Exclusive: Rostro hires Equiti exec Owen Purssell as Head of Distribution
FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that London based FX brokerage group Rostro Financial Group has continued its hiring spree, hiring Owen Purssell as the company’s new Head of Distribution.
Owen Purssell joins Rostro from Equiti Capital in London, where he worked for the last three years as Equiti’s Head of Liquidity Management. Prior to joining Equiti Capital in 2019 he worked in various senior operating and risk management positions at BP Prime, GKFX, Valbury Capital, Alpari UK, and ODL Securities, dating back to 2007.
Rostro Financial was founded in 2020 by former ACM/TradeTech (now Finalto) executive Roger Hambury, with ambitions to acquire and grow out companies in the Retail FX, CFDs, and crypto trading sector. The company announced its first acquisition earlier this year, buying CySEC-licensed Scope Markets, and has since added a number of (mainly) FX industry executives including John Williams (ex Equiti Capital) as CIO, former Equiti Capital COO Michael Ayres as CEO, and Equiti and GKFX alum Mitesh Vaghela as CPO.
The company also hired OANDA Head of Retail Sales John Murphy as Global Head of Retail Operations, and another ACM/TradeTech alum, former COO Des Grech, as Global Head of International Business. Most recently Rostro added BCS exec Andrew Richards as Head of Prime Brokerage.