- Pantera is a leading VC investor with $4.7b in assets and a crypto hedge fund
- Chief Operating Officer Samir Shah left the company last week
- Finance manager Brian Flaherty left in May
Departures of Pantera Capital senior executives are more numerous than previously reported according to insiders, cited by CoinDesk. Pantera is a leading VC investor with $4.7 billion in assets and a major cryptocurrency hedge fund, but something seems to be amiss.
CTO and COO left abruptly
Chief Operating Officer Samir Shah left the company without notice last week. The JPMorgan Chase veteran left after a tenure of just two months. Chief Technical Officer Terence Schofield, who joined the company at the beginning of 2022, is also leaving.
The sources also inform that head of the capital formation team John Jonson is leaving as well. He led this fundraising group within Pantera.
Finance manager and legal counsel followed suit
Finance manager Brian Flaherty left in May, having worked there little more than a year, his LinkedIn page informs.
Legal counsel Joe Cisewski also changed his job. He is currently Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero’s chief of staff.
Dan Morehead, an alum of Tiger Management, founded Pantera almost two decades ago. The company began as a global hedge fund before moving to digital assets around 2013, when Bitcoin was gathering momentum and becoming more popular with financial companies and conventional investors.
Among the investors in Pantera are FTX, Coinbase, and Circle Internet Financial, a stablecoin issuer.
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