Digital Ascension Group Names Robert Gagnon General Counsel

Dallas, TEXAS, Aug. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Ascension Group (DAG), a crypto family office service provider and wealth management firm built around digital assets, has named Robert Gagnon as General Counsel.

DAG Names Robert Gagnon General Counsel

Gagnon leads the legal function and works alongside the compliance team on regulatory matters across the group's businesses, including DAG Wealth, its SEC-registered investment adviser. His appointment follows a year of senior hiring at the firm, which added a Chief Investment Officer, a Chief Product and Strategy Officer and a Chief Compliance Officer earlier in 2026.

As DAG continues to expand crypto wealth management services, Gagnon's role is critical. Assets in an advisory account are generally required to be held with a qualified custodian. How that requirement applies to cryptocurrency has been one of the open questions for advisors in the space, and it shapes what a firm can offer clients who hold digital assets. Gagnon spent the past several years working on that question inside a large asset manager.

"Robert spent the last few years working through the hardest legal questions in digital assets inside one of the largest asset managers in the world, things like how the custody rule applies and what a fund actually needs in order to hold these assets," said Erin Friez, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Ascension Group. "That's the experience our team wanted in the room. A lot of what makes crypto hard for families and their advisors is a legal and operational problem before it's an investment problem, and the more of that groundwork gets built now, the better this space gets at serving people well."