Michaela Fleischer Appointed Chief Operating and Financial Officer of Global LegalEntity Identifier Foundation

announced the appointment of Michaela Fleischer as Chief Operating and Financial

Officer, effective March 1, 2026. In this newly created role, Michaela will provide strategic

and financial leadership, as well as drive continued operational excellence across the

organization.

As demand for secure and automatically verifiable organizational identities increases

across industries, GLEIF introduced the new role of Chief Operating and Financial Officer

to safely advance its mission and further strengthen the growing ecosystem promoting

uptake of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and the verifiable LEI (vLEI).

Leading the 'RUN' dimension of GLEIF’s mission, Michaela will focus on the continued

delivery of safe, reliable, and resilient operations for the Global LEI System. She will be

responsible for overseeing and evolving GLEIF’s well-established operational, financial

and administrative functions, including financial planning and sustainability,

organizational effectiveness, and day-to-day operations. This strategically

complements GLEIF’s 'GROW' agenda, led by its CEO Alexandre Kech, by further

strengthening the operational foundation to support increasing LEI and vLEI adoption,

the development of new use cases, and the growth of the broader ecosystem. As

Managing Director of GLEIF Germany, Michaela will be based at GLEIF's German Office

in Frankfurt am Main and report directly to the CEO.

A seasoned global executive, Michaela brings decades of leadership experience from

top financial and technology companies and a proven record of consistently delivering

transformative growth through operational and technology innovation. Michaela joins

GLEIF from the crypto infrastructure service provider Finoa, where she served as Chief

Operating Officer. Her previous roles at Deutsche Bank, N26, Holvi, and Revolut spanned

senior responsibilities across operations, finance, governance, and organizational

leadership, supporting organizations through phases of rapid growth, transformation,

and increasing regulatory scrutiny.

Alexandre Kech, GLEIF CEO, said: “As our ecosystem continues to grow to encompass

new geographies, sectors and participants, we recognize the need to strengthen our

own capabilities to help enable businesses everywhere to participate in the digital

economy. This is why I am delighted to welcome Michaela as our new Chief Operating

and Financial Officer. With an extensive background in banking and IT, Michaela brings

the perfect combination of operational excellence, industry expertise, and people-first

leadership mentality. This will be instrumental in advancing our work to accelerate the

adoption and integration of the LEI and vLEI all around the world.

Commenting on her appointment, Michaela Fleischer said: “I’m honored to join GLEIF at

such a pivotal time for the organization as it enters a new phase of growth and

innovation. The expanding LEI and vLEI ecosystem is shaping the future of trusted

organizational identity across industries worldwide, and I look forward to working closely

with the GLEIF team and stakeholders from across the entire Global LEI System to drive

this transformation together.”