Brian Quintenz joins SUI Group board after CFTC nomination pulled
The former CFTC commissioner and Donald Trump’s first pick to chair the agency will join investment company SUI Group’s board and support the company’s treasury strategy.
US President Donald Trump’s former pick to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has joined the SUI Group’s board of directors.
In a Tuesday notice, the SUI Group said former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz’s appointment to its board would strengthen its “regulatory and policy leadership” amid the company’s digital asset treasury strategy. The company reported holding 107,743,979 Sui (SUI), worth about $200 million at the time of publication, as of the third quarter of 2025.
Quintenz served as a CFTC commissioner under Trump from 2017 to 2021 and later as the global head of policy for a16z crypto. He joined the board of directors for prediction market platform Kalshi in 2021, and worked as an adviser to cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com from 2021 to 2022.
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