Sushiswap has a new CEO after the community voted for Jared Grey as ‘Head Chef’.

Sushiswap, a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange, has announced The election of a new Chief executive officer (CEO) was ratified by a community vote.

Sushi confirmed on Monday that Jared Grey was now the new “Head Chef,” the DEX platform’s title for the CEO.

Sushi’s ‘Head Chef’

After months of uncertainty, the protocol sought to navigate through a tough period in its governance.

“I’m honored and excited to accept the Head Chef role at SushiSwap,” Grey tweeted. “The trust the community and team have placed in me to help shape the next stage of the Sushi protocol gives me pause and reflection on what Sushi stands for, a community project for everyone,” he said.

Grey was the former CEO of Bitfineon’s digital assets platform and EONS Finance’s decentralised finance (DeFi), protocol.

He becomes Sushi’s new chief executive after garnering more than 83%, or over 11 million votes, according to a snapshot This is the single-choice voting, which began on 26/09/2022 and ended on Monday, 3/10/2022.

He explained what he brings to the role of ‘head chef’:

“This is an opportunity to leverage my two decades of engineering and consulting experience to help the team succeed in delivering innovative DeFi solutions, and returning Sushi to its rightful status among its peers.”

Sushi was launched in September 2020 by Chef Nomi, an anonymous developer. It is a rival to the leading DEX protocol Uniswap.