BTIG has appointed Michael Kaye as a Managing Director and Digital Asset Strategy and Sales Specialist in the firm’s Franchise Sales division.
Kaye will leverage his network of industry relationships to provide comprehensive views of the digital asset sector for BTIG’s institutional and corporate clients across a broad array of subsectors including blockchain technology, cryptocurrency solutions, digital payments and financial services. Kaye will be based in the firm’s New York office and report to Dan Wychulis, Managing Director and Head of BTIG US Strategy and Franchise Sales.
As the most recent addition to an expanding BTIG Digital Asset team, Kaye enhances the focus and effort to further build the BTIG brand anchored by Mark Palmer, BTIG FinTech and Digital Assets Analyst, and the Research team. Prior to BTIG, he was the Head Trader at Coltrane Asset Management, specialising in digital assets, equity capital markets and the consumer sector. Previously, Kaye was a Director within Equity Sales at Berenberg Capital Markets and Redburn. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at Balyasny in London and Chicago as a Portfolio Manager and Trader. He was also actively involved in the firm’s equity capital markets activities. Mr. Kaye held similar Portfolio Manager roles at Bellman Walter Capital, Walter Capital, SAC Global Capital and Deutsche Bank.
“We are thrilled to have Michael join the firm,” says Wychulis. “His vast expertise and deep understanding of the digital asset landscape will be enormously valuable to both our corporate and institutional investor clients. Building off the recent momentum created by our widely attended digital asset conference, Michael gives BTIG yet another resource to offer our clients as they look for guidance in the digital asset sector.”
