Andrew Yang advises Web3-focused firm

Democratic presidential candidate 2020 Andrew Yang joined Pool data as a strategic advisor when he seeks to transform the data economy via Web3 technology.

Pool Data deploys Web3 to build infrastructure in an effort to allow people to monetize and control their online data. Yang said in a statement that the data economy is on the verge of a once-in-a-generation shift.

“Individual consumers are being massively overrun and out-resourced by trillion-dollar technology companies,” Yang said. “It makes sense for consumers to come together, pool their data and form data associations that can bargain collectively and manage a fair share of the data economy for everyone.”

Yang has brought the issues of data control and monetization onto the political agenda through the Data Dividend Project, which aimed to establish data-as-property rights under privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act.

The political figure and entrepreneur told Blockworks in an interview earlier this year that crypto and Web3 advocates need to get more politically involved. He revealed the Lobby3 DAO in February – designed to fund political advocacy and educate lawmakers about the positive potential of Web3.

Bitcoin company NICE promoted Tejas Shah and Nate Conrad to become the company’s managing director and president respectively.

The move comes as the company said its bitcoin balances hit a record high in the third quarter. Shah and Conrad will focus on accelerating NYDIG’s investments in its mining solutions and platform technology businesses.

The two will replace CEO Robert Gutmann and President Yan Zhao, who will remain with NYDIG’s parent company Stone Ridge Holdings Group, which they co-founded with Ross Stevens in 2012.

Shah was most recently NYDIG’s global head of institutional finance, while Conrad worked as global head of payments. Prior to joining NYDIG in 2020, Shah had a nearly 20-year career at Goldman Sachs. Conrad joined Stone Ridge in 2016 and NYDIG in 2020 after also starting his career at Goldman Sachs.

Alexandre Kechwho is leaving his role as director of blockchain and digital assets at Citi Ventures, is set to join Six digital exchanges.

“This week is my last at Citi Ventures, more than a year after launching the Blockchain & Digital Asset Studio practice,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post. “This may seem like a short period of time, and it is. But sometimes an exceptional opportunity comes along.”

Before joining the Citigroup subsidiary in September 2021, Kech was head of securities and foreign exchange markets at SWIFT and later co-founded Onchain Custodian, where he served as CEO.

The founder and former president of crypto miner HIVE Blockchain Technologies took a new position as CEO of Valoran issuer of crypto ETPs.

Olivier Roussy Newtonwho also co-founded Valour, replaces Russell Starr, who is set to reprise his role as head of capital markets and maintain his role as executive chairman.

“My role was never meant to be permanent and to have someone with Olivier’s pedigree in is a testament to the quality of Valor as a company and the global team that supports Valor’s vision to be the dominant ETP player in the world,” said Starr in a statement.

Roussy Newton is a partner in the investment fund Latent Capital and currently sits on the board of SEBA Bank AG.

Software development company Alluvial named a former Coinbase Cloud executive as head of growth as the company continues its focus on building secure liquid staking solutions.

Mara Schmidt joins Alluvial as Head of Growth after serving as Coinbase Cloud’s Head of Sales, a role where she oversaw customer relationships, strategic partnerships and business growth initiatives.

Prior to joining Coinbase, she led business development at blockchain infrastructure company Bison Trails, which Coinbase acquired in February 2021. Schmiedt also previously worked as chief strategy officer at blockchain technology company ConsenSys from 2018 to 2020.

Crypto exchange LMAX Digital employee Bryan Christian as director of sales in the United States and Cassandra Cox as director of institutional sales in Europe.

Christian and Cox will oversee the growth and expansion of the company’s crypto product pipeline and lead sales coverage for institutional clients in the US and Europe respectively.

A former CMO at crypto exchange CrossTower, Christian was also previously CEO at Nasdaq and head of US sales at Cboe Global Markets. Cox was at Société Générale from 2012 to September 2021, where she was managing director focusing on institutional currency and emerging market sales.

maple treea platform where pooled capital is lent to crypto companies, taken on board Chad’s walls as the company’s new capital markets director and Daniel Lim as assistant director for capital markets.

Walls was previously an institutional business development director at Celsius, a crypto lender that filed for bankruptcy in July. Lim most recently held product strategy roles at HPS Investment Partners and Riverstone Holdings, and also previously worked in Goldman Sachs’ cross-asset sales team.

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