Michael Moro Steps Down as Genesis CEO Amidst Leadership Restructure

As part of a leadership restructure, the current Chief Executive Officer of Genesis Trading, Michael Moro has stepped down from his position. 

According to an announcement from the firm, the six-year-long CEO has resigned and now stepped into a consultation role to serve as the company’s advisor. Michael affirmed that he would now support Genesis by providing advice in its new phase of growth.

Following the ongoing market downtrend, the trading firm decided that it would be cutting down its workforce to about 208 staff which is approximately a 20% reduction from its initial number. 

Effective immediately, is the CEO Michael Moro’s resignation. In the interim, Derar Islim Genesis Trading Chief Operating Officer who joined the company two years ago will act as the CEO of the digital brokerage firm. This will be pending when Genesis finally makes a choice on who becomes CEO (there is an ongoing search for a full-time CEO).

In Derar’s two years with Genesis, he has overseen the development of several strategies and key core functions. As support to Derar, Tom Conheeney, retired president of SAC Capital and seasoned financial service executive will consult as a Senior Advisor to Genesis. He was originally an advisor for the lending, trading, and risk team at Genesis. Conheeney will still continue in this capacity while assisting Derar.

Genesis Fills up More Executive Positions

In addition, Genesis also onboarded new employees for the positions of Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Legal Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. 

In no particular order, Michael Patchen is now the new Chief Risk Officer, Michael Patterson is the Chief Compliance Officer, Matthew Johnson is the Chief Technology Officer, Alice Chan is the Chief Financial Officer and Arianna Pretto-Sakmann is the Chief Legal Officer. They were all recruited to focus on “strengthening the company’s overall risk management in partnership with Genesis’ sales and trading leadership.”

In the heat of restructuring, Michael Saylor also resigned from his CEO position at MicroStrategy. He was one of those who established the business intelligence firm in 1989.

Part of the financial crisis experienced by Genesis leading to this position restructure and retrenchment was its exposure to troubled crypto hedge fund, Three Arrows Capital (3AC). The Singaporean distressed hedge fund which is tied to the crashed TerraUSD had slipped into liquidation following an order of a court in the British Virgin Islands.