Former Head at JPMorgan Joins the Bitcoin

Former Head at JPMorgan Joins the Bitcoin "Circle"

Paul Camp, former global head and managing director at JPMorgan Chase has joined bitcoin consumer finance company Circle Internet Financial as the new corporate treasurer and CFO. Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire expressed his confidence in Camp, saying: "Paul had grown up in that core payments infrastructure. That was really a key piece of what we were looking for... Paul is a very intelligent person... I think the vision of an Internet platform - a common Internet platform for value exchange - really captured his imagination. I think he's also at the point in his career where he's....


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