About Crypto Estate Advisor

Crypto Estate Advisors is led by Kyle Pickner, a seasoned financial services professional with more than 15 years of experience across trust company operations, fiduciary oversight, compliance, and digital asset management. Kyle’s background combines traditional financial stewardship with deep hands-on insight into emerging crypto-custody infrastructures—positioning him uniquely to support attorneys, estate planners, and trustees as they navigate digital asset estate planning.

Kyle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Finance from the University of South Dakota. His career includes multiple executive and senior leadership roles such as Chief Trust Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Director of Trust Operations, giving him a strong command of fiduciary standards, risk management, and operational governance. He has served on numerous boards and advisory groups, strengthening his understanding of regulatory expectations and practical trust-administration challenges.

Kyle’s early career in audit and IRA administration laid the groundwork for his operational discipline. By 2018, he began advising trust companies on compliance, operations, and administrative frameworks—experience that became foundational to the consulting model of Crypto Estate Advisors.

In 2018, Kyle led the financial operations for one of the world’s largest digital asset custodians, taking them from a start-up to a multi-billion-dollar institution. Thriving on a challenge, Kyle was tasked with the idea of combining Silicon Valley tech and Wall Street finance. He was instrumental in their success, helping build their financial operations and compliance program from the ground up. Kyle’s role touched nearly every aspect of business from security to product management engineering to legal and compliance - offering him a rare 360-degree view of digital-asset custody at scale.

In 2021, Kyle began speaking publicly about the strategically blending traditional fiduciary services with digital-asset capabilities to the traditional finance community. In 2023, he joined one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges as Public Trust Compliance Officer, where he oversaw global institutional onboarding, financial crime prevention, and operational scaling.

Today, as founder of Crypto Estate Advisor, Kyle leverages this combined expertise to help attorneys, estate planners, trustees, and fiduciaries establish practical, secure, and compliant frameworks for crypto asset succession planning. He focuses on helping professionals develop clear guidelines, custody strategies, technical procedures, and risk-mitigation measures that allow digital assets to be properly identified, securely maintained, and successfully transferred to beneficiaries.

Kyle’s mission is to make digital asset estate planning understandable, operationally sound, and compliant—bridging the gap between traditional wealth transfer practices and modern digital-asset ownership.