Vasilis is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) with over 25 years of broad experience in the financial services industry. He is a graduate of Warwick Business School in UK, where he obtained an MBA degree, specialised in Strategic Analysis.
During his career, Vasilis served in key positions of various regulated entities in brokerage, investment analysis and portfolio management. Vasilis was a Portfolio Manager for Argo Capital Management, a London based hedge fund manager, from 2007 till 2009 managing over 100 million in Long-Short equities as well as private equity. Vasilis during the last decade has obtained extensive experience in financial regulatory legislation. He worked for the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission’s Funds Department and the Supervision Department where he was also involved in the transposition of funds legislation and preparation of directives and the representative member of CySEC in the ESMA Financial Innovation Committee and CIFA committees. He left CySEC in 2016 to join FxPro Financial Services Ltd as the Chief Compliance and AML Officer and since 2017 is the Chief Internal Auditor & Data Protection Officer (DPO) of FxPro Group. Vasilis is also a holder of CySEC Advanced Certificate and was a lecturer of CFA courses for over 10 years.