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Exclusive: William Mead named Head of Operations at IG Group

Gerald Segal 0 Comments August 12, 2024

FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that leading UK based online trading firm IG Group (LON:IGG) has named William Mead as the company’s new Head of Operations.

William Mead has been at IG for 13 years, joining in 2013 in Trading Services before being named Global Head of Credit and Client Money in 2017, and then Head of Trading Operations in 2019.

Prior to joining IG Group, William worked at French multinational electronics and defense tech company Thales.

Gerald Segal

Gerald is the founder of FNG and is one of the most experienced writers covering the online trading sector. Prior to starting FNG, Gerald founded Forex industry B2B news website LeapRate.com in 2010, selling it in 2018 to publicly traded Catena Media plc (STO:CTM). An avid skier, cyclist and ice hockey player, Gerald was previously an investment banker for more than a decade at Bear Stearns, Robertson Stephens, and Merrill Lynch. Gerald holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York and a BCOM degree from the University of Toronto.