Crypto-assets & blockchain lead
Justine Destobbeleire is Managing Director, Digital Assets and AI at Sia Partners, a position she assumed in March 2025 focused on digital assets, artificial intelligence, and financial market infrastructures. Prior to this appointment, she served as Senior Manager and Lead for Crypto-Assets, Blockchain, AI, and GenAI at Sia Partners from August 2018 to March 2025. In parallel, since March 2020, she has led the Digital Assets, Decentralised Finance, and Blockchain module at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, where she is responsible for the blockchain and crypto-assets curriculum.
Before joining Sia Partners, Destobbeleire spent five years at Accenture from April 2013 to August 2018, working as a digital and new technologies consultant. Earlier in her career, she completed a supply chain project assistant internship at TotalEnergies and worked as a private mathematics and physics tutor. She is a graduate of the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne. Her total professional experience spans over 17 years.
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