Jeremy Allaire is a Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. He is also the former CEO of Brightcove and is currently positioned as CEO of Circle. He is also a technologist and internet entrepreneur and is well known for Creating the web development tool ColdFusion.Allaire co-founded and led multiple global internet technology companies with thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of consumers served, and multiple successful public offerings on NASDAQ. He has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, and the US Senate Banking Committee, and he has been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech.