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Walter Hessert is the Head of Strategy and BD at Paxos. He also is the Founder of Gold Games.
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Charles Cascarilla
Charles Cascarilla is the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, a regulated blockchain technology company that allows companies to trade, hold, and tokenize assets in the crypto space, achieved through the company's array of software solutions. Cascarilla is a certified financial analyst and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. His experience in the finance industry dates back to 1999, when he began his career as an analyst at Bank of America, followed by a brief stint as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in 2000. Since then, he has worked with a number of other notable companies, including Claiborne Capital Management, Cedar Hill Capital Partners, Liberty City Ventures, and the Association for Digital Asset Markets.
Austin Campbell
Austin Campbell is the CEO of WSPN US. Mr. Campbell brings extensive experience in stablecoin markets and digital asset strategy to his new role, including running stable value products at JPM and Citi, managing reserves and risk for the Paxos stablecoins (BUSD, USDP), and having helped to design PYUSD.
Bobby Cho
Bobby Cho is President and Founding Partner at CMS Holdings. CMS is a principal investment firm focused on crypto assets. Previously, Bobby was chief operating officer of DRW’s crypto trading arm, Cumberland. Prior to DRW, Bobby was Director of Trading at Paxos Trust Company concentrating on building out crypto trading and custody products. Bobby started his career at SecondMarket working in illiquid asset-backed securities. At SecondMarket, Bobby helped build out their bitcoin trading arm, Genesis Global Trading, and asset management division, Digital Currency Group. Bobby is a graduate of Villanova University.
Kristen Keyes
Kristen Keyes is Head of Strategic Partnerships at Paxos and previously was an executive director at jpmorgan Chase, where she has extensive experience working in the financial industry. She graduated from Duke University in the United States.
Alex Guttler
Alex Guttler is Head of partnerships at Paxos. With over 17 years of experience as a sales and business development leader, he has extensive expertise in building and scaling the API partner ecosystem. He graduated from Duke University in the United States.
Ronak Daya
Ronak Daya is Head of Product at Paxos and previously worked at Coinbase where he has over 10 years of experience in product management, business leadership. He is a graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Hong Sun
Hong Sun is vice president of business development at Paxos. He graduated from Stanford University.
Emily Meyers
Emily Meyers is General counsel at Electric Capital and previously was Deputy general counsel at Paxos. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Brown University.
Malte Buecken
Malte Buecken is Director of Engineering at Paxos and has more than 10 years of experience leading high-performance teams across engineering, product, AI, machine learning, and data. He holds a master's degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Cologne in Germany.
Anthony Salerno
Anthony Salerno is Head of Financial Crimes at Mercury and was previously Director of Global Compliance Operations at Paxos and Head of Global Compliance at Polygon. He is a graduate of Mercyhurst University and Southern Methodist University.