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Christy Bartlett is Vice President, Enterprise Innovation – Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice at U.S. Bank, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a role she has held since July 2019. She is part of U.S. Bank's Digital Assets and Money Movement organization, which focuses on stablecoin issuance, cryptocurrency custody, asset tokenization, and digital money movement. Bartlett holds skills in treasury management, product development, digital assets, blockchain, and board governance, and has a background as a senior product manager in the banking industry with experience spanning operations management, electronic payments, sales management, and commercial banking.

Beyond her role at U.S. Bank, Bartlett serves as Board Chair of Make-A-Wish Minnesota, a position she assumed in September 2025. She completed the Women in Leadership Institute program through SHRM Linkage Institute in November 2024.

Penny Tyson is Vice President, Enterprise Innovation – Digital Asset & Blockchain Practice at U.S. Bank, a position she has held since December 2022, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her role sits within the bank's Enterprise Innovation function and is focused on digital assets and blockchain.

Tyson has been at U.S. Bank since April 2020, progressing through roles in innovation. She served as Senior Product Manager in Innovation from April 2020 to August 2021, then as Assistant Vice President, Innovation Product Development from July 2021 to January 2023, before moving into her current Vice President position. Prior to U.S. Bank, she spent over nine years at Starkey Hearing in Eden Prairie as a Product Manager, from January 2011 to April 2020. She holds a degree from Columbia University in the City of New York, where she studied from 1984 to 1988.

Sara C. is a Risk Manager at U.S. Bank, a position she has held since November 2022. She holds the CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certification. Prior to her current role, she served at U.S. Bank as a Business System Analyst from June 2016 to October 2022, working as a Compliance and Audit Analyst within the Enterprise ATM Services group.

Before joining U.S. Bank, Sara worked at Bonneville Power Administration as a Business Analyst II on a contract basis from January 2013 to June 2016, based in Vancouver, Washington. In that role, she served as Lead Business Analyst for the Asset Intake Project, facilitating requirements gathering and process flow development with stakeholder groups, delivering requirements to IT developers, and performing system testing. She has over 19 years of experience in business management, working across functions supporting engineers, managers, and other technical professionals. Throughout her career she has focused on analyzing and improving business processes, procedures, and documentation, and on applying technology to eliminate manual steps and reduce duplicate data entry.