Alesia Jeanne Haas
Summary
Alesia Jeanne Haas has served as Coinbase’s Chief Financial Officer since April 2018, overseeing finance as the company grew from a private startup into a public cryptocurrency platform.
Biography
Haas joined Coinbase in 2018 after serving as Chief Financial Officer of Oz Management, an alternative asset-management firm. Before Oz Management, she was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy at OneWest Bank. Earlier in her career, she held finance, investment and strategy positions at Merrill Lynch and General Electric. At Coinbase, Haas has been responsible for financial reporting, treasury, tax, accounting, investor relations and other finance functions. She also served as Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase’s U.S. subsidiary and testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services in 2021 about digital assets and financial regulation. Her background combines traditional financial-services experience with the demands of a highly volatile cryptocurrency business.
Notable achievements
- Built and scaled Coinbase’s finance organization as the company expanded internationally and added new cryptocurrency products.
- Helped prepare Coinbase for its Nasdaq direct listing in April 2021 and its transition to public-company reporting.
- Oversaw finance and investor-relations processes during Coinbase’s shift from a private technology company to a listed financial-services platform.
- Represented Coinbase before Congress in 2021 on digital-asset markets, consumer protection and financial regulation.
- Applied experience from regulated banking and asset management to Coinbase’s accounting, treasury, compliance and capital-planning functions.
Problem areas / controversies
- Coinbase’s 2022 disclosure that customers’ custodially held crypto assets could potentially be treated as part of a bankruptcy estate caused concern among customers and investors; Haas said the disclosure reflected regulatory guidance rather than a solvency warning.
- New York regulators’ 2023 settlement with Coinbase identified major weaknesses in transaction monitoring and compliance systems during Haas’s tenure as CFO, although the findings concerned the company’s systems rather than personal misconduct by Haas.
- The SEC’s 2023 lawsuit against Coinbase created substantial legal, reporting and business uncertainty for the company’s finance organization; the case was dismissed in February 2025.
- Public filings and shareholder litigation have subjected Coinbase’s financial disclosures and risk statements to scrutiny, but there is no widely documented finding that Haas personally committed financial misconduct.