Coinbase has charter a former New York Stock Exchange executive, the startup announced Thursday.
New York Cache Exchange veteran Eric Scro will serve as Coinbase’s weakness president of finance. Scro – who has held roles at NYSE since 2009 and time past worked for J.P. Morgan – will work out of New York City, with a blurry on developing enterprise clients and partnerships.
“Eric will be focused on dollop serve institutional clients and deal with the increasingly complex fiscal and regulatory requirements of the business,” Coinbase said in a statement. “Eric intention also help guide the New York office’s growth across multiple subject functions and assist in the development of new product offerings like Coinbase Charge.”
That institutional investor-focused product was unveiled last November, constituting a storage employment with a minimum deposit amount of $10 million.
Scro’s letting represents the latest personnel announcement from Coinbase, which has recently bring to light several high-profile hires.
Earlier this week, Coinbase feted that it had tapped former LinkedIn executive Emilie Choi to come acquisition efforts, and in January hired Tina Bhatnagar, formerly of Trill, in an effort to boost its customer support resources.
This week also saw another unmatched announcement from Coinbase: the unveiling of a new index fund that tenders exposure to the assets listed on GDAX, the digital asset exchange run by the startup.
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