Today, Blockdaemon welcomes Alex Zinder as Chief Product Officer (CPO). This blog shares some of his professional background, focus at Blockdaemon in this new role, and a look toward building for the next wave of institutional blockchain adoption.
Professional Background
Alex brings more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of finance and emerging technology. He most recently served as CPO at Layer-2 network Reya Labs. Before that, he led product strategy and enterprise security initiatives for digital assets at Ledger, and spent over a decade in technology leadership roles at Nasdaq.
Focus As Chief Product Officer
In this role, Alex will lead product development, refine the platform vision and accelerate delivery across staking, DeFi, MPC wallets and vaults, nodes and APIs.
“We’re entering a phase where the infrastructure decisions made today will define the next decade of web3. Alex has a track record of building with that kind of horizon in mind,” said Konstantin Richter, CEO and Founder of Blockdaemon. “His arrival signals our intent to set the pace, not follow it, when it comes to what institutional blockchain platforms can deliver.”
“I’ve spent most of my career building software solutions at the frontier of innovation. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that achieving impact at an institutional scale is impossible without the right tools. With vision, conviction, and world-class execution, Konstantin and the team at Blockdaemon have helped propel distributed finance to an inflection point where technical maturity meets regulatory clarity. I’m both humbled and exhilarated to join this team as we execute on the next critical chapters of that original vision and position Blockdaemon for long-term, sustainable growth,” said Alex Zinder, Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Blockdaemon.
Welcome, Alex!
Alex Zinder joins Blockdaemon amid rapid growth, following the Earn Stack launch and the expand.network acquisition. With $110 billion in digital assets secured for more than 400 institutional clients, Blockdaemon is deepening product leadership to meet accelerating demand and define the future of institutional blockchain infrastructure.
