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Crypto Lead
Charles Aubert-Couturier is Senior Manager Blockchain Cryptoactifs at Blockchain Partner by KPMG, a position he has held since April 2021. In this role, he leads the blockchain and cryptoasset team, with responsibilities spanning strategic studies, scoping, training, and technical and functional recommendations. He operates within the General Management department at senior level.
Alongside his KPMG role, Aubert-Couturier holds several concurrent positions in the French digital assets space. Since September 2023, he has served as Co-Administrator at Adan, the association representing web3 actors in France and Europe. He has also been involved with Bitstack, a Bitcoin savings application, since December 2021; with Swaap Labs, a Paris-based decentralised finance company, since February 2022; and with Tilvest, a cryptocurrency platform targeting wealth management intermediaries, since August 2022. His total professional experience spans eight years. The existing biography references a degree from ESCP Europe and fluency in French, Italian, and English, but these details do not appear in the retrieved source content and are therefore excluded here.
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