According to Circle's blog, Dante Disparte, Circle's chief strategy officer and head of global policy and operations, has been appointed vice chair, leading strategy and global affairs as the firm's first vice chair. Concurrently, Mandeep Walia, chief compliance and risk officer, assumes the role of chief operating officer while maintaining independent compliance and risk functions reporting directly to the board.
Disparte played a key role in advancing the GENIUS Act and led Circle's engagement on the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) final rules, set to take effect in January 2027. Both executives joined Circle in the first half of 2021.