Our Team - Financial Commission

Nick Isayev

Chief Operating Officer

Nick Isayev

Chief Operating Officer

Nick held a number of senior roles for GAIN Capital Group’s Forex.com brand, with a concentration across various regions including Russia, Eastern Europe, Australia, and the US. While at GAIN Capital Group, Nick held senior marketing roles which included managing and coordinating across related efforts tied to trading signal products and platform technology localization in many regions of the world including five years in Russia and the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS) for the broker. Nick is the founder and president of New York-based Dartek Consulting, a boutique advisory firm providing marketing and consulting services to venture capital firms, crypto companies, and online brokerages.

Anthony Bulanovs (刘中)

Head of Dispute Resolution Committee

Anthony Bulanovs (刘中)

Head of Dispute Resolution Committee

Anthony has rich experience in the field of trading and finance in general, as well as over a decade experience in financial markets education. Online and offline seminars, trading rooms, and market research are just a few of the elements Anatoly has specialized in, having witnessed and dealt with countless situations and scenarios that any trader could ever stumble upon. The International Academy of Exchange Trade in Beijing and Forex Club in New York are some of the places where Anthony has built up his impressive track-record. Founder of educational portal GMTPartner.org, Anthony provides traders and investors with proprietary market sentiment indicators based on the portfolio of trading strategies.

Michael Greenberg

Board Member

Michael Greenberg

Board Member

Michael Greenberg is the CEO and founder of Finance Magnates. Michael launched Finance Magnates in 2009 as a simple blog in an effort to bring more transparency to the forex market. Ever since the humble project grew into a world leading portal providing daily news, commentary and research about the financial industry in 7 languages. Since 2012 Finance Magnates is also operating several major industry B2B conferences such as Tokyo and London Summit and IFXEXPO Asia. Prior to Finance Magnates Michael worked as Sales Executive for a forex software firm and prior to that was an Associate in an investment bank. In January 2012 Michael was chosen as “Forex Person of the Year 2011” by the prestigious FXStreet portal.

Maor Lahav

DRC Member – COO and co-founder of Panda Trading Systems

Maor Lahav

DRC Member – COO and co-founder of Panda Trading Systems

Maor Lahav is a seasoned financial technology executive with more than 10 years of experience. Maor started his career as a young algorithm trader in the 90s, and one of his primary expertise is the large scale high performance systems arena, infrastructure built out, web applications and engineering for high frequency & low latency trading environments. As the Chief Operating Officer, Maor in charge of the relationships with Panda’s strategic partners Panda Trading Systems (Panda TS) specializes in building high-performance, cutting-edge technology for the online financial trading industry. Since 2006 they have provided many of the world’s leading online brokerages with a range of products and services specifically customized to meet their business needs. The company’s vision is to continually provide brokers with solutions that streamline operations so they can focus their resources on growth. Panda TS is best known for their unique approach to building strong partnerships with their client.

Valery Dolgov

DRC Member – CEO Indigosoft

Valery Dolgov

DRC Member – CEO Indigosoft

Valery has created his own IT-company, Indigosoft, which has united a team of highly skilled specialists in the field of broker software development. The accumulation of extensive practical experience and skills has allowed him to create a new unique product – Brokerpilot. This is a corporate web-platform, which takes the technological level of dealing to an unprecedentedly high level of quality. This platform has realtime monitoring, risk management and automatic management of broker business processes. Valery’s goal is to create new technologies and provide them to management companies and brokers. Valery has finished a postgraduate degree in the Saratov state Technical University, specializating in IT. Since 2003 he has created trading algorithms, platforms, liquidity API for hedge funds, managing companies and brokers. He has many years of successful trading experience in financial markets and great experience as a Chief Dealer. Valery has earned a reputation as one of the best professionals in the industry.

