Sean Neville, Circle's co-CEO, will be stepping down from his role at the end of the month.
Neville, who co-founded the Boston-based payments firm in 2014 with Jeremy Allaire, said in an email obtained by CoinDesk that he notified the company's Board of Directors during a quarterly meeting.
While Neville did not explicitly give a reason for his departure, he said in his email that the company's recent sale of the Poloniex crypto exchange was one of several factors that made "The time appropriate for me to transition."
As part of Circle's board, Neville expects to continue working with CENTRE, the collaboration between Circle and Coinbase which is nominally the issuer of the USDC stablecoin.
First Neville intends to take a sabbatical, though he did not provide a timeframe.
Circle was founded as a peer-to-peer payments firm, and became the first company to receive a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services in 2015.The company acquired Poloniex in February 2018 for roughly $400 million.
The company sold the exchange less than two years later to a group of investors which include Tron's Justin Sun.Prior to the sale, Poloniex was experiencing headwinds, announcing in recent months that it would geofence certain digital assets away from U.S. consumers.
Under its new ownership, the exchange does not intend to serve U.S. customers at all.
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Circle Co-Founder Sean Neville Steps Down as Co-CEO
gepubliceerd op Dec 5, 2019
by Coindesk | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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