Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao Joins BitMEX’s Board as a Non-Executive Director
- Fernando has extensive experience in Asia’s financial services sector.

BitMEX announced today that it has decided to appoint Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, an industry veteran with nearly two decades of experience in Asia’s financial and technology sector, as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
According to the official announcement, the latest appointment of Fernando is a major step towards BitMEX’s transformation plan. The company is also planning to accelerate its business expansion through the valuable knowledge and experience of the newly appointed Non-Executive Director.
Fernando is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, one of the largest digital asset firms in Asia. He assumed his current role in July 2020.
“Fernando’s career began in academia with a stint as a researcher at Universidade de Vigo, Spain, his alma mater, where he first got deeply involved with the budding Linux and open-source communities. This led him to the commercial world with a number of roles at the NTT Group, eventually becoming a founding member and technical director of NTT Open-Source Software Center and a fellow at NTT Data Intellilink, where he built a team that made major contributions to open-source projects that underpin modern Cloud Cloud The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing concepts performing run time series analysis (or trend analysis), and execute trades in real-time.Advantages of Cloud Computing in TradingAn advantage that stems from cloud computing would be that entities don’t need to construct a data center infrastructure themselves.Instead, entities can conduct trials and perform refinements, and should no solutions pan out then the cloud may be shut down while the payment terminated at the same time. This methodology of renting virtual space and time in cloud tends to be far more appealing than the costs, time, and resources required with constructing hardware and software infrastructures.These also happen to be the exact concept used in SaaS with trading related software.While executing trades via the cloud is an important capability to keep intact, most retail traders are drawn to the cloud for the research, backtesting, and analytics advantages that stem from using the cloud. In forex, traders that use Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading software are uploading their solutions onto a broker’s cloud account. The cloud is an ecosystem for multiple industries, sectors, and niches. Its versatility has not been peaked while in trading many retail traders are transitioning to cloud computing as a means to reduce expenditures, optimize efficiency, and maximize available resources. The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing concepts performing run time series analysis (or trend analysis), and execute trades in real-time.Advantages of Cloud Computing in TradingAn advantage that stems from cloud computing would be that entities don’t need to construct a data center infrastructure themselves.Instead, entities can conduct trials and perform refinements, and should no solutions pan out then the cloud may be shut down while the payment terminated at the same time. This methodology of renting virtual space and time in cloud tends to be far more appealing than the costs, time, and resources required with constructing hardware and software infrastructures.These also happen to be the exact concept used in SaaS with trading related software.While executing trades via the cloud is an important capability to keep intact, most retail traders are drawn to the cloud for the research, backtesting, and analytics advantages that stem from using the cloud. In forex, traders that use Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading software are uploading their solutions onto a broker’s cloud account. The cloud is an ecosystem for multiple industries, sectors, and niches. Its versatility has not been peaked while in trading many retail traders are transitioning to cloud computing as a means to reduce expenditures, optimize efficiency, and maximize available resources. Read this Term and internet services,” BitMEX mentioned.
In June 2021, BitMEX announced the appointment of Marc Robinson as its Head of Custody.
Extensive Experience
During the last few years, Fernando has held different roles at SBI including founding member/Director of SBI VC Trade, Chief Technical Director of Japannext, Chief Executive Officer of SBI DigiTrust and Chief Executive Officer of SBI Security Solutions.
“I’m excited to be joining the BitMEX team at a time when it is growing rapidly and there are so many opportunities. My experience in technology and many digital asset areas will provide the team with a sounding board as they accelerate the company’s transformation,” Fernando said.
“SBI Digital Asset Holdings has been created with a mindset to disrupt global markets. That’s exactly the mission we have. Fernando’s experience across a wide range of the areas relevant to our transformation also makes him an ideal Non-Executive Director,” David Wong, Chairman of BitMEX, commented.
BitMEX announced today that it has decided to appoint Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao, an industry veteran with nearly two decades of experience in Asia’s financial and technology sector, as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
According to the official announcement, the latest appointment of Fernando is a major step towards BitMEX’s transformation plan. The company is also planning to accelerate its business expansion through the valuable knowledge and experience of the newly appointed Non-Executive Director.
Fernando is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, one of the largest digital asset firms in Asia. He assumed his current role in July 2020.
“Fernando’s career began in academia with a stint as a researcher at Universidade de Vigo, Spain, his alma mater, where he first got deeply involved with the budding Linux and open-source communities. This led him to the commercial world with a number of roles at the NTT Group, eventually becoming a founding member and technical director of NTT Open-Source Software Center and a fellow at NTT Data Intellilink, where he built a team that made major contributions to open-source projects that underpin modern Cloud Cloud The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing concepts performing run time series analysis (or trend analysis), and execute trades in real-time.Advantages of Cloud Computing in TradingAn advantage that stems from cloud computing would be that entities don’t need to construct a data center infrastructure themselves.Instead, entities can conduct trials and perform refinements, and should no solutions pan out then the cloud may be shut down while the payment terminated at the same time. This methodology of renting virtual space and time in cloud tends to be far more appealing than the costs, time, and resources required with constructing hardware and software infrastructures.These also happen to be the exact concept used in SaaS with trading related software.While executing trades via the cloud is an important capability to keep intact, most retail traders are drawn to the cloud for the research, backtesting, and analytics advantages that stem from using the cloud. In forex, traders that use Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading software are uploading their solutions onto a broker’s cloud account. The cloud is an ecosystem for multiple industries, sectors, and niches. Its versatility has not been peaked while in trading many retail traders are transitioning to cloud computing as a means to reduce expenditures, optimize efficiency, and maximize available resources. The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing concepts performing run time series analysis (or trend analysis), and execute trades in real-time.Advantages of Cloud Computing in TradingAn advantage that stems from cloud computing would be that entities don’t need to construct a data center infrastructure themselves.Instead, entities can conduct trials and perform refinements, and should no solutions pan out then the cloud may be shut down while the payment terminated at the same time. This methodology of renting virtual space and time in cloud tends to be far more appealing than the costs, time, and resources required with constructing hardware and software infrastructures.These also happen to be the exact concept used in SaaS with trading related software.While executing trades via the cloud is an important capability to keep intact, most retail traders are drawn to the cloud for the research, backtesting, and analytics advantages that stem from using the cloud. In forex, traders that use Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading software are uploading their solutions onto a broker’s cloud account. The cloud is an ecosystem for multiple industries, sectors, and niches. Its versatility has not been peaked while in trading many retail traders are transitioning to cloud computing as a means to reduce expenditures, optimize efficiency, and maximize available resources. Read this Term and internet services,” BitMEX mentioned.
In June 2021, BitMEX announced the appointment of Marc Robinson as its Head of Custody.
Extensive Experience
During the last few years, Fernando has held different roles at SBI including founding member/Director of SBI VC Trade, Chief Technical Director of Japannext, Chief Executive Officer of SBI DigiTrust and Chief Executive Officer of SBI Security Solutions.
“I’m excited to be joining the BitMEX team at a time when it is growing rapidly and there are so many opportunities. My experience in technology and many digital asset areas will provide the team with a sounding board as they accelerate the company’s transformation,” Fernando said.
“SBI Digital Asset Holdings has been created with a mindset to disrupt global markets. That’s exactly the mission we have. Fernando’s experience across a wide range of the areas relevant to our transformation also makes him an ideal Non-Executive Director,” David Wong, Chairman of BitMEX, commented.