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Jonathan Levin is Co-Founder and CEO at Chainalysis, a position he assumed in December 2024 following his appointment by the company's Board of Directors. He co-founded Chainalysis in 2014 alongside Michael Gronager and Jan Møller, and served as Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer from March 2015 until his elevation to CEO. During that period he led teams across strategy, corporate development, sales, marketing, research and development, and policy and government affairs. He continues to serve on the company's Board in his capacity as CEO.

Chainalysis builds data, software, and services that provide information and context on blockchain transactions, identifying the services behind transactions to support investigations, regulatory compliance, market intelligence, and taxation use cases. Levin began studying cryptocurrencies in 2012, focusing on the game-theoretic mechanisms securing Bitcoin, at a time when the subject was largely confined to computer science research. He has testified multiple times before the U.S. Congress on national security and blockchain technology and advises governments and large institutions on cryptocurrency risks and opportunities. Prior to Chainalysis, he co-founded Coinometrics, a cryptocurrency data company, in November 2013, serving as CEO until October 2014. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he studied from 2012 to 2014, and a BSc from the University of Bristol. During his time at Oxford he also served as a Research Assistant at the Oxford Martin School, contributing to research on global economic megatrends and agglomeration trends in cities.

Michael Gronager is Co-Founder of Chainalysis, the blockchain data analytics company he co-founded in 2014. He served as CEO from founding until December 2024, when he permanently stepped down from the role, which passed to co-founder Jonathan Levin. He retains equity in the company but is no longer on its board.

Gronager entered the cryptocurrency sector in 2011, co-founding Kraken, a digital asset exchange, where he served as COO before transitioning to an advisory role until 2015. The founding premise of Chainalysis drew directly on his prior work managing large-scale data infrastructure: he identified that blockchain transaction data could be indexed and analysed to map market activity, customer behaviour, and fund flows. Under his tenure as CEO, Chainalysis developed blockchain analytics tools used by financial institutions, government agencies, and law enforcement for compliance and transaction tracking. Its flagship product, Reactor, was built to trace wallet activity and fund origins across public blockchains. He also participated in regulatory work, including contributing to the Blockchain and Virtual Currencies Working Group that informed the 5th European Anti-Money Laundering Directive. Before cryptocurrency, Gronager managed large-scale distributed computing infrastructure, including serving as CEO of the Nordic DataGrid Facility, which operated distributed storage for Large Hadron Collider research at CERN. He holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Quantum Mechanics, both from the Technical University of Denmark, obtained in 1995 and 1998 respectively.