At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Gretchen Howard
Chief Operating Officer of Robinhood
Gretchen Howard is currently Chief Operating Officer at Robinhood. Previously, she was at Google since 2006 most recently as a Partner with CapitalG. Gretchen was also a Managing Director in Sales & Business Operations at Google, where she has helped incubate, launch and scale Google’s social, video, search and display sales offerings for SMB and large brand advertisers. Prior to joining Google, Gretchen was VP of Market Development and Field Sales for Fidelity Investments, and she started her career working in consulting, helping companies implement new IT strategies. Gretchen holds a BA from Williams College and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Steven Becker
President and COO of MakerDAO
Steven Becker is President and COO of the MakerDAO Foundation. MakerDAO is a unique dApp that generates Dai, the world’s first decentralized stablecoin that facilitates economic growth on the blockchain and economic empowerment with the blockchain. Steven is responsible for the strategic business operations, risk management, partnerships, and marketing. An alternative investment professional with 20 years of experience. Steven is Chartered as an Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) by the CAIA Association and certified as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals and is a member of both associations.
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Artur Schaback
COO – Co-Founder of Paxful
A native of Estonia, the land of Skype. Artur earned his stripes building out the tech around financial infrastructure.
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About Paxful: The global peer-to-peer platform building a financial system for the 100%— one Bitcoin at a time.
Carlo Las Marias
Co-Founder & COO of Hummingbot
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About Hummingbot: Hummingbot is an open-source crypto trading bot that enables decentralized market making; liquidity mining for centralized exchanges.
Andrew Benson
Co-Founder and COO of River Financial
Andrew Benson is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at River Financial.
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About River Financial: River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
Kathy Nelson
Chief Operating Officer of Cross River Bank
Kathleen Nelson has assumed various roles at Cross River since its inception in 2008.Kathleen possesses over 35 years of experience in the banking industry, in areas of operations, internal audit, risk, loan review, compliance, and BSA/AML compliance, and holds several certifications. Prior to Cross River, Kathleen held various management roles at Bank of New York Mellon, Wells Fargo, and other banking and savings institutions. Nelson graduated from Montclair State University with a MS in Psychology.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.
Blake Commagere
Co-Founder and COO of Vault12
Blake Commagere is a growth expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an advisor to several companies in the SF Bay Area. In his career, he has raised over $12 million in VC/Seed funding, started 7 companies, and sold 5 of them. He regularly gives talks on a wide variety of subjects including: Growth Hacking/Viral Marketing, Fundraising, and Building a Positive Culture. He created the social gaming category by building some of the biggest apps ever (over 50 Million players) on Facebook, including the iconic games Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. Blake wrote and designed the first version of Causes on Facebook, which has over 120 Million users and has raised over $80 million for various charities. Currently, Blake is the Founder & CEO of MediaSpike – a company that is building the first truly social applications for Virtual Reality.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Devin Eldridge
COO of RADAR
Devin Eldridge is the COO at RADAR.
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About RADAR: We build products for our next financial system
Gene Hoffman
Director, Chief Operating Officer and President of Chia Network
Mr. Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and former public company CEO. He has built and sold three companies to PGP, Inc., Vivendi-Universal, and Amdocs. From 2003 to 2016 he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Vindicia, a consumer subscription infrastructure company sold to Amdocs in 2016. From 2017 to 2019 he was an advisor to the board of Chia Network until he joined the Company full time in August of 2019. He has been a board member at eight different technology and energy companies and serves on two non-profit boards, one of which he co-founded. He has 21 years of working in high compliance security environments with 12 years of managing PCI and SSAE-16 compliance for the storage of 220,000,000 credit cards. Hoffman has built and scaled companies in enterprise software and SaaS, consumer subscriptions, cryptography, and software development. He has raised over $155,000,000 in public and private markets, acquired four companies and sold three. In 1997, he helped end US export controls on cryptography while at PGP, Inc. by personally exporting the PGP Source Code book. Hoffman is co-inventor on several patents and is currently an Advisor at Directly, and Iris.tv. Recognized by the San Francisco Business Times with the “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders Award” in 2012, Gene has deep experience with building companies that disrupt markets. Prior to Vindicia, Gene co-founded eMusic in January 1998 and served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director. As head of eMusic, Gene was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine as a member of the July 1999 E-Gang, and named one of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs in technology in Upside Magazine’s November 2000 Elite 100. Gene led the acquisition of eMusic by Vivendi/Universal in June 2001. Before founding eMusic Gene was Director of Business Development and Director of Interactive Marketing of Pretty Good Privacy. Gene joined Pretty Good Privacy after it acquired PrivNet, Inc., an Internet privacy software company, where he was co-founder, Director and Executive Vice President.
