ETC Group

The Bridge between Crypto and Regulated Markets

ETC brings together financial services professionals, with experience spanning both the worlds of digital assets and regulated markets with a single goal: to make investing in cryptocurrencies easy, transparent and safe.

United within ETC Group is one of the world’s largest electronic market makers, two London-based FCA-regulated brokers and a team of experienced financial services professionals all bringing network and know-how to the venture.

Management

Bradley Duke CEO, ETC Group
Bradley has spent most of his career in regulated Financial Services as well as young technology companies. He worked for investment bank Jefferies at their offices in New York, Paris and London, and then at the trading powerhouse KCG in London where he headed the team at Knight Direct Europe. ...
Bradley co-founded fin-tech and payments company Zapper, and most recently was CEO of the UK branch of the investment bank BCS Global Markets. Bradley has always had a strong interest in nascent technology and his fascination with blockchain and crypto lead him to attend the Blockchain Strategy course at the University of Oxford - Said Business School, following which he became a founding member of the London Blockchain Foundation.
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Leyla Sharifullina COO, ETC Group
With over 15 years of work experience at major international banks as well as real estate development companies, Leyla (CFA certified) brings integrity and a high level of quality and ethical standards to her role within ETC. Before joining the company as Chief Operating Officer, Leyla held a dual role of Senior Analyst and Structured Finance Manager at Raven Property Group.

Our vision is to create the most liquid cryptocurrency-backed exchange-traded products, enabling regulated exchanges where ETC products are traded to become the source of price discovery for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Maximillian Monteleone Head of Business Development, ETC Group
Maximillian brings unique experience in managing and structuring complex projects, as well as knowledge about the relevant technology to the venture. Being involved in a wide range of projects in the past, he has been running an IT development company, acted as a project manager on certain European Union initiatives in technology and logistics, and has worked as strategy consultant in the past.

Board of Advisors

Gene Moldavsky CEO, ITI Digital
Founder of ITI Digital, an emerging markets investment bank focusing on the digital assets capital markets, Gene started his career at Accenture and PwC, before moving into investment banking at Renaissance Capital, UBS and finally as Head of Investment Banking at Alfa Bank where he was member of the Credit and Investment Committees. Gene is an avid investor in HealthTech, AgTech and in the blockchain space.
Ekaterina Holt Head of XTX Ventures
Ekaterina is the Head of XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of XTX Markets. It leverages XTX Markets’ deep expertise in machine learning and financial technology to invest in companies where the core technical expertise of XTX Markets can be used to help grow and enhance those businesses. Ekaterina provides strategic advice to many start-up technology companies in the XTX Ventures portfolio. Ekaterina started her career at Deutsche Bank in Equity Derivatives and held various leadership positions spanning Equities and Corporate Strategy before joining XTX.
Tim Bevan NED, ETC Group
Tim spent the formative part of his career at the London Stock Exchange, where he managed the ETF/ETP segment during the introduction of the Europe's first Exchange Traded Commodities backed by precious metals. Since then, he has developed his career in investment banking and is CEO of BCS Prime Brokerage Ltd., an emerging markets specialist.
Rafael Zanatta Director, Prime Brokerage, ITI Capital
Rafael is responsible for prime brokerage clients at ITI Capital Ltd, providing multi-asset class access to global markets. He previously worked at Eurex, the derivatives Exchange of Deutsche Boerse where for over 5 years he covered Equity & Equity Index Derivatives Sales in the European market. Prior to that he worked at Clearstream International-Deutsche Boerse.

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