Amanda Tuminelli

DEF Executive Director and Chief Legal Officer

Amanda Tuminelli is the Executive Director and Chief Legal Officer of DEF, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization committed to advocating for sound DeFi policy, working to build a mainstream understanding of DeFi, and protecting the rights of developers, users, and projects to freely create and use DeFi technology.Ms. Tuminelli is actively engaged in helping to create legal and regulatory clarity for developers of decentralized technologies. She has written on topics including decentralization, control, privacy, money transmission, and criminal law, and her expertise has been featured in mainstream news outlets, including CNBC, Bloomberg, Politico, and more. She draws on her experience at Dechert and Kobre & Kim—where she represented clients in criminal and regulatory investigations, government enforcement actions, and complex litigation, with a focus on crypto.