<p>Jeremy Welch, the co-founder of crypto wallet services provider Casa, is joining cryptocurrency exchange Kraken as its vice president of product, the firm announced on Thursday. </p> <p>A former product specialist at Google, Welch co-founded Casa in 2016 as a hardware provider in the space. He <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-startup-casa-names-new-ceo-as-node-service-goes-open-source">left the firm</a> at the beginning of the year and will continue to serve as an advisor to the company. </p> <p>As for his new role at Kraken, Welch will be "launching strategic improvements across Kraken's product suite and leading the change" on new features, a press memo said. </p> <p dir="ltr">"Right now, we’re focused on making many improvements to the core exchange experience, but there are also many new product areas we are investing in that I think will completely take people by surprise," Welch said in an emailed Q&amp;A. "I’m excited to be contributing to both, and to continue to build a great team."</p>