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Latest Crypto Hire: Binance Recruits Former Regulators
ZenLedger has added four members to its leadership team An enterprise cloud platform hired its first-ever chief cryptocurrency officer Binance named Steven McWhirter as director of regulatory policy and Seth Levy as head of market surveillance, marking the latest former financial regulators to enter the crypto world. McWhirter spent almost a decade at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), where he most recently served as strategy and engagement manager in the regulator's data, technology and innovation department. Levy previously worked at Citadel and Citadel Securities for approximately five years as the financial services firm's global surveillance leader. He also spent 16 years at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),...
Latest Crypto Hire: Binance Recruits Former Regulators
- ZenLedger hat sein Führungsteam um vier Mitglieder erweitert
- Eine Unternehmens-Cloud-Plattform stellte ihren allerersten Chief Cryptocurrency Officer ein
BinanceappointedSteven McWhirteras Director of Regulatory Policy andSeth Levyas head of market surveillance, marking the latest former financial regulators to enter the crypto world.
McWhirter spent almost a decade in the United Kingdom Financial Supervisory Authority (FCA), where he most recently served as strategy and engagement manager in the regulator's data, technology and innovation department.
Levy previously worked at Citadel and Citadel Securities for approximately five years as the financial services firm's global surveillance leader. He also spent 16 years at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), most recently as Senior Director of Trading Analysis.
“Our goal is to ensure that Binance users are protected from any form of nefarious activity or bad actors,” Levy said. “We will work to proactively engage regulators and other market participants to strengthen market integrity, user protection, and increase public trust in the crypto market.”
octopusrentedMayur Guptaas chief marketing officer as the crypto exchange looks to further “aggressively” expand its 3,000-person workforce.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Gupta spent the last two-plus years at media company Gannett as the company's chief marketing and strategy officer. Previously, he held similar roles at Spotify and food delivery company Freshly.
As Global Vice President of Growth and Marketing at Spotify, he led the expansion of the audio streaming provider's free and premium products and was responsible for performance, retention and product marketing as well as data science and analytics.
Mayur's addition follows Kraken bringing on board Chief Financial Officer Carrie Dolan, Chief People Officer Pranesh Anthapur and Mike Davidson, Kraken's new vice president of design.
ZenLedgerhas added four members to its C-suite. Founded in 2017, the company collects, analyzes and accounts for transaction information across thousands of exchanges, wallets and tokens.
Joining ZenLedger isDuyane Normanas Chief Strategy Officer,Daniel Escobaras Chief Technology Officer,Jonte Harrellas CFO etcGregory Adamsas Chief Operations Officer.
Norman retired from the CIA in 2019 after nearly three decades with the organization and then worked for the Defense Innovation Unit. Escobar spent the last four years as Head of Enterprise Onboarding and Engineering Services at Bitcoin payment service provider Bitpay.
Harrell is a former U.S. Army captain and combat veteran who more recently led financial planning and analysis for Amazon's delivery businesses. Adams, a former US Army Special Forces major, was co-founder and CEO of the startup Stabilitas. He also led OnSolve's innovation and mergers and acquisitions efforts as Chief Strategy Officer until December 2021.
Cloud platformPhunwarehas employedMatt Lullas the first-ever Chief Cryptocurrency Officer.
Previously, Lull spent 18 years at Citrix Systems, including managing director of technology strategy for cloud innovation partners.
“The decentralized web is currently positioned as the next great wave of computing, and we here at Phunware plan to be at the tip of the proverbial spear in helping sovereign people worldwide realize its core utility, advantages and freedom at scale,” Lull said in a statement.
Blockchain fintech companyXREXrentedMichael Schingas head of risk management.
Shing will be tasked with building thought leadership through regulatory research and outreach to help XREX better advance blockchain adoption and integrate with traditional banking systems.
He previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the New York Fed, first as an analyst and then as a senior risk specialist.
CISOs Connecta community of cybersecurity leaders, has appointed the former regulator of the Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkDavid Cassas its president.
Cass also recently joined crypto market maker GSR as global chief information security officer.
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