CoinMarketCap today announced that David Salamon, currently Chief Product Officer, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Rush, who, after five years leading CoinMarketCap, is moving to build out the group's new business lines.

David joined CoinMarketCap in 2022. As Chief Product Officer, he took CMC AI from zero to one of the world's most widely used crypto-native AI products with 10M+ users, led a complete rebuild of CoinMarketCap's on-chain data infrastructure with DexScan tracking 107 chains, and led the modernisation of the CoinMarketCap data platform, which serves critical crypto data through API to tens of thousands of developers and enterprise customers worldwide with 33 million daily calls.

“David has worked side by side with me on nearly every major decision at CMC over the past few years, and he has built a strong product team along the way. He is mature, steady, and ready, and he has my full confidence as CMC's next CEO," said Rush.

"At CoinMarketCap we want to help build a world where anyone, or anything, acting in markets can see them clearly," said David Salamon. "To do that, we are committed to building the world's most complete, reliable and usable information and intelligence layer for crypto, and making it accessible to all. I'm grateful to Rush for building a company that takes that responsibility seriously, and for trusting me to carry it forward."

CoinMarketCap Names David Salamon Chief Executive Officer

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