Coinbase Hires Big Names From Amazon and Facebook to Bolster Security and Business Development
Coinbase is adding some notable technology veterans to its team, it says. The new faces at the company - former Facebook security director Ryan McGeehan and Todd Edebohls, Amazon's former director of business development & sales - will bring with them extensive experience in the areas of security and business development. When asked for comment, the San Francisco-based company issued a statement regarding the new team members, which have yet to be formally announced: "These hires represent Coinbase growth, momentum and commitment to security. As an industry it shows bitcoin is growing up,....
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Coinbase just recently hired prominent Facebook and Amazon execs. Popular bitcoin wallet and payment processor Coinbase just made two prominent additions to its team. Facebook's director of security incident response - Ryan McGeehan, and Amazon's director of business development & sales - Todd Edebohls, will be leaving their jobs soon to work for Coinbase. When asked to comment about the new hires, Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of the bitcoin startup, told Techcrunch that "The industry is continuing to evolve," and "We're attracting very, very top talent from prior rocketships that were....
Popular bitcoin brokerage service and web wallet provider Coinbase is managing to snag some Silicon Valley talent. Start-ups and technology blog TechCrunch published a report Wednesday evening that indicates that Facebook's Director of Security Incident Response, Ryan McGeehan, is taking a job at San Francisco-based Coinbase in a security-based role. Ryan McGeehan's Announcement. McGeehan's announcement came via his Facebook page (what else?), in which he noted that his last day with Facebook will be in early April - at which point he'll be leaving for Coinbase.
Coinbase announced on their blog Tuesday that they're adding a total of five new employees to their team. The group of new hires is made up of three software engineers, a manager of business development, and a recruiting director. Let's take a brief look at what the software engineers have done in the past to see what they could possibly be doing for Coinbase: Adrian Macneil, whom, according to his Linkedin page has actually been working at Coinbase since April, has experience in "architecting and implementing highly secure and stable mission-critical systems" and "e-commerce software."....
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