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Dan Berkovitz is Vice Chairman, External and Regulatory Affairs at Millennium Management LLC, a position he has held since January 2024. He is a member of the firm's Compliance, Legal & Ethics Oversight Committee (CLEO). The source content does not describe any specific involvement in digital assets, tokenisation, or blockchain in this role.

Prior to joining Millennium, Berkovitz served as General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from October 2021 to January 2023. Before that, he was a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from September 2018 to October 2021, nominated by President Donald Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate. He previously served as General Counsel of the CFTC from 2009 to 2013 under then-chairman Gary Gensler, during which he also served as the agency's deputy representative to the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Prior to those roles, he was a Partner and Co-Chair of the Futures and Derivatives practice at WilmerHale, a senior staff lawyer for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management. Between his CFTC and Millennium roles, he founded Epictetus Strategic Consulting LLC, a strategic consulting firm focused on regulatory issues in commodity and financial markets. Berkovitz currently serves as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University Law School, where he teaches derivatives regulation, and previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School and Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Futures and Derivatives. He holds an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.

Hunter Merghart is COO, Digital Assets at Millennium, a position he has held since May 2022. In this role, he leads the firm's digital asset infrastructure strategy and is responsible for building out crypto infrastructure and making key hires.

Prior to joining Millennium, Merghart served as Executive in Residence and then Venture Partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on public blockchains, from June 2021. Before that, he was Head of US at Bitstamp from April 2019 to June 2021, where he was responsible for retail and institutional go-to-market strategy, operations, legal, compliance, marketing, and business development. In 2018, he started the Coinbase Trading Desk as Head of Trading and was a founding team member of Coinbase's institutional business and New York City office. Earlier in his career, he was an equities trader at Barclays, RBC, and Credit Suisse.