Copper’s new CEO from Goldman marks crypto hiring spree – DL News
- Copper gets a new CEO and the SEC’s enforcement boss joins a law firm.
- Those are just two of the biggest recent job moves in the industry.
Copper has appointed Amar Kuchinad as its new global CEO.
Kuchinad takes over from Dmitry Tokarev, who founded the crypto trading technology provider that counts former UK finance minister Philip Hammond as one of its backers.
Tokarev was CEO for seven years. He remains on Copper’s board.
Kuchinad began his career at Credit Suisse, and was head of US portfolio credit trading at Goldman Sachs.
He was also a senior policy advisor to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and founded an SEC-registered company, Electronifie, to automate bond trading.
