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- CFO MATT MORRIS COINSHARES OCT 01
- CBO THOMAS CHEN BNB CHAIN SEP 28
- CCO JAY ELMS CORE SCIENTIFSEP 25
- CSO RACHEL CONLAN SOLANA FOUNDASEP 24
- CCO ALEX ROZMAN BITGO SEP 17
- CFO WARREN JENSON POLYMARKET SEP 10
- CIO ODED BLATMAN LEDGER SEP 09
- CFO LYDIA CHIU AVA LABS AUG 18
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CoinShares Appoints Matt Morris Chief Financial Officer
CoinShares named Matt Morris chief financial officer effective immediately on Oct. 1, 2026, succeeding Richard Nash, who had held the post since 2019.
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BNB Chain Names Thomas Chen Chief Business Officer
BNB Chain announced on September 28, 2026, that it had appointed Thomas Chen, the former CEO of the Bitcoin yield protocol Function, as its first chief business officer.
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Core Scientific Names Jay Elms Chief Commercial Officer
Core Scientific hired Jay Elms away from CyrusOne as chief commercial officer on September 25, 2026, to run customer relationships as the bitcoin miner builds out AI data centers.
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Solana Foundation Names Rachel Conlan Strategy Chief
Solana Foundation hired former Binance marketing chief Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer on September 24, 2026, as the network pushes to bring institutional payments and tokenized assets onchain.
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BitGo Names Alex Rozman Chief Compliance Officer
BitGo named Exodus compliance veteran Alex Rozman its chief compliance officer on September 17, 2026, handing him oversight of a company that reported $65.2 billion in client assets that June.
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Polymarket Names Warren Jenson Its First CFO
Polymarket hired Warren Jenson, a former chief financial officer of Amazon, Electronic Arts, Delta Air Lines and NBC, as its first chief financial officer on Sept. 10, 2026, reporting to founder Shayne Coplan.
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Ledger Names Oded Blatman Chief Information and Security Officer
Ledger merged its technology and security leadership into one role on September 9, 2026, naming former Fireblocks security chief Oded Blatman to run both as the industry lost $1.4 billion to hacks and exploits over the prior year.
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John Wu Hands the Ava Labs Presidency to Charley Cooper
Ava Labs' John Wu appointed Charley Cooper president on Aug. 18, 2026, moved himself to senior advisor, and named interim CFO Lydia Chiu to the role on a permanent basis.
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Ava Labs Names Lydia Chiu Permanent Chief Financial Officer
Ava Labs promoted Lydia Chiu from interim to permanent chief financial officer on August 18, 2026, as John Wu moved to senior advisor and handed the presidency to Charley Cooper.
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Compound Foundation Names a COO, CPO and CTO
Compound Foundation named a COO, a CPO and a CTO on Aug. 17, 2026.
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Fireblocks Names Elad Roisman Chief Regulatory Officer
Fireblocks appointed former SEC acting chairman Elad Roisman chief regulatory and policy officer on August 17, 2026, to lead the digital asset infrastructure firm's engagement with regulators as stablecoin rules take shape.
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Matt White Named Bakkt Chief Financial Officer
Bakkt named former CoreCard finance chief Matt White its CFO on August 17, 2026, succeeding Karen Alexander as the company pivots toward stablecoin infrastructure.
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Adam Schlisman and Allison Parent Join Ondo Finance's Executive Ranks
Ondo Finance hired Adam Schlisman as chief financial officer on August 5, 2026, and Allison Parent as chief policy officer on August 28, 2026, three months after founder Nathan Allman's death opened a Delaware court fight over who runs the company.
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Bybit Names Peter Loo Chief Legal and Compliance Officer
Bybit appointed Peter Loo, formerly a regulator at Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, as chief legal and compliance officer on August 3, 2026.
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MEXC Names Robert MacDonald Chief Compliance Officer
MEXC hired Robert MacDonald as chief compliance officer on July 22, 2026, pulling him from the top legal and compliance post at rival exchange Bybit as MEXC pushes into equities-linked products.
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Grayscale Names Sebastian Pulido Onchain Asset Management Head
Sebastian Pulido left Aave Labs to become Grayscale's first Head of Onchain Asset Management on July 21, 2026, arriving at a firm whose Bitcoin ETP led every US issuer in year-to-date inflows.
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Coinbase Names Molly Abraham General Counsel
Coinbase said on July 9, 2026 that it expects to appoint Molly Abraham, its vice president of legal since March 2021, as general counsel and secretary once Paul Grewal's resignation takes effect.
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Keel Infrastructure Names Ganesh Aiyer President
Keel Infrastructure, the company built from Bitfarms' Bitcoin mining sites, named former Digital Realty Trust executive Ganesh Aiyer president on July 6, 2026, to run its commercial pipeline.
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Bitpanda Promotes Barbara Edelmann to Chief Financial Officer
Bitpanda promoted Barbara Edelmann from within to Chief Financial Officer effective June 12, 2026, succeeding Jonas Larsen, who left the exchange by mutual agreement.
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Bitdeer Names Michael Potter Chief Financial Officer
Bitdeer's board approved Michael Potter as chief financial officer effective May 26, 2026, succeeding Jianchun Liu, ten weeks before the Singapore-based Bitcoin miner announced a $4.7 billion AI colocation lease.
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OnRe Names Ben Fortune Chief Underwriting Officer
OnRe named Ben Fortune chief underwriting officer on May 12, 2026, pulling him from The Fidelis Partnership to run underwriting at a reinsurer managing $170 million onchain.
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Securitize Names Brett Redfearn President
Securitize named former SEC trading-and-markets director Brett Redfearn president and a board member on April 9, 2026, as the tokenization platform prepares for a public listing through Cantor Equity Partners II.
