Executive Appointments


Finance

FCA-Regulated Crypto Trading Firm Portofino Technologies Sees Staff Exodus

Co-founder Alex Casimo and CFO Jae Park were fired in July, which triggered a number of departures from the market making firm.

Jobs

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Copper’s CEO Dmitry Tokarev Plans to Step Down

Tokarev helped found the digital-assets custody firm in 2018.

Copper CEO Dmitry Tokarev (Copper)

Finance

BitMEX CEO Alexander Hoeptner Departs From the Crypto Futures Exchange

CFO Stephan Lutz will take over in the interim.

BitMEX CEO Alexander Hoeptner speaks at Token2049 in Singapore last month. (Token2049)

Finance

Former Valour CEO Diana Biggs Joins Crypto Investment Firm 1kx as Partner

Biggs joined the firm, which is backed by billionaire Alan Howard, after a two-year stint as CEO of Valour a Swiss digital-asset investment firm.

Former Valour CEO Diana Biggs (dianabiggs.com)

Finance

Former JPMorgan Banker Joins Pantera Capital as COO

Samir Shah had worked at the Wall Street firm for 12 years, spanning roles in sales, strategy and digital.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Polkadot Builder Parity Technologies Adds 3 Executives

The new executives are Chief Operating Officer Eran Barak, Chief Marketing Officer Peter Ruchatz and Chief Financial Officer Fahmi Syed.

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Finance

Latin American Crypto Exchange Bitso Hires New Brazil Chief

The executive once had leadership roles at Citibank and HSBC.

Thales Araújo de Freitas, the new country manager of Bitso's Brazil operation. (Bitso)

Finance

Unstoppable Domains Hires Execs From Twitch and IBM

Former Twitch VP Sajjad Rehman will lead Europe efforts while former IBM executive Nilkanth Iyer will head up Asia.

Members of the Unstoppable Domains team. (Unstoppable Domains)

Finance

Eqonex Names Former Head of Binance UK Jonathan Farnell CEO

The move is part of an agreement that the lender signed with Bifinity, a new Binance entity.

Exec hire

Finance

Sheila Warren Leaves World Economic Forum to Lead Crypto Lobbying Group

The Crypto Council for Innovation's founding members include Coinbase, Fidelity and Paradigm.

Sheila Warren (Crypto Council for Innovation)

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