About Eric Hess

Eric has founded Hess Legal Counsel, a cybersecurity SaaS platform and consulting company, and hosts The Encrypted Economy podcast. He has over twenty years of experience acting as senior in-house counsel, general counsel or senior management for exchanges, broker dealers, and financial services technology providers. He has a proven track record of meeting business and legal goals, including creating legal, compliance and technology & operational risk management functions, corporate finance & governance, designing compliant technology, advocating for regulatory change, closing transactions, navigating challenging issues, managing regulatory inquiries & investigations and facilitating company growth, both organically and through strategic transactions.

As founder of Helical, Eric developed and brought to market multiple cybersecurity, privacy and business continuity related products, including assessment, IT security policy auditing, enforcement and vendor risk management tools.

The Encrypted Economy explores the business, laws, regulation, and security of digital assets and data with leading data science, cybersecurity, digital asset, and privacy innovators and experts.

Eric serves as secretary and board member of multiple digital asset trading firms and has represented clients in various onshore and offshore registrations.