Frank Schuil

Frank Schuil is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Safello, a Nordic cryptocurrency exchange whose parent company, Safello Group AB, has traded on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2021. Schuil co-founded Safello in 2013 and served as its chief executive until March 2023, when he moved to the board as chairman and Emelie Moritz became chief executive. On 2 March 2026 Safello's board appointed him chief executive again with immediate effect, after Moritz left the company; he resigned the chairmanship the same day but remained a director, and board member Gustav Röken took the chair on an interim basis. In that announcement Schuil credited Moritz with a pivotal role in securing the MiCA licence held by Safello AB, and said the licence paved the way for commercialising the group's exchange and custody capabilities across the EU and towards an institutional customer base. He was re-elected to the board at the annual general meeting on 6 May 2026, alongside Jacob Jacobsson and Gustav Röken, who was elected chairperson. Safello's interim report for the second quarter of 2026, published on 7 August 2026, again names Schuil as chief executive of Safello. Conference biographies list ventures he founded or co-founded before Safello, including the location-based social network IRL Connect, the Amsterdam fashion label ClickClacks and the indoor-positioning company Qubulus, and describe early cryptocurrency investments made through Rhino Ventures, a Netherlands-based investment vehicle he founded. Schuil spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026, where he was billed as Founder & CEO of Safello, on a panel titled "Subnets as an Asset Class: Building the On-Ramps for Institutional Capital" on the Taostats Stage on 2 June 2026 from 17:35 to 18:15. Victor Teixeiria moderated that session, and Evan Malanga, James Altucher and Siam Kidd shared the panel. At the time of Schuil's March 2026 reappointment, Safello reported more than 423,000 users.