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Ledger Names John Andrews Chief Financial Officer
Ledger hired former Circle executive John Andrews as chief financial officer on March 20, 2026, alongside a new New York office, as the hardware wallet maker eyes a public listing.
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Tether Names Zachary Lyons Chief Investment Officer
Tether promoted deputy chief investment officer Zachary Lyons to the top investment role on March 12, 2026, as Richard Heathcote moved into an advisory position.
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Bruno Martins Replaces Nik Bougalis as Algorand's CTO Before Layoffs
The Algorand Foundation named Bruno Martins acting CTO on March 1, 2026, cut a quarter of its staff on March 18, and absorbed Algorand Technologies on March 19.
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Gemini Names Danijela Stojanovic Interim CFO
Gemini's board promoted Danijela Stojanovic from chief accounting officer to interim chief financial officer effective Feb. 17, 2026, the same day it removed Dan Chen from the job.
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Gemini Names Kate Freedman Interim General Counsel
Gemini's board promoted Kate Freedman from associate general counsel to interim general counsel effective Feb. 17, 2026, the same day it removed chief legal officer Tyler Meade.
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Justin Wales Replaces Nick Lundgren as Crypto.com's Chief Legal Officer
Crypto.com named Justin Wales chief legal officer on April 16, 2026, the day Nick Lundgren resigned and a court heard its Nevada appeal, 28 days after a 12 percent staff cut.
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Chainalysis Names Sebastien Giroux Chief Financial Officer
Chainalysis named Sebastien Giroux chief financial officer the week of February 3, 2026, bringing in an executive who had spent more than three years as CFO of Productboard.
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BitMine Names Young Kim CFO and COO
BitMine Immersion Technologies appointed Axiom Investors partner Young Kim as chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Jan. 9, 2026.
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Riot Platforms Names Jason Chung Chief Financial Officer
Riot Platforms promoted corporate development chief Jason Chung to chief financial officer effective March 1, 2026, succeeding Colin Yee as the miner pivots toward data centers.
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MEXC Names Vugar Usi Chief Operating Officer
MEXC named Vugar Usi chief operating officer on December 3, 2025, hiring a Bitget veteran to run its global expansion four months before promoting him to chief executive.
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Danika Delano Becomes Chief Operating Officer at the Zcash Foundation
The Zcash Foundation promoted Danika Delano from operations director to chief operating officer on November 11, 2025.
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Zcash Foundation Names Alex Bornstein Executive Director
The Zcash Foundation's board appointed Alex Bornstein executive director effective November 1, 2025, making permanent the role he had held on an interim basis since March.
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Alchemy Names AWS Veteran Bill Platt Chief Operating Officer
Alchemy announced on October 28, 2025, that it had hired Bill Platt, a former Amazon Web Services executive, as chief operating officer to scale its blockchain infrastructure for institutional demand.
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Bitfarms Names Jonathan Mir Chief Financial Officer
Bitfarms named Jonathan Mir chief financial officer on October 14, 2025, succeeding Jeff Lucas as the Nasdaq-listed miner builds data centers for high-performance computing in Pennsylvania, Quebec and Central Washington.
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Cipher Mining Names Gregory Mumford Chief Financial Officer
Cipher Mining Inc. named Gregory Mumford, a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods digital assets banker, as its second chief financial officer in a release dated October 6, 2025.
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Strive Names Ben Werkman Chief Investment Officer
Ben Werkman left Swan Bitcoin to become Strive's chief investment officer on October 6, 2025, three weeks after Strive's board had listed him as a director tied to Swan.
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Bitpanda Names Markus Dorner Chief Technology Officer
Bitpanda promoted Markus Dorner, a three-year employee who rose from director to VP of engineering, to chief technology officer effective October 1, 2025.
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TON Foundation Names Gerardo Carucci Chief Marketing Officer
TON Foundation hired former Apple and Nike marketing executive Gerardo Carucci as chief marketing officer on October 1, 2025, seven months before Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Telegram would take over the foundation's role.
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David Schwartz Hands the Ripple CTO Job to Dennis Jarosch
David Schwartz, Ripple's chief technology officer since 2018, told the XRP community on September 30, 2025 that he would step back at the end of the year, and Ripple's senior vice president of engineering, Dennis Jarosch, would take the title.
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Tether Names Benjamin Habbel Chief Business Officer
Tether appointed former Google and Limestone Capital executive Benjamin Habbel chief business officer on September 24, 2025, to lead growth, finance and investments.
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Argo Blockchain Promotes Charlotte Proctor-Worrall to CFO
Argo Blockchain promoted group financial controller Charlotte Proctor-Worrall to chief financial officer on September 22, 2025, in the same filing that said Nasdaq had granted the mining company a reprieve on its listing requirements.
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MEXC Names Cecilia Hsueh Chief Strategy Officer
MEXC announced Cecilia Hsueh as chief strategy officer on September 22, 2025, adding a former Phemex and Morph executive as the exchange pushes to become a broader Web3 platform.
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Anjali George Takes Paxos Labs From Bid to Funded Spin-Off
Paxos Labs' head of marketing arrived mid-bid in September 2025, after years as a TRON press contact, and the venture has since raised $12 million while bank groups contest its yield products.
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Strive Names Jeff Walton Chief Risk Officer
Strive named True North founder Jeff Walton its chief risk officer on September 16, 2025, the same day it acquired his Bitcoin media platform in a de minimis cash deal.
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Thesis* Names Victoria Chan Chief Operating Officer
Thesis* announced on September 16, 2025, that it had hired former Coinbase and Google executive Victoria Chan as chief operating officer to run day-to-day operations across its Bitcoin product lineup.
