Steers the Company's Strategic Direction: Develops and implements the overarching vision and long-term strategic goals for the company, aligning operations with the mission and ensuring sustained growth and market relevance.Staffing and Team Leadership: Oversees the recruitment, development, and management of the company's workforce, ensuring that staffing levels meet operational needs and that the team is cohesive and motivated.Day-to-Day Operations Management: Makes critical daily decisions impacting the company's operations and overall performance, ensuring that workflows are efficient and aligned with the company's strategic goals.Identifies and Cultivates Business Opportunities: Continuously scouts for new market opportunities and business ventures, developing strategies to attract new clients and expand the company’s market footprint.Risk Identification and Mitigation: Assesses potential risks to the company’s operations and strategic goals, particularly focusing on compliance risks, and develops and implements risk management strategies to safeguard the company's interests.Compliance Oversight: Implements compliance protocols across all business operations, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements, and regularly reviews and updates compliance policies to reflect changes in the regulatory environment.Financial Performance Monitoring: Analyzes financial reports and business metrics to drive profitability and sustainable growth, implementing cost-effective strategies and optimizing resource allocation.Board and Stakeholder Engagement: Prepares and delivers presentations to stakeholders and board members, actively participating in board meetings and ensuring alignment between the board’s directives and the company’s operations.

Sets the Strategic Vision and Long-Term Goals: Develops and implements the company’s strategic plan, ensuring alignment with compliance requirements and company objectives.Oversees Budgets and Financial Management: Establishes budgets for all departments, ensuring that financial resources are allocated effectively to support company goals while maintaining compliance with financial regulations.Staff Recruitment and Management: Ensures adequate staffing levels to meet operational needs, managing the hiring process and workforce planning to build a performance-oriented company culture.Day-to-Day Operations and Workflow Management: Directly supervises senior managers, ensuring smooth and efficient operational workflows that align with the company’s strategic goals and compliance standards.Compliance and Risk Management: Directly oversees the compliance department, ensuring that all operations adhere to industry regulations, engaging with regulators, and implementing strategies to mitigate compliance risks.Identifies Strategic Business Opportunities: Develops and executes strategies to generate new business opportunities, overseeing their implementation to ensure alignment with strategic goals and compliance requirements.Board Duties and Stakeholder Communication: Actively participates in board meetings, prepares and delivers reports to stakeholders, and ensures that the company’s operations are in line with the board’s strategic directives.Monitors and Drives Financial Performance: Analyzes the company’s financial performance, implements strategies to drive profitability, and ensures the sustainable growth and financial health of the business.

After carefully mastering, studying and defining the FX Sales roles at all levels for the past several years, I lead, coached and mentored a team of FX Sales Brokers at the most profitable FXCM division.● Oversaw growth of organic business in terms of Accounts, Equity and Attrition Rates for FXCM MENA region.● Product and Business Development - integrating new products such as Equity CFDs into FXCM's core offering across numerous platforms, as well as bespoke CPA/CPL deals for affiliates.● Rep Training and Development from entry level through to mid-level management.● Consistently exceeded quarterly quotas for new accounts and equity.● Increased accounts from EMEA by 65% and achieved record quarterly revenue. ● Oversaw Marketing messaging and brand management across all forms of media● Collaborated with Marketing in the launch of our new Arabic website.● Organized trips to Dubai to meet clients generating large account deposits and trading revenue.

Focused on the development and management of FXCM PRO/FastMatch/Faros Institutional sales:Responsible for exceeding an annual $5M sales quota through proactive cold calling, formal presentations and closing new accounts. Primary focus is on institutional sales to regional banks International Asset Management/Investment Management firms, Broker Dealers and Hedge Funds. Analyze complex client workflows to implement an electronic solution for increased trading and trade confirmation efficiencyNetworks and partners with prospects both over the phone and in person in order to build confidence and develop win/win solutions; proactively stays on top of sales opportunities while navigating through customer organizations; balances frequency of contact with potential for sales. Excels in value-based selling, demonstrating ability to build trust with prospect via rigorous pre-call planning; ability to uncover needs via effective use of open-ended questions; ability to advocate solutions appropriate to discovered needs; and ability to gain buying commitment from prospect. Demonstrates an excellent ability to meet the demands of selling to a large customer base by strategizing customer contact methods. Operates with effectiveness and determination; acts promptly to take advantage of multiple opportunities; remains realistically positive in sales situations; persists to achieve sales goals despite barriers or difficulties by changing strategies, doubling efforts, or employing other techniques. Uses appropriate interpersonal styles to consistently build trust and confidence with users, key contacts, managers and executives; communicates and interacts effectively with internal team partners to achieve goals.Exhibits a deep knowledge of FastMatch products and how well they fit the needs and challenges of the FX industry: Relishes on-going, self-initiated learning; assimilates new information quickly; welcomes feedback and applies knowledge to practical use on the job.

On-boarded clients that required specifically voice trading instead to Electronic trading to Faros. Faros used to be the voice arm for FXCM Pro FX sales.

Centrally responsible for both increasing trading volume by customizing solutions that are currently provided, as well as quota for organic growth of assets under management. Through this role, I helped my clients understand key market behaviors, regulatory changes and order flow that helped them gain the insights needed for successful exploring the spot FX market. Things I did also included: • Providing CPOs and start-up funds cost saving Back-Office reporting (Regulatory Approved, FSA, NFA, etc.)• Gave PM's the right platform that is flexible yet robust.• Customized setups to meet the institutions needs while meeting expectations, holding costs down and providing transparency.• Focused on high net worth individuals, high frequency traders, and institutions such as hedge funds, money managers, and prop firms in the margin FX space.

I was on a mission to lead and inspire sales brokers to make a true impact.How did I do that? I strategized and managed a 360 degree view of how to help my clients reach and surpass their objectives. I was able to help my clients surface the warmest path into the FX world. By doing so I achieved: • Consistent performance at top 1% level company wide.• Won 8 times "rep of the month" the monthly sales competition in one year.• Developed business relationships with clients from the US and the Middle East.• Mentored junior sales reps.

As a Account Manager, my goal was to help my clients become experts trading spot FX by using FXCM's platform. My responsibilities included:- Built reputable client relationships across the Middle East- Dominated the Arabic department with the number of accounts and equity. - Lead the Arabic team to win world wide sales "​ Team of the month" competition 6 times in one year.- Trained the Arabic client service team.

Market Expansion: Led the expansion of a construction business into the Middle East, adapting to the region’s unique market dynamics and regulatory environment. Strategic Analysis: Conducted comprehensive market analysis to identify high-potential opportunities and tailor business strategies to regional needs. Local Partnerships: Established key partnerships with local stakeholders and navigated complex regulatory requirements, securing necessary operational licenses.Regional Operations: Developed and implemented a regional business plan, including the setup of local offices, recruitment of skilled workforce, and establishment of supply chain networks.Project Launch: Successfully launched several high-profile construction projects, enhancing the company’s competitive position in the Middle Eastern market.Revenue Growth: Drove significant increases in revenue and brand recognition through strategic regional expansion.