Aklil Ibssa
Head of Corporate Development and M&A, Coinbase
As Head of Corporate Development and M&A at Coinbase, Aklil Ibssa leads the firm’s mergers and acquisition strategy and execution, and is the brain behind some of the company’s most substantial acquisitions (ex. Deribit, Liquifi, Echo) and investments (ex. Kalshi). In this role, he’s led over 14 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 40+ 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 was an investment banker working on M&A, capital markets, and advisory work at Deutsche Bank in San Francisco.
