Hashdex, a world pioneer in crypto asset administration, introduced the addition of Brian Brooks to its Board of Administrators. The board now expands from 4 to 5 members. Brooks, a consultant of Hashdex investor Valor Capital Group, will function a strategic advisor, offering counsel on international regulation to additional Hashdex’s international market development.
Hashdex, identified for co-developing the Nasdaq Crypto Index™ (NCI™) with Nasdaq, supplies international traders with a dependable benchmark for the crypto asset class. In 2021, Hashdex launched the world’s first crypto ETFs and different modern merchandise, enabling over 225,000 traders to easily and securely add crypto to their portfolios.
Brooks, sometimes called the “first fintech Comptroller,” is acknowledged as a visionary international chief in monetary companies, fintech, and cryptocurrency. His profession is marked by historic achievements on financial institution charters, together with granting the primary fintech and crypto charters, and selling bank-fintech partnerships. As a member of Hashdex’s Board, Brooks will improve the agency’s efforts to bridge the hole between the crypto ecosystem and conventional finance, accelerating institutional adoption and scaling key partnerships with monetary organizations and policymakers worldwide.
Marcelo Sampaio, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashdex, acknowledged, “Brian’s intensive expertise as a pacesetter in monetary regulation and the crypto business will assist Hashdex meet our core mission of giving traders easy and safe entry to the growing crypto ecosystem. His confirmed means to push ahead considerate, innovation-driven public coverage is far wanted at the moment, and we’re thrilled to have him as a associate and advisor.”
Previous to becoming a member of Valor, Brooks served as CEO of two blockchain-focused firms and as chief authorized officer of worldwide crypto change Coinbase. He was additionally appearing U.S. Comptroller of the Forex, heading the U.S. authorities company that charters and supervises the nationwide banking system. He served as a member of the FDIC board of administrators and as a voting member of the Monetary Stability Oversight Council.
Brooks at present serves as a Managing Companion at Valor Capital Group, a Enterprise Capital fund supervisor based in 2011 that pioneered the “Cross-Border” technique, looking for to behave as a bridge between the U.S. and Latin America expertise markets. Valor, which invests in transformative companies from startup to scale-up levels, led Hashdex’s Collection A spherical and has been supporting the corporate with strategic, enterprise growth, and regulatory initiatives in Brazil and overseas.
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