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Polygon Labs Names John Egan Chief Product Officer
Stripe's head of crypto, John Egan, announced on Sept. 15, 2025, that he had joined Polygon Labs as its first chief product officer, starting the next day.
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Ondo Finance Names Peter Curley Regulatory Affairs Chief
Ondo Finance hired former SEC and Treasury official Peter Curley as its Head of Global Regulatory Affairs on September 10, 2025.
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IREN Names Anthony Lewis Chief Financial Officer
IREN promoted Anthony Lewis to chief financial officer on September 8, 2025, two months after he joined as chief capital officer, succeeding Belinda Nucifora after her 3.5 years in the role.
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Stable Names Matthew Tabbiner Chief Executive Officer
Stable announced on August 28, 2025, that Matthew Tabbiner had joined the USDT-focused layer 1 as chief executive officer, alongside three other new chief officers; by October 3, 2026, Stable's own team page named a different chief executive.
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Stable Names Sam Kazemian Chief Technology Officer
Frax Finance founder Sam Kazemian said on X on Aug. 28, 2025, that he had joined stablecoin network Stable as chief technology officer while staying on as Frax's chief executive.
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Amber International Names Vicky Wang President
Amber International's board named Vicky Wang president on August 21, 2025, the same day it handed Michael Wu the chief executive title and seated her on the board.
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Bitso Names Luis Urrutia General Counsel
Bitso announced on August 15, 2025, that it had hired Luis Urrutia, Mexico's former financial intelligence chief and a past president of the global anti-money-laundering body FATF, as general counsel.
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Nexo Names Lorenzo Pellegrino Chief Banking Officer
Nexo named Lorenzo Pellegrino chief banking officer on July 31, 2025, handing the former Skrill and NETELLER chief executive the task of connecting the lender's digital asset platform to the banking system.
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SY Lee Rebuilds Story Protocol's Leadership Around AI Data
Within 30 days in 2025, Story Protocol lost co-founder Jason Zhao and gave SY Lee, Andrea Muttoni and Sandeep Chinchali the top seats, a reset aimed at AI training data.
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Stellar Names Jason Karsh Chief Marketing Officer
The Stellar Development Foundation hired Jason Karsh, a former Block and Blockchain.com marketing executive, as chief marketing officer on July 16, 2025, its own blog and CoinDesk both reported that day.
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Stellar Names José Fernández da Ponte President
The Stellar Development Foundation named José Fernández da Ponte, PayPal's former blockchain lead, president and chief growth officer on July 16, 2025, CoinDesk and the foundation's own blog both reported that day.
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ASI Alliance Names David Taylor Chief Marketing Officer
The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance and SingularityNET named former Cardano Foundation marketing chief David Taylor to a newly created chief marketing officer role on July 15, 2025, as the Alliance marked its first anniversary.
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Aptos Labs Names Solomon Tesfaye Chief Business Officer
Solomon Tesfaye moved up from Aptos Labs' head of capital markets to chief business officer on July 10, 2025, as the network said its tokenized real-world assets had passed $540 million.
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Safe Foundation Names Rahul Rumalla CEO of Safe Labs
Safe Ecosystem Foundation named Rahul Rumalla chief executive of its new subsidiary Safe Labs on June 5, 2025, and CoinDesk reported the entity would take over development work the wallet had outsourced for years.
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Riot Platforms Hires Jonathan Gibbs as Data Center Chief
Riot Platforms hired Jonathan Gibbs as its first Chief Data Center Officer on June 2, 2025, to lead a new data center platform beyond its Bitcoin mining business.
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Midnight Foundation Names Fahmi Syed President
The Midnight Foundation launched on May 13, 2025, naming Fahmi Syed president of the organization that guides the Midnight blockchain's path to decentralization.
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Torab Torabi Takes Movement After a $38 Million Token Dump
Torab Torabi became chief executive of Move Industries on May 7, 2025, a week after CoinDesk's token-dump report, and the dispute over who answers for the launch has since reached Delaware's courts.
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DeFi Development Corp Names John Han Chief Financial Officer
GlobeNewswire reported on April 23, 2025, that DeFi Development Corporation appointed Fei 'John' Han chief financial officer, a role he took after serving as CFO at Provable and holding senior finance posts at Binance.
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Grayscale Names Diana Zhang Chief Operating Officer
Grayscale Investments hired Diana Zhang as chief operating officer on April 9, 2025, succeeding Hugh Ross and reporting to Chief Executive Officer Peter Mintzberg starting May 6.
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DeFi Development Corp Names Parker White CIO and COO
GlobeNewswire reported on April 7, 2025, that Parker White, a former Kraken engineering director, became chief investment officer and chief operating officer as part of the Janover takeover.
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Jito Foundation Names Thomas Uhm Chief Commercial Officer
Jito Foundation hired Jane Street veteran Thomas Uhm as chief commercial officer on April 7, 2025, to pull institutional money toward the Solana staking protocol.
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Sei Development Foundation Names Justin Barlow Director
The Sei Development Foundation launched in Manhattan on April 2, 2025, with Justin Barlow as its executive director, built to grow the Sei blockchain's presence inside the United States.
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OKX Names Linda Lacewell Chief Legal Officer
OKX appointed board member Linda Lacewell chief legal officer on April 1, 2025, bringing in the former head of the New York Department of Financial Services to lead its expansion into Europe and the UAE.
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Gemini Names Dan Chen Chief Financial Officer
Dan Chen announced on X on March 17, 2025, that he had joined Gemini as chief financial officer, a hire CoinDesk reported the same day as the exchange prepared for a potential IPO.
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Animoca Brands Names Jamii Quoc General Counsel
Animoca Brands promoted Jamii Quoc to general counsel and its Executive Committee on March 6, 2025; she had joined the company's legal team in 2022.
