{"id":6651,"date":"2024-03-20T15:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=6651"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:17:26","slug":"ceo-of-coinbase-canada-lucas-matheson","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/event\/ceo-of-coinbase-canada-lucas-matheson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Chat with Country Director CEO of Coinbase Canada, Lucas Matheson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lucas Matheson headshot\" class=\"wp-image-6652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/LM-Headshot-360x540.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b><u>Lucas Matheson<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucasmatheson\/?originalSubdomain=ca\">Lucas Matheson<\/a> is the Country Director CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/\">Coinbase<\/a> Canada, overseeing Coinbase\u2019s strategic direction and growth within the Canadian market since January 2023. In this role,&nbsp;Lucas&nbsp;is dedicated to making digital assets more accessible to Canadians, and expanding our regulatory framework to help upgrade the financial system in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before his current position at Coinbase,&nbsp;Lucas&nbsp;led various operational and financial teams at Shopify as Senior Director of Operations and Director of Strategic Expansion.&nbsp;Lucas&nbsp;also co-founded Pinshape, a consumer marketplace for 3D printable models, where he served as CEO until its acquisition by Formlabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-400x72.png\" alt=\"Coinbase logo\" class=\"wp-image-6658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-400x72.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-160x29.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-240x43.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-768x137.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-1536x275.png 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-2048x367.png 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Coinbase_Wordmark-360x64.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coinbase has supported entrepreneurs and the Canadian tech ecosystem through an initiative called Coinbase Ventures. Through this venture, Coinbase has invested in several Canadian startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is open to all students at Carleton. Feel free to come with any questions you want to ask. Make sure you register below for this free learning session. We look forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[26],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-6651","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-03-27T17:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-03-27T18:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"NI","cu_event_meeting_room":"2020","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6672,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6651\/revisions\/6672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=6651"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=6651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}