Copper's new CEO and the SEC's enforcement boss have joined a law firm. These are just two of the industry's biggest recent job moves.
Copper was appointed Amar Coochinad as its new global CEO.
Kuchinad takes over from Dmitry Tokarev, who founded the crypto trading technology provider, which counts former UK finance minister Philip Hammond as one of its backers.
Tokarev was CEO for seven years. He is on the copper board.
Couchinaud began his career at Credit Suisse and was head of US portfolio credit trading at Goldman Sachs.
He was also a senior policy advisor to the Securities and Exchange Commission and founded Electronifie, an SEC-registered company to automate bond trading.
The move comes as several firms in the crypto industry are ramping up their headcount.
Here are some other major job moves in the crypto world.
OpenSea, SEC, Coin Center
Former Consensus senior counsel Laura Brookover has joined OpenCy as deputy general counsel, X announced.
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I am excited to share what I have come up with @Opensia As Deputy General Counsel! As a long-time OpenSea user, it's thrilling to now be part of the team. It's hard to leave someone wonderful @consensusThey are Ethereum Builders &…
— Laura Brookover (@laurabrooksie1) October 15, 2024
I am excited to share what I have come up with @Opensia As Deputy General Counsel! As a long-time OpenSea user, it's thrilling to now be part of the team. It's hard to leave someone wonderful @consensusThey are Ethereum Builders &…
— Laura Brookover (@laurabrooksie1) October 15, 2024
SEC's enforcement chief Gurbir S. Grewal quit the regulator on October 11. He joined Milbank's litigation and arbitration practice as a partner in New York.
Grewal has led research on crypto firms including Binance and Coinbase.
Grewal is not the only enforcement attorney to leave the agency recently.
Carolyn is the former Associate Director of Welsh's Enforcement Division Joined Morgan Lewis is a partner in Washington this month. David Hirsch joined McGuireWoods as a partner in August.
Jerry Brito, CoinCenter's founding executive director, and Robin Weissman, senior policy counsel for the crypto advocacy group, will step down by the end of the year, Brito wrote. On social media.
Research director Peter Van Valkenburg and policy counsel Landon Zinda take over from Brito and Weisman, respectively.
Brito and Weisman retain their positions on the Coin Center board.
Coinbase, OKX
Jesse Pollack, creator of Coinbase's Layer 2 base, has joined the executive team and now leads the company's wallet team.
Pollack joined Coinbase in 2017 and led its user-facing engineering, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet, before creating Base.
Hey everyone – some news: In addition to being ahead @base The team, I step forward to lead @coinbasewallet and joining @coinbase Executive team. I am really excited to take on this new mandate and accelerate our mission to bring one billion people and one million builders…
— jesse.base.eth (@jessepollak) September 30, 2024
Hey everyone – some news: In addition to being ahead @base The team, I step forward to lead @coinbasewallet and joining @coinbase Executive team. I am truly excited to take on this new mandate and accelerate our mission to bring one billion people and one million builders…
— jesse.base.eth (@jessepollak) September 30, 2024
Manish Gupta, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase, left the company to recharge and spend more time with his family. wrote that In a post.
Prior to joining Coinbase, Gupta spent 16 years at Google and two years at Lyft in senior engineering roles.
OKX has hired Yuri Mushkin as Global Chief Risk Officer based in Singapore.
Mushkin joins from investment advisory firm McKinsey Investment Office. He also held executive roles at Goldman Sachs.
State Street
State Street has hired Vanessa Fernandez as head of digital asset solutions.
Fernandez reports to Donna Milrod, chief product officer at the bank. Fernandez joins from BNY Mellon, where she developed a digital-first strategy for the bank's products and platforms.
Promethium, Token Terminal, Multiverse
Jacek Bugaj joins Promethium as head of production.
Bugaj has more than 20 years of experience in capital markets and fintech. Most recently, he was head of gross product management at hedge fund Two Sigma.
Bloomberg's former global head of cryptocurrency product and digital asset lead Alex Wenham has left the data giant. He is currently a strategy advisor for data platform Token Terminal.
Wenham spent nearly 14 years at Bloomberg, joining as a foreign exchange specialist.
Former Cardano Chief Marketing Officer Adam Bates has joined blockchain network MultiverseX as the new CMO.
In previous roles, Bates oversaw major marketing campaigns for companies including Virgin Airlines, Barclays, Mercedes-Benz and Samsung. He was a director at marketing giant BDDO in London for 11 years.
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