Opal Yang

DRC Member – Founder and CEO of New Direction Solution

Opal Yang

DRC Member – Founder and CEO of New Direction Solution

Ms. Opal Yang is a distinguished professional in finance and marketing, currently serving as the Founder and CEO of New Direction Solution, headquartered in London. With an illustrious career spanning two decades, Ms. Yang has held key management roles in prominent banking, asset management, and brokerage firms across diverse Asian markets and the United Kingdom. Distinguished by its expertise in the Chinese-speaking markets, New Direction Solution stands as a premier consultancy firm committed to bridging the gap between the Far East and Europe. The firm specializes in delivering comprehensive financial services with a focus on broker licensing, merger and acquisition, fintech start-up consultation, and project management. Beyond its core services, the firm also excels in dispute resolution and managing complaints and compensations when necessary. With a global perspective and localized expertise, the firm is poised to navigate the complexities of international finance, contributing to the success of its clients in the Far East and Europe.

Quinn Perrott

DRC Member – General Manager in TRAction Fintech

Quinn Perrott

DRC Member – General Manager in TRAction Fintech

With an extensive background in IT, Quinn started in the financial markets as IT Manager for City Index. He then went on to be co-founder and General Manager of AxiTrader, one of Australia’s largest Margin FX providers. Quinn’s knowledge of OTC derivatives and trading platforms has made him an important figure in the derivatives regulatory and industry reform space. Quinn has provided educational sessions to Australia’s regulatory bodies in relation to retail derivatives trading platforms. Quinn has also dealt with Treasury in Canberra, Australia to advise on and discuss the retail OTC derivatives industry. At the moment Quinn holds a position of General Manager in TRAction Fintech

Dr. Can Pamir

DRC Member – Founder Pamir Consultancy

Dr. Can Pamir

DRC Member – Founder Pamir Consultancy

Dr. Can Pamir, an expert in finance and marketing, is the founder and CEO of Pamir Consultancy based in Istanbul Turkey. After assuming various technical and executive positions in IFC-World Bank, Finansbank, and İş Investment and serving for more than 20 years in the banking and finance industry, Dr. Pamir has established his own consultancy company – the Pamir Consulting. The Company which employs a large base of premium consultants concentrates on long-term financing facilities from international institutions, FDI’s in Turkey, fintech solutions, and improvements in marketing & branding. Mr. Pamir, who has been teaching different marketing and finance classes in prominent institutions in Turkey, including Bilkent, Bilgi, Kadir Has, and Middle East Technical Universities, has various publications in international academic journals.

Peter Tatarnikov

Board Member

Peter Tatarnikov

Board Member

With a career spanning for over 20 years in the Forex Industry, Peter began as a trading desk assistant in 1999, rising to the Chief Dealer role in a major European retail Forex broker by 2003. Leveraging his extensive knowledge and strong managerial abilities, he progressed to the COO position at Forex Club USA in 2006, eventually assuming the CEO role in 2010. Throughout his career, Peter conducted over 200 seminars on Forex Trading, establishing himself as a respected commentator and spokesperson for the retail FX industry due to his professionalism and dedication.

Carl Elsammak

DRC Member – Sub PM Infini Capital

Carl Elsammak

DRC Member – Sub PM Infini Capital

Carl started his career on a bond floor at Lehman. From this he moved to a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) with $160 million AUM (part of Commodities Corporation) and later to another CTA with $500 million AUM, focusing on execution, research, and trade idea generation and working beside many of the successful trading groups CC spawned. From here Carl leveraged the experience he gained in options trading to a position on Bank of America’s FX option desk in New York as a trader where he exceeded his budgeted revenue by over 50% each year. Later Carl moved to Prudential to establish and run the Asian FX options desk. He helped to build this desk from $0 to over $6 million in annual revenue in less than 3 years. In 1999 recognizing the changes in FX he moved from institutional to the emerging retail side holding Senior Trader and Director of Business Development roles at GAIN Capital. By late 2002, Carl started Kammas & Company Inc. initially working as a consultant for many Retail Forex Brokers and Hedge Funds both domestically and in Europe including IBFX, FXCM and Saxo. The current services offered by Kammas, including their flagship “virtual dealing desk” for retail brokers, can be found at their website www.kammastrading.com. Carl holds a degree in Finance from Albright College and is registered as a Commodity Trading Advisor having held a Series 3 license since 1991.

