Sonali Theisen

Sonali Das Theisen is Global Head of Digital Assets Platform, FICC Electronic Trading and Markets Strategic Investments at Bank of America. In her enterprise digital assets role, Ms. Theisen leads the strategy, design, build, and governance of the firm’s digital assets platform. She is responsible for establishing and scaling capabilities that will enable the bank to integrate digital and traditional finance to meet client needs. In this capacity, Ms. Theisen chairs the firm’s DLT Forum.

As Global Head of FICC E-Trading, Ms. Theisen leads electronic trading initiatives and the broader platform strategy. Working with the bank’s leadership and largest clients, she drives new business opportunities and the continued evolution of Global Markets. Her teams’ responsibilities span product development, algo and portfolio trading/FI ETF systematic research, client connectivity and market structure. Ms. Theisen also oversees the Markets Strategic Investments portfolio, directing capital towards partnerships that support the firm’s key priorities across trading venues, data and analytics, and emergent technologies and asset classes.

Ms. Theisen is passionate about collaborating with the industry. She testified on innovation and market harmonization at the joint SEC-CFTC Roundtable in 2025. She was previously appointed by the SEC to serve on the Fixed Income Market Structure Committee (FIMSAC) from 2018-2021, as the only global bank representative. In 2019, she became the firm’s representative on the Federal Reserve Board’s Alternative Reference Rate Committee (ARRC). In Europe, Ms. Theisen served as the Chair of the Secondary Markets Practices Committee of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) from 2016 to 2019. She is a frequent commentator in the media across Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ, FT, Barron’s, Markets Media and Risk. Recognition of her work has included Crain’s Notable Women on Wall Street, Markets Media’s Excellence in Trading, and Women in Financial Markets’ Game Changer awards.

Prior to joining Bank of America in 2018, Ms. Theisen was Global Head of Market Structure and Data Strategy for Credit and Securitized Products at Citi. She has also held credit market positions at Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Bear Stearns.

Ms. Theisen graduated cum laude from Harvard with an A.B. in Economics and Citation in Spanish, where she played Division I Water Polo. She was valedictorian of Ramsey High School and a National Guild of Piano graduate. Since 2014, Ms. Theisen has served on the board of the Lulu & Leo Fund, a nonprofit that helps children develop creative confidence.