Charlie is co-founder and CEO of Bitinstant, the leading financial integration service of the international, open-source Bitcoin payment network. He leveraged his position in both the old banking world and new alternative currency world to help pave the way for the Bitcoin economy to emerge in early 2011.

Known in the Bitcoin and old hacker communities as “Yankee,” Charlie is also a founding member and current Vice Chairman of the D.C-based Bitcoin Foundation. 

Charlie holds a BS in Economics & Finance from the City University of New York–Brooklyn College.