METACO, a Switzerland-based fintech company that enables financial and non-financial institutions to capitalize on the burgeoning digital asset ecosystem, has appointed Seamus Donoghue as its Chief Growth Officer.
Donoghue was the Vice President (VP) of Strategic Alliances for the fintech company until his appointment.
The METACO executive announced his appointment on Friday in a job update on his LinkedIn account.
Additionally, Donoghue is the host of METACO Talks, a series of live interviews set up by METACO to help navigate the complex and burgeoning digital assets market.
Through the series, Donoghue engages entrepreneurs in building the next generation of unicorns, venture capital firms and engineers, creating the infrastructure for the digital asset markets.
The former METACO Vice President engages regulators putting the digital assets ecosystem in check as well as influencers shaping them.
METACO recently partnered with SG-FORCE, a subsidiary of Societe Generale (SG), a French multinational investment bank.
The goal was to help SG-FORCE ramp up its institutional digital assets market activities, according to an announcement seen by Finance Magnates.
Donoghue’s Career Trajectory
Donoghue became the VP of Strategic Alliances at METACO in March 2021. He served in that capacity for a year and five months until this new appointment.
He was previously the VP of Sales & Business Development at METACO. However, he only worked in that role for 11 months before he got promoted.
Donoghue joined METACO in September 2018 as the VP of Business Development.
Before METACO, the executive was an Advisory Council Member at Global Digital Finance (GDF).
GDF is a leading global member association dedicated to advocating and accelerating the adoption of best practices for digital assets and digital finance technologies.
Donoghue has an extensive career experience that spans over 30 years.
He started his career in 1990 under Canada-based derivatives Montreal Exchange’s Trader Training Programme.
For six years and nine months, he was the Vice President at J.P Morgan, a commercial and investment banking institution founded by J. P. Morgan in 1871.
Throughout his career of more than three decades, Donoghue has worked in several cities and countries including London, United Kingdom; Montreal, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; and Singapore.
During these periods, he served in top positions in Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Bank of America Merill Lynch, Lykke Corps and Confideo, among others.
He founded Allocated Bullion Solutions in March 2013 and ran the open architecture technology platform for four years before moving to Lykke Corps in Singapore in March 2017.
At Lykke Corps, he served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Asia for a year.
