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Asiff Hirji is an entrepreneur and business executive. He has served as President of blockchain-based financial technology company Figure Technologies since Previously he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and President and COO of online trading broker TD Ameritrade.
Asiff was born in Tanzania and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He received an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. After graduating from business school, Asiff became a founder of Mitchell Madison Group (a strategic consultancy focused on the financial services industry). He then served as president and CIO of Netfolio and vice president of consulting firm Bain & Company.
In , Asiff became CIO of online broker TD Ameritrade and later served as president and COO. Beginning in , Hirji was an adviser at venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz, one of the early investors in Coinbase.
In Hirji was named president and Chief Operating Officer of cryptocurrency exchang
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News: MoonPay appoints Asiff Hirji, former Coinbase President, as COO
Former Coinbase Global executive Asiff Hirji has joined MoonPay as its new President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), media reports said.
Hirji has been roped in bygd the firm amid its push into the non-fungible (NFT) token market.
Before taking over MoonPay President's mantle this month, he worked as a President of blockchain financial services firm Figure Technologies and was President and COO of crypto exchange Coinbase from until
MoonPay had said in July last year that Hirji was set to join as advisor to Ivan Soto-Wright, the company's CEO. The company announced a slew of other executive hires at the same time.
He said he joined MoonPay because he thinks the company is well-positioned to help bring digital assets to mainstream consumers, despite the market downturn and concerns from lawmakers.
“The only thing we’ve proven in crypto so far is that we can do fraud better than anybody else,” he said.
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Asiff Hirji is the President of Figure in San Francisco. Figure provides consumer financial solutions for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning.
Previously, Asiff was President and COO at Coinbase, where he scaled the largest cryptocurrency broker, exchange, and custodian to over $1B in revenues and raised $M. He has worked as a faculty member teaching PE courses at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley, served as Chairman of the Board at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen, Denmark ( – ), acted as Operating Advisor at Andreessen Horowitz, and reported directly to Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman ( &#; ) as Chief Restructuring Officer.
From to , Asiff served as the President of TD Ameritrade Holding Company, a formerly publicly traded provider of securities brokerage services. He has also served as a Senior Advisor at Bain Capital, Founder Partner at Inflekxion, TPG Capital, Bain & Company, Netfolio, and Mitchell Madison Group, and Dir