Product leader with sixteen years building trading and settlement infrastructure across TradFi and digital assets. Known for converting complex technical requirements into working platforms — matching engines, DvP settlement, market-making systems — and for bridging the gap between institutional-grade execution standards and the pace of digital asset markets. Currently Head of Product at Crypto Finance AG (Deutsche Börse Group), leading Trading, Custody & Settlement, and Wallet Infrastructure.
Work Experience
Crypto Finance AG — Zurich · Deutsche Börse Group
Head of Product
Apr 2026 – Present
Promoted to lead the product organisation across Trading, Custody & Settlement, and Wallet Infrastructure, serving institutional clients through a FINMA-regulated platform.
- Translate business priorities into product roadmaps and delivery milestones across execution services, market-making infrastructure, custody, and wallet, coordinating with Sales, Trading, Legal, Finance, and Operations.
- Lead the product management function across the firm's three core product lines in Switzerland and Germany.
- Ensure product readiness for MiCAR/DORA obligations — order handling transparency, client asset safeguarding, ICT resilience, and third-party risk requirements.
- Drive the cross-asset expansion agenda, transitioning derivatives from roadmap to live futures and options.
Product Manager — Brokerage Services
Jul 2023 – Mar 2026
Led the launch and evolution of an institutional trading platform: distribution layer for price streaming, matching engine for internalising order flow, and market-maker layer.
- Launched new trading infrastructure, delivering FIX and REST/WS connectivity for institutional price streaming and execution.
- Led delivery of the market-making system, connecting to OTC counterparties and crypto exchanges for continuous two-way liquidity provision.
- Expanded venue and counterparty connectivity, integrating multi-dealer FX platforms (360T), institutional trading platforms (Integral, Talos, smartTrade, TSI Imagine), and core-banking systems (Avaloq).
- Automated DvP settlement with three aggregation modes; introduced T+X settlement calculation engine.
- Initiated the derivatives expansion programme — RFP for a risk management system; redefined futures/options solution architecture.
- Architected high-availability solutions — active/standby environments and system-level failover.
Key Achievements
- Tightened client spreads >80%, improved execution latency >90%, contributed to a tenfold increase in market-making revenues within two years.
- Established institutional-grade DvP and netting settlement processes, eliminating manual dependencies.
CIF D.O.O — Belgrade, Serbia
Director of Product / ExCo Member
Jun 2022 – Jun 2023
Directed product organisation and delivery of a cloud-native securities trading platform for up to seven million retail clients of a leading European neobank via white-label integration.
- Led 14-member department across five Scrum teams — PMs, Analysts, Regulatory, Data Science, Design.
- Managed key vendor partnerships: Xignite, ABN Amro, WM Daten, KPMG.
- Identified critical architectural and compliance gaps, reshaping roadmap milestones to meet regulatory requirements.
Work Experience — Continued
Fideuram Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking — Milan
Project Manager
Jan 2022 – Jun 2022
- Embedded within the BlackRock Aladdin integration workstream; contributed to ESG screening and portfolio reporting features.
Ministry of Economic Development — Podgorica, Montenegro
Director, Directorate for Digital Economy & Technological Development
Jun 2021 – Nov 2021
- Oversaw policy for electronic communications, radio spectrum, and postal services; coordinated with the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (EKIP) on spectrum auction methodology and reserve price-setting.
- Contributed to secondary legislation on research and innovation incentives; participated in working group for national digital assets legislation.
- Represented Montenegro on the EU Innovation & Information Society Subcommittee.
Intesa Sanpaolo Group — Belgrade & Milan
Treasury & ALM Specialist
Oct 2019 – Jun 2021
- Monitored liquidity, FX, and interest rate risk for Group international subsidiaries (Basel III: LCR, NSFR).
- Migrated FTP calculations from Excel to Python — reduced publication time from one day to five minutes.
Intesa Sanpaolo Group — Milan
Commodities Trader
Jan 2018 – Oct 2019
- Managed proprietary physical gold risk in Murex; hedged via CME gold futures and OTC FX through FastFill and smartTrade.
- Contributed to a new inter-company commodity swap booking model, eliminating structural hedging inefficiencies.
- Optimised pricing and hedging strategy, contributing >€6M in annual profit.
Intesa Sanpaolo Group — Milan
Project Manager — Trading Platforms
Jul 2011 – Jan 2018
- Delivered FX platform migration from ION to smartTrade; integrated reference data, risk, and post-trade systems.
- Implemented market connectivity for the brokerage platform (Market Hub) — Borsa Italiana, EuroTLX, Turquoise, Hi-MTF, BondPoint.
- Executed system upgrade and algo-trading projects for List, ION, Orc, and smartTrade.
Cegeka Italia — Milan
Senior Business Analyst
Jun 2009 – Jun 2011
- Managed application operations for Market Hub (equities and fixed income brokerage platform) — II-level support, release management, best-execution algorithm testing, client and venue onboarding.
eNetworks Srl — Milan
Junior Business Analyst
Jul 2008 – Jun 2009
- Entry-level role; business analysis and requirements gathering for financial services platform projects.
Prior to 2008: commercial experience in Montenegro following Bocconi graduation; relocated to Milan to be