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About Chia Network: Chia Network is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of Space and Time.
Jack Ottman
Chief Operating Officer of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.
Mohamed Afifi
Co-Founder & COO of HiFi Bridge
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About HiFi Bridge: HiFi Bridge is an embedded payments software that powers commerce by enabling merchants and users to transact with digital assets.
Josh Schwartz
Chief Operating Officer of Curv
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About Curv: Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets.
Taylor Monnig
Chief Operating Officer of TMGcore
Taylor holds a degree in Communications from Arizona State University. He is a cryptocurrency expert and has conducted extensive research in the financial aspects of Bitcoin and the mining and trading of cryptocurrencies. Taylor is passionate about technology, cryptocurrency and business in general. With years of professional experience as a senior manager working in information technology recruitment along with his strong interpersonal skills, business sense, and natural leadership abilities, Taylor is the ideal person to lead, shape and oversee TMGcore operations.
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About TMGcore: TMGcore develops and commercializes emerging technologies which support global Blockchain stability, growth, and long-term sustainability.
David Fragale
Chief Operating Officer of Arwen
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About Arwen: Arwen gives protection while trade on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Chris Kline
COO and Co-Founder of Bitcoin IRA
A Denver, Colorado native, Chris Kline joined Fortress Gold Group as a partner and Director of Operations in 2012. Chris drove the operations strategy and execution that lead to the company becoming an Inc 500 leading provider in gold and silver for IRAs. Following his success in precious metals, he was challenged to develop a way for individuals to directly invest in Bitcoin for retirement. Together with Camilo Concha and Johannes Haze, Kline co-founded Bitcoin IRA, and Kline then developed the process and exclusive partnerships to create a full-service, turnkey solution allowing investors to capitalize on the rapidly growing digital currency marketspace for their retirement portfolio while maintaining full IRS compliance. Kline holds a degree in International Finance and Leadership from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a contributing writer at Forbes Finance Council and FX Empire, among other publications.
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About Bitcoin IRA: The world’s largest cryptocurrency IRA platform that allows customers to purchase Bitcoin and other crypto for their retirement accounts
TongTong Gong
COO of Amberdata
With over 20 years of experience, TongTong has a proven track record operating globally as an engineering leader. She has an extensive background in building and managing distributed systems at scale for enterprises and has led advanced development teams focusing on incubating new businesses for major software players. Her teams have successfully built high-performance computing platforms and marketing analytics software for both offline and digital markets. Joining Unified in 2015, where she currently serves as VP of Engineering, TongTong is building a world-class engineering team, bringing Unified’s product vision to life and shaping the company’s technology strategy. Prior to Unified, TongTong held a variety of engineering and leadership roles at Acxiom, where she most recently established a Global Service Center in China. Additionally, she led an innovation and advanced development team for the CTO office at EMC. Tongtong holds an M.B.A. from University of Central Arkansas and a B.S. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, with Minor in Marketing from Harding University.
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About Amberdata: Amberdata is a blockchain and cryptoasset data company that offers tools for exchanges, wallets, traders, and developers.
Steven Bitondo
COO & Co-Founder of Node Capital
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About Goodway Technologies, Node Capital: Node Capital is a technology development and data science company which provides data science solutions.
Austin Rappaport
Cofounder, COO of TonicPow
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About Delivery Dudes, TonicPow: TonicPow – Earn, Promote, Explode! BitcoinSV Powered P2P Advertisement Network
Elissa Shevinsky
Co-Founder & COO of Faster Than Light
Elissa Shevinsky is an entrepreneur and author, specializing in information security and general risk management. She is currently CEO at Faster Than Light, where her team offers code quality certification and testing software for startups.
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About Faster Than Light, Kearney Boyle & Associates: Faster Than Light is a building developer tools for smart contracts.
Kara Coppa
COO, EVP & Co-Founder of BLAKFX
Coppa is the COO, EVP & Co-Founder of BLΔKFX. She has more than fifteen years of professional experience, spanning the areas of information security governance, threat detection/mitigation, risk assessments and incident response and investigations. For nearly twenty years, Coppa has been a hands-on security expert for various industries including the United States military, telecom and financial services. She has provided a wide variety of information technology and security services including information security governance, threat detection/mitigation, risk assessments, network architecture security, incident response and investigations. Prior to BLΔKFX she was the EVP of Cybersecurity services for SIG Homeland Security where she ran the national defense & cyber resiliency projects related to national security operations.
