Latest in Crypto Hiring: Andrew Yang Advises Web3-Focused Firm

Latest in Crypto Hiring: Andrew Yang Advises Web3-Focused Firm

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andreas Yang joinedPool dataas a strategic advisor in the transformation of the data economy through Web3 technology.

Pool Data uses Web3 to build an infrastructure that allows people to monetize and control their online data. Yang said in a statement that the data economy is on the verge of a once-in-a-lifetime transformation.

“Individual consumers are being massively overtaxed and over-resourced by trillion-dollar technology companies,” Yang said. “It makes sense for consumers to come together, pool their data and form data unions that negotiate together and have a fair share of the data economy for everyone.”

Yang has brought the issues of data control and monetization onto the political agenda Data Dividend Project which aimed to establish data as property rights under privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act.

The politician and entrepreneur told Blockworks in an interview earlier this year that crypto and Web3 advocates need to become more politically engaged. He unveiled Lobby3 DAO in February – designed to fund political advocacy and educate lawmakers about the positive potential of Web3.

Bitcoin companiesNYDIGpromotedTejas Shahand Nate Conrad To become CEO or President of the company.

The move comes as the company said its Bitcoin balances hit an all-time high in the third quarter. Shah and Conrad will focus on increasing the pace of NYDIG's investments in its mining solutions and platform technology businesses.

The two are expected to replace CEO Robert Gutmann and President Yan Zhao, who will remain at NYDIG parent company Stone Ridge Holdings Group, which they co-founded with Ross Stevens in 2012.

Shah was most recently Global Head of Institutional Finance at NYDIG, while Conrad served as Global Head of Payments. Prior to joining NYDIG in 2020, Shah had a nearly 20-year career at Goldman Sachs. Conrad joined Stone Ridge in 2016 and NYDIG in 2020 after also beginning his career at Goldman Sachs.

Alexandre Kesch who is leaving his position as Director of Blockchain and Digital Assets at Citi Ventures, is set to joinSix Digital Exchange.

“This week is my last at Citi Ventures, more than a year after launching the Blockchain & Digital Asset Studio practice,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post. "This may seem like a short term, and it is. But sometimes an extraordinary opportunity arises."

Before joining the Citigroup subsidiary in September 2021, Kech was head of securities and foreign exchange markets at SWIFT and later co-founded Onchain Custodian, where he served as CEO.

The founder and former president of crypto miner HIVE Blockchain Technologies took on a new position as CEO ofbraveryan issuer of crypto ETPs.

Olivier Roussy Newton who also co-founded Valour, replaces Russell Starr, who will resume the role of Head of Capital Markets and maintain his role as Executive Chairman.

"My role was never intended to be permanent, and having someone with Olivier's pedigree join is a testament to the quality of Valor as a company and the global team that supports Valor's vision to be the dominant ETP player in the world," Starr said in a statement.

Roussy Newton is a partner at the investment fund Latent Capital and currently sits on the board of SEBA Bank AG.

Software development companyAlluvialAppointed a former Coinbase Cloud executive as Chief Growth Officer as the company continues to focus on developing secure liquid staking solutions.

Mara Schmidt joins Alluvial as Chief Growth Officer after serving as Head of Sales at Coinbase Cloud, in a role where she oversaw customer relationships, strategic partnerships and business growth initiatives.

Before joining Coinbase, she led business development at blockchain-based infrastructure company Bison Trails, which Coinbase acquired in February 2021. Schmiedt previously worked as strategy manager at blockchain technology company ConsenSys from 2018 to 2020.

Crypto exchangeLMAX Digitalrented Bryan Christian as Director of US Sales and Cassandra Cox as head of institutional sales in Europe.

Christian and Cox will oversee the growth and expansion of the company's crypto product pipeline and lead sales coverage for institutional clients in the US and Europe, respectively.

As the former Head of Exchange at crypto exchange CrossTower, Christian was also previously Managing Director at Nasdaq and Head of US Sales at Cboe Global Markets. Cox worked at Société Générale from 2012 to September 2021, where she served as Managing Director with a focus on institutional FX trading and sales in emerging markets.

maplea platform on which pooled capital is lent to crypto companies Chad walls as the company's new capital markets director and Daniel Lim as Associate Director of Capital Markets.

Walls was previously director of institutional business development at Celsius, a crypto lender that filed for bankruptcy in July. Lim most recently held product strategy roles at HPS Investment Partners and Riverstone Holdings and also previously worked in the cross-asset sales team at Goldman Sachs.

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