Ready To Take A Second Bite Out Of The Markets?
THE 2ND BIG FOREX
BREAKFAST
15 OCTOBER 2020 | 10:30 - 12:30 (CET)
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SPEAKER PROFILES
Niki Nikolaou
Director at Contentworks
With over 25 years of marketing experience, Niki has an extensive background within the forex and cryptocurrency sector. Niki is a founder and director at www.contentworks.agency.
Charlotte Day
Creative Director at Contentworks
Charlotte is a content marketing strategist heading up social media and storytelling at Contentworks Agency. A content marketing thought leader, she has 1000+ articles published, guest writes for leading social media hubs and frequently speaks at events.
Natallia Hunik
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Advanced Markets Group
Natallia is a recognized industry leader in the development of international business and creating and leading high performing FX sales teams with more than 8 years’ experience in the field. Natallia is responsible for spearheading Advanced Markets’ global expansion efforts by cultivating business relationships with industry leaders around the globe. Her reputation precedes her and the level of respect and confidence that she generates has been crucial to the growth and development of companies she had been with.
Prior to joining Advanced Markets and Fortex team, Natallia served in executive leadership role as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Boston Technologies. She was responsible for growing the Boston startup into successful international company with industry-leading B2B sales team and offices in Japan, China, UK and South East Asia.
Natallia received her Master’s Degree in Finance from Suffolk University in Boston and her Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems and Technologies from the Belorussian State University.
Ian Daniels
Executive Director, Head of eFX Distribution EMEA at Nomura
Ian Daniels joined Nomura in 2018 as Head of e-FX Distribution, EMEA. Before joining Nomura, Ian was with RBS/Natwest for over two decades where he held a number of FX roles, most recently as Head of e-FX Sales, EMEA.
Alexander Ridgers
ex. Head of eFX Trading - SVP at Jefferies
Electronic FX specialist with 17 years’ experience. Alex has worked for a number of large retail brokers, pricing 20 of them as a Head of eTrading at a major US Bank. He has an intricate knowledge of the technology used by Brokers and Big Banks to get ahead. He believes professional pricing and risk management across all assets are becoming ever more important as retail investors become more sophisticated.
Michalis Michael
Content Manager at Tickmill
Michalis is an avid content creator in the field of financial and investment services and holds a BA and a MA in Media and Communications from the University of Nicosia and the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, respectively. Having more than 5 years of experience in the Forex brokerage industry, Michalis has produced a range of expert material on online trading including eBooks, educational articles and infographics to name a few.
Katryna Hanush
Vice President Currenex EMEA Sales at State Street Global Markets
Katryna is a Vice President of sales at Currenex, part of the GlobalLink Execution services. Currenex is our multi-award winning trading system for professional FX traders, bringing together high performance technology and deep pools of liquidity. Previously Katryna was Head of Business development for FX non-bank market maker EXP(Capital). Prior to that, Katryna held several client-facing roles in FICC sales and trading teams at Credit Suisse and UBS. Katryna holds two honours degrees - in Psycholinguistics and Finance – from Belarus State University.
Paul van Sint Fiet
Head of Cross-Currency Solutions Sales – APAC at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Paul Van Sint Fiet is responsible for Wholesale Payments Cross-Currency Solutions team in Asia-Pacific. He is responsible for structuring complex integrated foreign exchange risk management solutions, FX payables, receivables and liquidity. Paul has over 14 years’ experience in providing solutions to leading global enterprises and financial institutions. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, he has held senior positions at other leading financial institutions. Before he moved into banking, he was responsible for the European Corporate Treasury Advisory Team within a leading global consultancy firm.
Anna Ilyukhina
Marketing Director at SwissChain
Anna is passionate about everything that is marketing. She has worked in the FX industry since 2009, focusing on integrated marketing, branding and design. Previously, she spent eight years working in advertising with well-known brands like Visa, Honda and Vodafone, to name a few. Her strengths are creativity, drive and leadership.
Christos Ttiniozou
Managing Director at iSPIRAL
A leader, mentor, and visionary, Christos is responsible for formulating iSPIRAL’s strategic vision, executing business objectives, and building and guiding the iSPIRAL team. Christos has an academic and work background in the USA and Cyprus, where he gained valuable experience and knowledge in the sector of regulatory technology on a global scale. As of late, his primary focus is on experimenting with new technologies such as BI analytics, machine learning and blockchain, embedding them into iSPIRAL’s solutions, and aiming for breakthrough automated solutions that will revolutionise the way firms operate with regards to compliance and risk.
Brad Alexander
CEO at FX Large Limited
Brad became fascinated with the Currency Markets from a young age and researched fundamental analysis. Years later he discovered the wonders of technical analysis and liquidity mapping and now uses all three, day to day, as a professional trader and for "Creating Compelling Content for Capital Markets" as CEO of FX Large. As a content creator, educator and professional trader, his clients consist of FX and CFD brokers, hedge funds, fintech companies, and private students. As a self-confessed “platform junkie” Brad has created literally hundreds of videos, blogs and webinars on trading, platform education, trading psychology, technical analysis and fundamental analysis.
Arno Venter
Senior Market Commentary Analyst at Financial Source
Currently a Senior Market Analyst at Financial Source (previously known as Forex Source). Our process utilises the speed and effectiveness of a news and audio squawk and combines it with real-time commentary and analysis of the macro-fundamentals, short-term sentiment and technical analysis that influences movements across major currencies and other asset classes. Our business model serves both individual subscribers, and also has broker solutions that allow brokers to give their customers free access to the Financial Source terminal at a substantially reduced cost.
Avramis Despotis
Founder & CEO at Tradepedia LLC
An enthusiastic educator, authoritative voice in price action trading and inspiring personal coach, Avramis Despotis has been immersed in the financial markets for over two decades. Founder and CEO of Tradepedia, he is an expert instructor in technical analysis, risk management and behavioural finance and has mentored over 20,000 private and institutional traders. His technical analysis reports and signals are sought after by clients and stock brokers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Avramis is regularly called upon by top-tier global firms like Interarab Cambist Association (ICA), National Commercial Bank, Arab Bank, Emirates NBD, Abu Dhabi National Bank, MENACORP and more to provide expert-level training to their top traders, fund managers and risk assessors.
As a specialist in stocks and derivatives, he correctly predicted the drop of the Western stock markets in 2007 and their subsequent rise in 2009 and the MENA region’s drop in 2008 and rise in 2013. A long-time trader in his native Greek stock exchange, he publicly predicted the drop of the stock market from 2500 to 500 points in 2010 and the subsequent rise to 1000 points in 2013.
Avramis is a Certified Financial Technician from the International Federation of Technical Analysts, a member of the British Society of Technical Analysts, is certified by CySEC for Portfolio Management and Own Account Trading and holds an MSc. in Finance. With a decade of interbank experience, in 2009 he founded Tradepedia, one of the leading training institutes and providers of automated software, market reports and signals.
Jameel Ahmad
Director of Investment Strategy at NAGA
Jameel Ahmad is a very well respected investment strategist and corporate ambassador with a wealth of expertise in the financial markets and fundamental analysis. Joining NAGA as Director of Investment Strategy, Jameel will help strengthen the fintech company’s footprint in Europe,
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
With nearly a decade of experience in the financial markets, Jameel’s main specialty being global markets, currencies, commodities and emerging markets. He is a frequent contributor and speaker on top-tier media channels. He is relied on for his fresh, straightforward approach to fundamental analysis and the financial markets.