Franky Gonidis — Chief Risk Officer · Copper.co

I have spent 20 years across institutional markets — combining front-line trading and risk leadership experience with a track record of building platforms, products and teams at scale across Prime Brokerage, Structured Financing, and digital asset infrastructure. My background is quantitative by training — MSc in Mathematical Modelling & AI, early career in front-office risk at CQS and J.P. Morgan — which shapes how I approach both risk and product problems. At Copper Technologies, I led the development of ClearLoop — scaling posted collateral from under $100m to over $6bn and building the settlement infrastructure that now supports more than $100bn in monthly clearing volumes for institutional participants. I also built the first blockchain-based repo and Agency Lending products on distributed ledger infrastructure, applying traditional prime brokerage and securities financing mechanics to on-chain settlement. This is the infrastructure that tokenized stocks, bonds and funds will require at institutional scale. My experience spans the full institutional markets stack: quantitative risk modelling, structured financing, prime brokerage, digital asset infrastructure and on-chain market structure. I have worked closely with trading desks, product and engineering teams, regulators and boards across multiple jurisdictions — always focused on building things that work at institutional scale. Currently Chief Risk Officer at Copper Technologies, member of the Executive Committee, and Board Director for Copper Markets (Switzerland) — responsible for enterprise risk across financial, operational, technology and cyber risk dimensions across four regulated jurisdictions. I also advise Rho Protocol Labs on the design of institutional on-chain products, including the first on-chain interest rate swap.