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Securitize Names Georgia Quinn Chief Legal Officer
Securitize announced on March 4, 2025, that Georgia Quinn would join the tokenization platform as chief legal officer after four years as general counsel at Anchorage Digital.
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Core Scientific Names Jim Nygaard Chief Financial Officer
Core Scientific named Jim Nygaard chief financial officer on March 3, 2025, succeeding Denise Sterling, who had guided the Bitcoin miner through its 2022 Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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0G Labs Names Conflux Co-Founder Ming Wu CTO
0G Labs named Conflux Network co-founder Dr. Ming Wu its chief technology officer on February 13, 2025, putting a veteran of the blockchain trilemma debate in charge of its decentralized AI stack.
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Mantle Network Names Brian Trunzo Chief Growth Officer
Brian Trunzo left his post as Polygon Labs' global head of business development to become Mantle Network's chief growth officer on February 11, 2025, one of five executive hires the network announced the same day.
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Walrus Foundation Names Rebecca Simmonds Managing Executive
Walrus Foundation appointed former Vega Protocol executive Rebecca Simmonds as Managing Executive on February 5, 2025, four months after the decentralized storage network's October 2024 testnet launch.
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Bitpanda Names Mer Sánchez de Rojas Chief Operating Officer
Bitpanda promoted Mer Sánchez de Rojas, its vice president of group operations, to chief operating officer on February 4, 2025, five years after she joined the exchange.
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Kraken Names Ben Gray Chief Legal Officer
Kraken named former Paxos general counsel Ben Gray as chief legal officer on Feb. 4, 2025, three weeks after Marco Santori stepped down, with Gray reporting to co-chief executives Arjun Sethi and David Ripley.
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Mysten Labs Promotes Kevin Boon to President
Mysten Labs promoted its chief legal officer Kevin Boon to president on January 9, 2025, as the Sui blockchain developer prepared to launch Walrus Protocol's mainnet and named a new general counsel weeks later.
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Offchain Labs Names Ira Auerbach Head of Tandem
Offchain Labs appointed Ira Auerbach, Nasdaq's former head of digital assets, to lead Tandem, its partner studio and venture capital arm, on January 9, 2025.
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Interchain Foundation Names Barry Plunkett to Lead Interchain Inc.
Interchain Foundation named Skip co-founder Barry Plunkett co-lead of its new subsidiary, Interchain Inc., on December 10, 2024, the same day it acquired Skip and Ethan Buchman left the foundation's council.
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Interchain Foundation Names Maghnus Mareneck to Lead Interchain Inc.
Interchain Foundation named Skip co-founder Maghnus Mareneck co-lead of its new subsidiary, Interchain Inc., on December 10, 2024, the same day it acquired Skip and Ethan Buchman stepped down from its council.
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Figure Appoints Macrina Kgil Chief Financial Officer
Figure Technology Solutions named Macrina Kgil to its newly created chief financial officer role on December 4, 2024, hiring a former Blockchain.com and OneMain Holdings finance chief as quarterly originations crossed $1.5 billion.
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21Shares Names Duncan Moir President
21.co's December 3, 2024 announcement named Duncan Moir, formerly of abrdn, president of 21Shares as 21.co split into two separate businesses.
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21Shares Names Edel Bashir Chief Operating Officer
21.co's December 3, 2024 announcement named Edel Bashir, previously of abrdn, chief operating officer of 21Shares as 21.co split into two separate businesses.
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OSL Group Names Ivan Wong Chief Financial Officer
OSL Group announced on November 21, 2024, that Ivan Wong, who had joined the Hong Kong digital asset firm as chief investment officer two months earlier, would become chief financial officer.
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1inch Names Hedi Navazan Chief Compliance Officer
1inch Group announced on November 6, 2024, that it had hired Hedi Navazan, a former HSBC financial crime executive, as chief compliance officer to oversee its legal and security teams.
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Bitget Names Min Lin Chief Business Officer
Bitget appointed former Binance Latin America vice president Min Lin as chief business officer on October 28, 2024, the same day it said it served over 45 million users.
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Blockstream Names Michael Minkevich Chief Operating Officer
Blockstream appointed Michael Minkevich chief operating officer on October 15, 2024, the same day it announced a $210 million convertible note round led by Fulgur Ventures.
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OKX Names Yuri Mushkin Global Chief Risk Officer
OKX appointed Yuri Mushkin its Global Chief Risk Officer on October 14, 2024, pulling a 20-year capital markets veteran from McKinsey Investment Office Partners into a seat reporting to the CEO and board.
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Thesis Names Katherine Snow General Counsel
Thesis, the Bitcoin-focused venture studio behind Threshold Network and Fold, named Katherine Snow general counsel on October 3, 2024, hiring her away from crypto data platform Messari.
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Quant Network Names Lenna Russ Chief Commercial Officer
Quant Network named Lenna Russ to the newly created role of chief commercial officer on September 10, 2024, pulling her from three years as chief revenue officer at the trade-finance marketplace Tradeteq.
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Figure Appoints Ronald Chillemi Chief Legal Officer
Figure Technology Solutions named Ronald Chillemi its first chief legal officer and corporate secretary on September 4, 2024, hiring a former federal prosecutor who had most recently served as general counsel at the lender Aven.
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Bitfarms Names Liam Wilson Chief Operating Officer
Bitfarms hired Liam Wilson as chief operating officer on August 13, 2024, effective August 26, after six months of consulting for the Bitcoin miner.
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Robinhood Welcomes Jeff Pinner as Chief Technology Officer
Robinhood hired Jeff Pinner, formerly Lyft's chief technology officer and a distinguished engineer at Cruise, as its own chief technology officer on Aug. 12, 2024.
