First Derivatives Plc, a leading global player in capital markets technology market revealed the appointment of new member to its board of directors in its latest update. According to statement released by the firm, it has onboarded Mr. Ayman Sayed to serve as Non-Executive Director of the group. The move was first made public via the firm’s update filed to London Stock Exchange according to which this move is a part of the firm’s efforts geared towards boosting strength and support for enhancing its product engineering capabilities, delivering solutions and growing its software revenue. Mr. Sayed is an expert in enterprise grade software and technology verticals with more than 25 years of experience. Aside from his current role at First Derivatives board, he is also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of BMC Software, a California based software giant.
Prior to that, he served as President and Chief Product Officer of CA Technologies Inc, a fortune 500 company which has since been acquired Broadcom Inc. He served at CA Tech for three and a half years during which he was responsible for the firm’s vision, strategy, development and success of its products and services. Ayman spent most of his career serving under Cisco Systems having remained a part of the firm for more than 16 years. During his term with the technology giant, he served in numerous key roles such as Sr.Director of Engineering – Core Routing Business Unit, VP of Engineering – NSSTG & Unified Access Business unit and SVP of network operating systems technology group. He began his career as Director of Software Development at Plaintree Systems in 1994 after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University.
Commenting on his new role at the firm, Ayman Sayed said “I am excited to join FD, a company with world-leading technology operating in several valuable and high growth markets. The world of technology continues to evolve at a pace that requires faster delivery of innovation. I am pleased to join the Board and look forward to working with the management team to drive business growth through world-class products”.
Speaking about Ayman’s addition to the team, Donna Troy – Chairman of First Derivatives Plc said “Ayman’s CEO experience at leading enterprise software companies and his deep engineering background bring highly relevant and valuable skills that will assist the Group’s strategy. I am delighted to welcome him to the Board”.
Karthik Subramanian
Karthik Subramanian has been a professional trader and fund manager over the last 18 years. He is basically a software developer who made the transition to financial domain around 18 years back as the attractiveness of the financial markets proved too much for him. He lives in Chennai in India along with his wife and son. He began his career as a software developer in 1999 and then gradually moved into the financial industry as he began trading stocks in his pastime. He then moved into the financial markets full time and then shifted his focus to the FX markets due to the liquid nature of these markets. Since then, he has been trading FX diligently and his favourite pair are the EURUSD and EURJPY. Over the last couple of years, he has found blockchain to be of high interest and considering his background in software and finance, he has since assembled a team of highly talented developers who have since worked on a variety of projects like crypto exchanges and blockchain architecturing. Now, he balances his time between trading and commenting on both the FX and crypto markets. He has worked with many publications including FX Street and Finance Magnates, which has helped him gain experience and also recognition across the industry. He loves to write and this passion has helped him to reach out across the FX and crypto industry. Right now, he works on his pet projects in the FX and crypto industry and spends his time writing and managing his blockchain team and helping it to reach higher.
