MoonPay has added four senior financial, policy and digital-asset figures to its board, extending a leadership buildout tied to its push into regulated crypto infrastructure.
The crypto payments firm said Amy Butte and Mike Hayes have joined the board of MoonPay Inc., while Jonathan Auerbach has joined the board of MoonPay USA LLC. Tad Smith, former Sotheby’s chief executive, is joining as an advisor.
The appointments bring MoonPay closer to the traditional-finance, policy and enterprise networks it has been courting across payments, stablecoins and tokenized assets. Auerbach spent nearly a decade at PayPal (NASDAQ: $PYPL), where he led strategy, M&A and growth and helped incubate its blockchain and digital currency business, including PayPal USD. Butte has led three companies through IPOs as CFO, including Navan and the New York Stock Exchange.
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Hayes adds a national-security and enterprise-operations profile. He spent 20 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL, served on the National Security Council under two presidents and later led VMware’s operations through its $94 billion acquisition by Broadcom. Smith has led Sotheby’s and Madison Square Garden, and invested in digital-asset companies through 50T Funds, whose portfolio included Coinbase (NASDAQ: $COIN), Kraken and Gemini (NASDAQ: $GEMI).
CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said the people joining MoonPay reflect the scale of the company’s ambition as digital assets move into a regulated phase of finance.
The board expansion follows a busy year for MoonPay. The company appointed former CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham as chief legal officer, acquired Sodot and DFlow, launched MoonPay Trade, secured both a New York BitLicense and Limited Purpose Trust Charter, and became the first crypto onramp integrated into ChatGPT.
MoonPay says it serves more than 30 million customers across 180 countries and over 500 enterprise clients.
The appointments sharpen the same message MoonPay has been building all year: it wants to be treated less like a crypto checkout tool and more like financial infrastructure for how money, stablecoins and tokenized assets move.
