The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has appointed former Google, Venmo and Adobe employees to leadership roles. The announcement was made in в блоге компании.
She joined the team: Shilpa Dhara, the former Venmo head of product with a decade at PayPal. Her new role is vice president of product.
Ravi Byakod joined Coinbase as vice president of design. Previously, he held senior roles at eBay, Flipkart and Google. Together with Dhara, they will lead Coinbase’s new platform team.
Frank Yu was named vice president of design and research. His résumé includes collaborations with GSuite, Google, LinkedIn and Yahoo.
Coinbase did not specify which products the company will develop with the new top executives. The statement offers only a hint of plans to scale the business.
Earlier in September, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed plans to launch a platform for conducting initial exchange offerings (IEOs).
In the first half of the year, the exchange reported attracting 35 million users and rising institutional investor interest in buying cryptocurrencies.
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