Bitpanda: Christian Trummer Returns as Co-CEO as Enzersdorfer-Konrad Leaves for Erste Group

Bitpanda is changing the top job again, and this time one of the founders is coming back through the front door. Christian Trummer, who helped found the Vienna fintech in 2014, is returning to an operating role as co-CEO with immediate effect, while Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad says he will step down in the first quarter of 2027 and move to Erste Group.

Enzersdorfer-Konrad is not walking out tomorrow. He stays on until 2027, after telling the board about his planned departure. The board has already started a structured succession process that will look at both internal and external candidates, which is corporate-speak for not pretending this thing will sort itself out.

His next stop is a newly created group-wide job at Erste Group: Executive Director Asset Management. It reports to CEO Peter Bosek and is meant to pull asset management and digital investing together across Erste’s eight core markets. The move still needs the usual regulatory approvals. Enzersdorfer-Konrad says the goal is a more consistent digital investment approach for Erste’s roughly 23 million customers, and he will work closely with Robert Kubin, who takes over as head of Erste Asset Management in early December.

Trummer’s return shifts the focus back to the product side. He will concentrate on product quality, drawing on his old role as Bitpanda’s chief technology officer from the company’s founding until June 2023. Since then he has been working on strategic efforts, including Bitpanda.ai. Eric Demuth, now executive chairman and president of the board, says the company enters its next growth phase from a position of strength, with a focus on its multi-asset offer across crypto, stocks, ETFs and precious metals, plus its infrastructure business for financial institutions.

The reshuffle also completes a founder exit from the CEO chair. Paul Klanschek stepped back in August 2025, Demuth did the same last November, and now Enzersdorfer-Konrad is on the way out too. Bitpanda has also added Shirin Krall as chief growth officer and Katrin Joschtel as senior vice president compliance, risk & anti-financial crime, while Barbara Edelmann took over as CFO in early summer. Separately, Dominik Beier is leaving for flatexDEGIRO AG, where he will become chief growth officer in January 2027. As for an IPO, that’s still unresolved, with Enzersdorfer-Konrad calling it only one possible path.