Statistics, and Operations Research degree from the University of Mumbai.