Claire Wells is the Legal & Business Affairs Director - Europe, for Circle, a crypto blockchain company breaking boundaries in the FinTech sector.

Circle is a social payments platform offering free, instant, global digital money transfers and is
focused on transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for
storing and using money. Circle is backed by $250 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, IDG China, Breyer Capital, Accel, Baidu, CICC and Bitmain, and has offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Dublin, Milan, Paris & London.

Prior to joining Circle, Claire was International Counsel at Tilt.com, a San Francisco-based social payments platform, looking after their global market offering. She trained and qualified at
international law firm Allen & Overy, specialising in M&A and also has experience as in-house Legal Counsel at Lloyds Bank plc.

Claire holds an MA from Cambridge University and currently lives in London.