IG Group appoints Charlie Rozes as Chief Financial Officer

Electronic trading major IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) today announced the appointment of Charlie Rozes as its new Chief Financial Officer. Charlie Rozes’s appointment follows the announcement made in January 2020 of Paul Mainwaring’s intention to retire.

Mr Rozes will join IG on June 1, 2020 as an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer, following which there will be a month’s handover from Paul Mainwaring before he leaves the company.

Charlie Rozes began his professional career with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and became a Partner in 2001 in the US management consulting practice and following that held senior executive roles at IBM and Bank of America. In 2007, he joined Barclays plc where he was the Chief Financial Officer of Barclays UK Retail and Business Bank and became the Global Head of Investor Relations in September 2011 until August 2015.

He was the Group Finance Director at Jardine Lloyd Thompson plc from September 2015 until April 2019 when it was acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. Since then he has played a strong role in the ongoing integration program to successfully merge these two companies.

Charlie Rozes has an undergraduate degree from Tufts University and an MBA from the Southern Methodist University.

Charlie Rozes said “I am very excited to be joining IG at this important time in its history and look forward to working with June Felix and the executive team in their objective of executing the delivery of the Company’s global growth strategy.”