Aleksey Kutsenko

DRC Member – CEO Tools4Brokers

Aleksey Kutsenko

DRC Member – CEO Tools4Brokers

Aleksey has his education in the fields of physics and mathematics in addition to many years of software development experience. Based on this combination it was a perfect fit for Aleksey to create his own IT-company, Tools For Brokers Inc., which allowed him to put all his ideas and plans into practice. Aleksey was the first in the world to develop a One-Click-Trading plug-in for MetaTrader4, which is used by the world’s leading Forex brokers. In 2011 Aleksey also became a co-founder and technological inspiration of the Forex Stars project – the first independent platform in the World to host universal Forex-tournaments for traders. Today Tools For Brokers Inc. cooperates with more than 100 brokers around the world and provides solutions for many trading platforms. The next milestone in his career will come when Tools For Brokers Inc. introduces a proprietary trading platform that will take retail Forex trading to a whole new level.

Artem Karpichenko

Senior Operation Officer

Artem Karpichenko

Senior Operation Officer

Artem Karpichenko is a law professional who currently holds the role of Senior Operation Officer, helping our organization serve participants in the online financial brokerage industry. Before his current role, Artem was a Senior Counsel at RDI Group, where he gained hands-on experience dealing with court litigation and legal cases that often arose between consumers and companies. Artem obtained a Bachelors of Laws from King’s College London, after obtaining a Master’s degree in Civil Law from College of Law & Business in Israel.

Sam Low

DRC Member – Founder LiquidityFinder

Sam Low

DRC Member – Founder LiquidityFinder

Sam is the Founder of LiquidityFinder (www.liquidityfinder.com), a website that provides detailed information on Institutional Brokers and other Technology firms, for market users such as Professional Traders, Asset Managers, Retail Brokers, Proprietary Traders, and Banks across asset classes. The site recently re-launched as a free-to-use professional network where members can post content to share their updates, and connect to other users. The site’s mission is to bring more transparency to the OTC liquidity space, in all asset classes. Sam started his career in Sales at Bloomberg where he was the country manager for various emerging market territories, with clients ranging from Central Banks, to pension funds, banks and prop traders. After Bloomberg, Sam specialised in Foreign Exchange trading technology for over 12 years, with SuperDerivatives, (options pricing software) Integral (FX Aggregation to banks and brokers), First Derivatives (trading technology and ‘big data’ analytics solutions). Sam Founded LiquidityFinder in 2018.

Aytugan Khafizov

DRC Member – Founder and CEO of FastMT

Aytugan Khafizov

DRC Member – Founder and CEO of FastMT

Aytugan Khafizov is a seasoned technology expert with over two decades of experience in the financial trading industry. He is the founder and CEO of FastMT, a firm dedicated to helping brokers maintain and enhance their trading systems. Mr Khafizov began his career in the financial markets in 1999 as an IT Manager for Alpari. During his tenure, he advanced to the role of Global CTO, contributing to the establishment of operations in the UK, US, and Cyprus. Before founding FastMT, Khafizov served as the Chief Information Officer at MetaQuotes, a leading developer of trading platforms. He possesses extensive experience in both retail and institutional trading, as well as in technology and building effective technology teams.

