Zurich 28 May 2026: Sygnum, a digital asset banking group, made the following announcements today at the Sygnum Bank AGM.
Sygnum’s Expanded Leadership and Governance Frameworks
Sygnum is deepening its global leadership bench and enhancing its governance in readiness for its next growth phase. These initiatives further strengthen the group’s client focus and organisational resilience, boost agility and empower the next wave of Sygnum leaders. This is underpinned by a disciplined, human-in-the-loop approach to artificial intelligence that has already unlocked greater operational efficiency and industry-leading innovations.
Sygnum Bank Board of Directors
As part of this governance evolution, there will be changes to the composition of the Board. Kim Leng Chua, an early independent Board member based in Singapore who chaired the AML Committee, will continue to support Sygnum with his expertise and remain closely connected to the company. Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao, an open-source software veteran, will step down following changes to shareholder representation. Luka Müller, Sygnum Co-Founder and former Chairman, will not seek re-election for medical reasons, but continues his contribution as Chairman Emeritus and member of the Advisory Board. Sygnum sincerely wishes them well in their future endeavours and thanks them for their contribution, commitment, and leadership.
Joining the Board is Martina Stettler, bringing extensive global experience in strategic legal, regulatory and compliance matters. She held Managing Director positions at UBS and Credit Suisse and served as the central legal and risk lead in their merger and integration, advising boards and senior management on litigation risk, regulatory engagement, and post-merger governance.i
“I am excited to join Sygnum at such a pivotal moment for the industry and to contribute to shaping the Future of Finance alongside such an innovative team” says Martina Stettler, Sygnum Director. “Throughout my career, I have focused on translating complex legal and regulatory matters into clear decision frameworks that strengthen organisational resilience. I look forward to bringing this experience to Sygnum as the company continues its global growth journey.”
These changes continue the 2025 strengthening of the Board’s leadership team. Pia Tischhauser, Swiss Re Supervisory Board member and former BCG executive, joined alongside Vinod Kumar, Vice-Chairman of Everstone and former CEO of Vodafone Business and Tata Communications. Gabriela Maria Payer also transitioned from Vice-Chairwoman to Chairwoman.
“We are delighted to welcome Martina Stettler to the Sygnum Board. Martina brings deep experience, strategic insight and a strong understanding of how to build trusted institutions in complex and fast-evolving markets,” says Chairwoman Gabriela Maria Payer. “I would also like to sincerely thank Kim Leng Chua, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao and our Co-Founder and former Chairman Luka Müller, whom I look forward to continuing to work with in his new Chairman Emeritus role. As we continue to scale globally, we remain deeply committed to fostering a values-based culture that is sustainable, resilient, and centred on empowering our people to create long-term value for our clients and partners.”
Group Executive Board and Global Governance Framework
At the executive level, the focus is on deepening client-orientation, broadening commercial accountability and embedding group-wide organisational resilience. A new Chief Compliance Officerii, bringing deep experience in Swiss and global banking regulation, will join the Group Executive Board in September. Dominic Lohberger, Chief Product Officer, will step down from the Group Executive Board from June 1 and will leave the company in September to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.
To further strengthen client-focus and service excellence, Sygnum is introducing a Private Wealth leadership role reporting to the Group CEO. The change creates more dedicated focus for the increasingly distinct needs for Private Wealth and Institutional clients. Management is currently evaluating internal and external candidates for the role.
New regional leaders
On 1 August 2026, Reto Marxiii will join the team as CEO of Sygnum Singapore to further strengthen the Asia Pacific leadership and growth trajectory. He has more than 25 years of leadership experience across Asia and Europe in wealth management, risk and product strategy. At the same time, Co-Founder Gerald Goh transitions to Executive Chairman APAC with a focus on group-wide capital markets and fundraising strategy, strategic stakeholder relationships and leading key group initiatives, particularly those in Asia Pacific. Simon Schneider steps into the Sygnum Europe CEO role and leads local operations with immediate effect. The strategic move positions Sygnum to drive growth in the EU.
2025 in Review
In January, Sygnum closed an oversubscribed strategic funding round to reach a Unicorn valuation, and during the year, attracted more than USD 1 billion in net new money. Bank-to-Bank revenues grew by 70 percent via existing partners like PostFinance and expanded offerings with Zuger Kantonalbank. Sygnum’s Protect off-exchange custody platform saw assets grow ninefold, with Deribit and ByBit joining Binance and other exchanges on the platform.
Sygnum also continued to shape industry direction through its Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund, its MultiSYG Bitcoin-native multi-signature wallets, and its successful tokenized deposit Proof-of-Concept alongside UBS and PostFinance.
2026 Outlook
The first half of 2026 has already delivered several key milestones. The Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund surpassed 750 BTC under management, the bank launched discretionary mandates and Sygnum teamed up with UBS, PostFinance, Raiffeisen, Zürcher Kantonalbank, BCV and Swiss Stablecoin to launch a joint CHF stablecoin sandbox. Sygnum also powered Fidelity International’s tokenised money market fund, launched fully-offline cold custody leveraging Sygnum Cryo, the firms deep cold key management technology, and completed the first live AI-agent-driven digital asset transactions by a regulated Swiss bank.
Sygnum’s multi-market, multi-platform strategy is reinforced by today’s market backdrop. Amid significant uncertainty, Sygnum’s stable Swiss and Singapore hubs are well positioned to benefit from capital flowing to trusted institutions, while maturing regulation, growing institutional adoption and Bitcoin’s renewed macro-hedge narrative continue to support strong fundamentals.
i The appointment of Martina Stettler to the Board of Directors is subject to FINMA approval.
ii The appointment of the Chief Compliance Officer is subject to FINMA approval.
iii The appointment of Reto Marx is subject to regulatory approval.
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