Skilling, a Cyprus-based foreign exchange and contracts for variations (CFDs) dealer, has appointed George Kyriakoudes because the Interim CEO, quickly filling the highest function. Kyriakoudes has been promoted from his place because the dealer’s Chief Monetary Officer, which he held for the previous eight months.
New CEO of Skilling
The appointment follows Michael Kamerman’s departure as CEO of Skilling earlier this 12 months. Kamerman has since joined the Czech prop buying and selling agency FTMO because the CEO of its brokerage unit. Nevertheless, FTMO has but to launch its brokerage operations.
Following Kamerman’s departure, Skilling’s Chair, Jonathan Squires, steered the corporate in an appearing capability, broadly managing the transition. Now, Kyriakoudes, who has been overseeing the Dealing and Gross sales capabilities of the dealer for a number of months now, has taken over from Squires as Interim CEO. It’s unsure whether or not the dealer is searching for to fill the place completely.
Curiously, Kyriakoudes’ becoming a member of Skilling was introduced on the identical day Kamerman formally confirmed his resignation from the dealer.
Skilling operates globally with two regulatory licenses, one from Cyprus and the opposite from Seychelles. In 2022, the dealer raised €10 million in seed funding to speed up its enterprise growth, as reported by Finance Magnates. That funding got here months after it secured one other €15 million from “seasoned Scandinavian buyers.”
An Skilled CFDs Government
Kyriakoudes is a seasoned govt within the foreign exchange and CFDs business. He joined Skilling from the Cyprus places of work of IronFX, the place he was the Group Chief Monetary Officer for over two years, in response to his LinkedIn profile.
He entered the buying and selling business in early 2013 as a Senior Inner Auditor for ForexTime (FXTM). He then climbed the company ladder, changing into the Head of Inner Audit and Reporting, and later, Head of Threat Administration and Reporting. He left FXTM in June 2021 because the Chief Monetary Officer.
Earlier than getting into the retail buying and selling house, Kyriakoudes labored at Deloitte and Worth Waterhouse Coopers, two of the Large 4 auditing corporations.
This text was written by Arnab Shome at www.financemagnates.com.
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