Eitan Klein

DRC Member – Founder E1K CONSULTING SERVICES LTD

Eitan Klein

DRC Member – Founder E1K CONSULTING SERVICES LTD

Mr. Klein’s cross-border practice is divided between different industries such as online gambling, capital markets and financial institutions, blockchain technologies and crypto currencies. Mr. Klein possesses a global, international infrastructure of professional networks and collaborations such as with international law firms, financial institutions, banks and EMIs, international tax advisors as well as corporate agents and regulatory bodies. With over 24 years having proven track record of excellency, Mr. Klein founded E1K CONSULTING SERVICES LTD, a new age boutique firm which specializes (among other areas) in international licensing and regulations, corporate and commercial legal and business advice, litigation and dispute resolutions, providing its clients added value, fine-tuned, dedicated, and tailored solutions. Mr. Klein holds a Bachelor of Law from University of Northumbria in Newcastle and a master’s in business management from Derby University.

Oskar Pecyna

DRC Member – Founder eOscar

Oskar Pecyna

DRC Member – Founder eOscar

Oskar has over 12 years’ experience in Financial Services and extensive knowledge of regulatory with particular reference to FX transactions. He has a holistic knowledge when it comes to derivatives and financial markets, having managed multiple advisory projects for the financial sector (leading banks, stock and derivatives brokers across the World) during his time in Big4 consulting firms. After that, he has been running leading brokerage firms in Europe and APAC region as a CEO and Responsible Manager. Oskar is a Founder of eOscar independent consulting services and involved in a number of prestigious projects assisting companies from the financial sector in Australia and Europe. He also leads a number of M&A projects giving him an insight into dynamic of multiple industries.

Akin Abbak

DRC Member – Managing Partner of Abbak Attorneys at Law

Akin Abbak

DRC Member – Managing Partner of Abbak Attorneys at Law

Akin Abbak is Managing Partner of Abbak Attorneys at Law in Istanbul, Turkey. Mr. Abbak advises public and private companies including brokers, liquidity and technology providers and other financial services providers as well as individuals involved in the financial services industry.More specifically Mr. Abbak has been focusing on financial law related subjects with the emphasis on margin trading, and continues to pursue higher education with his Ph.D. studies and is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association, International Bar Association and International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrators Forum. In addition to the relevancies of his background to financial services, with regards to the joining the DRC, Mr. Abbak has a broad base of expertise in corporate, commercial and financial law representing his clients before courts and arbitral tribunals. Moreover, Mr. Abbak is a graduate of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Law and obtained his LL.M. degrees both from Turkey and the UK where he had made extensive researches on Market Manipulation as well as International Arbitration.

Nir Porat

DRC Member – Co-Managing Partner at Ben Basat, Porat & Co. Israel

Nir Porat

DRC Member – Co-Managing Partner at Ben Basat, Porat & Co. Israel

Nir Porat is the Co-Managing Partner at Ben Basat, Porat & Co., an international law firm based in Tel Aviv. He is responsible for leading the Corporate and International Law departments at the firm, and provides legal advice to public and private entities including across the financial services industry. As a leading specialist in the field of capital markets, including forex, binary options, electronic clearing and billing, as well as financial and gaming regulations internationally, Nir brings a diverse set of skills to the Financial Commission’s DRC. In addition to his capital markets expertise for companies in various jurisdictions globally, Nir’s clientele include technology conglomerates such as LG Electronics Group, Malam Team – one of Israel’s largest IT firms, and Israel-based communications firm Netvision Group, among other private and governmental entities across related IT and investment industries globally.

Pavel Khizhnyak

DRC Member – Founder of Tradefora

Pavel Khizhnyak

DRC Member – Founder of Tradefora

With Bachelor degree in Oriental science, MBA in Project Management, vast experience in Asian markets, and being fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Pavel is a frequent guest speaker at regional industry events and roundtables. In 2013 Pavel founded Trade Exact Consulting, which provides market entry and business development services for brokers expanding into Asian markets. In 2015 Pavel became a Founding Partner of Tradefora PLC – OTC industry’s first fully automated TCA and trade execution analytics engine for retail FX, CFD, and margin crypto traders.

