Mike Kuehnel was appointed as CEO of Flow Traders Ltd. in February 2023. He is primarily focused on developing Flow Traders’ growth and acceleration strategy as well as overseeing the firm's global diversification initiatives. Mike joined the firm as CFO in August 2021 and initially focused on further developing Flow Traders' corporate strategy alongside the firm's approach to embrace and position itself in the global financial ecosystem, something he continues to focus on in his current role as CEO. Prior to joining Flow Traders, Mike gained over 20 years of investment banking and strategy consulting experience in the global financial services and financial markets infrastructure space, both through senior roles at Goldman Sachs and at Bain & Company. He has a deep educational background in Accounting and Finance and extensive experience both as an M&A professional and strategy consultant. Until 2021, Mike served as a partner at Bain & Company, where he successfully built and led the firm’s Investment Banking and Financial Markets Infrastructure practice for EMEA and where he acted as a senior member of Bain & Company’s global M&A practice. As a core member of the firm’s M&A practice, Mike focused particularly on major multi-year value creation programs and the accelerated build-up of internal M&A capabilities. In these roles, he worked closely with a broad variety of industry-leading clients globally amongst others around topics such as corporate strategy, and transformations, particularly focusing on financial markets infrastructure and, for the last few years, on crypto and digital assets as one of the global content co-leaders for these topics at Bain & Company. Before Bain & Company, Mike worked at Goldman Sachs, where he led large-scale equity and M&A transactions in the European banking, insurance, asset management, private wealth and financial markets infrastructure sector as a core member of the firm’s European financial institutions group.Mike holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago, U.S.A., where he got awarded a J. William Fulbright scholarship. Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA), majoring in Banking & Finance, from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. During his studies, he spent time at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, and the Keio University, Keio Business School, in Yokohama, Japan, predominantly focusing on portfolio theory and statistics of financial markets.