Rachel Pether is the Head of MENA at global digital asset investment manager 3iQ. Prior to joining 3iQ as Head of MENA, Rachel spent almost a decade at Abu Dhabi based sovereign investor Mubadala in their Capital Markets & Treasury team and was previously a senior Advisor for SkyBridge Capital. Rachel is a CFA Charterholder and chartered treasurer. In 2014 the Association of Corporate Treasurers named her "The One to Watch".
Rachel originally trained as a journalist and spent 6 years with the BBC. She is the TV Anchor for the Digital Asset Report and acts as a Master of Ceremonies and moderator for selected international events such as the AIM Summit, SWFI Summit Series and the Middle East Investors' Summit.
Rachel is the co-founder of the Speakeasy Club, an online training portal for public speaking and is also a founding member of Playbook, a leadership platform for women professionals to design their career and well-being.
In 2009 Rachel published her first book and helped to establish a charity called Espoir so that sale proceeds could go towards supporting youth entrepreneurship in New Zealand.
She is a member of Mensa and sits on the advisory board of cryptocurrency exchange MidChains and the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.
