Swiss heritage. Global vision.
Lyorion is headquartered in Switzerland and built by operators from banking and market infrastructure — combining banking expertise, institutional distribution, and execution discipline to build the banking-grade operating platform for the digital asset economy.
Built to be relied on, not to compete.
Lyorion earns its place in the middle by competing with no one, holding nothing, and locking in no one — the three things an institution needs to be true before it trusts a shared layer.
Neutral, and aligned with you.
Lyorion doesn’t issue, custody, or trade against you. It has no deal flow to chase and no book to protect — only your transactions to settle.
Non-custodial by design.
Lyorion instructs settlement across your own custodians, banks, and rails. Your assets never move to us, so adopting it changes nothing about who controls what.
No lock-in, by construction.
Lyorion connects to your existing custodians, rails, and providers through open standards — so you integrate and disconnect on your own terms, never trapped in a closed ecosystem.
The team building Lyorion.
Lyorion is built by a team combining banking-infrastructure expertise, institutional distribution, and regulatory execution — the exact mix required to build financial infrastructure institutions can rely on.
Thomas Hilgendorff
Chief Executive Officer / Co-FounderOver 30 years in banking and IT and 20+ in MD/CEO roles. Co-founded a Swiss neo-bank and led it as CEO for more than five years, securing one of the first fintech licences in Switzerland. Holds board seats across cybersecurity, asset management, payments, and bank consulting.
Ivo Sauter
Chief Operating Officer / Co-Founder25+ years in banking and finance innovation and 10+ in the executive management of licensed institutions. Former Group COO of an investment-banking boutique and CEO of a Swiss derivatives crypto exchange, with board seats across several crypto companies.
Patrick Schöni
Chief Growth Officer / Co-Founder20+ years in finance and innovation and 10+ in crypto and fintech executive roles. Former Chief Strategy Officer at a Swiss crypto wealth manager and Head of Platform at a leading Swiss crypto service provider, with board seats in a crypto broker and a tokenization company.
Frank Keller
Chief Financial & Risk Officer30+ years in Swiss private banking and asset management and 15+ in MD/CFO roles. International private-banking and asset-management experience across Singapore and Hong Kong, and an early adopter of digital-asset initiatives in a wealth-management context. Holds board seats in advisory and trust companies.
Fabian Hediger
Head of Engineering15+ years in Swiss banking and structured products and 15+ leading software engineering and development. Former Head of IT Development for a Swiss securities house, acting as the strategic bridge between executive stakeholders, complex compliance, and core engineering teams.
Christopher Gujer
Head of Operations20+ years in finance, investment, and asset management and 10+ in fintech executive roles. Former COO of a Swiss crypto wealth manager and exchange with deep expertise in on-chain finance, and founder and board member of a Swiss data-centre operator.
Damien Taets van Amerongen
Head of Product25+ years across financial services, banking, and consulting, including 15+ in senior product, transformation, and delivery leadership. Deep domain expertise in payments, trade finance, financial messaging, and banking connectivity, with a proven track record delivering complex financial-services products and large-scale transformation.
One group. A multi-jurisdiction structure by design.
Lyorion is headquartered in Switzerland and built to serve institutional clients internationally — open for business across the world’s leading financial hubs. From its Swiss base, it works with banks, wealth and asset managers, and their providers wherever they operate.
Rooted in Zürich.
The group’s home base and technology platform, at the center of one of the world’s most trusted financial environments.
Open across Europe.
Built to serve institutions across Europe, spanning the region’s principal financial centers under one operating standard.
Open across Asia Pacific.
Serving wealth and capital-markets hubs across Asia Pacific, with Singapore as the natural gateway.
Our home in Zürich.
Lyorion is headquartered in the heart of Switzerland’s financial center. Reach out to arrange a meeting or a platform walkthrough.
Lyorion AG
Affolternstrasse 42, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland
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