Mauro Casellini
Banking, payments, digital assets and financial regulation, with the commercial and the regulatory side in one hand.
Twenty years where banking meets new technology, across Switzerland, Liechtenstein and internationally. From a banking and finance apprenticeship to leading roles in payments, digital-asset banking and regulated ventures, most recently building the commercial and product side of a fully regulated digital-asset bank. Independently, I advise banks, fintechs and blockchain ventures from first concept to running business.
- Made Bank Frick a home for web3 companies: transactional banking, payments and the blockchain business, at the first European bank to offer investment and custody for crypto assets.
- Set up and licensed Bitcoin Suisse's first regulated entity in the EEA, and ran the European business as Group Head Europe.
- Raised and deployed more than USD 25 million into public-goods projects through an open-source, tax-exempt Protected Cell Company structure.
- Board member since 2018 of the CCA – Trustless Technologies Association, the government-recognised industry body for Liechtenstein's blockchain and MiCAR-regulated companies.
Chief Growth Officer
Member of the Executive Board, leading the Bank's Growth function: business development, acquisition of professional and institutional clients, strategic partnerships, marketing and products. Commercially positioning a fully regulated digital-asset bank across custody, trading, staking and commercial banking. Regulated from the ground up, not as an add-on.
Chief Executive Officer
Independent advisory for banks, fintechs and blockchain ventures internationally, with a focus on the EEA/EU and Switzerland: hands-on support and strategy across the full lifecycle, from concept to execution, market analysis, regulatory positioning, product strategy, process optimisation and AI implementation.
- Advisory · banks, fintechs and blockchain ventures, from concept to running business
- CMV Tools · own suite of open-source browser tools, built and deployed alongside client work · tools.cmventures.xyz ↗
- Open source · proven open-source engines run as WebAssembly, privacy by design, full source public under AGPL-3.0
- Build & deploy · rapid prototyping of small tools, from first idea to production
Foundation Board Member & Co-Lead
Charitable, open-source-focused Liechtenstein foundation, structured as a Protected Cell Company (PCC): each project gets its own legally ring-fenced Cell, with segregated assets and direct, transparent flows from donor to innovator. Raised and deployed more than USD 25 million into open-source technology and public-goods projects, with the operational and financial infrastructure behind it.
Partner
Studio building AI and process-automation products for regulated industries such as finance, energy and legal: custom and agentic applications, plus its own products for meeting documentation, document intelligence and requirements management. Building products and ventures since 2017.
CEO / Group Head Europe
Set up the group's first regulated entity in the EEA, secured the licence and built the operation. As Group Head Europe, ran the European business and the group-wide collaboration with the Swiss parent across strategy, client development and operations.
Bank Frick & Co. AG
A home for web3 companies: transactional banking, payments and blockchain banking. Built and led the blockchain and payment-service-provider business through a progression of leadership roles, including a regulated crypto broker, a credit-card acquiring business and a working-capital financing solution for fintechs. The first European bank to offer investment and custody for crypto assets.
- Head of Blockchain and Payment Service Providers · Apr 2018 – Jun 2019
- Head of Corporate Clients and Payment Service Providers · Sep 2016 – Mar 2018
- Head of Business Development · Jan 2016 – Aug 2016
- Business Process Manager · 2015
- Assistant to the CEO, Project Staff · 2013 – 2014
Graubündner Kantonalbank
Banking and finance apprenticeship and early client-advisory roles.
- Assistant, Private Clients · 2009 – 2013 · Chur
- Banking and finance apprenticeship · 2006 – 2008 · Chur
Board Member
The official, government-recognised industry body for Liechtenstein's blockchain, token and MiCAR-regulated companies. It sets quality standards and is the point of exchange with the regulator and the authorities on regulation.
Lecturer — Digital Assets, Blockchain & Crypto
Co-leading two modules in the BSc programmes for Digital Business Management and Business Administration: digital assets, blockchain and modern financial technologies.
Lecturer — Digital Assets, Blockchain & Crypto
LL.M. in Banking and Financial Market Law
Specialisation in European, Liechtenstein and Swiss financial regulation: banking law, capital-markets law and anti-money-laundering compliance. Thesis: Market Conduct under MiCAR, comparing the market-abuse regimes of MiCAR and MAR.
Executive MBA in Strategic Management
Focus on strategic management, leadership and general management.
BSc in Business Administration, specialisation in Leadership
Applied business administration: financial management, economics, marketing, banking and finance, and leadership.
Commercial Diploma incl. Vocational Baccalaureate
Banking · Digital assets · Payments · Financial market regulation · Licensing & regulated entity build-out · Strategy · Commercial development · Leadership
German (native) · English (professional)