CoinGecko, the world’s largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator, has announced a reshuffle of its senior leadership aimed at scaling the company’s product and technical capabilities as demand for crypto market data grows.
In a statement shared with BlockchainReporter, co-founder and longtime COO Bobby Ong was named Chief Executive Officer, succeeding fellow co-founder TM Lee, who will move into the role of President, effective August 18, 2025. The company said the change marks a shift from a founder-led startup toward a more institutionalized data infrastructure and product organization built for scale.
“Bobby’s strategic foresight, operational excellence, and deep understanding of the crypto ecosystem make him the ideal leader to steer CoinGecko into its next phase of growth,” TM Lee said in the company statement.
Ong, who co-founded CoinGecko with Lee and has served as COO for the past 11 years, echoed that continuity will be key: “TM and I started CoinGecko with a shared vision to empower the decentralized future. It’s been a privilege to build alongside him from day one, cultivating a user-first culture rooted in transparency and integrity. These values will continue to guide us forward.”
Next Growth Phase and Enterprise Focus
CoinGecko also announced senior technical and product promotions. Cedric Chan, who joined CoinGecko as Head of Engineering in 2021, will become Chief Technology Officer. The company credited Chan with shoring up reliability, security and compliance controls and building out functions in data, site reliability and software testing.
Those improvements, CoinGecko said, helped its crypto data API scale dramatically. The firm reported its API handled 677 billion requests in the past year and that it now delivers an enterprise-grade 99.95% annual uptime SLA.
In product, Xingyi Ho, promoted from Head of Growth to Head of Product, will be responsible for driving product strategy and differentiation across CoinGecko’s offerings. Ho, who joined the firm in 2022, has been credited internally with standing up product growth and analytics, growth marketing, and SEO teams.
Ong said Chan’s remit as CTO will include forging strategic technology partnerships, embedding AI into operations, and architecting the next generation of scalable data systems to meet rising demand for real-time, high-fidelity crypto data as the market becomes more intertwined with global finance.
Why the Moves Matter
CoinGecko framed the leadership refresh as both a continuity play and a bet on institutionalizing its platform. Over the last decade, the company has grown from a small price-tracking site into a large data provider relied upon by retail users and by professional exchanges, wallets and trading firms to power products and analytics.
The platform tracks 18,000+ cryptoassets across 1,000+ exchanges and positions itself as the world’s largest independent crypto data aggregator. CoinGecko’s API documentation also emphasizes the breadth of its data services, live and historical prices, on-chain market metrics, exchange data and more.
These offerings position the API as a foundation for developers building across Web3 and traditional finance. For investors, builders and customers that rely on timely, high-quality market signals, the executive moves signal a further push to treat CoinGecko less as a consumer-facing chart site and more as an enterprise data infrastructure provider.
The elevation of engineering leadership and an explicit CTO mandate to embed AI and scale architecture point to product investments aimed at low-latency, high-availability services for institutional clients.
