ErisX is beefing up its leadership ahead of the launch of cryptocurrency spot and futures trading early next year.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the digital asset trading platform has hired markets and exchanges veteran Matt Trudeau as chief strategy officer. The news comes a week after ErisX closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million from firms such as Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures and Monex Group.

Trudeau started his trading career in the early 2000s when the U.S. equities market was going digital and has overseen some 10 global market launches including Instinet, Chi-X, IEX and most recently Tradewind, where he looked specifically at how to tokenize and trade precious metals.

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