Vanguard hires head of digital assets for personal wealth

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Vanguard, which manages about $11 trillion, posted a July 6, 2026 job for a new head of digital assets, personal wealth, to build a multi-year roadmap covering product development, legal compliance, and risk management and based at one of four U.S. offices. The role follows Vanguard's December 2025 decision to open crypto ETF and mutual fund trading for its roughly 50 million brokerage clients and arrives after CEO Salim Ramji's July 2024 hire from BlackRock. The hire signals a shift from skepticism to active strategy and could prompt peer institutions and compliance teams to reassess digital asset plans over the next one to two years.

Vanguard created a head of digital assets for personal wealth.