Why Onchain Exposure is No Longer Optional
Executive Director/Deputy Head of Crypto Derivatives Trading
Dennis Constantin Ehlert is Executive Director Crypto Derivatives Trading at AMINA Bank, a position he has held since April 2024, based in Zug, Switzerland. In this role, he is engaged in OTC crypto options market making and futures and spot trading.
Ehlert has been with AMINA Bank since September 2021, progressing from Portfolio Manager Derivatives Trading to Director Crypto Derivatives Trading from April 2022 to April 2024, before assuming his current executive director title. Prior to joining AMINA Bank, he spent three years at Bantleon as Senior Portfolio Manager Multi-Asset Strategies, where he managed quantitative-based multi-asset funds across absolute return and benchmark-oriented mandates, with trade execution across equities, fixed income, and exchange-traded and OTC derivatives. Earlier career experience includes a trainee role in Fixed Income Client Service at Allianz Global Investors in Munich, where he produced trading reports, generated performance presentations for quarterly committee meetings, and worked with Bloomberg on fixed income portfolio analysis. His career history also includes a trainee position in international sales at IC Import Consultants. No educational background is referenced in the available source material.
Chief Information Security Officer
Jeff Schiemann is Chief Information Security Officer, specializing in safeguarding information assets and leading cybersecurity strategies in the tech sector.
Managing Director
Ritesh Dutta is Deputy CEO, Head of Trading and Treasury at AMINA Bank, a FINMA-licensed digital assets banking platform headquartered in Switzerland. He is a member of the executive committee. Previously, within the same institution — then operating as SEBA Bank — he served as Co-Head of Markets and Investment Solutions, a division created in September 2021 to combine trading and product areas in support of the bank's institutional client base.
Dutta brings 25 years of experience in capital markets and derivatives trading across investment banking and fund management. Prior to joining SEBA Bank, he headed global emerging markets trading at UBS.
Global Head of Marketing
Tally Hall is the Global Head of Marketing at AMINA Bank, specializing in crypto banking and financial services marketing.
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Strategic Partnerships & Private Events
Noé Giglio leads Strategic Partnerships and Private Events at The Big Whale, a market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. He is based in London and has been active in the digital assets sector since 2019, building expertise across onchain finance and investment strategies and a network spanning financial institutions, corporates, and digital asset companies across Europe.
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Head of Institutional Research
Max Coniglio is Head of Institutional Research at The Big Whale, an independent market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. In this role he sits within the firm's research and analyst team, which produces editorial coverage, briefings, and research serving the platform's institutional client base.
MD, Head of EMEA Fintech at J.P. Morgan
Manuel Costescu is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where he co-heads the EMEA Innovation Economy team and serves as a Global Fintech Champion. In this role he advises the region's fastest-growing fintech, SaaS and e-commerce companies across a range of corporate and investment banking solutions.
Costescu began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York, and earlier worked as a banker at J.P. Morgan covering European public sector clients before returning to the firm. He is a regular speaker at industry events on innovation, fintech and digital finance.
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