LOS ANGELES—IronX has announced the appointment of Dimitris Hatzis as their Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The new crypto exchange, a joint venture between the IronFX Group and the blockchain giant, EmurgoHK, allows private and institutional investors to exchange cryptocurrencies, as well as trade forex, commodities, equities, and other tradable assets.
IronX is a fully regulated cryptocurrency trading exchange after being approved by the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in September 2018. Previously, IronX sold 67.6 million tokens in a private sale by invitation, with a market value of $22.3 million. Their public token sale began last week.
“By appointing Mr. Hatzis as our new CEO, we have selected a highly experienced and knowledgeable market leader at a time when cryptocurrencies are on the verge of universal adoption," said Markos A. Kashiouris, founder and chairman of IronX.
Hatzis said, “The pace of technological change is both unpredictable as well as exponential. Cryptocurrencies are impacting on every individual, country, and organization in an unprecedented fashion, so IronX’s global role in trading them under a regulated umbrella has never been more important. In the capacity of CEO, I am looking forward to bring the highest level of disruptive enterprise and success to IronX, in the same way as I did at all my previous posts, combining leadership with execution and business development skills."
Hatzis is a seasoned international investment banker who transitioned successfully in the online trading space, in a career spanning over 23 years. He started his career in 1994 at Schroders in London and subsequently Salomon Smith Barney and Citigroup in New York for seven years, overseeing international equity capital markets for Asian and European issuers for several international, large and pioneering transactions. From there and over the following 10 years, he became the Head of Regional Banking at Eurobank before transitioning to Head of Leveraged Finance & Complex Restructuring Group, where he managed Eurobank’s large leveraged debt portfolio, including dynamic leadership in complex international debt restructurings in southeast and central Europe. He joined IronFX in January 2013 and still serves as the Group Chief Operating Officer having responsibility for both front- and back-end operations. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
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