Paul Jabaay

Paul Jabaay currently serves as Senior Director of Financial Crimes Monitoring and Interim Director of Investigations Operations at Circle since February 2024. Previously, Paul worked at OpenSea as part of the Global Investigations team from June 2023 to November 2023. Prior to this role, Paul spent nearly nine years at Coinbase, where positions included Senior Manager and Staff Investigator in Global Intelligence, focusing on financial crime investigations involving cryptocurrency. Key achievements include leading a team that assisted law enforcement with criminal investigations, designing training programs for law enforcement agencies, and co-inventing a compliance risk scoring machine learning platform. Paul also has experience as a Risk Analyst at Coinbase, where efforts centered on investigating fraud and reducing losses. Academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Grand Valley State University, where Paul also contributed as President of the Graduate Student Association.