DAV Foundation Taps Four Ethereum Pioneers For Blockchain Vehicle Project
UTRUST Crypto Payments Names Sanja Kon VP of Global Partnerships
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Names Pamela C. Dyson As Its CIO
Coinbase Sets Michael Li As Its First VP Of Data
Blockchain’s Veridium Labs Names William Wei As CEO
DAV Foundation, the blockchain start-up building a decentralized global network for autonomous vehicles, has hired four former Ethereum Foundation members.
Dr. Greg Colvin, Nick Johnson, Tung Chan and John Frazer will Join the DAV Foundation in its bid drive the world of autonomous vehicles using blockchain technology.
Sanja Kon has joined crypto payments platform UTRUST has the VP of Global Partnerships, effective immediately.
Kon formerly managed strategic business partnerships in Europe for PayPal and eBay. In her new role, she will develop partnerships with key international players to improve the accessibility of digital assets and increase cryptocurrency merchant adoption.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Pamela C. Dyson plans to leave the SEC to serve as executive vice president, head of the Technology Group, and chief information officer (CIO) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Dyson joined the SEC in 2010,
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has named Michael Li as its vice president of data. Li was formerly LinkedIn’s head of analytics and data science, a position he held for seven years.
Li has focused on incorporating data into financial services, e-commerce and social networks during his career.
Veridium Labs Ltd, an environmental blockchain technology company which is partnering with IBM to build tokenized carbon credit markets, has appointed William Wei, the former head of Binance’s Taiwan branch, as its new CEO.
Wei was responsible for creating relationships between Binance, the Taiwanese government,
Birmingham City University has appointed Olinga Taeed as visiting professor of blockchain at its faculty of business, law and social sciences.
Taeed, believed to be the first academic to carry such a title, has authored 12 white papers on blockchain and is director of the Centre for Citizenship,
Aurora Labs S.A., a decentralized banking platform that includes the IDEX exhange, has named Richard Schaeffer to its advisory board. Schaeffer is a former chairman of NYMEX Holdings, Inc. and the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. His advisory role is effective immediately.
Alex Wearn,
BX3 Capital, a business advisory firm for the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, has added tax expert Mike Minihan as a partner. In addition, Jay Arcata, a business attorney, has taken the role of VP client operations.
Minihan joins BX3 Capital after more than 20 years as an international tax attorney and entrepreneur.
AlphaPoint, a blockchain company focused on enabling institutions to launch and scale, digital asset networks and exchanges, has named Kevin Held as its first chief financial officer (CFO).
Held brings 30 years of finance experience in the securities and financial technology industries to AlphaPoint.
Riot Blockchain Inc has named a new chief executive after the company’s previous boss was accused of involvement in securities fraud.
Chief operating officer Chris Ensey will take over the company after the Securities and Exchange Commission named former CEO John O’Rourke as one of several people involved in a long-running microcap “pump-and-dump” scheme.
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