CoinBurp Hires eToro’s Former UK CEO Iqbal Gandham

Iqbal V. Gandham, the former UK CEO of multi-asset brokerage, eToro, has joined digital currency platform CoinBurp as its non-executive advisor, the company announced on Monday.

In his new role, Gandham will be responsible for supervising the company’s growth strategy. Additionally, he will oversee the startup’s future funding rounds as well.

Launched last year, CoinBurp raised £274,630, falling short of its target £300,000, in a Crowdfunding Crowdfunding Crowdfunding is defined as funding of a project via raising smaller denominations of money across a large body of number of people.New businesses that need access to more capital may also conduct crowdfunding. Generally, crowdfunding is performed through an online community, social media, or crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and RocketHub. Depending upon which jurisdiction an investor resides within will dictate the sort of restrictions that are applied to the crowdfunding pro Crowdfunding is defined as funding of a project via raising smaller denominations of money across a large body of number of people.New businesses that need access to more capital may also conduct crowdfunding. Generally, crowdfunding is performed through an online community, social media, or crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and RocketHub. Depending upon which jurisdiction an investor resides within will dictate the sort of restrictions that are applied to the crowdfunding pro Read this Term round on CrowdCube and received funds from 370 investors.

As seen on his Linkedin profile, Gandham left eToro last July after spending three years and eight months with the brokerage. There, he was appointed as a managing director and also the UK CEO of the Israel-headquartered company. Further, he oversaw the broker’s launch of cryptocurrency operations.

Before that, he was the chief marketing officer at the digital wealth manager Nutmeg for a couple of years.

His resume also includes Nivio, a Cloud Cloud The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc Read this Term computing company, where he was chief business strategist, and Net4India, which co-founded and remained its chief technology officer.

A Well-Known Figure in the Crypto Industry

Gandham’s crypto experience is not limited to his tenure at eToro as he co-founded the UK Crypto Association, an industry-specific self-regulatory body, and is the current chair of it.

Commenting on the new appointment, CoinBurp’s co-founder and CEO, Peter Wood said: “We’re very excited to have a veteran member of the UK's Fintech industry across several fields, joining and guiding our growth strategy as we start to scale our business. We’re confident that Iqbal will play an important part in CoinBurp’s continued success as we continue on our path for mass-adoption.”