Clarisse Grilhault des Fontaines
Clarisse Grilhault des Fontaines
CEO
Dfns SAS
Biography
I am the CEO and Co-founder of Dfns, where I lead the development of programmable, cloud-native Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS). My mission is to bridge the gap between traditional finance and Web3 by providing banks and fintechs with secure, decentralized key management powered by Multi-Party Computation (MPC).
My perspective is shaped by a decade in the heart of global finance at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Crédit Agricole CIB, where I served as the youngest-ever Chief of Staff to the CEO. I founded Dfns to solve the "single point of failure" in digital custody, creating the resilient infrastructure required for institutional adoption.
Beyond Dfns, I serve on the board of the MPC Alliance and mentor for Techstars Web3. Recognized as a "rising star of crypto" by Les Echos, I am dedicated to building the secure foundations that allow the tokenized economy to thrive.