Laurent Kssis

Board Member & Strategic Advisor to the Issuance Program
Issuance.Swiss

Laurent is a crypto ETP expert and has listed most of the innovative single and basket crypto-related vehicles on stock exchanges for the past 8 years in Europe. He runs a successful consultancy focused on ETF & ETP, CEC Capital in London that support all aspects of the crypto ETP/ETF cycles with firms since 2013, successfully admitting ETPs on European stock exchanges. Furthermore, he is a Board member with Swiss-based SPV Issuance.Swiss AG in 2023, an Apex powered white label issuance program helping portfolio managers to list their strategies on European exchanges.
He helped Virtune AB, a Swedish asset manager to successfully list 4 innovative crypto ETPs on Nasdaq Stockholm in less than 7 months in 2023 with $90m in AuM and is now a board member on governance oversight.
He joined Hashdex, the largest crypto issuer in Brazil in January 2022 as managing director and head of Europe to lead its expansion in Europe with the launch of the Nasdaq Crypto Index Europe ETP on the Swiss and European Stock exchanges which now is the biggest crypto basket ETP in Europe with $200m in AuM.
Previously, he was Global Head of ETP with Swiss-based crypto issuer 21Shares listing many earlier strategies from 2019 after 4 years with Swedish-based issuer XBT Provider AB, a Coinshares company where he was CEO and listed some of the first crypto ETPs in Europe.
He has over 20 years’ worth of experience in ETF structuring, Delta 1 trading & ETF market making. He holds a hon degree in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Board Dynamics with the FT Non Executive Director’s program.