Julia Merkel is the chief operating officer of Centrifuge. Julia Merkel joins Centrifuge after serving as CFO for BlueYard Capital, a crypto native venture capital investor in Centrifuge, for the past nine years. In this role, Merkel was closely involved in managing the finance team and overseeing the firm's operations. Prior to BlueYard, she was focused on transaction advisory services at EY for almost a decade across Europe and the US.