Mike Kuehnel — Chairman · Copper.co | The Family Office Stack

I currently serve as Chairman of Copper, a leading institutional digital asset infrastructure provider, where I support the company’s strategic direction, governance, stakeholder engagement and long-term growth agenda. I am also a Bain External Advisor, contributing senior industry expertise on strategic transformations, market structure evolution and growth opportunities across financial markets infrastructure, institutional trading, digital assets, tokenization, stablecoins and AI. In addition, I serve as a Strategic Board Member of the Crypto Women Collective, supporting its mission to advance education, inclusion and leadership across the digital assets and Web3 ecosystem. Previously, I served as CEO of Flow Traders Ltd., after joining the company as CFO in 2021. In these roles, I helped shape and execute the firm’s growth and diversification strategy, strengthen its global footprint, and position the business at the intersection of institutional trading, digital assets and market structure innovation. Before Flow Traders, I built more than 20 years of experience across investment banking and strategy consulting. I began my career at Goldman Sachs, advising on large-scale equity and M&A transactions across financial services and financial markets infrastructure. I then spent close to a decade at Bain & Company, where I became Partner, founded and led Bain’s Investment Banking and Financial Markets Infrastructure practice for EMEA, co-founded the firm’s global Crypto & Digital Assets practice, and served as a senior member of the global M&A practice. I hold an MBA in Accounting & Finance from the University of Chicago, where I was awarded a J. William Fulbright scholarship, and a BBA in Banking & Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Across my work, I focus on building and scaling organizations that combine strategic clarity, institutional discipline and entrepreneurial culture, with a particular emphasis on financial markets infrastructure, digital assets, market structure and transformation.