Biography
From 2023 to 2026, Tyler served as Chief Legal Officer of Gemini, the crypto exchange, custodian, and prediction market (GEMI:NASDAQ). In addition to taking the company public in 2025, he managed complex issues at the intersection of law, regulation, and technology in the U.S. and abroad.
Tyler began his career in 1993 as a prosecutor in San Francisco, specializing in white collar crime and appeals. In 2004, he founded a civil litigation boutique specializing in high value commercial disputes. Barred in California and New York, he spent the next two decades representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex cases around the country.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institue of Arbitrators, Tyler is also a trained arbitrator.
Tyler earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1989, and his J.D. from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco in 1992 (f.k.a. Hastings College of Law).
An open water swimmer and life long sailor, Tyler is passionate about all things aquatic. He is a founding board member of the Ocean Genome Atlas Project (OGAP), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed by a group of sailors and scientists to create a genomic atlas of the world’s oceans at single-cell resolution. OGAP deploys mobile labs on new, cost-effective platforms, including retrofitted sailboats and even a Mercedes Sprinter van. OGAP has explored 16,000 nautical miles in the Pacific, Atlantic, and beyond. OGAP was named an Ocean Shot Project by the US National Academy of Sciences as part of the UN Ocean Decade initiative.