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June Ou Named Interim Executive Director at Provenance
Provenance Blockchain Foundation named June Ou interim executive director on August 2, 2024, as it carved out Provenance Blockchain Labs and moved Anthony Moro into the new unit's CEO seat.
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aelf Names Brian Liang Its First Chief Operating Officer
aelf named Brian Liang its first chief operating officer on July 24, 2024, a Web3 finance executive who also sits on the board of Singapore exchange Coinhako.
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Ben Grossman Sells Tokenized Stocks From His Own Feed
Ondo Finance's VP of Marketing posted his way to a billion-dollar tokenized-stock book while Hester Peirce and Benjamin Schiffrin pressed the case that the old rules still apply.
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SoFi Names Stephen Simcock General Counsel
SoFi named JPMorgan Chase veteran Stephen Simcock general counsel on June 3, 2024, succeeding retiring chief legal officer Rob Lavet.
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Bullish Names David Bonanno Chief Financial Officer
Bullish moved its chief strategy officer David Bonanno into the chief financial officer role on May 28, 2024, succeeding Steve Ellis, the exchange's press release said.
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Venice AI Names Teana Baker-Taylor Chief Operating Officer
Teana Baker-Taylor, formerly Circle's vice president of policy and regulatory strategy, joined Erik Voorhees's Venice as chief operating officer in a venture DL News reported on May 10, 2024.
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Cardano Foundation Names Giorgio Zinetti Chief Technology Officer
The Cardano Foundation named Giorgio Zinetti its first chief technology officer on May 8, 2024, putting the Procivis AG co-founder in charge of the Foundation's product pipeline.
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DCG Names Aimie Killeen Chief Legal Officer
Digital Currency Group announced on April 25, 2024, that Aimie Killeen would join as chief legal officer on May 1, bringing two decades of fintech legal experience to the firm.
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Anchorage Digital Names Aaron Schnarch Chief Operating Officer
Anchorage Digital named former Coinbase Custody chief executive Aaron Schnarch its first company-wide chief operating officer on April 22, 2024, after the company topped $50 billion in assets under custody.
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Backpack Exchange Names Oliver Sleafer Chief Financial Officer
Backpack Exchange announced on March 21, 2024, that it had promoted Oliver Sleafer, its head of treasury and a former Stripe and Credit Suisse liquidity executive, to chief financial officer.
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Anchorage Digital Names SEC Veteran TuongVy Le General Counsel
Anchorage Digital hired former SEC senior counsel TuongVy Le as general counsel on March 13, 2024, replacing Georgia Quinn, who had held the role for three and a half years.
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Fireblocks Names Madan Gadde Chief Customer Officer
Fireblocks named Madan Gadde chief customer officer on March 7, 2024, hiring him from FIS as CoinDesk independently reported the same day.
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Fireblocks Names Michael Levine Chief Financial Officer
Fireblocks named Michael Levine chief financial officer on March 7, 2024, hiring him from Payoneer's finance team as CoinDesk reported the same day.
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Fireblocks Names Michal Ferguson Chief Marketing Officer
Fireblocks named Michal Ferguson chief marketing officer on March 7, 2024, hiring her from the cybersecurity platform Snyk as CoinDesk reported the same day.
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Reserve Names Thomas Mattimore CEO of ABC Labs
Reserve co-founder Nevin Freeman named Thomas Mattimore chief executive of ABC Labs on Jan. 25, 2024, splitting protocol development from the new fund Confusion Capital inside the Reserve ecosystem.
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Illia Polosukhin Replaces Chris Donovan as NEAR Foundation CEO
NEAR's co-founder became Foundation CEO on Nov. 7, 2023 and Chris Donovan moved to COO.
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The Sandbox Names Nicola Sebastiani Chief Content Officer
The Sandbox announced on October 17, 2023, that it had hired former PlayStation and Apple executive Nicola Sebastiani as chief content officer to lead its creator economy push.
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Galaxy Digital Names Leon Marshall CEO of Europe
Galaxy Digital created a new Chief Executive Officer of Europe role on September 21, 2023, and gave it to Leon Marshall, its global head of sales, as the firm pushed to scale operations in the U.K. and continental Europe.
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Stripe Names Steffan Tomlinson Chief Financial Officer
Stripe hired Steffan Tomlinson away from Confluent as chief financial officer on Aug. 2, 2023, pulling in a finance chief who had already taken three companies through an IPO process.
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DCG Names Mark Shifke Chief Financial Officer
Digital Currency Group hired Mark Shifke as chief financial officer on July 31, 2023, filling the role Michael Kraines left open in April and later naming him Grayscale's board chairman too.
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Binance Names Eleanor Hughes General Counsel
Binance appointed Eleanor Hughes general counsel on July 13, 2023, putting her in charge of an 85-lawyer legal team as the exchange faced what Bloomberg Law called a web of regulatory probes.
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Circle Names Heath Tarbert Chief Legal Officer
Circle Internet Financial named former CFTC chairman Heath Tarbert as chief legal officer and head of corporate affairs on June 8, 2023, succeeding general counsel Flavia Naves.
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Gate Names Kevin Lee Chief Executive Officer of Gate.HK
Gate Group named Kevin Lee, a former BNP Paribas director, chief executive officer of its Hong Kong exchange Gate.HK on May 30, 2023, after eFinancialCareers reported the hire eight days earlier.
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Argo Blockchain Appoints Jim MacCallum Chief Financial Officer
Argo Blockchain named Jim MacCallum chief financial officer on April 4, 2023, with a start date of April 5, as the miner reported a 10 percent drop in Bitcoin mined during March.
