What happens when blockchain, artificial intelligence, and traditional capital markets come together?

In this episode of the NY Professional Spotlight Podcast with Roman Kirzhner, Roman speaks with Kelly Ye, Co-Founder and CIO of CoinBridge, about her work at the intersection of finance and innovation.

Kelly shares how CoinBridge is working to connect capital with assets on-chain and expand access to private investment opportunities. Drawing on 18 years of experience in capital markets and financial innovation, she explains why curiosity, trust, and understanding the needs of the end investor have remained important throughout her career.

Roman and Kelly also discuss tokenization and why simply putting an existing financial product on-chain may not be enough. Kelly explains why she is interested in using blockchain infrastructure to give investors access to opportunities they may not have had before.

The conversation explores the growing role of artificial intelligence in finance. Kelly discusses how AI can support research, due diligence, underwriting, and the analysis of large amounts of data. At the same time, she stresses that experienced professionals still need to ask the right questions, evaluate the results, and provide proper oversight.

Kelly also shares lessons from her career, including the importance of reinventing yourself as industries change. Her journey has taken her from structured credit to ETFs and then to crypto and blockchain. Through those changes, she has learned that ideas alone are not enough. Execution, perseverance, and the willingness to start small are critical.

Looking ahead, Kelly discusses opportunities she sees in private assets, short-duration asset-backed lending, energy production, AI infrastructure, and new approaches to connecting investors with opportunities through tokenization.

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