Crypto Valley Association elects women board members

Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Association, an organization that supports and promotes the growing Swiss blockchain sector, has elected two women members onto an expanded board during an extraordinary general meeting last week. María Gomez, Lead for Ecosystem Development at blockchain-based project Aragon and Jenna Zenk, CTO of Zug-based blockchain asset management startup Melonport were voted in by members on Thursday evening. The CVA board has therefore been expanded to seven members following a resolution during June’s AGM to expand diversity at the association. In the build-up to the vote, the CVA was accused of being an “old boys’ club with cronies” by a member of its own diversity taskforce. “We are thrilled to have found two competent and committed new board members, who are equally committed to the success of Crypto Valley and will help us continue our efforts,” CVA President Oliver Bussmann said in a statement. In an earlier statement to swissinfo.ch the CVA said the two ...