Aklil Ibssa
Head of Corporate Development and M&A, Coinbase
As Head of Corporate Development at Coinbase, Aklil Ibssa leads the firm’s merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy and execution, and is the brain behind some of the company’s most substantial acquisitions and investments (ex. Deribit, Spindl). In this role, he’s led over a dozen acquisitions and nearly 50 early & later stage investments, and as one of the first hires on the team, helped scale Coinbase’s M&A program to the most active in crypto with over 30+ completed acquisitions. Prior to Coinbase, he was an early member of LinkedIn’s Corp Dev team leading M&A, strategy, and investments across the business. Before that, he held an investment banking role working on M&A, capital markets, and advisory work at Deutsche Bank in San Francisco.
