Details
Dennis Qian is the co-founder at Definitive, having previously worked as a senior software engineer at Coinbase and Tagomi. He graduated from Rice University.
Work Experience
Education Experience
Relevance Person
Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. He founded the company, which has become one of the largest in the Bitcoin space, in June 2012. He is also the co-founder of GiveCrypto, working to build an open financial system for the world. Before founding Coinbase, Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at AirBNB from 2011 to 2012. He had also previously founded UniversityTutory.com and worked as a software engineer at CarWoo.com.
Soups Ranjan
Soups Ranjan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sardine. He was previously the Director of Data Science and Risk at Coinbase. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University, with a dissertation titled "High-Performance Distributed Denial-of-Service Resilient Web Cluster Architecture".
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Boris Ilyevsky
Boris Ilyevsky is Head of Derivatives at Coinbase and previously was Chief Product Officer at FairX and Head of Market Development at IEX. He graduated from New York University.
Julian Koh
Julian Koh is the founder of Aevo and previously worked in software development at Coinbase/NumerAI. He studied computer science at Cornell University, but dropped out after two years.
Alesia Haas
Alesia Haas is the Chief Financial Officer of Coinbase.
L.J. Brock
L.J. Brock is the Chief People Officer of Coinbase.
Paul Grewal
Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.