Executive Team

Jon Paul Richardson has served as our chief executive officer and director since co-founding Exodus with Daniel Castagnoli in 2016. Previously Mr. Richardson served as our president from July 2016 until July 2019. 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.

Veronica McGregor has served as chief legal officer since January 2022. Prior to joining Exodus, Ms. McGregor was the chief legal officer of ShapeShift from 2018 to 2021 where she managed in-house legal and compliance function, global legal strategy, governmental relations and regulatory affairs. Prior to that she was a partner at Goodwin Proctor from 2016 to 2018 and Hogan Lovells from 2014 to 2016 where she specialized in assisting companies navigate state and federal laws and regulations related to digital assets, among other things. Ms. McGregor has a Juris Doctor from University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from San Francisco State University.

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.