Lincoln Bartlett

Head of OTC Sales

Kraken

Dec 2025 - Current (10 months)

Lead institutional OTC/Prime sales across hedge funds, market makers, asset managers, venture capital, treasuries, allocators, and other institutional clients.
• Cover OTC/Prime spot, options, financing, custody, and asset management; translate trading, liquidity, collateral, settlement, and treasury requirements into commercial mandates.
• Serve as sales-trading resource for market color, research, trade ideas, basis/funding, options regimes, liquidity, collateral, settlement, and treasury strategy.
• Build net-new institutional relationships and win competitor-held accounts by navigating complex trading, risk, legal, operations, compliance, and information-security diligence.

Head of Sales Trading

Anchorage Digital

Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 4 months)

Led institutional sales trading and client coverage across several hundred accounts, providing pricing, block risk transfer, market color, and best execution on large-ticket OTC flow.
• Covered hedge funds, market makers, asset managers, treasuries, and allocators across spot, options, and financing.
• Negotiated liquidity-provider spreads, legal terms, settlement, routing, and asset support; managed counterparty and settlement risk across exchanges and OTC desks.
• Built client-facing pre-trade analytics, TCA, market chartbooks, and Python-based tools supporting coverage, pricing, and execution.

Head of Trading

Anchorage Digital

Jan 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Built and led institutional trading franchise at an OCC-chartered digital asset bank, scaling an early agency desk into a 9-trader, 24/7 principal spot, options, and financing operation.
• Owned desk roadmap, staffing, risk controls, liquidity sourcing, best-execution framework, and product prioritization across Trading, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Product, Engineering, Operations, Sales, and Relationship Management.
• Built operating model for principal risk, OTC liquidity, settlement, routing, counterparty risk, and institutional trading workflows.

Portfolio Risk Manager & Trader: Rates Derivatives & FX

Vanguard

Feb 2017 - Jan 2022 (5 years)

Senior trader and portfolio manager on Vanguard Fixed Income’s centralized execution desk.
• Executed 87,822 trades totaling $2.8T across global rates, FX, futures, government bonds, swaps, and options with zero errors; personally executed the most risk in Vanguard Fixed Income history.
• Managed $200B of active fixed-income rates risk and originated $821B in trades across global rates, derivatives, and FX.
• Traded FX spot, forwards, and swaps for global equity and fixed-income funding and hedging, including ~$1B average daily volume and $275B month-end hedge rolls.
• Selected execution method across algo, risk transfer, and voice based on liquidity, volatility, fund mandate, discretion, and benchmark.
• Built FX T

Equity Trading Desk

Vanguard

Apr 2016 - Feb 2017 (11 months)

Securities Lending Trading Desk

Vanguard

Apr 2012 - Mar 2016 (4 years)

Rotational Analyst Development Program

JP Morgan

Jul 2009 - Apr 2012 (2 years 10 months)

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