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OKX ‘OG’ Execs Tim Byun and Wei Lan Leave Crypto Exchange

cryptovert April 17, 2024 1 min read
  • Tim
    Byun
    was
    CEO
    of
    U.S.
    arm
    Okcoin
    between
    2018
    and
    2020,
    and
    later
    became
    head
    of
    global
    government
    relations
    at
    OKX.

  • Wei
    Lan
    was
    head
    of
    product
    and
    ran
    the
    trading
    desk
    at
    the
    second-largest
    exchange
    by
    volume,
    according
    to
    a
    person
    familiar
    with
    the
    setup.

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Long-term
senior
OKX
executives
Tim
Byun,
who
was
in
charge
of
global
government
relations
at
the
world’s
second-largest
cryptocurrency
exchange,
and
Head
of
Product
Wei
Lan
have
both
recently
left
the
company,
according
to
people
familiar
with
he
matter.

For
two
years,
between
2018
and
2020,
Byun
held
the
position
of
CEO
at
Okcoin,
the
exchange’s
U.S.
subsidiary,
before
taking
up
the
government
relations
role.

Wei
Lan
oversaw
much
of
the
trading
desk
activity
at
OKX,
according
to
a
person
familiar
with
the
situation.

The
exchange
group
is
in
the
process
of
consolidating
its
parts
under
the

single
OKX
brand
,
shifting
away
from
having
a
separate
U.S.
brand.
Other
recent
departures
include
OKX
Global
Compliance
Chief
Patrick
Donegan,

who
left
in
January

after
just
six
months.

OKX
declined
to
comment.
Byun
and
Lan
did
not
respond
to
requests
for
comment.

Edited
by
Nick
Baker.

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