Philip Martin

Philip Martin is the Chief Information Security Officer for Coinbase. He is responsible for developing the technology, processes and team that safely store one of the world’s largest holdings of cryptocurrency.

Under his stewardship, Coinbase has safely stored more than $25 billion in crypto without ever experiencing a breach or loss of customer funds. In addition to his work securing the assets of Coinbase’s customers, Philip also manages the insurance program that covers them in case of a breach. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive policies of its type ever conceived.

Prior to Coinbase, Philip built and led the Incident Response and Security Engineering teams at Palantir Technologies, developed new virtual infrastructure at Amazon A9 and spent a decade as a US Army counterintelligence agent, in a range of foreign and domestic roles.