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.

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Diederik van Wersch

Sales Director

Diederik van Wersch is Regional Sales Director, ASEAN at Chainalysis, based in Singapore, a position he has held since November 2023. In this role, he oversees the company's commercial activities across the ASEAN region, covering sales and business development in the blockchain analytics space. He has spoken publicly on cryptocurrency adoption trends in Asia, noting that countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines are significant drivers of demand, particularly around DeFi, gaming, and cross-border money transfers via crypto and stablecoins. He has identified the scale of crypto companies headquartered in Asia — including Bybit, Crypto.com, BitGet, Gate.io, and Animoca Brands — as a distinguishing feature of the regional market relative to Europe and the US.

Van Wersch has been at Chainalysis since March 2018. Prior to his current position, he served as Director of Mid-Market Sales from November 2022 to November 2023, Head of Mid-Market Sales EMEA from August 2021 to December 2022, and in a Business Development EMEA role from March 2018 to August 2021, all based in London. Before joining Chainalysis, he was Head of Business Development Canada at POLYAS GmbH from July 2016 to February 2018, where he opened the company's Canadian branch in Vancouver. Earlier, he worked as Senior Sales Manager for the Netherlands and UK at Nestpick, part of Rocket Internet SE, from July 2014 to June 2016. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics with International Relations from the University of York, where he studied from 2011 to 2015, and completed the International Baccalaureate at ABA, An IB World School, between 2008 and 2011.

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Jonathan Levin

Chief Executive Officer

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.

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