Coinbase executive team & leadership
Coinbase's executive team includes 7 tracked leaders as of 2026-10-12, led by Brian Armstrong (Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Coinbase executive team overview
Coinbase has 7 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, day-to-day operations, financial strategy, legal (as of 2026-10-12). Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American crypto platform that Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam founded in May 2012. It runs a crypto exchange for consumers, an institutional business through Coinbase Prime, a developer platform, custody for digital assets and stablecoin payment rails, and it now sells access to equities, derivatives and prediction markets in what it calls the everything exchange. Coinbase trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker COIN. It reported 7.18 billion dollars of total revenue for 2025, up from 6.56 billion dollars in 2024, and closed the Deribit acquisition in August 2025 to lead in crypto options. The company is remote-first and states in its filings that it does not maintain a headquarters: the New York address on its SEC reports is given only because the regulator asks for one. It had 4,951 employees at the end of 2025, then cut about 700 roles, roughly 14 percent of staff, in May 2026 to reorganize around small AI-native teams.
Coinbase executive team org chart
Brian ArmstrongCo-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer- ECEmilie ChoiPresident and Chief Operating Officer
- AHAlesia HaasChief Financial Officer
- MAMolly AbrahamGeneral Counsel and Secretary
- DBDominique BailletChief People Officer
- CFCatherine FerdonChief Marketing Officer
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Faryar ShirzadChief Policy Officer
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Employees by management level
| Name | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Executive leadership | 20 | 0.3% |
| Vice presidents and directors | 330 | 4.7% |
| Managers and leads | 1,100 | 16% |
| Individual contributors | 5,529 | 79% |
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Leadership team
| Leader | Location | Profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BABrian ArmstrongCo-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → | |
| ECEmilie ChoiPresident and Chief Operating Officer | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → | |
| AHAlesia HaasChief Financial Officer | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → | |
| MAMolly AbrahamGeneral Counsel and Secretary | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → | |
| DBDominique BailletChief People Officer | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → | |
| CFCatherine FerdonChief Marketing Officer | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → | |
| FSFaryar ShirzadChief Policy Officer | ••••@coinbase.com | Profile → |
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Coinbase executive team roles
Brian Armstrong · full profile →
Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Armstrong co-founded Coinbase in May 2012 and has been its chief executive officer and a director since then, and chairman of the board since February 2021. Before Coinbase he was a software engineer at Airbnb from 2011 to 2012 and ran Universitytutor.com, an online tutoring directory he founded in 2003. He also worked briefly as a consultant in Deloitte's enterprise risk practice. Outside Coinbase he founded ResearchHub Technologies in 2020 and co-founded the longevity research company NewLimit in 2021. He holds a B.A. in computer science and economics and an M.S. in computer science from Rice University.
Emilie Choi · full profile →
President and Chief Operating Officer
Emilie Choi has been chief operating officer of Coinbase since June 2019 and its president since November 2020. She joined in March 2018 as vice president of business, data and international. From 2009 to 2018 she was vice president and head of corporate development at LinkedIn, including after its acquisition by Microsoft, and before that she worked on digital strategy and corporate development at Warner Bros. Entertainment. She sits on the board of Okta and previously served on the boards of ZipRecruiter, Naspers and Prosus. She holds a B.A. in economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Wharton.
Alesia Haas · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer
Alesia Haas has been chief financial officer of Coinbase since April 2018 and signs the company's SEC filings. Before Coinbase she was chief financial officer of Sculptor Capital Management, then known as Och-Ziff, from 2016 to 2018. Earlier she spent six years at OneWest Bank in several leadership roles, the last as chief financial officer from 2013 until its sale to CIT Group in 2015. She has served on the board of ANGI Homeservices since 2017 and previously on the boards of Vimeo and Sears Holdings. She holds a B.S. in business administration from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Molly Abraham · full profile →
General Counsel and Secretary
Molly Abraham was named general counsel and secretary of Coinbase when Paul Grewal stepped down as chief legal officer at the end of July 2026. She joined Coinbase in March 2021 and was vice president, legal, working alongside Grewal on the company's main legal fights with regulators. She came from Kitty Hawk, the flying car startup, where she was general counsel, after working as an associate at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. She started her career as a product development engineer at Procter and Gamble.
Dominique Baillet · full profile →
Chief People Officer
Dominique Baillet became chief people officer of Coinbase in August 2026, succeeding Lawrence Brock, who stepped down on August 17 and stayed on as an adviser. She joined Coinbase in May 2020 and, as vice president, people, led large parts of the people organization, shaping its hiring, compensation and performance programs with a product-minded approach to HR. She takes the role a few months after the May 2026 restructuring that cut about 14 percent of the workforce.
Catherine Ferdon · full profile →
Chief Marketing Officer
Catherine Ferdon joined Coinbase as chief marketing officer in September 2025 and leads marketing and communications across brand, product and policy work. She spent 16 years at Block, including nine as chief marketing officer of Cash App, where she grew the marketing and communications team from two people to about one hundred.
Faryar Shirzad · full profile →
Chief Policy Officer
Faryar Shirzad is chief policy officer of Coinbase, in charge of its work with lawmakers and regulators around the world, a role he took in 2021. He spent about 15 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was global co-head of the office of government affairs. Earlier he served on the National Security Council at the White House from 2003 to 2006 as deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs under President George W. Bush. In January 2026 he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on stablecoins and regulation.