Katrina Donaghy

co-CEO & Co-founder, Civic Ledger

Katrina Donaghy is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Civic Ledger an award winning Australian software platform developer start-up.  It develops large-scale registration and trading platforms using blockchain technologies for public sector markets.

Through her early years as a sociologist through to her interest in entrepreneurialism, she has extensive experience in public policy and early stage commercialisation.  For more than 20 years, Katrina has worked in both public and not for profit sectors with a specific focus on business development, project delivery and revenue diversification with the view to building resilient and sustainable organisations.

In Australia, she organises the Brisbane Women in Blockchain Meetup and regularly speaks on the topic of why cities and governments should be exploring blockchain technologies.  Katrina’s interest in blockchain technologies is driven by her curiousity of its potential to replace government legacy systems to deliver efficiencies, stimulate innovation and build digital societies.