Category: Executives

October 05, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Diginex appoints new members to its board of directors

Richard Petty is a board member of The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and a member of IFAC’s Public Policy and Regulatory Advisory Group. Petty is also a member of the B20 serving on the Finance and Infrastructure taskforce and a former chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong & Macau and CPA…

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October 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

IG Group appoints Wu Gang as non-executive director

Prior to CLSA Securities, Gang was head of M&A and General Industrials at ICBC International. He has also held senior positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and London. His investment banking career started at Goldman Sachs. Company Chairman Mike McTighe said: Following an extensive, externally facilitated search I…

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eToro’s former UK CEO Iqbal Gandham joins CoinBurp
September 23, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Former UK CEO of eToro Iqbal Gandham joins CoinBurp

Gandham has also served as Chief Marketing Officer for UK’s online investment management platform Nutmegtaking. He took it through two separate funding rounds as well as looking after its re-brand. UK’s first self regulatory association for the crypto and blockchain industry, UK Crypto Association was also founded and chaired by Gandham. The association drafted regulatory…

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September 23, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Riad Chowdhury named head of MarketAxess APAC

Before that Chowdhury has held senior roles at ANZ Banking Group and Deutsche Bank, organizing new business development and revenue growth with Asian, as well as international clients. Chowdhury also has extensive experience in design and development of systems for trade execution and market data optimization, including the management of development and technology teams. Christophe…

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First Derivatives CFO to step down
September 16, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Former eBay CTO Steve Fisher joins tech provider First Derivatives

Fisher has also occupied senior technology development positions within telecoms and networking, such as Apple and AT&T Labs. He brings valuable for FD’s growth strategy combination of enterprise technology development and leadership expertise in software platforms, software as a service and cloud. Fisher’s expertise in the development and scaling of enterprise software, in particular will…

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