Alba Veisllari
Alba Veisllari is co-founder and chief executive of crypdefi, and is based in Brussels. Since February 2026 she has also been chief executive of Fortkey.
Between January and May 2025 she was a business operations manager at Chainlink Labs. Before that she spent close to seven years at Deloitte, joining as a business analyst in May 2018 and moving on through technology consultant and senior consultant roles to manager, a position she held from June 2022 until January 2025. Earlier she was a trainee at the Elium Academy of Software & Entrepreneurship in 2017, worked as an independent sales representative from 2015 to 2016, interned at the Economic Chamber of Athens in 2013 and wrote freelance for Trip and Travel from 2012 to 2013.
She holds a bachelor's degree in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus and an MSc in International Business from KU Leuven, and spent an Erasmus year at the Università di Siena.
Career
Roles
- FortkeyCEOFeb 2026 – Present
- Chainlink LabsManager - Business OperationsJan 2025 – May 2025
- Deloitte#3factoryManagerJun 2022 – Jan 2025
- Deloitte#3factorySenior ConsultantJun 2021 – Jun 2022
- Deloitte#3factoryTechnology ConsultantSep 2019 – Jun 2021
- Deloitte#3factoryBusiness AnalystMay 2018 – Sep 2019
- Elium Academy of Software & EntrepreneurshipTraineeJul 2017 – Aug 2017
- Individual EntrepreneurSales RepresentativeSep 2015 – May 2016
- Economic Chamber of AthensInternshipOct 2013 – Dec 2013
- Trip and TravelFreelance WriterOct 2012 – Nov 2013
Education
- Think Young Entrepreneurship SchoolEntrepreneurship, Circular Economy2017 - 2017
KU Leuven#1schoolMaster of Science (MSc), International BusinessSep 2016 - Sep 2018
- Università di Siena#259schoolErasmus LLP, Political Economy and Diplomacy2012 - 2013
- Università per Stranieri di SienaItalian Language C1 Certificate, Italian Language2012 - 2012
- University of PiraeusBachelor's degree, International and European Studies2010 - 2016
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