Next September, Claire Balva will leave her position as VP Strategy at Deblock to join Adan as CEO. We take a look back at this new stage in her already impressive career in the development of the crypto ecosystem.
Claire Balva to take over as CEO of Adan
In recent years, Adan has worked on several major projects, including the MiCA regulation, to make the voice of the crypto ecosystem heard. Today, the association has 200 member companies in France and Europe and continues to grow year after year.
On Wednesday, Grégory Raymond, co-founder of The Big Whale, announced that Adan would be strengthening its position with the recruitment of Claire Balva as CEO.
Later that day, Balva confirmed on X that she would be taking up her new role in September:
I will indeed be joining Adan in September 2025 — marking my 10th year in the sector. […] I now have the opportunity to make a difference at the French and European levels and am very happy to have the confidence of Adan’s board of directors. I would particularly like to thank Laurent Ovion [Vice President, editor’s note] and Stanislas Barthelemi [President, editor’s note] who, in addition to their respective roles, have been responsible for the sector’s complex security issues over the last few months. Things are moving forward, and it is largely thanks to them.
After founding and running the consulting firm Blockchain Partner, which was sold to KPMG in 2021, she joined Deblock last year as VP Strategy. Beyond offering a current account with a French bank account number and a self-hosted crypto wallet in a single app, the company recently stood out by becoming the first French company to obtain the prestigious MiCA license.
