Julian Sawyer is the CEO (subject to FCA approval) at Zodia Custody, the Standard Chartered and Northern Trust backed digital asset custodian joining the business in November 2022. Prior to that he was Chief Executive Officer at Bitstamp, the worlds oldest crypto exchange with over 4 million customers. He has been an advisor to the board of the leading Australian challenger bank, Volt and an advisor to a number of financial services business in Europe, US and Dubai. Prior to joining Bitstamp Julian worked for Gemini as MD for Europe and he also co-founded Starling Bank, where he was COO with responsibility for running customer services, AML & Fraud, Payment Operations, HR and Supplier Management. He also held P&L responsibility for the B2B arm, Starling Banking Services. Prior to Starling, he was a management consultant at Accenture and EY and set up and ran his own financial services consultancy, Bluerock, for 13 years before selling it. Julian is an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School’s Faculty of Management.
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