Management

Brian Armstrong is our co-founder and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors since our inception in May 2012 and as Chairman of our Board of Directors since February 2021. Before our founding, Mr. Armstrong served as a software engineer at Airbnb, Inc., an online marketplace company, from May 2011 to June 2012. From August 2003 to May 2012, Mr. Armstrong served as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Universitytutor.com, an online tutoring directory. Mr. Armstrong also previously served as a consultant for the enterprise risk management division at Deloitte & Touche LLP, an accounting and consulting firm, from July 2005 to November 2005. In January 2020, Mr. Armstrong founded ResearchHub Technologies, Inc., a scientific research development platform, where he currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors. In December 2021, Mr. Armstrong co-founded NewLimit, Inc., a healthcare research company, where he is an investor and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Armstrong holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rice University.

Emilie Choi has served as our Chief Operating Officer since June 2019 and our President since November 2020. Ms. Choi previously served as our Vice President of Business, Data and International, from March 2018 to June 2019. From December 2009 to March 2018, Ms. Choi served as the Vice President & Head of Corporate Development for LinkedIn Corporation, a professional networking site and, following its acquisition in December 2016, a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, a software company. From August 2007 to December 2009, Ms. Choi served in various positions at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., a mass media and entertainment company, including as Director of Digital Business Strategy and Operations and Manager of Corporate Business Development and Strategy. Ms. Choi has served as a member of the board of directors of Okta, Inc., an identity and access management company, since August 2022. Ms. Choi previously served as a member of the board of directors of ZipRecruiter, Inc., a jobs marketplace, from May 2021 to August 2022, Naspers Limited, a global internet group, from April 2017 to August 2021, and Prosus N.V., the international internet assets division of Naspers Limited, from April 2017 to August 2021. Ms. Choi holds a B.A. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Alesia Haas has served as our Chief Financial Officer since April 2018. Prior to joining us, Ms. Haas served as the Chief Financial Officer for Sculptor Capital Management, Inc. (formerly Och Ziff Capital Management Group LLC), a global institutional alternative asset manager, from December 2016 to April 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Haas served in various leadership positions at OneWest Bank, N.A., a commercial bank, from March 2009 until shortly after its acquisition by CIT Group Inc. in December 2015, including most recently as its Chief Financial Officer from January 2013 until the acquisition. Ms. Haas has served as a member of the board of directors of ANGI Homeservices Inc., an internet services company, since September 2017, and Vimeo, Inc., a video software company, since May 2021. Ms. Haas previously served as a member of the board of directors of Sears Holding Corp., a retail holding company, from February 2016 to December 2016. Ms. Haas holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

L.J. Brock has served as our Chief People Officer since February 2019. Prior to joining us, Mr. Brock served as Senior Managing Director and Chief People Officer at Citadel LLC, a hedge fund, from April 2016 to March 2019. From April 2008 to April 2016, Mr. Brock served as Vice President of Global Talent Group and People Infrastructure for Red Hat, Inc., a global open-source software company. Mr. Brock holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University at Albany, SUNY and an M.B.A. from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Paul Grewal has served as our Chief Legal Officer & Secretary since August 2020. Prior to joining us, Mr. Grewal served as Vice President & Deputy General Counsel of Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.), a social technology company, from June 2016 to August 2020. From December 2010 to June 2016, Mr. Grewal served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California. Mr. Grewal was previously a partner at Howrey LLP, a global law firm, and served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Mr. Grewal currently serves on the board of directors of a number of privately held companies and a nonprofit organization. Mr. Grewal holds a S.B. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Manish Gupta has served as our EVP of Engineering since August 2020. Prior to joining us, Mr. Gupta served as VP of Engineering for Lyft, overseeing several rideshare engineering teams. He joined Lyft after 16 years at Google, last holding the role of VP of Engineering for Google’s Ads platform. Mr. Gupta graduated from University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign with an M.S. in Computer Science. He also holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai.

Greg Tusar serves as our VP, Institutional Product for Coinbase, leading the development of the firm’s efforts in areas such as Prime Brokerage and Custody, Financing, and its Exchange. Mr. Tusar joined from Tagomi Systems, where he was co-founder and CTO; Coinbase acquired Tagomi in 2020. Prior to founding Tagomi in 2017, Mr. Tusar was Head of Global Execution Services and Platforms at KCG Holdings, responsible for its Retail Market Making and Institutional efforts. Mr. Tusar spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a Partner and global head of the firm’s equities electronic trading business.

Max Branzburg serves as our VP, Product Management where he oversees all product development and growth for Coinbase’s consumer products. Prior to joining Coinbase, Mr. Branzburg co-founded and built Google Pay India, a payments app built from the ground up for India, now with over 100M active users. Prior to Google, Mr. Branzburg worked at global consulting firm Booz & Company, where he focused on M&A, international expansion, and product strategy for global technology and energy companies. Mr. Branzburg holds a BA in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University.

Will Robinson serves as our VP of Engineering, leading our developer product suite. His teams enable direct user interactions with blockchains through products and services including Coinbase Cloud, core cryptographic primitives, hot and cold storage, yield, staking, asset additions and maintenance, and Coinbase NFT. Prior to Coinbase, Mr. Robinson served as the Chief Technology Officer at ASAPP, an AI-powered customer software platform. Mr. Robinson spent nearly 13 years at Google in multiple technical leadership roles, from running the Google Chicago engineering team to being Chief Technology Officer of Chronical, an independent Alphabet company focused on enterprise cybersecurity. Mr. Robinson graduated from Stanford with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science.