Latest in Crypto Hiring: T. Rowe Price Adds Digital Assets Strategy Head

Latest in Crypto Hiring: T. Rowe Price Adds Digital Assets Strategy Head

Hedge fund number Blue Macellari joinedT. Rowe Priceas head of digital assets strategy, she is revealed on LinkedIn Thursday.

“This is what adoption looks like,” Macellari wrote in the post.

Macellari spent the last four-plus years as managing partner at crypto hedge fund firm Dunamis Trading, according to her profile. There she launched and managed the market-neutral crypto vehicle Dunamis and formulated the corporate strategy.

T. Rowe Price had $1.3 trillion in assets under management as of June 30. A company survey released in April found that 40% of children believe crypto is the future of investing. A spokesperson for T. Rowe Price told Blockworks at the time that given the size of digital asset markets, their impact on capital markets cannot be ignored.

Crypto exchangeOKXappointed Frederica Tompkins as head of brand marketing etcKim Murphyas event manager.

Tompkins comes to OKX from a background in luxury goods and fast-moving consumer goods, having worked with brands such as Chanel and Ralph Lauren. Murphy comes from the world of event production and philanthropy, where she helped organize concerts, conferences and boutique celebrations.

Tompkins and Murphy join in a year that has seen OKX form partnerships with Manchester City Football Club, McLaren Racing's Formula 1 team and the Tribeca Festival. Earlier this year, the exchange named Rachel Conlan as its global head of brand marketing and partnerships.

OKX's hiring of female executives coincides with its joint report with LinkedIn showing a lack of technical talent as well as female professionals in the blockchain industry. The analysis found the sector had about four times more men than women in June.

Leading ExchangeBinancerented Karl Lange former Director of Digital Assets and Commodity Operations at WisdomTree Asset Management, to lead its operations in Ireland, Irish Independent reported Monday.

A Binance spokesperson declined to comment.

Long joined WisdomTree in February after serving as managing director of operations at State Street for nearly a decade, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The manager is based in Dublin, Ireland, according to his profile. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said Reuters last year that the exchange was considering Ireland and France as potential headquarters and registered a new company in Ireland the following month.

Newly-minted NFT Managers for Yuga Labs and Dibbs

Yuga laboratoriesthe company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club Danny Green to fill his newly created role as brand manager Meebits after Greene spent the last eight months as general manager of MeebitsDAO.

Meebits is a 20,000-character NFT collection with a trading marketplace. Yuga laboratories acquired the commercial rights to Meebits and CryptoPunks from Larva Labs in March.

“The Meebits collection stands out not only for its artistic achievement, but also because it was the first 3D avatar designed for the interoperable metaverse and has always been a pillar of diversity and inclusion in web3,” Greene said in a statement. “You can already play with your Meebit in over 20 virtual worlds, apps and games – and that’s just the beginning.”

Sports NFT (non-fungible token) platform.Dibbshas added executives to grow beyond a collectibles marketplace to a tokenization and custody platform for intellectual property owners and collectors.

Dibbs set Ben Plomion as Chief Marketing Officer and Bill Plumeri as Chief Compliance Officer.

Plomion spent seven years at GumGum, a contextual intelligence company, where he served as Chief Growth Officer. Plumeri most recently led the global institutional compliance program at crypto lender BlockFi.

Prior to BlockFi, Plumeri was Director of Compliance at the digital asset securities unit Securitize, where he designed and implemented a compliance program focused on the tokenization of traditional securities on the blockchain. He has held other leadership positions at crypto exchange Gemini as well as JPMorgan and BNP Paribas.

Luno grabs political lead from fintech unicorn Revolut

Institutional crypto trading technology providerTalosrented Neal Pawar as a strategic advisor.

Pawar is Chief Operating Officer of Qontigo, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group that provides index analysis and risk solutions. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer of the Wealth Management Group at UBS and Group CIO at Deutsche Bank.

Pawar joins former Merrill Lynch CFO Jennifer Hill; David Cushing, former director of global trade in Wellington; and Tim Grant, European head of Galaxy Digital, on the company's advisory board.

Headquarters in LondonLunarented Thomas Tudehope as global public policy chief to deepen his crypto investment app's ties with industry regulators at a time when governments are trying to keep an eye on the sector.

Luno was founded in 2013 and acquired by Digital Currency Group in 2020. According to the company, Luno's flagship app of the same name has more than 10 million customers in around 40 countries.

Tudehope was most recently Head of Public Affairs at Revolut, where he expanded the company's public policy team and led political engagement. He was also formerly a senior adviser to former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Decentralized British financial companyAQRUappointed Try Digby the company's co-founder, as Chief Commercial Officer.

Before becoming co-founder and chief operating officer of AQRU last October, Try previously worked as head of global sales at banking and payments platform OpenPayd and as vice president of sales for EMEA at Currencycloud, which Visa acquired last year.

Kamelia Gankova former managing director of Crypto.com's Bulgarian outpost, is now COO of AQRU subsidiary Accru Finance.

Gankova also served as Director of Customer Service at online payment company Paysafe.

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Core Scientific reduced its headcount by 10% in the second quarter as part of cost-cutting measures to deal with market turmoil, the leading crypto miner announced on Thursday.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz said on a conference call earlier this week that the team "selectively shrunk" in the second quarter. Galaxy, a digital asset management firm, posted a net loss of $555 million during the three-month period.

Novogratz said the company aims to increase its workforce from 375 to more than 400 by the end of the year. A Galaxy spokesman declined to comment.

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