Seamus Rocca is an Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at Xapo Bank. He has helped lead the company through bear and bull markets, positioning Xapo as a long-standing global leader in Bitcoin-first private banking. As CEO, Seamus has been instrumental in making Xapo the first crypto company in the world to obtain a banking license, as well as one of the very first crypto card issuers, powered by partnerships with global card schemes, Mastercard and Visa, enabling Xapo members to spend their Bitcoin at more than 90 million locations worldwide.
As a long-term evangelist for Bitcoin, Seamus has helped educate retail customers and blue-chip companies alike on the importance of Bitcoin as an investment asset alongside gold. Before joining Xapo as the Group CFO in 2017, he spent a decade at Standard Chartered Bank as the Group Head of Liquidity and Funding Risk. During his tenure, the bank tripled the size of its balance sheet and successfully navigated significant regulatory changes.
