Melissa Strait is an expert in compliance in fintech, having joined Coinbase as the Chief Compliance Officer in February 2021. At Coinbase, she oversees the entirety of the firm’s Compliance efforts, including anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, trade surveillance, consumer compliance, and others.

Previously, she served as Global Head of Financial Crimes for Stripe, Inc., overseeing all aspects of Stripe’s anti-money laundering, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption compliance programs. She also served as the Chief Compliance Officer of Stripe Payments Company, a licensed money transmitter. Prior to joining Stripe in early 2016, she was a Compliance Operations Manager for Square, Inc. At Square, she oversaw teams in San Francisco and St. Louis which handled transaction monitoring, KYC and EDD reviews, and sanctions screening.