John Egan

Chief Product Officer

John Egan is Chief Product Officer at Polygon Labs, appointed in September 2025 as the company's inaugural CPO. Reporting directly to CEO Marc Boiron, he leads product vision and strategy with a focus on stablecoin payments adoption, unified liquidity, scalability, and interoperability. He works alongside payments hires Jamal Raees, Sam Fagin, and DiZien Low as Polygon Labs positions its blockchain as infrastructure for digital payments.

Prior to joining Polygon Labs, Egan spent approximately two years at Stripe as Head of Crypto, where he oversaw the company's cryptocurrency enablement and product solutions during a period that included the acquisitions of Bridge and Privy. Before Stripe, he founded incident management company Kintaba, which was backed by venture capital and counted Vercel, Gusto, and DoorDash among its customers. He also founded blockchain art platform Editional and YC-backed Caffeinated Mind, the latter of which was acquired by Facebook. At Facebook, he created and led Workplace by Facebook, the company's enterprise collaboration platform. Earlier in his career he worked as a Product Manager at Facebook. Egan is a Y Combinator graduate and holds a technology patent.

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