{"id":80623,"date":"2023-06-22T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=80623"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:05:12","slug":"eight-roads-hires-former-coinbase-japan-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/eight-roads-hires-former-coinbase-japan-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Roads hires former Coinbase Japan CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of Coinbase Japan Nao Kitazawa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/nao-kitazawa_i-am-thrilled-to-share-with-you-all-that-activity-7061627296385798144-ohTB?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=member_desktop\">joined<\/a> as an investment partner at venture firm Eight Roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He noted that he joined to realise his love for fintech and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kitazawa left Coinbase Japan in February this year after nearly five years with the company. Earlier the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-halt-operations-in-japan\">announced<\/a> its exit from the Japanese market, citing unfavourable market conditions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt is a great honour to be part of a firm with a successful track record of backing some of the world\u2019s most innovative and disruptive companies,\u201d said the former head of the exchange.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eight Roads, formerly Fidelity Ventures, began investing as far back as 1969. The firm has backed several crypto startups, including Fireblocks and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/kaiko-privlek-53-mln-na-mezhdunarodnuyu-ekspansiyu\/\">Kaiko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June Circle <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/circle-hires-former-cftc-chair-heath-tarbert-as-chief-legal-officer\">hired<\/a> former chairman of the <span data-descr=\"\u041a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u043f\u043e \u0441\u0440\u043e\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0431\u0438\u0440\u0436\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u0442\u043e\u0440\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043b\u0435 \u0421\u0428\u0410\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CFTC<\/span> Heath Tarbert as chief legal officer.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto-friendly Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/crypto-advocate-set-to-become-alibabas-new-chairman-of-the-board\">will replace<\/a> Daniel Zhang as chairman of the company\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin exchange Binance also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-binance-us-hires-former-sec-enforcement-official\">hired<\/a> former SEC enforcement staffer George Canellos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former head of Coinbase Japan Nao Kitazawa joined Eight Roads as an investment partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,1248],"class_list":["post-80623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-fidelity-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80625,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80623\/revisions\/80625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}