Circle Names Devron Brown, Former US House Senior Counsel for Fintech, as Director for Global Policy

Brown worked as a lawyer in Congress in 2020.

AccessTimeIconOct 1, 2021 at 6:05 a.m. UTC
Updated May 11, 2023 at 4:04 p.m. UTC
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Circle, the payments company that operates stablecoin USDC and equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest, has named Devron Brown as its senior director for global policy, according to a tweet posted by Circle’s Dante Disparte.

Brown started in September, according to his LinkedIn profile.

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    CORRECTION (Oct. 1, 14:15 UTC): An earlier version of this story mistakenly said Circle still operates the Poloniex crypto exchange. Circle sold Poloniex in 2019.

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