Mary Ann Bartels is a recognized and award winning strategist that spent 35 years on Wall Street analyzing and communicating trends in the economy, equities, bonds, commodities and exchange traded funds. She is also highly regarded for development of proprietary models for equity pairs trading and for her stock, sector and industry selections, as well as her extensive work on Hedge Funds.
Mary Ann has pivoted her career to understanding and educating the cutting edge new technology in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and the Metaverse.
Mary Ann earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Business and Economics from Fordham University. She is a graduate of the LondonReal DeFi Academy Accelerator program and serves on several advisory boards including her Alma Mater Fordham University and We4C.