Dr. Hancock has two decades of experience in technology, risk management and asset management. She was the Head of Retirement Solutions Americas at Deutsche Bank and before that co-founded RiskEdge, a consulting company to provide risk management advisory to financial institutions. She also worked at Duff Capital Advisors, AIG, J.P. Morgan and Dresdner Bank. She was an early employee of a FinTech start-up, Askari Risk Management Solutions, and a managing partner of Ekkono GmbH, a technology start-up focused on peer-to-peer and encrypted collaboration solutions. Dr. Hancock has a Ph. D. in theoretical nuclear physics from the Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.