President, Capital Markets
Chainlink Labs
Fernando Vázquez is President, Capital Markets, Chainlink. He is an open-source software industry veteran with over twenty years’ experience across technology innovation and governance, capital markets, and digital assets. He serves on the boards of regulated financial institutions and foundations globally and is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s International Technology Advisory Panel. Prior to joining Chainlink Labs, Fernando was CEO of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, part of the TSE-listed financial conglomerate SBI Group.
Fernando’s early career began in academia, where he first became deeply involved in the budding Linux community. This led him to the corporate world with a number of roles at the NTT Group, eventually becoming a founding member and technical director of NTT’s Open Source Software Center, where he built a team that made major contributions to open source projects that underpin modern cloud and Internet services.