The latest in crypto hiring: MoonPay adds a number of senior execs

The latest in crypto hiring: MoonPay adds a number of senior execs

Crypto payment serviceMoonPayhas filled several C-suite and senior management positions, including the addition of Jim Esposito as Chief Operating Officer and Akash Garg as Chief Technology Officer.

Esposito was formerly chief operating officer of Block's Cash App and president of Cash App Investing. Garg previously worked as vice president of engineering at Block and was CTO at Afterpay.

MoonPay is also coming on board Asiff Hirji former president at Figure and Coinbase and former operations consultant at a16z, as senior advisor to the CEO; Garret McManus as marketing manager; Tom Capone as head of MoonPay Studios; and Abhay Mavalankar as head of corporate development.

The executives are expected to join a MoonPay team of around 300 employees. MoonPay plans to double its workforce by the end of the year.

Peter Märkl should joinbraveryAppointed as general counsel next month, its asset management team is the latest to jump ship from 21Shares.

Märkl is currently head of the legal department of the crypto fund issuer. Before joining 21Shares, he worked in the Zurich office of the law firm Heuking, where he focused on the fintech and private banking business. Märkl also previously held management positions at UBS in Germany and Switzerland.

DeFi Technologies subsidiary Valour, a technology company that aims to bridge the gap between traditional capital markets and decentralized finance, has a range of crypto ETPs.

Märkl's move will follow Marco Infuso who also left 21Shares as Germany boss, has moved to Valor to lead global sales of the company's ETPs (exchange-traded products), the company announced earlier this month.

Dina Ellis Rochkind joined the crypto startup's advisory boardMerita crypto platform and marketplace where users can share, buy, gift or create crypto collections.

According to Earnity, Rochkind has worked on every major part of financial regulation over the past two decades. She is legal counsel for fintech, crypto and blockchain clients at law firm Paul Hastings.

In addition to working with senators and other members of Congress, she worked as deputy assistant secretary for consumer affairs and community policy at the Treasury Department from 2001 to 2002, according to her LinkedIn profile.

“Clear guidance and regulations will be critical to the development of the crypto industry,” Earnity CEO Dan Schatt said in a statement. “We are thrilled to be working with Dina, whose reputation for getting things done in Washington and reading the tea leaves about what’s going on in DC will strengthen Earnity’s ability to provide valuable services and insights to its community of customers, professionals and the entire crypto industry.”

NFT technologiesappointed Adam de Cata as its new CEO after the company announced Thursday that it will acquire blockchain, metaverse and NFT development studio Run It Wild. He replaces Mario Nafal who will continue to work as a strategic advisor for the company.

De Cata founded Australia-based Run It Wild in 2021 and has been head of partnerships at virtual reality platform Decentraland since March 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile. In the latter role, he was responsible for building the presence of brands such as Sotheby's, Coca-Cola, ConsenSys and Bored Ape Yacht Club within Decentraland.

“They have established themselves as the only publicly traded company focused on expanding the real-world utility and value of NFTs to mainstream adoption,” De Cata said in a statement about NFT Technologies. “As an industry, we are only scratching the surface of what can be achieved.”

ORIGIN Metaversea company focused on streamlining metaverse real estate NFT transactions, added Mo Kumarsi and Adam Russell to his team.

Russell and Kumarsi are co-founders of REV3AL – which provides artists, creators and intellectual property owners with protection and authentication of digital assets in Web3 and the Metaverse. You work as the company's chief revenue officer or CEO.

Layer 2 blockchain infrastructure providerBosonicrented Julia Briand as Head of Client Success and Sarthak Jain as Regional Manager Institutional Sales.

Briand, who has experience in client onboarding and service, previously managed several of the largest institutional clients at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Sarthak joins Bosonic after selling institutional enterprise solutions in the UK and Europe for Bloomberg and most recently crypto exchange Binance.

In case you missed it,Open seaCEO Devin Finzer announced on Twitter on Thursday that the NFT marketplace would be reducing its workforce by 20%. The news follows similar announcements from Gemini, Crypto.com, BlockFi and Coinbase in recent weeks.

“The reality is that we have entered an unprecedented combination of crypto winter and broader macroeconomic instability, and we must prepare the company for the possibility of a prolonged downturn,” Finzer wrote.

Meanwhile, Fidelity Digital Assets, which in May laid out plans to double its headcount by the end of the year, remains on track to meet those hiring goals, a spokesperson told Blockworks.

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