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About BLAKFX: BLAKFX provides sophisticated cyber security solutions for consumers, enterprise, military, governments and high net-worth individuals.
Sebastien Henot
Co-Founder, COO & Head of Digital Assets of Flyion
Sebastien has 15 years of international business operations and strategic marketing experience in the automotive industry, occupying various positions, starting his career building a strong expertise on the “basics” of the OEM business: from Sales Forecasting, Pricing to the management of a region of 5 countries (200Meur turnover per year, >10M regarding sales promotion) He spent 3 years as global chief marketing manager in the Electric cars division, in charge of the strategic marketing of the Personal Electric cars line up of Renault (Twizy, Fluence, Zoe). Working on 2015-2020 topics, in order to create the marketing strategy following the evolution of technology (batteries, range, charging) and the ramp-up in EV adoption. Since Nov 2015, he has been based in California at the Renault Innovation Silicon Valley center with the goal of changing the OEM’s business model. Going to “metallurgy” (produce, ship, sell, maintain) to “services” (example: make money during the use of the car) From electric vehicles to autonomous driving, through connected cars, IoT, and New Mobility services, the manufacturers will have to adapt to survive. Autonomous driving is too often perceived as one final destination, but it is only a milestone in the roadmap to come. All the services around this technology will open new ways of travelling. We will no longer speak in terms of destination but in terms of journey.
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About Flyion, Renault Innovation Silicon Valley: Flyion is a blockchain-powered flight insurance company that invents a new way to deal with travel disruption for leisure and business.
Drake Harvey
Chief Operating Officer of Compute North
Drake Harvey is the Chief Operating Officer at Compute North.
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About Compute North: Compute North delivers high-performance cryptocurrency mining and infrastructure solutions to customers.
Dave Herbert
Chief Operating Officer of TradeDuel
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About TradeDuel: A fun, new way to engage with cryptocurrency and financial markets
Jason O’Reilly
COO/CFO of DrawBridge Lending
Jason O’Reilly is the COO and CFO at DrawBridge Lending.
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About DrawBridge Lending: DrawBridge offers a lending loans with no margin calls backed by Bitcoin holdings.
Sloane Brakeville
COO of Computis
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About Computis: Premium B2B Accounting Software for Digital Assets
Patrick Long
COO, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of WeTrust
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About WeTrust: Building reciprocal aid organizations on the blockchain
Brice Wilson
Chief Operating Officer of XBTO Group
Brice Wilson is the Chief Operating Officer of XBTO Capital Management, LLC. XBTO Group is one of the world’s largest and most diversified participants in the cryptocurrency markets. The firm is involved in systematic trading, market making, OTC trading, mining, blockchain development, asset management, and strategic venture investing. Prior to joining XBTO, Brice was the Head of Operational Due Diligence and Head of the Managed Account Platform at Magnitude Capital, a $4b fund of funds. Mr. Wilson spent the first eleven years of his career at Deloitte and AlixPartners auditing large, global financial institutions and conducting investigations of complex financial frauds and other litigation matters. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science and a MS in Accounting, both from the University of Southern California, and is a Certified Public Accountant and a CFA Charterholder.
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About XBTO Group: XBTO is a cryptofinance company that provides institutional-grade liquidity to major trading platforms.
Maurice Mizrahi
COO & Co-founder of Tashe
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About Tashe: Tashe offers cryptocurrency and fiat money liquidation services.
Matthew Miller
Co-Founder and COO of Shift Markets
For the past 10 years, Matthew has been assisting clients with technology implementation, training, sales optimization, product launches and M&A transactions. In addition, he has taken his understanding of large-scale processes and applied them to the rapidly growing crypto and forex industries. This allows Shift to offer scalable solutions to its clients ranging from individual investors to top tier brokers and exchanges.
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About Shift Markets: Shift Markets provides cryptocurrency exchanges, brokerage technology, liquidity, risk management, compliance, and marketing services.
James Saxton
COO of BioCrypt Technologies
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About BioCrypt Technologies: BioCrypt Technologies, Inc. is on the leading edge of RFID and NFC technology using Blockchain to bring real world products to market.
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