35 key crypto hires, moves and exits: November 2025

Crypto hiring remained active through November, with exchanges, payments firms, and infra teams adding senior operators across product, legal, and BD. Venture firms continued to promote from within, while Bitcoin-native projects and ZK ecosystems expanded leadership teams ahead of 2026 roadmaps. Talent flowed in from traditional finance and big tech, particularly in compliance, partnerships, and brand management.

Infrastructure, security, and payments companies saw the largest concentration of new roles. Several networks made strategic marketing and growth hires, while stablecoin and tokenization initiatives pulled in senior talent from banks and fintech.

Hires

• Anchorage: David Lawant joined as Head of Research. He was previously Head of Research at FalconX.
• Bitget: Ignacio Aguirre Franco was appointed Chief Marketing Officer.
• BitMine Immersion Technologies: Chi Tsang was appointed Chief Executive Officer and joined the board.
• BNB Chain: Nina Rong joined as Executive Director of Growth.
• Circle: Wyatt Robinson joined as Chief Counsel, Payments. He was previously Senior Corporate Counsel at Microsoft. Erika
• Peterson joined as VP, Global Ecosystem. She was previously MD, Corporate Strategy at BlackRock.
• Coinbase: Shannon Kurtas joined as Head of Coinbase Advanced. He was previously VP, Product at Kraken. Liz Martin joined as VP, Product for Derivatives and Markets. She was previously a Partner at Goldman Sachs. Gareth Kay joined as VP, Brand. He was previously a Partner at The Intangibles. Joe Staples joined as VP, Creative. He was previously a Partner at Mother.
• Deel: Thierry Edde was promoted to Head of Crypto.
• FalconX: Eesa Ahmad joined as Senior Executive, Institutional Sales. He was previously Senior Director of Institutional Sales at Crypto.com.
• Huma Finance: Jessica Cao was appointed APAC CEO. She previously held senior roles at Ant International, BNP Paribas, Citi and Standard Chartered.
• MoonPay: Zach Kwartler joined as Head of Stablecoins. He was previously Product Lead, Platform at Paxos.
• Morpho: Tarik Bellamine joined as Head of Engineering. He was previously a Senior Engineering Manager at Uniswap Labs.
• OpenFX: Rushil Gambhir joined as Product Lead, Payments and New Markets. He was previously VP, Product Management at Mastercard Move.
• TeraHash: Hunter Rogers joined as Co-Founder. He previously served as Senior Ecosystem Development and Investment Lead at TRON DAO.
• Variant: Caleb Shack joined as Investment Partner. He was previously Head of Ecosystem at Arch Network.
• Visa: Matt Austin joined as Senior Director, Business Development, Visa Crypto. He was previously Director of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple.
• Wintermute: David Micley joined as Head of US BD. Dmitry Kotov joined as Lead US Counsel. H. Branch Johnson joined as Managing Director, BD. Matthew Pizzo joined as Chief Compliance Officer.
• Zcash Foundation: Pili Guerra was promoted to Head of Engineering. Danika Delano was promoted to Chief Operating Officer.
• Zerohash: Aaron Karczmer and Danny Rosenthal joined the board. Karczmer is CEO of K2 Integrity. Rosenthal is Founder and CEO of Nutshell Labs.
• Stripe: Ernie Tedeschi joined as Chief Economist.
• AlphaTON Capital: William De’Ath was appointed Chief Partnership Officer.
• Tether: Bloomberg reported that Vincent Domien and Mathew O’Neill will join to support the firm’s expansion of gold-backed reserves.

Promotions & Advisory

• a16z crypto: Guy Wuollet was promoted from Investment Partner to General Partner.
• Blockchain.com: Lane Kasselman was promoted from President to Co-CEO and President.
• CFTC: Michael Selig was nominated to serve as Chairman and Commissioner. He is Chief Counsel of the Crypto Task Force and Senior Advisor to the SEC Chairman.
• QuickNode: Jason Hunt was promoted from Chief Strategy Officer to Chief Revenue Officer.

Exits

• No major executive departures were publicly confirmed this month.