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

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The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) today 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.”