As Blockchain.com appears to be like to construct on a decade of innovation inside each crypto and the enterprise, we’ve strengthened our management crew. The enterprise has scaled 5x over the previous two years throughout practically each division, operate and exercise. I’m excited to welcome our new leaders and acknowledge the excellent work of promoted leaders as we associate to develop the corporate and trade.

Please be part of me in welcoming a brand new colleague and celebrating well-deserved promotions.

• Lane Kasselman, who has led the corporate’s 5x development within the final two years as Chief Enterprise Officer, has been promoted to President. A seasoned chief for manufacturers equivalent to AT&T, Uber, The Messina Group and high-profile political leaders, Lane now oversees company growth, capital markets, investor relations, communications, advertising, buyer success, operations, partnerships, international enlargement, public coverage and scaling our groups and processes at Blockchain.com. Because the trade and firm look optimistically in direction of the longer term, we all know it’s not sufficient to only construct revolutionary merchandise and serve our prospects. Constructing the way forward for finance requires new and disruptive approaches and Blockchain.com must be on the forefront of political, enterprise and trade actions. With Lane, we’re well-positioned to proceed to develop our person base, advocate for pro-innovation coverage, and construct the way forward for finance.
• Dan Bookstaber has been promoted to Chief Technique Officer and International Head of Institutional. Beforehand VP of Markets, during the last 18 months Dan has led the crew in creating the instruments and methods we use to scale the enterprise with methods and expertise, in addition to overseeing the gross sales crew that onboards and manages institutional purchasers. Leveraging his practically 20 years of expertise working on the intersection of quantitative modeling and buying and selling for corporations like Citadel, Addepar, Frontpoint Companions and AQR Capital, Dan will take the lead in unifying our institutional enterprise throughout enterprise growth, expertise, technique and consumer administration to make our providing the bar others attempt to meet.
• Jason Karsh has been promoted to Chief Advertising Officer. Since becoming a member of the corporate in 2020, Jason has labored tirelessly to make Blockchain.com one of the crucial acknowledged and trusted names in crypto. Previous to Blockchain.com, Jason drove development at manufacturers like Coinbase, Google, eero, and extra. As we direct extra assets into buyer acquisition throughout each retail and institutional, Jason will take the lead and guarantee we proceed to win the hearts and minds of our prospects.
• Amy Yeap has been named the corporate’s first Vice President of Investor Relations. Amy involves Blockchain.com from a multi-strategy hedge fund the place she led the agency’s capital markets, fundraising and investor relations applications. By means of Amy’s capital elevating expertise, she has labored with sovereign wealth funds, institutional asset managers, pension funds, household places of work, endowments and foundations. She beforehand labored with JPMorgan and CitiBank, and is effectively regarded within the worldwide institutional investor neighborhood. Amy will take the lead in persevering with to deepen our investor relationships and professionalize our IR operate because the crypto market’s development charge expands and continues to generate institutional curiosity.
• Tim Lubans has been promoted to Vice President and Deputy Basic Counsel overseeing our worldwide regulatory enlargement. After spending greater than a decade at BlackRock, Tim has devoted the final three years to Blockchain.com, beforehand serving as Company Deputy Basic Counsel. Throughout his tenure, he’s performed a essential function in establishing regulatory licenses throughout the globe and scaling our authorized operate.
• Valerii Babushkin has been promoted to Vice President of Knowledge Science. With a storied profession in Machine Studying, Analytics, and Software program Engineering at a few of the world’s main tech corporations like Meta/Fb and Alibaba Group, Valerii has grown Blockchain.com’s Knowledge Science operate to a worldwide crew. His strategy has enabled the corporate to base development on data-informed actionable insights.