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Cipher Mining Promotes William Iwaschuk to Co-President
Cipher Mining Inc. promoted chief legal officer William Iwaschuk to co-president alongside Patrick Kelly on March 20, 2023, while keeping both men in their existing executive roles.
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Immutable Names David Bicknell Chief Financial Officer
Immutable announced on March 8, 2023, that David Bicknell, a former Meta and Twitter finance leader, was its chief financial officer, alongside a new chief marketing officer from Ava Labs.
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Immutable Names Devon Ferreira Chief Marketing Officer
Immutable announced on March 8, 2023, that it had hired Avalanche's former marketing chief Devon Ferreira as chief marketing officer, alongside a new chief financial officer and a promoted chief commercial officer.
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Algorand Names Matthew Commons Chief Financial Officer
Algorand named Matthew Commons its first chief financial officer on March 1, 2023, effective Feb. 22, giving the Harvard Business School graduate and Cambridge Blockchain co-founder control of day-to-day finances and capital management.
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Signature Bank Names Eric Howell President
Signature Bank named Chief Operating Officer Eric R. Howell its president on Feb. 16, 2023, succeeding co-founder Joseph DePaolo, who planned to move into a senior advisor role during 2023.
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Polygon Labs Names Rebecca Rettig Chief Policy Officer
Rebecca Rettig left Silvergate Bank's board on Feb. 9, 2023, to become Polygon Labs' first chief policy officer, the same day the bank told regulators her exit was an amicable one.
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FalconX Hires Baris Cetinok as Chief Product Officer
FalconX named Baris Cetinok chief product officer on Feb. 7, 2023, pulling a 25-year product veteran from Robinhood's brokerage platform into the institutional crypto broker.
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Circle Names Brian Christman Chief People Officer
Circle Internet Financial hired Brian Christman as its first Chief People Officer on Jan. 24, 2023, pulling him from supply chain technology company Transfix.
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Sushi DAO Elects Jared Grey as Head Chef
Sushi's governance token holders elected Jared Grey as Head Chef on Oct. 3, 2022, with 83 percent of 13 million votes cast, filling a role that had sat open for a year after 0xMaki's departure.
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Algorand Names Michele Quintaglie Chief Marketing Officer
Algorand named Michele Quintaglie chief marketing officer on Sept. 21, 2022, effective Sept. 19, hiring a former Visa and Fidelity Asset Management communications chief to lead its brand.
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Paxos Names Carolina Ceballos Its First Chief Compliance Officer
Paxos announced on September 8, 2022, that it hired Carolina Ceballos, a 15-year compliance veteran from Facebook Payments, as the company's first dedicated chief compliance officer.
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Copper Names Tim Neill Chief Risk Officer
Crypto custodian Copper hired Mastercard risk executive Tim Neill as chief risk officer on September 5, 2022, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Sabrina Wilson.
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Genesis Names Matthew Johnson Chief Technology Officer
Genesis named former Bakkt chief technology officer Matthew Johnson to the same role on August 17, 2022, alongside a new chief risk officer and chief compliance officer, the day CEO Michael Moro stepped down.
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Dapper Labs Names Former Meta Executive Nick Grudin Business Chief
Nick Grudin left Meta's content partnerships team to become Dapper Labs' chief business officer on August 11, 2022, then returned to his old Meta job seven months later.
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Binance Names Co-Founder Yi He Head of Binance Labs
Binance put co-founder Yi He in charge of its $7.5 billion venture arm Binance Labs on August 3, 2022, a role chief executive Changpeng Zhao said matched her founding-team history with the unit.
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BitGo Promotes Chen Fang to Chief Operating Officer
BitGo elevated Chen Fang from chief product officer to chief operating officer on August 2, 2022, the same day it named Victor Tsou, a 20-year engineering veteran from Affirm, vice president of engineering.
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Crypto Council for Innovation Names Linda Jeng General Counsel
The Crypto Council for Innovation named former Federal Reserve staffer Linda Jeng chief global regulatory officer and general counsel on July 26, 2022, as the advocacy group expanded its Washington policy team.
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Animoca Brands Names Alan Lau Chief Business Officer
Animoca Brands named Alan Lau, Tencent WeSure's former CEO, chief business officer on July 21, 2022, when it valued its portfolio at more than $1.5 billion across 340 investments.
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Amber Group Names Benjamin Bai Chief Legal Officer
Benjamin Bai left Ant Group's legal team to become Amber Group's chief legal officer on July 4, 2022, arriving as the digital asset platform secured a dozen regulatory licenses across five jurisdictions.
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Hut 8 Mining Names Aniss Amdiss Chief Legal Officer
Hut 8 Mining Corp. named Aniss Amdiss chief legal officer on June 21, 2022, effective July 11, 2022, reporting to chief executive officer Jaime Leverton.
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Compute North Names Satyen Yadav Chief Technology Officer
Compute North named Satyen Yadav chief technology officer on June 6, 2022, and the bitcoin mining host filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 108 days later, on September 22, 2022.
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Paradigm Names Katie Biber Chief Legal Officer
Paradigm announced on June 6, 2022, that Katie Biber would join the crypto venture firm as chief legal officer after roles at Brex and Anchorage Digital.
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Chainlink Labs Names Former Google TensorFlow Lead Chief Product Officer
Chainlink Labs hired Kemal El Moujahid, the former director of product management for Google's TensorFlow, as chief product officer on May 16, 2022.
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TeraWulf Names Patrick Fleury Chief Financial Officer
TeraWulf appointed Patrick Fleury chief financial officer on May 16, 2022, a hire CFO Dive detailed two years later as he steered the bitcoin miner out of a debt crunch and into AI-driven data centers.
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HashKey Group Names David Leahy Chief Operating Officer
HashKey Group named J.P. Morgan veteran David Leahy chief operating officer of its exchange business on May 13, 2022, alongside a new senior risk advisor, as the group pursued trading licenses in three jurisdictions.
