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Pascal Gauthier is currently the chairman and CEO of Ledger, an industry leader in protecting critical digital assets. Pascal's career began with Kelkoo, a pricing comparison website that Yahoo purchased in 2004 for EUR 475 million. He then joined the advertising company Criteo in 2008 where he worked for 5 years as COO, being instrumental in the pivot to advertising, which led to the company’s global expansion towards a EUR 2.17 billion market capitalisation. His first investment after Criteo was in Teads.tv, a premium viewable advertising marketplace that was acquired by Altice for EUR 256 million.
Before leading Ledger, Pascal worked as Venture Partner in Mosaic Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focusing on Series A stage companies. Pascal is also non-executive chairman of Kaiko, a financial data website on Bitcoin. He also engineered Komainu: the joint venture between Nomura, Ledger, and CoinShares, that safeguards BTCs and other cryptocurrencies on behalf of financial institutions (of which he is a board member).
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