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Former ConversionPros executive Katy Parks joins social trading and marketing firm TradeSocio

Andrew Saks-McLeod, Head of Research and Analysis, ETX Capital

From FX and financial services recruitment, to specialist marketing in the FX industry, Katy Parks has now made her move to Cyprus-based TradeSocio, a company which provides social trading and marketing technology, aiming to increase the demo-to-live account conversion rate for FX brokers. Ms. Parks is a prominent industry personality among the Cyprus retail FX […]

Former ConversionPros executive Katy Parks joins social trading and marketing firm TradeSocio

From FX and financial services recruitment, to specialist marketing in the FX industry, Katy Parks has now made her move to Cyprus-based TradeSocio, a company which provides social trading and marketing technology, aiming to increase the demo-to-live account conversion rate for FX brokers.

Katy Parks Tradesocio

Ms. Parks is a prominent industry personality among the Cyprus retail FX sector, having spent almost two years at ConversionPros as a Senior Sales Executive between February 2014 and September 2015.

Prior to joining ConversionPros, Ms. Parks specialized in recruiting FX industry professionals to the Cyprus FX retail sector, as manager of FX Careers in Limassol, a post that she held between March 2013 and February 2014.

Ms Parks also ran the Corporate Sales operation for Legion Run, which is owned by former TRADOLOGIC CEO and founder Ilan Tzorya, who now owns digital marketing firm AdsTech.

Before making the move to Cyprus, Ms. Parks was Onsite Recruitment Manager at HSBC Investment Banking in London, where she handled recruitment across all departments and all asset classes.

Ms. Parks began her career at McGregor Boyall, before moving to Emerson Chase in the City of London following her graduation from the University of East Anglia with a Bsc in Psychological Sciences in 2006. She is fluent in English and Greek, and also speaks Russian and French.

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