Flow Traders has named Thomas Spitz as CEO, effective 1 September, subject to shareholder approval.
He replaces Mike Kuehnel, who has been CEO for the past four years.
In 2024, Flow Traders reported €467.8 million in net trading income, up 56% year-on-year.
Also becoming executive director of the board, Spitz will be responsible for the firm’s overall growth and diversification strategy and trading capital expansion plan.
Spitz has more than 25 years of industry experience and joins Flow Traders from alternative data and analytics firm QuantCube Technology, where he has been CEO of the Middle East business since February. Prior to this, he was head of global markets and a senior managing director at First Abu Dhabi Bank.
More than 15 years of his career was spent at Credit Agricole CIB, where he held senior roles including global head of markets trading for FICC and equity derivatives and head of global market fixed income sales.
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