In a significant expansion of its leadership team, Coinbase announced the addition of Chris Lehane, Paul Clement, and Christa Davies to its board of directors.
Chris Lehane, an executive at OpenAI and a former Democratic strategist for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, will provide strategic counsel to Coinbase’s leadership, guiding the company in its mission to make “onchain the new online.”
Paul Clement, a partner at the law firm Clement & Murphy PLLC and former U.S. Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, along with Christa Davies, Chief Financial Officer at Aon since 2008 and board member at Stripe and Workday, will join Coinbase’s audit and compliance committee.
In other hiring news, the dYdX Foundation appointed Chris Grundy to lead its marketing strategy. Grundy, a former vice president of marketing at Glassnode, also held a senior marketing role at Coinbase, where he contributed to international growth and high-profile brand activations.
Additionally, Bitcoin-focused venture studio Thesis added Kathy Zhu to head its efforts in the Asia Pacific region. Zhu previously worked at Binance as a growth and operations lead and was more recently a principal at Old Fashion Research, a multi-strategy blockchain investment fund focused on Web3.
Last week, Tether appointed Philip Gradwell, ex-chief economist at Chainalysis, as its new head of economics. Gradwell will be responsible for quantifying the Tether economy and communicating its usage to regulators and stakeholders.
Also, statistician and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver joined the advisory board of Polymarket, working alongside former CFTC Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo.
Despite the typical summer slowdown, these strategic hires indicate a dynamic period of growth and expansion within the crypto industry.
