Muzammil saeed

Talent & People Leader

Greater Seattle Area

About

People & Talent Leader with a proven track record of driving growth across high-impact industries, including Crypto and Cloud. I specialize in aligning talent strategies with business objectives to scale organizations effectively. Passionate about building high-performing teams, I focus on attracting top talent while fostering an inclusive, community-driven culture that enables individuals and companies to thrive.

Experience

  • Business People Partner at Anchorage Digital
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, which is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Anchorage Digital New York, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services; and self-custody wallet Porto by Anchorage Digital. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

  • Head of Talent & People at Gauntlet
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Gauntlet equips investors, builders, and token issuers with data-driven strategies to allocate over $1.4 billion on-chain confidently. Leveraging seven years of cryptoeconomic research and analysis, Gauntlet builds protocol and yield optimization strategies working with leaders across the crypto ecosystem, including Coinbase, Morpho, Uniswap, Arbitrum, and NEAR. Gauntlet's models have safeguarded over $42 billion in digital assets across the crypto ecosystem, driving capital efficiency and mitigating risk. To learn more, visit www.gauntlet.xyz.

  • Advisory Board Member at Connectd
    Sep 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr

  • Associate Director, Talent Acquisition at Gemini
    Sep 2018 - Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Connecting the old world of money to the future of currency... Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) is a next generation digital asset exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets such as bitcoin and ether. Gemini is a New York trust company that is held to the highest level of fiduciary obligations, capital reserve requirements, and banking compliance standards. Founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, its mission is to build a bridge to the future of money.

  • Senior Technical Recruiter at DigitalOcean
    Mar 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Our goal is to create a frictionless experience that enables developers to deploy faster and scale more easily. DigitalOcean is a simple and fast cloud hosting service built for developers. Customers can create a cloud server in 55 seconds, with competitive pricing. Featuring a 99.99% Uptime SLA, DigitalOcean has servers located in New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam & India. The DigitalOcean control panel interface is simple and intuitive, which power users can replicate on a larger scale with the company’s API. DigitalOcean uses KVM virtualization and additionally, hosts a library of helpful walkthroughs and tutorials that cover server configuration and optimization. We’re committed to building a product that is not only used by millions of developers around the world, but loved by them, too. The right person will add value to our team and be comfortable in an "all hands on deck" environment, loves solving people problems and can thrive in a startup culture. Go to our careers page at https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/ for all open opportunities on our team!