Chipper Cash co-founder Ham Serunjogi topped the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of finance professionals for North America this year.
Fourteen slots were occupied with people who have ties to crypto or blockchain.
While down from the number of leaders and founders celebrated during the last crypto bull run, Forbes did not shy away from honoring crypto professionals with its most recent “30 Under 30” of finance leaders in North America.
Nearly half of the slots were filled by professionals either working in or with ties to crypto.
Chipper Cash co-founder Ham Serunjogi topped the list. The 28 year-old’s company services over 5 million customers who use it to trade crypto or make payments across seven nations including South Africa, Nigeria, the U.K. and the U.S., according to Forbes. Serunjogi and his co-founder Maijid Moujaled launched Chipper Cash in 2018 and “have raised $300 million, hitting a peak valuation of $2.2 billion in November 2021,” the report also said.
Serunjogi is one of 14 slots on the prestigious list filled by people who have at one point worked with crypto or blockchain. “Serial entrepreneur” Samuel F. Poirier — while now the CEO of Mercantile, a company that provides small businesses with custom credit cards — at the age of 17 launched a bitcoin debit card, according to his Forbes profile.
Higher-profile additions to this year’s regional finance list also included BlackRock digital asset professional Maxwell Stein, MoonPay co-founder and CTO Victor Faramond, Uniswap Labs founder Hayden Adams and The Graph Foundation Director Eva Beylin.
In late 2021, Forbes put 21 “Bitcoin and Blockchain leaders” on its 30 Under 30 list, which was nearly double the previous year’s count, the magazine said at the time.
Bankman-Fried tops ‘Hall of Shame’ list
Forbes has been known for sometimes celebrating the achievements of young entrepreneurs who later go on to fail in dramatic fashion, but maybe no such instance is more famous than the magazine honoring one-time crypto wunderkind FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
This year, in an apparent mea culpa, Forbes published a “Hall of Shame” list topped by Bankman-Fried. That’s just a year after the magazine put Bankman-Fried on its cover and included the young executive in its “30 Under 30” list in 2022.
“Many Under 30 alumni have gone on to become tech titans, CEOs, and even billionaires,” Forbes said. “A few have turned out to be duds, or far worse.”
Bankman-Fried’s former colleague and Alameda Research co-CEO Caroline Ellison also made the “Hall of Shame” list.
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