Solana Foundation Bolsters Payments Push with Senior Hires

Solana Foundation has strengthened its institutional and payments push with two senior hires. Rachel Conlan, former Binance chief marketing officer, joins as chief strategy officer. Jamal Raees, Polygon Labs executive, becomes general manager of payments.

Conlan's role targets institutions and business adoption, including partnerships, ecosystem growth, and initiatives to bring businesses onto the Solana network. Her experience spans major exchange marketing leadership and broader corporate roles at OKX, CAA Sports, and Havas.

Raees will focus on payments infrastructure and stablecoin growth, deepening engagement with payments companies and concentrating on the infrastructure that teams use to build payment services on Solana.