
Mark Kepeneghian
Co-founder & CEO of Lise
Mark Kepeneghian is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lise (Lightning Stock Exchange), Europe's first equity market infrastructure to combine the functions of a multilateral trading facility (MTF), a central securities depository (CSD) and instant settlement.
An ESCP graduate, he began his career on the trading floor at Rothschild & Co, where he focused on financial risk factors, particularly liquidity risk. In 2018, he co-founded Kriptown with the goal of revolutionizing SMEs' access to capital markets through blockchain. That experience led him to design Lise, which operates 24/7 with instant, counterparty-risk-free settlement.
He sits on the AMF's Consultative Commission on Market Organisation and Functioning, is Vice-President of ADAN and Chair of its Tokenization Committee, and is a member of the board of France FinTech.
