TheTradingPit Has Selected Petros Kalaitzis as Its New Global COO

TheTradingPit announced that it has selected Petros Kalaitzis as its new Global COO, effective from January 2022.

Finance Magnates recently learned that Petros Kalaitzis, a financial executive whose career in the Financial industry spans more than eleven years has been appointed by TheTradingPit, a German-based Fintech company with operations in Cyprus, as its new Global COO and Director of the CY entity.

Kalaitzis brings around eleven years of experience from the financial industry. In particular, he brings a set of skills, including market analysis, client relations, client experience. According to his LinkedIn profile, his sales and negotiation abilities have directly led to increased revenue and business development opportunities.

A Look Back at Kalaitzis Career

Before TheTradingPit hired Kalaitzis, NAGA benefitted from his experience as a Head of Customer Experience(CX). Over nine months, he accomplished the requirements for the role.

Earlier at Tickmill in June 2018, he joined as Team Leader Sales & Customer Support. After eighteen months, he was awarded a promotion to Head of Client Services -Listed Derivatives (UK & EU). In his last role at Tickmill, he spent his time building client-facing departments from scratch, coordinating marketing, sales and clients services and much more.

Prior to Tickmill, Kalaitzis served FocusVision as the Business Development Director. For just over a year, as part of his role, he built customer-specific acquisition strategies that included opportunity sizing, penetration strategy, customer wiring plans, customized product offering, pricing and deal terms.

In August 2014, Saxo Bank recruited him as an Account Services Representative. After ten months, he was elevated to Account Services Team Leader of Central and Eastern Europe. For a little over a year, he achieved average monthly growth of trading volumes in FX, options, equities, and futures of 8% among other duties. Then, the Bank promoted him to Manager of Retail and Corporate Sales. In this role, he was responsible for the business development in Greece and Cyprus selling FX, CFDs, Equities, Options, Futures, and Bonds.

At CIF, he fulfilled the position of Dealer in Reception & Transmission of orders between June 2013 and July 2014.

In March 2013, IronFX hired Kalaitzis in a Client Relations and Customer Support role for a very short stint.

Additionally, eToro utilised him as a Dealer from the summer of 2012 until early 2013.

His earliest known post was at Sunera- North Photovoltaic Home Systems SA as an Account Manager from September 2010.

A Demo Trading Challenge

Commenting on his role, Kalaitzis stated: “I believe we are building something that will shape the trading world, and I am confident that our focus on extremely good customer experience will allow our clients to feel more like partners.”

Kalaitzis also mentioned that the German fintech is planning to provide a funded account to its clients where they can trade and split profits. He added that the company expects to be fully operational and accept its first clients by the end of March.

TheTradingPit is seeking out skilled traders in multi-asset offerings of FX&CFDs, Cash Equities, Futures and Crypto CFDs. Thus, TheTradingPit’s clients will be able to pay a one-time fee in order to participate in a demo trading challenge and qualify for the funded accounts.