Fern Karsh is a consultant and lawyer focused on blockchain, cryptoassets and frontier technologies. She serves as General Counsel and blockchain technologies lead at Catalystic AI, an artificial intelligence and blockchain consultancy, incubator, angel investor and AI Academy, that takes start-ups, scale-ups and large enterprise to the next frontier. Fern is responsible for internal legal and corporate secretarial needs, as well as running the blockchain and crypto-assets group, providing risk-managed, multi-disciplinary, end-to-end project management and advice. Fern has consulted various types of blockchain and cryptoasset businesses, with a focus on managing legal and regulatory risk, public policy research and advocacy. Fern has served on for profit and not-for-profit boards. She blogs and speaks on blockchain legal and regulatory issues and is actively involved in the technology community. Previously, her background was in asset management as a General Counsel with legal, compliance and operational responsibilities. Fern spent over ten years in the practice of law. Fern received her J.D. from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and her B.A. in Economics and ACS (Finance) from the University of Western Ontario.