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Ira Auerbach is Chief Product Officer, Digital Assets at Galaxy, a position he assumed in January 2026. His mandate covers product strategy across Galaxy and GalaxyOne, with a focus on supporting both institutional and retail digital asset offerings and simplifying access to the blockchain for both user segments.

Prior to joining Galaxy, Auerbach served as Head of Tandem at Offchain Labs from November 2024 to January 2026, a role focused on Ethereum scaling solutions. Before that, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Assets at Nasdaq from July 2022 to June 2024. He held multiple roles at Gemini between September 2017 and July 2022, including Head of Product and Global Head of Gemini Prime. Earlier in his career he held positions at Palantir Technologies, BGC Partners, and BNP Paribas, where his work spanned business development, foreign exchange trading, and product management. Auerbach holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, received in 2009.

Radwa Mahmoud is Director of Blockchain Infrastructure Services at Galaxy, a position she has held since February 2025. Prior to this, she served as VP and Head of Program Management at Galaxy from March 2023 to March 2025, where she was responsible for program delivery across the organization.

Mahmoud is a PMP-certified program manager with over a decade of experience planning, managing, and executing cross-functional, multi-disciplinary programs following the SDLC lifecycle. She previously held several roles at JPMorgan Chase, including Vice President, Senior Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, and Project Manager, spanning from June 2013 to March 2025. She holds a degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.