John McAfee has been confirmed as the new CEO of Luxcore, following a company reorganisation…

High profile, and controversial, cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee has been announced as the new CEO of blockchain company Luxcore.

According to the official announcement of the news, Luxcore’s previous CEO, Brian Oliver, agreed to step down to make way for McAfee taking the top job. McAfee has been advising the company since April, and his role is now formalised.

McAfee said in the announcement statement that “Luxcore’s rapid development of game-changing technology requires a rapid escalation of business growth”.

“In order to achieve the company’s growth targets, there will be a heightened emphasis on strategic marketing of products such as the PoS web wallet and the yet-to-be released LuxGate cross-platform exchange. I am excited about our aggressive growth strategy and the many innovations yet to come”, he added.

Further additions to the Luxcore team are Frederick Angers as CFO, FragileMk for communications and social strategy, and Luiz Augusto Sara as designer.

Luxcore describes itself as the “next-gen blockchain ecosystem for enterprise privacy/security”. Launched in October of last year, it puts together enterprise security and privacy products, and the new appointments follow a reorganisation of the business that’s recently been completed.

Luxcore is also behind the LUXCoin cryptocurrency. The announcement of McAfee joining the company as CEO saw the price of LUXCoin jump by 26%, impressive given that this was against a market where major coins were experiencing double digit drops across the board.

You can find more information on the work of Luxcore over at its website, here.

McAfee, meanwhile, is getting down to work in his new job…