Exclusive: Rostro hires ThinkMarkets and ADSS alum Chris Andrews
FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that London based FX brokerage group Rostro Financial has continued its hiring spree, adding Chris Andrews as a Senior Institutional Account Manager.
Chris Andrews is an experienced FX industry institutional sales executive, previously Director of Institutional Business Development at ThinkMarkets and Co-Head of Institutional Sales at ADSS. He has also worked at GKFX, Saxo Bank UK, Cantor Index and MF Global in a variety of sales and trading positions.
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, Equiti and GKFX alum Mitesh Vaghela as CPO, and Equiti exec Owen Purssell as Head of Distribution.
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, and BCS exec Andrew Richards as Head of Prime Brokerage.