Žak Bitenc

Managed an average of $2B in AUM, overseeing allocation, liquidity, and risk across crypto and fiat. Executed daily trading and treasury operations with $5–10M average volume across centralized exchanges, OTC desks, and fiat rails. Designed and implemented automation systems to optimize liquidity flows across multiple venues, improving capital efficiency and execution speed. Led token onboarding process, whitelisting of around 100 crypto assets for retail users while ensuring compliance, liquidity, and custody requirements. Owned monthly portfolio rebalancing and liquidity assessment for SwissBorg Index Pools, maintaining optimal exposure. Partnered with data analytics to design and build internal treasury dashboards, enhancing real-time decision-making and operational visibility. Developed deep operational expertise across key crypto infrastructure providers, including Fireblocks, Cordial, Circle, Paxos, Binance, Cordial, Bullish, Keyrock OTC, VNX, LMAX Digital, Hyperliquid Managed FIAT treasury operations using banking and payment partners such as BCB, OpenPayd, and Checkout.com, ensuring seamless on/off-ramp flows.

Managed $5M AUM across 6 portfolios of the Iconomi platform, ensuring optimal performance and risk management. Led BD initiatives, securing several strategic partnerships, contributing to $500k in AUM. Conducted in-depth research on 50+ crypto assets, potential investment opportunities, market trends executing 13 cryptocurrencies with 67% hit rate Implemented strategic adjustments to portfolios based on market conditions and client preferences. Delivered weekly and monthly reports to 25+ clients, maintaining 91% client retention.

Efficiently led BD efforts, focusing on identifying and recruiting strategic partners. Successfully negotiated and closed partnership agreements, ensuring mutually beneficial terms and conditions for all parties involved. Established strong relationships with key industry players and reputable projects, fostering collaboration and partnership opportunities (Impermax Finance, Angle Protocol, Beefy Finance, Stader Labs, Defund). Worked closely with the technical and marketing teams to synchronize business objectives with product development and promotional activities.

Made substantial contributions to the project that reached $60M total value locked, was top 5 on the Arbitrum network, and established itself as a big player in the ecosystem (ETH L2) Created Twitter banners using Figma and created Twitter posts, blogs, and prepared quests (10k followers) Effectively managed a community exceeding 3,000 members on Discord daily. Demonstrated consistent development of frontend features in a high-pressure environment with tight deadlines. Established strong relationships with key industry players and reputable projects, fostering collaboration and partnership opportunities (DForce, Angle Protocol, Beefy Finance, Chainlink, 1Inch, USDD, TrueUSD, Firebird Finance, Stader Labs).

Created a Web3 project from the ground up in a team of 3 in a dynamic start-up environment. Helped with design for the Yield Aggregator platform. Managed investor relations, fostering strong partnerships and securing funding rounds to support business growth. Played a major role in BD and marketing activities (Social Media Content, Management of Social Media), Led the marketing team, created original social media content, and engaged the community of 6,000+, making us stand out from other similar projects. Managed a community of 1000+ members daily in Discord. Successfully sold the protocol to another DeFi team, which then integrated it into their product.