From Banks to Bitcoin: J.P. Morgan employees who have left Wall Street for the crypto world

Institutional•December 5, 2018, 4:46PM EST
UPDATED: March 24, 2022, 4:32PM EDT
From Banks to Bitcoin: J.P. Morgan employees who have left Wall Street for the crypto world

J.P. Morgan is one of the largest and most well-respected investment firms on Wall Street. The bank has a rich history of producing CEOs of billion-dollar companies and financial executives. J.P. Morgan alumni have established themselves as industry pillars, from traditional finance to politics to tech, and crypto is no exception. And while J.P. Morgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, has called bitcoin a “fraud” and “worse than tulip bulbs”, many former employees have made the move to crypto full-time.[related id="1"]

The Block has compiled a graphical representation of some former J.P. Morgan employees who now work in crypto. The visualization below is the second installment in a series where we explore and track the talent transitioning from Wall Street to Crypto.

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