Welcome Alesia Haas, Coinbase Chief Financial Officer

Today, we’re very excited to announce that Alesia Haas will join Coinbase as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In her role at Coinbase, Alesia will allow us to accelerate our goal of building a world-class financial team that scales with the company through this period of profound growth. She is a seasoned financial services executive who brings extensive experience in managing highly regulated complex financial institutions.

“I’m incredibly excited to have Alesia join Coinbase as our new CFO. She brings deep financial services experience to our growing company. As a fintech company, finance is core to everything that we do. We plan to continue bringing the best and brightest from both finance and technology companies to help create an open financial system for the world.” — Brian Armstrong, Co-founder & CEO at Coinbase

Alesia joins us from Oz Management, a global alternative asset management firm based in NYC, where she served as Chief Financial Officer. In her role there she oversaw all aspects of accounting, tax, treasury, financial operations, internal audit and shareholder services.

Prior to Oz Management, Alesia served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy for OneWest Bank, N.A. Her prior experience includes senior finance, investment and strategy roles with Merrill Lynch and General Electric.

She begins immediately while helping Oz Management with the transition through June 1, 2018.

Welcome Alesia!