Mina Zakaria has been promoted to Global Head of Sales Conversion at Advanced Markets Group, according to an update made via LinkedIn. He has been working in the company since September last year as the Director of Sales Conversion.
Prior to his current job at Advanced Markets Group, Zakaria held several roles at SquaredFinancial for over one year, first working as Sales Manager and then as Head of MENA Region. He ended his tenure at the firm as the Acting Head of Sales Manager.
Also, the executive had a short tenure in FXDD as the Senior Regional Business Development Manager at the broker FXDD. However, he worked for over four years at ForexTime (FXTM) where he began as an Account Service Representative, and then he moved on to the role of Service Account Manager. After that, he worked for almost two years as a Senior Account Manager.
Between 2014 and 2015, he was employed at InvestFX as Head of Sales in Limassol, Cyprus, and before his job at the firm, he worked as Senior Account Manager for Stock.com and 24Option.
Zakaria has a Financial Crime Risk Management certification from the European Institute of Management and Finance (EIMF) and holds a diploma in Travel and Tourism, and Business Administration and Management from the CDA College in Cyprus.
As of press time, neither the executive nor the company has officially addressed the recent appointment.
Recent Unrelated Executive Moves
In other recent executive moves, GCEX, headquartered in London, has named Michael Aagaard as its new Managing Director for its Denmark operations.
Located in Copenhagen, Aagaard will manage all activities of the company from his Danish base and focus on growing the Copenhagen team. Moreover, he will work toward the planning of the company’s strategic growth.
He has over two decades of experience in the industry. His most recent position was with Oanda as a Digital Assets Consultant, but he also worked as a contractor there. He spent more than 19 years at Saxo Bank, which was his most prominent presence in the trading industry. As of late 2021, he was the Head of Foreign Exchange at Saxo Bank, which is based in Copenhagen. He joined the company in July 2002 and climbed the corporate ladder over the years.
