United Fintech Names Americas Head

United Fintech, which was launched to help institutions and hedge funds into the digital assets space, has named former Goldman Sachs executive Mark Lawrence as head of its newly-established Americas business.

Based in New York, Lawrence joins from Lawrence joins after 14 years at Goldman in senior sales roles in London, New York and Hong Kong, latterly as Latam Head of e-FICC with responsibility for also running e-FX sales in the Americas. Prior to that, he was head of e-FICC sales for Goldman in Asia Pacific.

Lawrence will work closely with the London-based sales team, reporting to Tom Robinson, with whom he worked at Goldman, to help scale and distribute the fintech firms acquired by United Fintech. As a member of the firm’s management committee, he will also play a role in assessing potential fintech acquisitions and is tasked with building a sales team in New York, with appointments to be announced later this year.

“The US is a cornerstone in the financial markets industry and having people on the ground in both London and New York close to decision makers and clients at banks and financial institutions is critical to our success,” says Christian Frahm, founder and CEO, United Fintech. “We now have the power and presence to deliver a global offering. [Mark has] an impressive international profile, a strong track record in sales and a wide network of contacts worldwide. He is the ideal person to head up our American operations and further strengthens our extraordinary sales team – between them they have strong and established relationships with the world’s most influential financial institutions.”

Lawrence adds, “United Fintech is on a mission to scale and distribute the very best fintechs in capital markets through partnership and collaboration. We want to work closely with our financial institution client base to provide elegant solutions for automating workflows, easing onboarding, delivering efficiencies and saving costs. This refreshing and positive approach is hugely appealing to me and defines United Fintech.”