Robin Ejsmond-Frey Joins GCEX as Director of Institutional Sales – Asset Management
15 September 2022 - GCEX has appointed Robin Ejsmond-Frey as Director of Institutional Sales - Asset Management, a newly created role. Based between London and Dubai with a global remit, Robin will lead GCEX's push into institutional wealth management, working with hedge funds, asset managers, family offices, ultra-high-net-worth individuals and qualified institutional investors seeking access to digital assets through a regulated group.
Robin's remit covers GCEX's proprietary digital asset portfolio solutions and wealth-as-a-service offering, alongside technology-driven fund management tools currently in development.
Robin’s experience spans both digital assets and institutional finance. He joins GCEX from Portal to Bitcoin Exchange, where he was Head of Business Development, and prior to that was Senior Business Development Manager at Parity Technologies. He began his financial services career at Marex in London, where he spent four years as a Senior Crude Options & Swaps Broker.
Lars Holst, Founder and CEO, GCEX commented, “We see significant opportunities to grow our wealth management business across the Middle East, the EU and the UK, leveraging the crypto wealth management products acquired through GlobalBlock. Robin is ideally placed to help us capitalise on this potential. He brings a strong combination of institutional financial markets experience, digital asset expertise and an established network, particularly among family offices and high-net-worth individuals in Dubai, making him a valuable addition to the team.”
Robin Ejsmond Frey, Director of Institutional Sales – Asset Management added, “GCEX is a regulated business with a great reputation – a trusted firm that has successfully bridged from the traditional finance world to blockchain and crypto products and is ideally placed to serve the institutional market. I am looking forward to working closely with hedge funds, asset managers, family offices and high-net-worth individuals and delivering the high-touch service these clients expect. My focus will be on building long-term relationships and growing GCEX’s wealth management business globally.”
GCEX Group provides institutional and professional clients with access to deep liquidity in CFDs on digital assets and FX, alongside spot trading and conversion of digital assets. The company also offers a comprehensive range of Forex brokerage and crypto-native technology solutions under its XplorDigital suite. XplorDigital features, its recent XplorDigital App, innovative plug-and-play solutions, ‘Crypto in a Box’ and ‘Broker in a Box’ which encompass technology-agnostic platforms addressing regulation while covering trusted custody solutions, staking solutions, arrangements for safeguarding client funds, tier 1 and deep liquidity, connectivity to leading price makers, advanced risk management, and innovative technology partnerships.
Headquartered in London, with multiple offices across the globe, GCEX operates through separately authorised entities. GC Exchange Limited is authorised and regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority; GC Exchange A/S is authorised and regulated by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and as a Currency Exchange and GC Exchange FZE is licensed as a Virtual Asset Service Provider by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). True Global Ventures are investors in GCEX.
This announcement is provided for information purposes only. It is directed at professional and institutional clients and does not constitute an offer, inducement or invitation to acquire any product or service, nor is it directed at retail clients.
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