Katherine Minarik is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Coinbase. Previously, Katherine was General Counsel for Dyson Americas; Chief Administrative Officer and Global General Counsel of cleverbridge; and a partner at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott.
Katherine has been named a Best Lawyers' Women of Influence and one of Crain's Most Influential Women Lawyers in Chicago, one of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois's Top Women Lawyers in Leadership, and one of the Law Bulletin’s “40 Under 40” Illinois attorneys. Katherine is also a Fellow of the American Bar Association.
Katherine is the current Board Chair of ChIPs, an international organization of more than 4000 women tech lawyers, and past President of the Coalition for Women’s Initiatives in Law. She is also a former McKinsey consultant and after law school clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.