EMILIE CHOI President & COO
Coinbase
Emilie Choi holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . She helped build the Coinbase exchange alongside the company ’ s Founder and CEO , Brian Armstrong . Choi is also a keen angel investor and has taken part in several seed , Series A , and Series B funding rounds for a number of successful fintechs .
Before Coinbase , Choi served as LinkedIn ’ s Vice President of Corporate Development , overseeing more than 40 transactions at LinkedIn – including the acquisitions of Lynda , Bright , Newsle , Connectifier , Slideshare , and Fliptop , as well as LinkedIn ’ s JV in China and strategic investments in Cornerstone On Demand and G2 Crowd .
The dynamic COO and President has helped steer the company through four crypto winters and Coinbase ’ s recent round of redundancies . In relation to the fluctuations in cryptocurrency , though , the leadership team is looking beyond the current economic cycle and says that , despite the recent downturn , the company continues to be strong .
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