Charles Cascarilla

Charles Cascarilla is the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, the regulated blockchain infrastructure company he started with Rich Teo in 2012 as the itBit exchange. In 2015 Paxos received a limited-purpose trust charter from the New York State Department of Financial Services, making it one of the first US companies approved and regulated to offer crypto products, and it went on to issue the Paxos Standard stablecoin and the gold-backed PAX Gold token. Before Paxos, he spent over a decade in asset management, co-founding Cedar Hill Capital Partners in 2005 and its venture capital arm Liberty City Ventures in 2012, after earlier roles at Claiborne Capital, Bank of America Securities, and Goldman Sachs. He has been a persistent advocate for regulated digital asset markets, testifying before the US Senate and House, and was a founding member of Coin Center and the Association for Digital Asset Markets. He holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA charterholder.

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