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MicroStrategy Names Andrew Kang Chief Financial Officer
MicroStrategy named Andrew Kang its new chief financial officer on May 3, 2022, pulling him from the same post at Greensky, and shifted then-CFO Phong Le into the company presidency once Kang started that May 9.
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Kraken Names Mayur Gupta Chief Marketing Officer
Kraken hired Mayur Gupta, the former Gannett and Spotify marketing chief, as chief marketing officer on April 19, 2022, the exchange's second executive hire that spring.
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Chainlink Labs Hires Dahlia Malkhi as Research Chief
Chainlink Labs named former Diem Association chief technology officer Dahlia Malkhi its chief research officer on March 29, 2022, CEO Sergey Nazarov's company announced.
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Kraken Appoints Carrie Dolan Chief Financial Officer
Kraken named Carrie Dolan, a Lending Club and Charles Schwab veteran, chief financial officer on March 22, 2022, after she had settled SEC charges over fund returns Lending Club reported.
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Celsius Network Names Rod Bolger Chief Financial Officer
Rod Bolger left RBC, Canada's largest bank, to become Celsius Network's Chief Financial Officer on February 22, 2022, replacing a predecessor Finance Magnates said was arrested in November in an unrelated Israeli fraud case.
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Maple Finance Names Katherine Kirkpatrick General Counsel
Maple Finance named Katherine Kirkpatrick general counsel on February 7, 2022, putting a King & Spalding partner over the legal side of a lending platform chasing $5 billion in loans.
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Paxos Names Ben Gray Global General Counsel
Paxos announced on February 3, 2022, that it had appointed Ben Gray, formerly Block's deputy general counsel, as its global general counsel to scale the company's compliance and legal teams.
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Gemini Names Pravjit Tiwana Chief Technology Officer
Gemini's co-founders welcomed Pravjit Tiwana as chief technology officer on January 24, 2022, a hire Crowdfund Insider independently reported the next day, and Bloomberg reported his exit 22 months later.
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BitMEX Names Rupertus Rothenhaeuser Commercial Chief
BitMEX hired Rupertus Rothenhaeuser as chief commercial officer on Jan. 3, 2022, to run an expansion beyond derivatives into spot trading, brokerage and custody.
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Immutable Names Gill Findlay Chief Operating Officer
Immutable appointed Gill Findlay to the newly created role of chief operating officer on December 9, 2021, pulling her from venture firm AirTree as the NFT platform reached a $12 billion token valuation.
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Immutable Names Katherine Rau Chief People Officer
Immutable hired Katherine Rau from Culture Amp as its first chief people officer on December 9, 2021, the same day it named two other senior executives during its IMX token launch.
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Celsius Network Names Tushar Nadkarni Growth and Product Chief
Tushar Nadkarni, who had built growth teams at Facebook and Uber, became Celsius Network's Chief Growth & Product Officer on November 2, 2021, seven months before the lender froze customer withdrawals in June 2022.
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Alameda Research Names Caroline Ellison Co-Chief Executive
Alameda Research named Caroline Ellison and Sam Trabucco co-chief executive officers on Oct. 12, 2021, as founder Sam Bankman-Fried shifted his time to running FTX.
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Flexa Hires Michelle Gitlitz as General Counsel
Flexa named Michelle Gitlitz general counsel effective Oct. 1, 2021, bringing in a lawyer with more than 20 years of experience to lead its legal and regulatory work.
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Jump Trading Names Kanav Kariya President of Jump Crypto
Jump Trading Group named Kanav Kariya president of its newly launched Jump Crypto division in September 2021, The TRADE reported on Sept. 15, four years after he joined the firm as an intern.
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Injective Labs Names Brandon Ferrick First General Counsel
Injective Labs hired Sullivan & Cromwell associate Brandon Ferrick as its first general counsel, Bloomberg Law reported Sept. 3, 2021, giving the decentralized trading protocol its first in-house lawyer.
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Bitso Names Vaughan Smith Its First Chief Operating Officer
Bitso hired former Facebook executive Vaughan Smith as its first chief operating officer, CoinDesk reported on August 30, 2021, to help drive its expansion into Brazil after a $250 million funding round.
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Canaan Names James Jin Cheng Chief Financial Officer
Canaan appointed James Jin Cheng chief financial officer effective immediately on Aug. 2, 2021, filling a seat its previous finance chief had vacated in February.
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Gala Games Names John Osvald President of Games
Gala Games hired former Electronic Arts product head John Osvald as president of games on June 10, 2021, as the blockchain gaming platform worked to onboard 15 titles.
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Ava Labs Names Lee Schneider Its First General Counsel
Ava Labs hired Lee Schneider, the former general counsel of Block.one, as its first general counsel on May 27, 2021, to run legal matters and government affairs for the Avalanche blockchain.
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FTX.US Names Brett Harrison Its First President
West Realm Shires Services said on May 13, 2021, that it had appointed Brett Harrison, a former Jane Street and Citadel Securities technologist, as the first president of FTX.US.
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Rosie Rios Joins Ripple's Board as Kristina Campbell Becomes CFO
Ripple named Rosie Rios to its board and Kristina Campbell as chief financial officer on May 4, 2021, five months into a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over XRP.
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Cipher Mining Names William Iwaschuk Chief Legal Officer
Cipher Mining Technologies announced on March 18, 2021, that it had hired William Iwaschuk, who spent more than seven years at Tower Research Capital, as chief legal officer ahead of its Nasdaq listing.
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Bitwise Names Katherine Dowling General Counsel
Bitwise Asset Management's hire of former federal prosecutor Katherine Dowling as general counsel became public on March 3, 2021, as the crypto fund manager passed $1 billion in assets.
