Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos is General Counsel of StarkWare. Prior to joining StarkWare, she was Chief Legal Officer of Cboe Digital, a U.S. regulated exchange and clearinghouse for crypto spot and crypto derivatives markets, and General Counsel of Maple Finance, a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace which facilitates crypto institutional borrowing via liquidity pools funded by the DeFi ecosystem.

Before going “full-time crypto,” she was a partner in the Special Matters and Government Investigations practice at the global law firm King & Spalding, where she co-chaired both the firm's Financial Services Industry and Fintech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency groups. In private practice, Katherine represented corporations and individuals under investigation by a large number of U.S. and global government and regulatory entities.

Katherine has extensive experience with digital assets and is a thought leader on DeFi, tokenization, crypto privacy, crypto regulatory developments and credit markets, anti-money laundering, and blockchain-related compliance.