Changpeng Zhao

Founder at Binance

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Changpeng Zhao is the Founder and former CEO of Binance. He is originally from Guiyang, Guizhou, and was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu. He was a member of Blockchain.info and the chief technology officer of OKCoin, and also served as the technical director of Bloomberg. Changpeng Zhao is best known for founding cryptocurrency exchange Binance. His wife is He Yi, the co-founder of Binance, and they have two children together. On November 21, 2023, Changpeng Zhao announced his resignation as CEO.

Work Experience

Binance

Founder

OKX

Bloomberg

Education Experience

McGill University

Relevance Person

Sarthak Jain

Sarthak Jain currently works at dYdX and was previously Director of Institutional Sales at BIT and European Institutional Sales at Binance. He is a graduate of Grenoble School of Management and Singapore Management University.

Kathleen Chu

Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.

Yuri Mushkin

Yuri Mushkin is the Chief Risk Officer of OKX and will be responsible for leading the company’s global risk strategy and the enterprise risk management function independent of the business, reporting directly to the CEO and the Board of Directors. Yuri Mushkin started his career at Goldman Sachs and then joined McKinsey & Company as a senior risk expert and managed financial risks in McKinsey’s Investment Office (MIO).

Hakuna Xie

Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.

Mandy Campbell

Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.

Peng Jia

Peng Jia is the former CTO of Nimble Network and previously worked at Apple. He graduated from Stanford University, McGill University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Mike Jones

Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.

Jason Lau

Jason Lau is the Chief Operating Officer at Okcoin & Chief Innovation Officer at OKX, one of the world's leading fiat-focused digital asset exchanges. He has previously served as VP of Business Development of OKEx, an exchange focused on token-to-token and crypto derivative trading. With his background in traditional finance and trading, Jason is passionate about driving more awareness and adoption of crypto, building teams, capitalizing on growth opportunities, and ultimately helping people fulfill their potential. In his role at OKCoin, he is responsible for helping expand the company's international footprint to bring safe, trusted cryptocurrency access to users throughout the world.

James Jiang

James Jiang is a general partner at Redline Labs and previously worked at OKX. He holds a master's degree in software engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.