Lykke Business, a Swiss fintech company that runs the crypto exchange Lykke Wallet for retail and professional traders, announced that it has appointed Dom Braun as its new CEO.

Dom is an experienced business and technology leader who will succeed Niklaus Mettler and assume responsibilities on 1st of October 2021. Niklaus will stay on with Lykke Business as Management Consultant.

He will be based out of Singapore first before moving to Switzerland. Dom has been in the technology industry for more than 14 years, most recently in the fintech and regtech space.

Dom is known as a thought leader with the ability to building up businesses from scratch and revamping existing businesses. While in his previous position as MD APAC with fintech firm Episode Six, Dom was crucial to build and expand the APAC business and brand to success for the last 2 years.

Before that, Dom was with global regtech firm Accuity, now known as Lexis Nexis Risk, in different regional and global leadership positions throughout his tenure of more than 6 years.

Dom received his MBA degree from Warwick Business School (WBS) and received several awards during his career.

Richard Olsen, Founder of Lykke said,

“Lykke is a blockchain lab with a suite of unique products and services.

 

I am thrilled that Dom, an expert of scaling successful businesses, has joined Lykke Business as CEO and will build the distribution network for our products and services.”

Dom Braun said,

“I am very excited to be part of the Lykke ecosystem to lead and expand their B2B business for its cutting edge Blockchain-based enterprise solutions.

 

With their existing assets and great engineering and product teams, Lykke Business has a strong foundation to be built on with leveraging my market and business experience”,