Ex-SEC, Coinbase staffer becomes Securitize president

Newly appointed company president Brett Redfearn briefly worked as Coinbase’s head of capital markets and served for more than three years at the SEC.

Tokenization platform Securitize has named Brett Redfearn as president, with the former official at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also joining its board of directors.

Securitize’s Thursday notice said Redfearn previously served as the SEC’s director of its Division of Trading and Markets, worked as Coinbase’s head of capital markets and held various roles over a decade spent at JPMorgan. He has most recently been a member of Securitize’s advisory board.

Redfearn is the latest former government official to move into the crypto industry, raising questions about their roles overseeing digital assets while in office. Caroline Pham, who served as a commissioner and acting chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), left the agency in December to join crypto payments infrastructure company MoonPay.

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