Polymarket hires Goldman Sachs veteran Lisa Mantil to boost Wall Street liquidity

Polymarket just poached one of Goldman Sachs’ most seasoned equities executives, and the move tells you everything about where prediction markets are headed. Lisa Mantil, who served as a managing director at Goldman since 2009 and made partner in 2018, is joining the crypto-native betting platform to help attract institutional capital and deepen Wall Street liquidity. The hire is part of an aggressive executive recruitment blitz that has seen Polymarket bring on at least four senior leaders in roughly five weeks, transforming what was once a scrappy DeFi experiment into something that looks a lot more like a traditional exchange. A Goldman pedigree meets prediction markets Mantil’s background is in program trading and equities execution, the kind of infrastructure plumbing that makes large-scale institutional trading possible. At Goldman, she spent nearly two decades building the systems and relationships that let big money move efficiently through markets. Mantil isn’t the only heavy hitter Polymarket has recruited. Warren Jenson, who previously served as finance chief at Amazon and Nielsen, was appointed as the company’s first-ever CFO. The hiring spree also pulled talent from Ro...