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exchange has hired the New York Stock Exchange’s top technology executive—the latest sign that cryptocurrency trading platforms are seeking to move beyond their rebellious roots and look more like traditional financial markets.
Gemini, the digital-currency exchange founded by twin-brother entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will add NYSE chief information officer Robert Cornish to its management team later this month, Gemini representatives said.
Cornish will be Gemini’s first chief technology officer. His last day working at the NYSE was last week, people familiar with the situation said. Reached by telephone, Cornish declined to comment.
At the NYSE, Cornish’s duties included overseeing Pillar, an ambitious project to overhaul the Big Board’s aging electronic trading platforms. He was hired by the stock-exchange operator in 2016 after the first phase of the Pillar launch was marred by repeated delays and glitches.
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