CFI hires FXPrimus exec Stelios Thrasyvoulou as CTO
Dubai based Retail FX brokerage firm CFI Financial Group has announced that it has hired Stelios Thrasyvoulou as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately.
Stelios Thrasyvoulou is a financial markets veteran and fintech expert with over 12 years of experience, having spent time working for major global providers including HYCM, IronFX, and FxPro. Most recently, Mr. Thrasyvoulou was CTO and CIO of the FXPrimus / TIO Markets group of firms, from 2018-2022.
CFI said that Mr. Thrasyvoulou is well-versed across different technology disciplines including software development, system architecture, infrastructure, and information management while applying his project and product management experience in strategizing, planning, and executing tech-related projects. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Stelios’s commitment to enhancing technological products and consistency in leveraging cutting-edge technology will bring major advancements to CFI’s technological artillery.
Founders and Managing Directors of CFI Financial Group, Hisham Mansour and Eduardo Fakhoury commented:
“Technology is synonymous with innovation, a company-wide belief that was and is always key for us to maintain our status as pioneers in the financial markets. With Stelios joining the team, we aim to further solidify our status as a fintech focused company. The future is customer-centric as well as tech-centric, so it only makes sense to enhance it by elevating our team further in this key area”.
CFI Financial’s Group COO Dr. Demetrios Zamboglou said:
“We are in the process of taking our infrastructure to the next level, and to do so, we need to implement the latest technological advances while ensuring efficiency, sustainability, and an error-proof setup that will allow 100% focus on expanding the business. With Stelios as part of the team, I have great faith in his ability to deliver the next-generation of upgrades to an already powerful setup, within a short period, and in a highly accommodating manner”.
Commenting on his new role, Stelios Thrasyvoulou said:
“I am pleased to be joining CFI and to be surrounded by such hard working and knowledgeable professionals. CFI has been seeing tremendous growth recently and one of my main objectives is to facilitate this growth by using new and robust technologies while helping the organization build new products and enhancing the existing infrastructure”.
The CFI Financial Group is an award-winning trading provider, possessing more than 23 years of experience and operating through different entities around the world including London, Larnaca, Beirut, Amman, Dubai, Port Louis, and others. CFI offers highly competitive trading conditions with spreads from zero pips, zero commissions, fast execution, and no minimum deposit on 11,000+ Stocks, Forex, Commodities, Indices, ETFs, and Cryptocurrencies from 19 global markets. In addition, the Group is renowned for its top-notch client support, daily technical reports, free webinars, and dedicated account managers, ensuring a best-in-class trading experience for clients in 100+ countries.