Executive Team

Jon Paul Richardson has served as our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and as Chairman of our Board since co-founding Exodus with Daniel Castagnoli in 2016. Previously, Mr. Richardson also served as our President from July 2016 until July 2019. In 2021, he led Exodus in becoming the first U.S. company to conduct an SEC-qualified crypto-only public stock offering, making Exodus the only U.S. company to have its common stock digitally represented on the blockchain. Under Mr. Richardson’s leadership, Exodus has grown to serve millions of customers worldwide. Mr. Richardson holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

James Gernetzke has served as our chief financial officer since March 2019. Prior to joining Exodus, Mr. Gernetzke served as the chief financial officer of Banyan Medical Systems, Inc., a healthcare technology company, from February 2017 to May 2019, where he was responsible for all financial aspects of the company’s business. Prior to that, Mr. Gernetzke served as director of finance at First Data Corporation from December 2015 to January 2017. Mr. Gernetzke is a registered Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois and holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Marquette University and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Matias Olivera has served as chief technology officer since June 2022, and previously served as lead software engineer, engineering manager and director of engineering beginning in November 2019. Beginning in 2014, Mr. Olivera has worked as an open source developer at Github, contributing to multiple open source projects from companies including Airbnb, Facebook and Walmart. He has also spent time as a software engineer at various companies from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Olivera was a professor for web programming at Universidad Católica del Uruguay from 2015 to 2020. He graduated from Universidad Católica del Uruguay with a degree in computer engineering.

Gerardo Di Giacomo has served as Chief Security Officer at Exodus since May 2025, where he leads the Company’s global security strategy in support of building a trusted financial and payments platform. Prior to joining Exodus, Mr. Di Giacomo served as Head of Security at Aptos Labs, a blockchain technology company, from January 2023 to April 2025, where he was responsible for securing the Aptos Ecosystem. Prior to that, he served as Principal Security Engineer at Stripe, a payment processing company, from June 2020 to January 2023, where he led product security and threat prevention strategy. He brings over 20 years of security leadership experience across major technology companies, including senior roles at Microsoft, WhatsApp, and Meta, where he served as a founding member of Meta’s Libra project. Across his career, Gerardo has enabled the secure scaling of consumer payment platforms, strategic payments initiatives, and high-throughput financial infrastructure operating at global scale. His combination of enterprise-grade security rigor, FinTech execution, and blockchain-native expertise supports Exodus’s ability to operate with institutional-level trust as it expands beyond crypto into the broader future of finance.