AlphaPoint Appoints Joaquín Ayuso de Paúl as Chief Product Officer and Lauren Nichols as Vice President of Sales

NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaPoint, a global leader in digital asset infrastructure for exchanges, brokerages, payment networks, and banks, today announced the appointments of Joaquín Ayuso de Paúl as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Lauren Nichols as Vice President of Sales.

"AlphaPoint's mission is to power the world's financial applications with secure, scalable digital-asset infrastructure," said Igor Telyatnikov, CEO of AlphaPoint. "Joaquín brings a rare combination of founder DNA and product leadership across payments, banking, and crypto infrastructure, while Lauren has built and led high-performing go-to-market teams in fintech and blockchain. Together they'll help us enable institutions globally to deploy and upgrade financial infrastructure with category-defining products."

Product Leadership to Drive Innovation

As Chief Product Officer, Ayuso de Paúl will lead AlphaPoint's product vision, roadmap, and execution across exchange technology, institutional wallet infrastructure, tokenization, payments, and derivatives. A seasoned fintech entrepreneur, Ayuso de Paúl co-founded social network Tuenti, mobile payments platform Kuapay, and digital bank Denizen (backed by BBVA). He has held senior product leadership roles at Nium and Zerohash, where he scaled crypto and Web3 infrastructure for some of the world's largest financial services firms.

"I'm thrilled to join AlphaPoint at a time when demand for institutional-grade crypto infrastructure is scaling rapidly," said Ayuso de Paúl. "Building on the success of our Perpetual Futures launch, my focus will be ensuring AlphaPoint continues to deliver market-defining solutions for existing institutional clients while empowering new entrants to confidently participate in the digital asset economy."

Expanding Global Market Reach

As Vice President of Sales, Nichols will lead AlphaPoint's global sales strategy, partnering with exchanges, banks, and fintechs to deploy AlphaPoint's trading, payments, tokenization and custody solutions. Nichols brings more than 20 years of enterprise sales leadership experience across fintech and payments, including senior roles at Worldpay and Finastra, and most recently spearheaded global business development in blockchain payments at Notabene.

"Institutions are seeking infrastructure partners that combine scale, compliance, and proven market adoption," said Nichols. "AlphaPoint's success with institutional clients like Wenia—where our technology powers a recently launched crypto payment card alongside trading and wallet services—and with El Salvador's Chivo wallet demonstrates the transformative potential of our platform. I look forward to accelerating growth with both established players and innovators entering the digital asset space."

About AlphaPoint

AlphaPoint is a global financial technology company providing digital asset infrastructure to power the next generation of exchanges, brokerages, payment networks, and banking. AlphaPoint's full-suite products deliver trusted, secure, scalable, and customizable solutions for trading, payments, lending, tokenization, custody, and more. AlphaPoint has enabled more than 150 customers in 35 countries, powering over $1 trillion in trading volume since 2013. Learn more at alphapoint.com and follow AlphaPoint on LinkedIn and X.

SOURCE AlphaPoint Corporation