After working with the company for less than a year, ) Spotex has promoted John Miesner to the leading role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the company announced this Monday.
As at the beginning of the year, Miesner originally joined the company as its Global Head of Sales and Distribution. Miesner joined the US-based FX ECN from GTX, an institutional foreign exchange trading platform. During his four-year tenure, John was responsible for GTX’s global ECN sales based out of New York.
Source: LinkedIn
Ritesh Agrawal becomes Spotex CTO
With Miesner taking on the top role, Ritesh Agrawal, who is the co-founder of Spotex and who has been the long-time serving CEO, will take on the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the statement said.
Spotex is a US-based ECN focused on FX and precious metals trading for both the buy and sell-side participants. Spotex offers exchange technologies that build and apply quantitative metrics to participants based on their trading behaviour.
Their client base includes banks, brokers, hedge funds, CTAs, and asset managers who leverage an array of electronic solutions that assist clients with complex liquidity sourcing and trade executions.
“John is a known quantity in the FX industry, and he’s brought a great new perspective to Spotex,” added Rob Fleschler, CEO, Seabury Global Markets, a Spotex board member. “We couldn’t be happier having him lead the company forward at this time of great opportunity for the business.”
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