The Reyl-backed digital start-up is bolstering its top ranks ahead of an expected launch as a bank later this year.
Alpian, a digital bank incubated by Swiss wealth manager Reyl, appointed Victor Cianni as its head of investments and Mauro Musso as its head of information technology, effective immediately, according to a post on its corporate LinkedIn page.
Geneva-based Alpian is seeking to launch in the second quarter, provided it can clinch a Swiss banking license by then, CEO Schuyler Weiss told finews.com in December. It secured 12 million francs ($13.4 million) last year including from Reyl to build a digital financial service for Switzerland's mass affluent.
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Cianni was poached from Citi, where he ran the U.S. bank's investment lab in the Middle East and North Africa. Musso (pictured below) was most recently a systems and network engineer at Reyl.
At Citi, Cianni was tasked with institutional-type analysis on portfolios of super-wealthy families as well as designing tailored investment strategies. He previously worked for Lombard Odier as a quantitative portfolio and risk manager and for Indosuez.
