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 VP’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Adam Wolff
VP Engineering of Robinhood
Adam Wolff is currently Vice President of Engineering at Robinhood. Previously, he was an Engineering Director at Facebook in charge of the Product Infrastructure group, whose mission is to help product developers move faster. Adam joined Facebook when the startup that he co-founded, Sharegrove Inc., was acquired in 2010. Before founding Sharegrove, Adam was the Chief Software Architect for Laszlo Systems, where he worked on rich client apps and open source software before it was cool. Adam got his start in the software industry working as a game and interaction designer for companies such as Rocket Science Games, Purple Moon, and Microsoft.
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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.
Surabhi Gupta
VP of Engineering of Robinhood
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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.
Mark Heynen
Vice President, Business Development of Stellar Development Foundation
Mark has led go to market in emerging markets for large and small companies, from Google’s initial push into maps in the mid 2000s to Facebook’s early mobile efforts and ultimately launching PayJoy, a Silicon Valley-based fintech, in 20 countries. He currently serves as VP of Business Development at the Stellar Development Foundation. His focus has been on analyzing markets, structuring transformational partnerships, hiring highly functional teams in market, and then producing revenue quickly with great unit economics. He has also raised ~$100M in early stage VC, venture debt, and SPV debt financing across four companies he built, and advised companies on fundraising. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2006, Mark split his time between India and London, founding and running his first startup, Electrobug Technologies. As this company had clients in 18 countries and 250+ staff in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mark learned firsthand of the challenges and opportunities of working in emerging markets, and is currently an advisor for a number of startups. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Economics and History.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Jeffrey Billingham
Vice President, Capital Markets of Chainalysis
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Allen Piscitello
Vice President Of Product Management of Blockstream
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
Dan Flanegan
Vice President Of Product of Snowball Money
Entrepreneur, product guy, mobile expert, gamer, dad & film nut. Co-founder at Butter, an app to make new friends through photos and messaging. The app creates meaningful friendships by connecting people from all over the world who share similar interests. In 2007 founded Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for brands including Comcast, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Meguiar’s Auto to name a few. Also directly managed mobile campaigns for P&G with an emphasis on youth focused female brands including CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. In 2005 co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007.
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About Butter, SHEnetics, Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Saaya Nath
Vice President of Jump Capital
Saaya Nath currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Boston Consulting Group as an Associate.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Tarun Gupta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Tarun Gupta currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. He previously worked at Scientific Games as the Manager.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Shanav Mehta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Shanav Mehta is the Vice President at Jump Capital.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Rohit Goyal
Co Founder, VP DeFi of Mudrex
Rohit Goyal joined Mudrex as Co-Founder in 2018.
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About Mudrex: Mudrex is a cryptocurrency company that specializes in autopilot smart crypto investment.
Sung Woo Choi
VP of Business & Corporate Development of Coinme
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About Coinme: Coinme is a digital currency exchange on a mission to be the worlds trusted gateway to digital currencies and a better financial future.
Phillip Goldfeder
SVP, Public Affairs of Cross River Bank
Phil Goldfeder began his career in public service as a community liaison for the New York City Council. His passion for service, along with his unique ability to understand the needs in the neighborhoods of Queens, earned him a position as the Queens Director for the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit under Michael Bloomberg. His unique ability to bring people together caught the attention of New York Senator Charles E. Schumer, who hired him as his Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. In September of 2011, Phil was elected to represent the 23rd District in the New York State Assembly, which encompasses southern Queens and Rockaway. In 2015, Goldfeder joined Cross River Bank as the Senior Director for Government Affairs where he was responsible for leading advocacy and outreach on Capitol Hill for the bank and its partners. In conjunction with Boston University and others, Phil led Cross River Banks successful effort to host the first annual Marketplace Lending Summit and was a leading voice in forming the Online Lenders Policy Institute. Phil Goldfeder recently took on a new role as the Assistant Vice President for Government Relations at Yeshiva University. He received his degree in Political Science from Brooklyn College.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.
Kura Gange
VP of Operations of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Magatte Wade
VP of Product of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Jonathan Summerton
VP Sales of Wyre
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About Wyre: Wyre develops a wide variety of payment APIs that offer a fast and cost-effective way of transferring money.
Peter Bordes
Vice President, Events & Sales of CoinDesk
Peter Bordes is the Head of Events & Sales at Messari.
