{"id":7778,"date":"2021-08-12T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:06:18","slug":"coinfund-hires-christopher-perkins-as-managing-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/coinfund-hires-christopher-perkins-as-managing-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"CoinFund hires Christopher Perkins as Managing Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Cryptocurrency firm CoinFund has hired Christopher Perkins of Citigroup Inc.<\/a>, to be a managing partner and President at the firm.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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To assist bridge the gap to the traditional finance sector\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a>, CoinFund, a blockchain-focused investment firm, hired Christopher Perkins from Citigroup Inc. as managing partner and president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perkins was the global co-head of Citigroup's futures, clearing, and foreign-exchange prime brokerage operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He'll engage with staff and institutional investors at CoinFund to help bridge the gap between crypto and traditional equities, according to a statement released by the firm on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Jake Brukhman, CoinFund's founder and CEO, “Chris Perkins will play a crucial role in achieving institutional scale to better position CoinFund as a prominent global investment manager at the convergence of crypto and traditional finance.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChris joining CoinFund is not only a significant milestone for our firm, but it also represents a broader trend as Wall Street looks to the blockchain-technology field for opportunities<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About five years ago, Wall Street began experimenting with blockchain, and banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are now giving clients various digital-asset services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CoinFund, situated in Brooklyn, New York, invests in venture and liquid blockchain opportunities with a focus on digital assets, decentralization technologies, and infrastructure, and was launched in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cryptocurrency firm CoinFund has hired Christopher Perkins of Citigroup Inc., to be a managing partner and President at the firm. To assist bridge the gap to the traditional finance sector , CoinFund, a blockchain-focused investment firm, hired Christopher Perkins from Citigroup Inc. as managing partner and president. Perkins was the global co-head of Citigroup’s futures, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[790,409],"class_list":["post-7778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","tag-coinfund","tag-manager"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CoinFund-hires-Christopher-Perkins-as-Managing-Partner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}