Alexis Roussel

Alexis Roussel is Chief Operating Officer at Nym Technologies SA, a Switzerland-based company that builds privacy infrastructure designed to protect IP addresses, communication patterns, and metadata for end-users, enterprises, and infrastructure operators. He has held the COO role since February 2020 and also serves on Nym's board. In this capacity, he has spoken publicly on the risks of surveillance capitalism, arguing that metadata — encompassing IP addresses, timestamps, geographical position, and device fingerprints — represents a more consequential target for mass surveillance than communication content itself. Nym's tooling is designed to mask both IP addresses and the surrounding metadata of communications.

Roussel co-founded Bity, a Swiss crypto-finance service provider, in March 2014, serving as its CEO until December 2019 and as Chairman of the Board until June 2024. He also served as Chairman of the Board at Relai from October 2020 to January 2023, and as a Blockchain and Fintech specialist at ARIF, the Association Romande des Intermédiaires Financiers, from November 2018 to June 2021. Outside his operational roles, he is a board member of the Digital Finance Compliance Association, a former president of the Swiss Pirate Party, and vice-president of the Swiss Bitcoin Association. He graduated from the University of Paris X, the University of Paris I, and the University of Aix-Marseille.