FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that experienced FX industry marketing executive Chantelle Lea has joined the marketing team at Retail FX broker ThinkMarkets. She will become ThinkMarkets’ new Marketing Manager, based in the company’s Cyprus office.

Chantelle Lea joins ThinkMarkets after spending less than six months as Head of Marketing at GMI (Global Market Index). She joined GMI in June, as was also reported exclusively at the time here at FNG. Prior to GMI Chantelle was with Cyprus based broker TIO Markets for four years, where she was Senior Marketing Manager, reporting to TIO Markets CMO Helen Astaniou. She has also previously worked in marketing for TIO Markets’ sister company FXPrimus (both TIO Markets and FXPrimus are controlled by Malaysian businessman Manmohan Singh Balbir Singh), and at Windsor Brokers.

ThinkForex was established in 2010 by brothers Nauman and Faizan Anees in New Zealand, and relocated its headquarters to Australia upon obtaining ASIC licensing in 2012. ThinkForex rebranded as ThinkMarkets in 2016. The company has dual headquarters in Melbourne and London, where ThinkMarkets set up its FCA-licensed subsidiary TF Global Markets (UK) Limited in 2015. The firm also has a licensed subsidiary in South Africa, established in 2019, and in Cyprus (TF Global Markets (Europe) Ltd). ThinkMarkets offers trading on its proprietary ThinkTrader platform, as well as MT4 and MT5.