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Published on June 17, 2024 17:51 GMT+00:00edited on June 17, 2024 17:54 GMT+00:00

BlockTower Capital has appointed David Burke, MKP's former chief client officer, to lead its investor relations strategies. 

As head of client and partner strategy at BlockTower, Burke's job will be to court crypto-curious investors to broaden the digital asset investment firm’s reach and deepen its engagement with its existing client base of institutional investors. In addition, Burke aims to forge partnerships that cater to individual investor mandates. 

The executive’s hiring comes as a fresh wave of increased institutional investor interest in digital assets following federal regulators’ approvals of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in January and that of spot ether ETFs a few weeks ago. The influx of trad-fi firms into the digital assets industry has brought a certain …