Who is Barry Silbert, the head of Genesis-owner DCG?


FILE PHOTO Bitcoin investor Barry Silbert speaks at a New York State Department of Financial Services DFS virtual currency hearing in the Manhattan borough of New York January 28 2014. REUTERSLucas JacksonFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Bitcoin investor Barry Silbert speaks at a New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) virtual currency hearing in the Manhattan borough of New York January 28, 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

(Reuters) - As an investment banker, Barry Silbert worked on some of the highest-profile corporate failures. Now, as founder of venture capital firm Digital Currency Group, parent of troubled crypto firm Genesis, he is grappling with problems closer to home.

Silbert, 46, cut his teeth on bankruptcies including Enron's and WorldCom's when working at California-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey. "The experience working on complex, problematic restructurings proved invaluable," he told the U.S. Senate Banking Committee in 2011.

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