Ex-Trump Economic Advisor Joins Blockchain Startup’s Board of Advisors

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Published Oct 15, 2018 05:10AM ET

Updated Oct 15, 2018 06:21AM ET

Ex-Trump Economic Advisor Joins Blockchain Startup’s Board of Advisors

Spring Labs, a company leveraging blockchain technology to create a credit data sharing platform called Spring Network, announced on Friday that Gary Cohn, former White House economic advisor and former president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), has joined the startup’s Board of Advisors. The news comes several months after Spring Labs raised about $15 million in a seed round to fund its blockchain project. Also, the startup recently completed founding its advisory board, which includes Coinbase’s chief legal officer Brian Brooks and Bobby Mehta, former head of Transunion.

Cohn’s latest job was to lead the US National Economic Council. As the chief economic advisor to the US president, he was responsible for implementing the President’s economic policy agenda both at home and overseas. After leaving the US administratio...


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