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About CoinDesk, Messari, Stetson Real Estate: CoinDesk provides news and analysis on the trends, changes, technologies, companies, and people in the Bitcoin and digital currency world.
Ari Last
VP Business Development of Simplex
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About Simplex: Simplex is an EMI licensed Fintech company providing fraudless payment processing solutions to online merchants
Jamal Boykin
VP PR & Co-Founder of Follow Coin
Jamal Boykin is the VP PR & Co-Founder at Follow Coin B.V.
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About Follow Coin: Follow Coin is the platform to excel in trading in the Cryptocurrency world.
Jackson Fall
VP Product & Design of Keza
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About Keza: Keza has been acquired by Satoshi Citadel Industries
Brian Hathie
VP Investor Relations of Tradebits
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About Tradebits: Tradebits is a scalable, reliable, high-performance & highly configurable digital currency exchange.
Regina Ingel
Executive Vice President Of Operations of Applied Blockchain
Regina Ingel is the Executive Vice President Of Operations at Applied Blockchain Inc.
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About Applied Blockchain: Applied Blockchain seeks to scale Ethereum and altcoin mining operations through strategic partnerships.
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.
Jack Sallen
Co-Founder and VP of Development of AlphaPoint
Jack Sallen has over 15 years experience in futures trading and financial services. He was the first to automate electronic arbitrage on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Jack helped develop PhotonTrader, a robust, plug-in scalable, futures, and futures-options trading platform capable of connecting to multiple back-end systems, and wrote the connections to GL Trade, Rithmic, and Trading Technologies. In addition, Jack has developed numerous automated trading strategies and trading messaging systems.
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About AlphaPoint: AlphaPoint is a white-label software company powering crypto exchanges worldwide.
Jacky Chan
VP, Engineering of Kyokan
Jacky is a full-stack software engineer and frontend expert. An early engineer at Symphony, he built secure chat applications for Wall Street. As a Software Engineer at Uber, Jacky’s work made an impact on the majority of Uber’s drivers through the global (700+ city) onboarding funnel. Jacky brings world-class code quality and development velocity, design expertise and product sense to Kyokan.
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About Kyokan: Making blockchain accessible to everyone on earth.
Kevin Brown
Senior Vice President of Clarity PR
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About Clarity PR: Clarity delivers tech PR campaigns for the world’s most exciting technology startups.
John Humphreys
Senior Vice President of PROFICIO
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About PROFICIO: Proficio is an award wining cyber security service provider helping customers detect and prevent security breaches.
Alicia V. Nieva-Woodgate
Vice President, Corporate Communications and IR of Cantaloupe
Alicia V. Nieva-Woodgate joined Cantaloupe in 2020 as Vice President of Corporate Communications and IR, overseeing PR, IR, Internal Communications, and Social. Previously she was Head of Corporate Communications at Western Union. Prior to her role at Wester Union, she was Managing Director at ANW Networks Companies she’s represented over the years include Dell, Nlyte, Alchemy API, VERITAS, GlobalLogic and Method, Relation Insurance, MarkLogic, and Xoom. She was also the Director of Corporate Communications at Mediabolic and Opsware. Ms. Nieva-Woodgate began her PR career at the US headquarters for Crosby Securities, Inc., a Hong Kong based investment bank, as Manager of Media Relations and Marketing for North America. She has also held Board positions with the Commonwealth Club of California’s INFORUM, the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR), The Social Media Club of Denver, The CityKids Foundation, Citymeals-on-Wheels Young Professional’s Alliance, and PRSA Silicon Valley. She is also currently the Programing Chair for PRSA Colorado.
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About Cantaloupe: Cantaloupe is a technology and payments company that gives its customers scale and flexibility in their retail value chain.
Hoang Nguyen
VP R&D of WeTrust
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About WeTrust: Building reciprocal aid organizations on the blockchain
Greg McGregor
VP Engineering of Dispatch
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About Bright Apps LLC, Dispatch: Dispatch is building a revolutionary business-ready distributed ledger protocol for creating fast, scalable and secure data-centric dApps.
Trevor Whiting
VP, Investor Relations of RealtyReturns
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About CyberArk Software, RealtyReturns: Investment Platform Providing Real Estate Investments Using Cryptocurrency (ETH)
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