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Hut 8 Names Tanya Woods General Counsel
Hut 8 appointed Tanya Woods as general counsel and executive vice president of regulatory affairs on January 26, 2021, effective February 1, reporting to newly named chief executive Jaime Leverton.
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BitGo Names Jeff Horowitz Chief Compliance Officer
BitGo hired Jeff Horowitz, Coinbase's former chief compliance officer, on Jan. 13, 2021, weeks after BitGo paid $93,830 to settle 183 apparent sanctions violations with the U.S. Treasury.
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BitPay Names Jagruti Solanki Chief Financial Officer
BitPay announced on December 1, 2020, that it had hired Jagruti Solanki, a former Aprio assurance partner, as chief financial officer alongside a new product vice president.
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Bittrex Global Names Jeff Baron Chief Compliance Officer
Bittrex Global announced on November 12, 2020, that it had hired former Bermuda national security minister Jeff Baron as chief compliance officer for its Bermuda entity, starting the following month.
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Galaxy Digital Names Damien Vanderwilt Co-President
Galaxy Digital appointed 20-year Goldman Sachs veteran Damien Vanderwilt co-president and head of global markets on September 29, 2020, pairing him with existing co-president Christopher Ferraro.
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Stripe Names Dhivya Suryadevara Chief Financial Officer
Stripe named Dhivya Suryadevara, General Motors' former chief financial officer, as its own CFO on Aug. 11, 2020, after the payments company launched in 15 new countries over the prior year.
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Robinhood Names Dan Gallagher Chief Legal Officer
Robinhood hired board member and former SEC commissioner Dan Gallagher as chief legal officer on May 5, 2020, about seven months after he joined the board and four years after he left the agency he would now help Robinhood answer to.
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Input Output Global Names Romain Pellerin Chief Technology Officer
IOHK, the company behind Cardano, announced on April 7, 2020, that Romain Pellerin would become its chief technology officer alongside a new chief commercial officer.
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Figure Names Former Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji President
Figure Technologies named former Coinbase president and COO Asiff Hirji its new president on Jan. 29, 2020, to build a merchant bank on its blockchain platform.
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Bitpanda Names Oliver Stauber Chief Legal Officer
Oliver Stauber left a Vienna law firm specializing in Bitcoin and blockchain work to become Bitpanda's chief legal officer on January 14, 2020, when the Austrian exchange counted more than 1 million users.
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Ledger Names Charles Guillemet Chief Technology Officer
Ledger appointed Charles Guillemet chief technology officer on December 5, 2019, keeping the security researcher who founded its Donjon lab in charge of its hardware wallet technology.
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Gemini Names Noah Perlman Chief Compliance Officer
Tyler Winklevoss announced on September 4, 2019, that Noah Perlman had joined Gemini as chief compliance officer, a hire Compliance Week independently reported the next day.
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Gemini Names David Damato Chief Security Officer
Gemini hired David Damato, formerly chief security officer at Tanium, to lead its security program on August 19, 2019, during what the exchange called a period of rapid growth.
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Robinhood Elevates Gretchen Howard to Chief Operating Officer
Robinhood promoted Gretchen Howard, a five-month vice president of operations, to chief operating officer on June 24, 2019, 13 months after the company raised $363 million at a $5.6 billion valuation.
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Roman Schnider Replaces Eelco Fiole as Tezos Foundation CFO
The Tezos Foundation named its own outside auditor, Roman Schnider, as chief financial officer on June 11, 2019, five months after Eelco Fiole took the same job.
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Hedera Hashgraph Names Lionel Chocron Product Chief
Hedera Hashgraph named Lionel Chocron chief product officer on Feb. 6, 2019, hiring him from Oracle alongside two other senior product and partnership executives.
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BitGo Names Dick Corcoran CEO of Its Trust Company
BitGo brought banking veteran Dick Corcoran out of retirement on December 6, 2018, to run a new South Dakota trust company built to hold crypto for hedge funds and family offices.
Markets & VenuesCEO Changes
Huobi Group Names Livio Weng CEO of Huobi Global
Huobi Group announced on December 6, 2018, that Livio Weng, an executive with the company since August of that year, had become chief executive of Huobi Global, its flagship exchange.
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Ledger Names Demetrios Skalkotos Global Head of Ledger Vault
Ledger opened a New York office on Nov. 26, 2018 and put Demetrios Skalkotos in charge of Ledger Vault, the custody product the Paris company built for institutions holding multiple cryptocurrencies.
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Fidelity Names Tom Jessop Head of Fidelity Digital Assets
Fidelity Investments launched Fidelity Digital Assets on Oct. 15, 2018 and put Tom Jessop in charge, giving the $7.2 trillion asset manager its own custody and trade execution service for institutional bitcoin and ether holders.
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Block.one Names Rob Jesudason Group President and COO
Block.one announced on May 13, 2018, that Rob Jesudason, the outgoing chief financial officer of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, would become its group president and chief operating officer.
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Block.one Names Lee Schneider General Counsel
Block.one appointed FinTech lawyer Lee Schneider as its global general counsel on May 8, 2018, effective June 4, 2018, after he led the fintech and broker-dealer practices at McDermott Will & Emery.
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Ethereum Foundation Names Aya Miyaguchi Executive Director
Aya Miyaguchi left her post as Kraken Japan's managing director to become the Ethereum Foundation's executive director on February 1, 2018, succeeding Ming Chan.
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Chain Names Tom Jessop as President
Chain Inc. named Tom Jessop president on April 17, 2017, pulling a 17-year Goldman Sachs veteran into the enterprise blockchain company CEO Adam Ludwin had built since 2014.
