Eden Doniger Joins BitPay to Lead Legal and Compliance Department
BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, announced Eden D. Doniger has joined the company as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
A BitPay release said that she is responsible for building and innovating the company’s legal, compliance and government affairs programs, as the company and the cryptocurrency industry as a whole continue to expand.
Donigerjoined BitPay after more than eight years as assistant general counsel at Cox Enterprises, a Fortune 100 global company.
Prior to Cox, Doniger practiced law at top tier law firms in Atlanta and New York and was an adjunct professor at Georgia State University. She began her legal career as a clerk for a federal district court judge in New Orleans.
Doniger received her Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Emory Law Journal. She is a J. William Fulbright Scholar and received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, where she studied Slavic Literature and Languages and competed as an NCAA Division I Scholar-Athlete on the women’s squash team. She serves on the board of Hands On Atlanta, the largest non-profit organization in Atlanta serving the community’s civic needs.
