Winter will oversee a team of 70 employees in Berlin and Ljubljana and be in charge of software development, IT operations, and IT security in his new position.

Winter comes from the German financial startup Solaris, where he was most recently the CTO and has been employed since 2016.

"Boerse Stuttgart Digital combines technical innovation with regulatory reliability, drawing on over 160 years of Boerse Stuttgart Group’s experience in capital markets," Winter states. "The brokerage, exchange, and custody integrated solutions are specifically designed to satisfy the demands of institutional participants in the European cryptocurrency industry. Together with my committed team, I look forward to further solidifying and growing our market position."