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# Jai Massari 

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Jai Massari is co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of Lightspark, which is building core infrastructure on the Lightning Network. Before Lightspark, Jai was a partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in its Financial Institutions Group. During her 11 years at Davis Polk, she advised a wide range of global financial institutions, fintech firms, technology companies, and trade associations on complex and novel regulatory considerations arising from digital assets and fintech payments.

She is a Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Business and Law and a visiting lecturer at Berkeley Law School at the University of California. She is a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of the Practicing Law Institute and an operating advisor at Bessemer Venture partners.

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