Jake Zawada

Product Lead, Figure

Jake
Zawada

I'm building the products that bring regulated financial institutions and assets onchain, from first idea to launch.

Portrait of Jake Zawada

Focus areas

  • Institutional onboarding The entity onboarding experience that brings financial institutions onto Figure and onchain, with a seamless qualified custody option through BitGo. Press release ↗
  • FGRS The first digitally native tokenized equity issuance. SEC filing ↗
  • YLDS The first SEC-registered interest-bearing stablecoin. ylds.com ↗
  • Enterprise AI V1 of Figure's enterprise AI initiatives. Read the newsroom story ↗ figure.com ↗
  • Crypto-backed lending V1 of crypto-backed lending at Figure. figure.com ↗

Background

  • Before Figure Before joining Figure and moving to New York, I spent two years in business operations at DaVita in Denver and one year in business operations at PROS in Houston. I have a finance degree from Virginia Tech and hold my FINRA Series 7 and 66.
  • Outside of work Skiing, museums, city exploration, food, watches, personal finance, and coffee (zawaco.com).