Jorge Herrada
Jorge Herrada is the director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of Technology I
Jorge Herrada is the director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of Technology Innovation (the successor to CFTC’s LabCFTC). OTI serves as the CFTC’s financial technology innovation hub, driving change and enhancing knowledge through innovation, consulting / collaboration, and education (ICE). Jorge completed a one-and-a-half-year detail as the Senior Technology Advisor to the TechLab at the Federal Reserve Board, where he helped to guide the vision and experiments regarding Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Jorge served for four years as the Senior Technology Advisor for LabCFTC, where he focused on innovation, advanced technology, analytics, finance, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), and cryptocurrencies. He led the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee’s Virtual Currencies Subcommittee, the DLT Subcommittee, and the High-Frequency Subcommittee. Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Herrada served as a Senior Principal at American Management Systems (AMS--now CGI). At AMS, he was a systems architect and software engineer.
Education:
- MBA, University of Chicago
- MSc, London School of Economics
- BS in Management Science, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania