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REDEFINING THE FRONTIER OF DIGITAL FINANCE

We’re Laser Digital. We partner with global financial institutions, bringing
confidence to the digital asset market.
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MEET LASER DIGITAL

A digital asset business backed by Nomura, we deliver scalable, robust
opportunities across trading, asset management, and ventures. We operate with an
open and dynamic culture that gives us the freedom to adapt to market needs. As
we grow, we share learnings with clients and partners to strengthen the
ecosystem around us.
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WHY WE'RE DIFFERENT

We are uniquely shaped to help institutions navigate the challenges of digital
assets with confidence through:


FINANCIAL AND DIGITAL ASSET EXPERTISE

Bringing the best of traditional banking and finance expertise to digital
assets.


BUILT-IN AGILITY

The cultural freedom to move, experiment, and adapt to market dynamics.


RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION

Raising the bar on risk management, compliance, and commercial viability, with
technologies, products, and ventures grounded in real market need.


INSTITUTIONAL FOCUS

Focused on shaping an institutional-grade digital asset offering without
compromise—now and for the long term.


OUR PRODUCTS

We’re constantly redefining the frontier of digital finance, developing new
technologies, products, and ventures grounded in real market need.


VENTURES

We’re an early-stage investor in companies building innovative institutional
products and services in the digital asset ecosystem, focused on DeFi, CeFi,
Web3, and infrastructure.



TRADING

Our quant-driven liquidity provision and market making capabilities are powered
by a proprietary technology platform, developed against a backdrop of rigorous
risk management and years of experience in systematic trading.


ASSET MANAGEMENT

We raise the bar for rigour in digital asset investing. Our innovative suite of
institutional-grade digital asset management strategies is developed with deep
quant expertise and designed with high levels of risk management to offer
diversification to institutional investors.
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MEET OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Our team of experts is headed up by experienced leaders with skillsets in both
traditional and digital finance, bringing rigour and viability to our offering.


CHRIS OLD

Chief Administrative Officer


Chris Old is the CAO of Laser Digital with oversight of Operations, Business
Management and Corporate Communications. Previously he was at Nomura for 13
years, latterly as the CAO for Nomura’s wholesale digital office, covering
strategy, transformation, financial management and operational risk management
across FX and fixed income e-trading platforms.

Chris graduated from Loughborough University with a Bachelor’s degree in
Electronic and Electrical Engineering.


BENJAMIN STEPHENS

Chief Technology Officer


Ben Stephens is the Chief Technology Officer of Laser Digital and CEO of
ClearToken, the start-up digital asset clearing house.

Previously, he was Global Head of Product Management at Instinet, a Nomura Group
Company,  responsible for strategy and business development across digital
assets, trading, post-trade, clearing and analytics. Ben started his career as
an entrepreneur and has an MBA from London Business School.


ROB TURNER

Chief People Officer


Rob Turner is Laser Digital’s Chief People Officer and has previously held
several roles leading human resources, firstly at Newsweek and latterly at 2
startups; Vyne a payments solution and Karhoo, which aggregates ride-hailing
apps such as Uber. Rob began his career in human resources at Aviva and also
worked for KPMG.

Rob has a Master’s in human resources management from the University of Durham
and graduated from the University of Lincoln with a Bachelor’s degree in
Psychology and Criminology.


GINO WIRTHENSOHN

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer


Gino Wirthensohn is Laser Digital’s Chief Legal and Compliance Officer. He
joined the company in February 2023 from Sygnum Bank, the world’s first
regulated digital asset bank.  At Sygnum, Gino was Chief Legal, Compliance and
RegTech Officer. Before joining Sygnum, Gino co-founded an award-winning
RegTech/FinTech start-up. Prior to working in the start-up space, he held
positions in legal, compliance, and risk management in the banking and
audit/consulting industries, and has worked previously in public notary
services.

Gino holds a Master of Law from the University of Lucerne and an Executive MBA
from the University of Oxford.


STEVE ASHLEY

Executive Chairman


Steve Ashley is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Laser Digital. He has
over 35 years’ experience in the financial services sector, the last 13 of which
have been with Nomura, where he served most recently as Senior Managing Director
and Head of the Wholesale Division. As Head of Wholesale, Steve served on the
Group Executive Management Board, overseeing the management of all sales and
trading activities globally, as well as the financing and advisory business
across investment banking.

Prior to Nomura, Steve held several senior trading and risk management roles at
RBS and UBS. Steve has served on the board of the Global Financial Markets
Association and the UK Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards
Board.


JEZ MOHIDEEN

CEO


Jez joined Nomura in 2018 as Chief Digital Officer & Co-head of Global Markets
EMEA, where he was responsible for the development and execution of Nomura’s
digital strategy and flow trading.

Prior to joining Nomura, Jez has over 20 years of financial services experience
in macro trading: most recently at Brevan Howard, where he led the development
of systematic trading capabilities with a focus on AI/ML.

Jez has a PhD in Process Systems Engineering and a Masters in Chemical
Engineering from Imperial College, London, and over 10 publications in reputed
international mathematical journals.


OLIVIER DANG

Head of Ventures


Olivier Dang leads Ventures at Laser Digital. His expertise includes investments
in early-stage Web3 companies that are focused on responsible innovation and
technology that meets the challenges of institutional digital asset adoption.

Prior to Laser, Olivier spent over a decade at Nomura, latterly as Global COO of
Wholesale Digital Office. He also serves on the board of Laser Digital and
various portfolio companies of Laser Ventures.

Olivier holds an MBA from London Business School and graduated from the Ecole
D’Ingénieurs du Numérique (ISEP) and Chalmers University with a Masters in
Telecommunication.


CAMERON DICKIE

Head of Distribution - Trading Division


Cameron Dickie joined Laser Digital in March 2023 as Head of Distribution of the
trading division. He has worked in digital assets for the past six years, first
as Head of Broking at digital prime broker Bequant and then as Head of EMEA
Sales at B2C2, a leading crypto liquidity provider.

Cameron started his career in finance as a stockbroker in The City of London and
he graduated from the University of Bristol.


ROMAIN BERRY

Chief Risk Officer


Romain has over 20 years of experience in the financial markets sector and
joined Laser Digital in April 2023 as Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Laser
Digital, Romain was the Global Head of Risk at Flow Traders, where he managed a
global team of 25 risk managers across investment, market, counterparty credit,
and operational risks in Equities, FX, Fixed Income and Digital Assets.
Previously, he has held several senior Risk Management positions at top tier
banks including HSBC, Citi, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Romain holds an M.Sc. in Decision Sciences from the London School of Economics,
an M.Phil. in Operational Research from University Paris IX-Dauphine & Ecole des
Mines Paris and a B.Sc. in Economic and Financial Engineering from University of
Montpellier.


ALEX GALLAGHER-LYNCH

Head of Trading


Alex Gallagher-Lynch is Head of Trading at Laser Digital, prior to which he has
led trading at a number of firms including Menai Financial Group, which provides
digital asset investment products. Previously, as Chief Technology Officer at
digital prime broker GCEX, he developed and ran systematic trading at the firm.

Alex graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BSC in Theoretical Physics.


SEBASTIEN GUGLIETTA

Head of Asset Management


Sebastien Guglietta is the Head of Asset Management at Laser Digital. His domain
of expertise is in crypto assets and blockchain-based protocols, systematic
macro trading strategies, derivatives arbitrages, and artificial intelligence.
From 2021, Sebastian was Nomura’s Chief Scientist Officer, prior to which he was
a Portfolio Manager and Senior Scientist at Brevan Howard.

 

Sebastian has a M.Sc. from ESSEC Business School, an M.Phil. in Mathematical
Economics and Econometrics from the EHESS, along with a B.Sc. and M.Phil. in
Pure Mathematics.


CRAIG HOWELL

Chief Financial Officer


Craig Howell joined Laser Digital in 2023, having spent the past fourteen years
at Nomura,  latterly in the Tokyo Head Office as the Global Head of Group MI –
Financial Planning and Strategy and before that he held various Finance roles,
based in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Prior to Nomura, Craig was at Lehman Brothers and he began his career at PwC.

A Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Accountant, Craig graduated from the
University of Cape Town with a Bachelor’s of Business Science and a Bachelor of
Commerce in Financial Management.


WASSIL KACHA

Chief Information Security Officer


Wassil is the CISO of Laser Digital. Prior to this, Wassil was at Citi for 18
years in various IT and Information Security roles, latterly as Head of
Cybersecurity Services, EMEA  and Global head of Data Security. He is a
Certified Information Systems Security Professional and graduated with a
Master’s in IT and Computer Science Engineering from Télécom SudParis. He also
has a joint MBA from LSE, NYU Stern, and HEC (Trium program).


FIONA KING

Head of Distribution – Asset Management


Fiona is Head of Distribution for Laser Digital Asset Management and has worked
within digital asset management for the last two and half years, previously as
Head of Distribution for Nickel Digital Asset Management, marketing a range of
alpha and beta crypto funds.

Prior to working in digital,  Fiona was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch,
responsible for their UCITS alternative platform and she was also a director at
Rothschild Asset Management, as global head of their alternative UCITS platform.


JAMES LANCASTER

Chief Operating Officer


James Lancaster is the COO of Laser Digital, prior to which he spent over a
decade at Nomura, latterly as Global Wholesale COO.

 James has over 20 years’ experience of developing and managing business
operations, he joined Nomura in Tokyo in 2010 as COO, Global Rates and Fixed
Income Japan, and later worked in Singapore before relocating to London.

 Before Nomura, James worked at RBS in London and New York where he held several
roles within Finance and Flow Rates Trading. He became the COO for Global Rates
in 2006.

 James has served on the board of the Association for Financial Markets in
Europe.


CHRIS OLD

Chief Administrative Officer


Chris Old is the CAO of Laser Digital with oversight of Operations, Business
Management and Corporate Communications. Previously he was at Nomura for 13
years, latterly as the CAO for Nomura’s wholesale digital office, covering
strategy, transformation, financial management and operational risk management
across FX and fixed income e-trading platforms.

Chris graduated from Loughborough University with a Bachelor’s degree in
Electronic and Electrical Engineering.


BENJAMIN STEPHENS

Chief Technology Officer


Ben Stephens is the Chief Technology Officer of Laser Digital and CEO of
ClearToken, the start-up digital asset clearing house.

Previously, he was Global Head of Product Management at Instinet, a Nomura Group
Company,  responsible for strategy and business development across digital
assets, trading, post-trade, clearing and analytics. Ben started his career as
an entrepreneur and has an MBA from London Business School.


ROB TURNER

Chief People Officer


Rob Turner is Laser Digital’s Chief People Officer and has previously held
several roles leading human resources, firstly at Newsweek and latterly at 2
startups; Vyne a payments solution and Karhoo, which aggregates ride-hailing
apps such as Uber. Rob began his career in human resources at Aviva and also
worked for KPMG.

Rob has a Master’s in human resources management from the University of Durham
and graduated from the University of Lincoln with a Bachelor’s degree in
Psychology and Criminology.


GINO WIRTHENSOHN

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer


Gino Wirthensohn is Laser Digital’s Chief Legal and Compliance Officer. He
joined the company in February 2023 from Sygnum Bank, the world’s first
regulated digital asset bank.  At Sygnum, Gino was Chief Legal, Compliance and
RegTech Officer. Before joining Sygnum, Gino co-founded an award-winning
RegTech/FinTech start-up. Prior to working in the start-up space, he held
positions in legal, compliance, and risk management in the banking and
audit/consulting industries, and has worked previously in public notary
services.

Gino holds a Master of Law from the University of Lucerne and an Executive MBA
from the University of Oxford.


STEVE ASHLEY

Executive Chairman


Steve Ashley is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Laser Digital. He has
over 35 years’ experience in the financial services sector, the last 13 of which
have been with Nomura, where he served most recently as Senior Managing Director
and Head of the Wholesale Division. As Head of Wholesale, Steve served on the
Group Executive Management Board, overseeing the management of all sales and
trading activities globally, as well as the financing and advisory business
across investment banking.

Prior to Nomura, Steve held several senior trading and risk management roles at
RBS and UBS. Steve has served on the board of the Global Financial Markets
Association and the UK Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards
Board.


JEZ MOHIDEEN

CEO


Jez joined Nomura in 2018 as Chief Digital Officer & Co-head of Global Markets
EMEA, where he was responsible for the development and execution of Nomura’s
digital strategy and flow trading.

Prior to joining Nomura, Jez has over 20 years of financial services experience
in macro trading: most recently at Brevan Howard, where he led the development
of systematic trading capabilities with a focus on AI/ML.

Jez has a PhD in Process Systems Engineering and a Masters in Chemical
Engineering from Imperial College, London, and over 10 publications in reputed
international mathematical journals.


OLIVIER DANG

Head of Ventures


Olivier Dang leads Ventures at Laser Digital. His expertise includes investments
in early-stage Web3 companies that are focused on responsible innovation and
technology that meets the challenges of institutional digital asset adoption.

Prior to Laser, Olivier spent over a decade at Nomura, latterly as Global COO of
Wholesale Digital Office. He also serves on the board of Laser Digital and
various portfolio companies of Laser Ventures.

Olivier holds an MBA from London Business School and graduated from the Ecole
D’Ingénieurs du Numérique (ISEP) and Chalmers University with a Masters in
Telecommunication.


CAMERON DICKIE

Head of Distribution - Trading Division


Cameron Dickie joined Laser Digital in March 2023 as Head of Distribution of the
trading division. He has worked in digital assets for the past six years, first
as Head of Broking at digital prime broker Bequant and then as Head of EMEA
Sales at B2C2, a leading crypto liquidity provider.

Cameron started his career in finance as a stockbroker in The City of London and
he graduated from the University of Bristol.


ROMAIN BERRY

Chief Risk Officer


Romain has over 20 years of experience in the financial markets sector and
joined Laser Digital in April 2023 as Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Laser
Digital, Romain was the Global Head of Risk at Flow Traders, where he managed a
global team of 25 risk managers across investment, market, counterparty credit,
and operational risks in Equities, FX, Fixed Income and Digital Assets.
Previously, he has held several senior Risk Management positions at top tier
banks including HSBC, Citi, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Romain holds an M.Sc. in Decision Sciences from the London School of Economics,
an M.Phil. in Operational Research from University Paris IX-Dauphine & Ecole des
Mines Paris and a B.Sc. in Economic and Financial Engineering from University of
Montpellier.


ALEX GALLAGHER-LYNCH

Head of Trading


Alex Gallagher-Lynch is Head of Trading at Laser Digital, prior to which he has
led trading at a number of firms including Menai Financial Group, which provides
digital asset investment products. Previously, as Chief Technology Officer at
digital prime broker GCEX, he developed and ran systematic trading at the firm.

Alex graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BSC in Theoretical Physics.


SEBASTIEN GUGLIETTA

Head of Asset Management


Sebastien Guglietta is the Head of Asset Management at Laser Digital. His domain
of expertise is in crypto assets and blockchain-based protocols, systematic
macro trading strategies, derivatives arbitrages, and artificial intelligence.
From 2021, Sebastian was Nomura’s Chief Scientist Officer, prior to which he was
a Portfolio Manager and Senior Scientist at Brevan Howard.

 

Sebastian has a M.Sc. from ESSEC Business School, an M.Phil. in Mathematical
Economics and Econometrics from the EHESS, along with a B.Sc. and M.Phil. in
Pure Mathematics.


CRAIG HOWELL

Chief Financial Officer


Craig Howell joined Laser Digital in 2023, having spent the past fourteen years
at Nomura,  latterly in the Tokyo Head Office as the Global Head of Group MI –
Financial Planning and Strategy and before that he held various Finance roles,
based in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Prior to Nomura, Craig was at Lehman Brothers and he began his career at PwC.

A Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Accountant, Craig graduated from the
University of Cape Town with a Bachelor’s of Business Science and a Bachelor of
Commerce in Financial Management.


WASSIL KACHA

Chief Information Security Officer


Wassil is the CISO of Laser Digital. Prior to this, Wassil was at Citi for 18
years in various IT and Information Security roles, latterly as Head of
Cybersecurity Services, EMEA  and Global head of Data Security. He is a
Certified Information Systems Security Professional and graduated with a
Master’s in IT and Computer Science Engineering from Télécom SudParis. He also
has a joint MBA from LSE, NYU Stern, and HEC (Trium program).


FIONA KING

Head of Distribution – Asset Management


Fiona is Head of Distribution for Laser Digital Asset Management and has worked
within digital asset management for the last two and half years, previously as
Head of Distribution for Nickel Digital Asset Management, marketing a range of
alpha and beta crypto funds.

Prior to working in digital,  Fiona was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch,
responsible for their UCITS alternative platform and she was also a director at
Rothschild Asset Management, as global head of their alternative UCITS platform.


JAMES LANCASTER

Chief Operating Officer


James Lancaster is the COO of Laser Digital, prior to which he spent over a
decade at Nomura, latterly as Global Wholesale COO.

 James has over 20 years’ experience of developing and managing business
operations, he joined Nomura in Tokyo in 2010 as COO, Global Rates and Fixed
Income Japan, and later worked in Singapore before relocating to London.

 Before Nomura, James worked at RBS in London and New York where he held several
roles within Finance and Flow Rates Trading. He became the COO for Global Rates
in 2006.

 James has served on the board of the Association for Financial Markets in
Europe.


CHRIS OLD

Chief Administrative Officer


Chris Old is the CAO of Laser Digital with oversight of Operations, Business
Management and Corporate Communications. Previously he was at Nomura for 13
years, latterly as the CAO for Nomura’s wholesale digital office, covering
strategy, transformation, financial management and operational risk management
across FX and fixed income e-trading platforms.

Chris graduated from Loughborough University with a Bachelor’s degree in
Electronic and Electrical Engineering.


BENJAMIN STEPHENS

Chief Technology Officer


Ben Stephens is the Chief Technology Officer of Laser Digital and CEO of
ClearToken, the start-up digital asset clearing house.

Previously, he was Global Head of Product Management at Instinet, a Nomura Group
Company,  responsible for strategy and business development across digital
assets, trading, post-trade, clearing and analytics. Ben started his career as
an entrepreneur and has an MBA from London Business School.


ROB TURNER

Chief People Officer


Rob Turner is Laser Digital’s Chief People Officer and has previously held
several roles leading human resources, firstly at Newsweek and latterly at 2
startups; Vyne a payments solution and Karhoo, which aggregates ride-hailing
apps such as Uber. Rob began his career in human resources at Aviva and also
worked for KPMG.

Rob has a Master’s in human resources management from the University of Durham
and graduated from the University of Lincoln with a Bachelor’s degree in
Psychology and Criminology.


GINO WIRTHENSOHN

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer


Gino Wirthensohn is Laser Digital’s Chief Legal and Compliance Officer. He
joined the company in February 2023 from Sygnum Bank, the world’s first
regulated digital asset bank.  At Sygnum, Gino was Chief Legal, Compliance and
RegTech Officer. Before joining Sygnum, Gino co-founded an award-winning
RegTech/FinTech start-up. Prior to working in the start-up space, he held
positions in legal, compliance, and risk management in the banking and
audit/consulting industries, and has worked previously in public notary
services.

Gino holds a Master of Law from the University of Lucerne and an Executive MBA
from the University of Oxford.


 * Steve Ashley
 * Jez Mohideen
 * Olivier Dang
 * Cameron Dickie
 * Romain Berry
 * Alex Gallagher-Lynch
 * Sebastien Guglietta
 * Craig Howell
 * Wassil Kacha
 * Fiona King
 * James Lancaster
 * Chris Old
 * Benjamin Stephens
 * Rob Turner
 * Gino Wirthensohn


WE COMBINE CRYPTO-NATIVE AGILITY WITH INSTITUTIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES,
TO EMPOWER THE NEXT ERA OF GLOBAL DIGITAL FINANCE.


CAREERS WITH LASER DIGITAL

We’re looking for ambitious people who are as serious about digital assets as we
are, and who share our belief in the power of responsible innovation.
Get in Touch


CONTACT US


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COMPANY NEWS

Laser Digital latest news
 * 2023-03-22
   Nomura's Laser Digital Invests in ClearToken Digital Asset Clearing House to
   Enable Market Structure for Institutional Engagement
 * 2023-02-15
   Nomura's Laser Digital Invests in DeFi Protocol Infinity to Accelerate Hybrid
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