Katherine Dowling is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Bitwise Asset Management. She previously held General Counsel, CCO, and COO roles at various financial and private equity firms, and co-founded, was a GP, Managing Director and COO of Luminate Capital Partners, a software private equity firm in San Francisco. A Harvard Law graduate, Katherine spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, where she worked with the FBI, SEC, IRS and other agencies to prosecute cases of insider trading, fraud, and money laundering, among others. She also serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations.