Bitget has appointed Gracy Chen as its chief executive officer (CEO), effective in May this year. Former CEO Sandra Lou will leave the company to focus on her personal career.
Gracy has more than 10 years of management, marketing and investment experience and joined Bitget as managing director in 2022. During her tenure, she and the management team led Bitget to promote its globalization strategy, sign celebrities such as Messi, build an international alliance network, increase Bitget's user scale by 4 times, and rank among the top five in the world in terms of total transaction volume and comprehensive strength.
Gracy actively promotes the integration of blockchain and charity, and led Bitget to launch the #Blockchain4Youth campaign to encourage young talents to embrace blockchain technology, as well as the #Blockchain4Her charity campaign to support female entrepreneurs and practitioners. Gracy is also a columnist for well-known media such as Forbes and Cointelegraph. In addition, she was invited to join Killer Whales, the first crypto reality TV show produced by a Hollywood team, as a judge to find potential Web3 startups. Gracy holds a BA from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).