Annemarie Tierney: On Secondary Markets for Private Company Stock, and Crypto.
Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Annemarie Tierney, the Founder and Principal of Liquid Advisors and a seasoned financial services lawyer/strategist with substantial SEC, law firm, and in-house legal experience, as well as experienced in broker dealer regulation, blockchain legal and regulatory issues, securities transactional work, SEC rules and regulations, corporate governance, and international expansion. Previously, she was the Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel of Templum, a registered broker dealer/alternative trading system; Head of Strategy at Nasdaq Private Market, and General Counsel of SecondMarket, now Digital Currency Group. She has also worked at the SEC, Skadden Arps, the NYSE and NYFIX. Annemarie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of SEC Alumni and a former member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of the HackFund Group, Pontoro, Inc. and Astrella, Inc. In this podcast, we talk about her career, the evolution of secondary markets for private shares, and the crypto regulatory landscape. Please note that the episode was recorded on May 27th, before the current crypto market meltdown. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com