Vladimir Verbitskiy

DRC Member – ex. CEO and Chairman of Alpari Group Board

Vladimir Verbitskiy

DRC Member – ex. CEO and Chairman of Alpari Group Board

Mr. Verbitskiy has 20 years of experience in developing digital fintech businesses in the B2C and B2B segments. Having begun his career in the early 2000’s Vladimir has held numerous management and executive positions at several brokerages, including head of CIS market at ForexClub/Libertex, senior vice president at Alfa-Bank and most recently Chairman and CEO of Alpari Group. For many years Mr. Verbitskiy has participated in the development of regulatory norms and standards for the regulation of financial markets, as well as participated in the launch of non-profit organizations, which unite brokerages and other financial firms.

Alexey Sidorov

DRC Member – Chairman of the Financial Market Development Association of Belarus (ARFIN)

Alexey Sidorov

DRC Member – Chairman of the Financial Market Development Association of Belarus (ARFIN)

Alexey Sidorov – Chairman of the Financial Market Development Association of Belarus (ARFIN) is a prominent financial markets economist with senior-level executive experience which includes serving for private companies and governmental financial institutions over a career spanning 17 years. In his most recent position, Alexey was Deputy Head of the Department for Foreign Economic Activities Monitoring at National Bank which drafted legal regulatory acts under the main directorate for currency regulation and currency control. Alexey held this role from 2013 through June 2016, and his work involved monitoring foreign trade activities and drafting appropriate regulations to meet policy needs as Deputy Head of the department. Before his promotion to the role of Deputy Head, Alexey was Chief Economist at National Bank, for eight years from 2005 through 2013, and during that time was an adviser (councillor) for the currency regulation department within the main administration of currency regulation and currency control. This department drafted legal acts and maintained existing rules for currency regulations and under Alexey’s guidance. From 2001 to 2005 before joining National Bank, Alexey was senior economist at Infobank (JSCB) within the active operations department which managed the bank’s loan portfolio and sale of banking products.

Lior Nabat

DRC Member – CEO Tradency

Lior Nabat

DRC Member – CEO Tradency

Lior, is a hi-tech veteran which co-founded Tradency in early 2005. Following his long career in the technology arena, Lior became interested in the financial industry, specifically the foreign exchange market. He found the high liquidity, round-the-clock nature of the business and high level of the technology in this field exciting and fascinating. Lior, with the help of his partners, had developed an automated Forex trading software solution involving signal providers and originated the Mirror Trading concept & trading platform. Lior has an extensive technological background starting with the Israeli air force’s telecommunications division, through to various hi-tech companies, all in the telecommunications field and currently as an entrepreneur in the financial technology industry. Lior holds a degree in mathematics and computer science through the Open University in Israel.

Roland Gemayel

DRC Member – Chief Dealer Lykke

Roland Gemayel

DRC Member – Chief Dealer Lykke

Roland Gemayel holds numerous degrees, including a PhD in Finance from Kings College in London, as well as a Master of Science with distinction from Cass Business School. Prior to joining Lykke, Roland was the Chief Dealer at Maximus FX and is also the founder of eSocialTrader – a financial resource on the topic of social trading, where Roland publishes opinions, experience, and research findings on the growing phenomenon of social trading. His work is published in top academic finance journals. Roland is a senior finance professional with over seven years of international experience in risk management, market making, financial modeling, consulting, product development, business operations, and strategy. His current work at Lykke as the chief dealer involves developing market making algorithms and building performance metrics and risk systems to ensure steady growth of trading operations.

Nick Isayev

Anthony Bulanovs (刘中)

Michael Greenberg

Maor Lahav

Valery Dolgov

Opal Yang

Quinn Perrott

Dr. Can Pamir

Peter Tatarnikov

Carl Elsammak

Aleksey Kutsenko

Artem Karpichenko

Sam Low

Aytugan Khafizov

Eitan Klein

Oskar Pecyna

Akin Abbak

Nir Porat

Pavel Khizhnyak

Vladimir Verbitskiy

Alexey Sidorov

Lior Nabat

Roland Gemayel

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