The tenure of Julian Sawyer as CEO of Bitstamp, a Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange, looks to be over. Julian Sawyer just took over Bitstamp around 18 months ago.
Julian Sawyer has updated his Twitter and LinkedIn accounts as “co-founder at Starlingbank, Honorary fellow at Bayes Business School, advisor at Voltbank and Ex-Chief Executive Officer at Bitstamp respectively.
Bitstamp is one of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency exchanges. It was launched in 2011 by Nejc Kodri and has over four million individual consumers and a number of institutional partners.
Julian Sawyer formerly worked at Gemini, where he led the company’s European development in December 2019. In August 2020, Gemini Europe Services was approved by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority as a licenced crypto-asset firm. Still, Sawyer had left by then.
Sawyer formerly worked as the co-founder and chief operating officer of Starling Bank, a British neobank with 1.7 million users.
Bitstamp acquires just 2% of the market
Bitstamp, which was bought by private equity group NXMH in 2018, controls just around 2% of the market for spot crypto-to-fiat trading while leading brand Coinbase controls roughly 27%.
What Julian Sawyer say about Bitsamp
In an interview at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Sawyer and Robert Zagotta, head of Bitstamp’s US division, stated that the company was eager to attain an older, more watchful population and that it was proud to be one of only four exchanges to receive an AA rating from Cryptocompare.
