Michael had multiple stations at leading blockchain based ventures with a focus on FinTech. After being appointed as the youngest Head of blockchain at PwC, he led Primary Markets at Lykke, advised the Swiss Stock Exchange on their “Digital Asset Exchange” infrastructure and was Partner at Blockchain Valley Ventures. Previously to founding CLST, Michael founded KORE Technologies, one of the leading infrastructure providers for Digital Assets.
Michael graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Economics.

Hugh MacMillen has over 30 years of interest rate trading experience. He has worked for Banks and major interdealer brokers in various roles, ranging from Senior Forex Trader to Branch Manager before founding Instimatch Global in 2017. Having built an institutional money market venue with double digit billions in transaction volumes per month and over 200 institutional clients globally, Hugh is one of most recognized Entrepreneurs in the space.

Hugh is very passionate about the development of money markets in the crypto and stablecoin space, both in the defi and unsecured elements of this new business.

Together with the team, he is responsible for transferring his market knowledge to this exciting new market.

Hassan Al-Lawati is a veteran entrepreneur with over 24-years of experience in leading and supporting teams across the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the US. His expertise includes deal structuring, customer acquisition, and fundraising. Hassan has co-founded several companies and served in various structured corporate environments.

Alex von Mühlenen serves as Business Development Manager at CLST and is responsible for the overall expansion of the business trough strategic partnerships, sales, liquidity management and product innovation.

Prior to his engagement, Alex founded Resilient Studios, one of the leading tech hubs in Zurich, hosting enterprises such as the Cardano Foundation, B3i, Flovtec or Liquity.

Bara Caldova has joined CLST as the Head of Marketing to be in charge of both strategy and implementation of marketing and brand initiatives within CLST.

Prior to joining CLST, Bara started her career in big pharma and has spent the last 5+ years in a fast-growing tech startup environment as a head of marketing overseeing a portfolio of digital products.

Bara holds a Masters degree in International Marketing from King’s College London.

Nicholas is from London and holds 15+ years of commercial experience across Finance and Technology. Nicholas moved to Asia 11 years ago where he spent 7 years in Singapore, prior to moving to Hong Kong. In Singapore he held roles across wealth management serving mass affluent, HNW and UHNW clients.

During his time in Hong Kong, he served as Morningstar’s Sales Director responsible for sales, strategic partnerships and relationship management. At the company, he covered Morningstar’s Tier 1 Banking and Asset Management clients in Hong Kong including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Blackrock, HSBC, Citibank, BNY Mellon and covered Morningstar’s product suite of research, investment, data and technology solutions.

Current living in Singapore, Nicholas completed a course in algorithmic trading with the University of Oxford & Said Business School in 2020. Together with the team, he is responsible for CLST market expansion and all subjects related to Asia and APAC.

Shaun is from Singapore and has 12+ years of experience working in the financial and digital assets industry, having worked in banks such as Morgan Stanley, Australia, and Citigroup, Singapore, serving and managing the investments and wealth of HNW and UHNW clients within the APAC region.

Prior to joining the digital assets industry, Shaun served as a VP of relationship management in a multi-family office, managing the wealth of his own book of HNW and UHNW clients, advising them on their investments and estate and legacy planning needs.

Based in Singapore, Shaun joins CLST from a digital assets wealth management firm where he secured strategic commercial partnerships, educated investors, and helped grow the investor base and assets under management of the firm.

Experienced in cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Shaun has a graduate certificate in Fintech, Financial Technology with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Born in London, Domenico currently resides in Hong Kong where he grew up. He joins CLST from a systematic hedge fund where he spent almost three years running their investor relations and operations. During this time Domenico focused on maintaining relationships with HNWI, SFOs and prime brokerages while developing internal documents on best practices for the firm.

Domenico is responsible for the scaling of CLST’s global operations as well as the establishment of best client management practices.

Domenico holds a BSc from the University of Hartford.

Robert Radek is Product Manager at CLST, as key person behind the CLST Markets product suite, he is driving the efforts to quickly adapt client needs and innovate CLST through reliable forward thinking applications.

Prior to joining CLST, Robert was a founder of the Netsprig Foundation in 2013, the first crypto foundation in Poland where he led product business models around Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In 2018 he launched Geon Network, a Geomining patented mobile based game application, which was used by hundreds of thousands of users in a play-to-earn model.

Robert holds a Masters degree in Civil Law from University of Bialystok, Poland.

With 8 years of experience in the software industry, Amit has been balancing between the roles of a business analyst and project manager. He works closely with development leads and acts as a bridge between internal teams and clients. Amit contributes broad knowledge from various industries, as he has been managing projects within sports, commodities trading, insurance and e-commerce.

Amit holds a Master Of Computer Applications from the Chandigarh Engineering College