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title: "Who runs Coinbase?"
description: "The leadership team of Coinbase."
canonical: "https://derrick-app.com/company/coinbase/executives"
category: "Company"
updated: "2026-10-12"
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# Who runs Coinbase?

> 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.

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## Leadership

| Name | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Armstrong | CEO | 2012 |
| Emilie Choi | COO | 2019 |
| Alesia Haas | CFO | 2018 |
| Molly Abraham | General Counsel | 2026 |
| Dominique Baillet | Chief People Officer | 2026 |
| Catherine Ferdon | CMO | 2025 |
| Faryar Shirzad | Chief Policy Officer | 2021 |

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## About Coinbase

- **Name:** Coinbase
- **Website:** https://www.coinbase.com
- **Industry:** Financial Services, Crypto Exchange
- **Founded:** 2012
- **Employees:** about 4,300
- **Headquarters:** One Madison Avenue, Suite 2400, New York, New York 10010, United States
- **Listed as:** COIN (Nasdaq Global Select Market)
- **Specialties:** Digital Currency, Payment Processing, Bitcoin, API, Cryptography, Bitcoin Exchange, Digital Currency Exchange, FinTech

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## About our data

Enriched by Derrick from public sources: the company website, filings, its LinkedIn page and the press. Individual emails and phone numbers are never published here.

- **Data as of:** 2026-10-12
- **Last verified:** 2026-10-12
- **Checks run:** Leadership, News, C-suite
- **Staff figures:** Estimated

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