Spotware Systems promotes Ilia Iarovitcyn to the role of CEO

Spotware Systems has promoted Ilia Iarovitcyn to the role of Chief Executive Officer, replacing Founder and longtime CEO Andrey Pavlov after more than 13 years on the job.

In May 2023, the founder of the renowned white-label FX/CFD trading platform provider and developer of cTrader moved to the role of Chairman and handed over the CEO title to Ilia Iarovitcyn. The executive moves weren’t announced at the time, but both Ilia Iarovitcyn and Andrey Pavlov‘s LinkedIn profiles confirm the news.

Ilia Iarovitcyn becomes CEO after six years as Product Manager at Spotware

Ilia Iarovitcyn has become the Spotware CEO after six years as Product Manager, where he was in charge of 4 products (2 server side, 2 client-side). In that role, the extensive lists of tasks included:

• Managing and coordinating the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
• Interface directly with middle / back officers, project/product management and engineering team.
• Providing the link between the Customer, Development and QA teams and any third party regarding software functionality throughout SDLC. Liaising and building sustainable relationships with stakeholders, clients and other departments
• Owning product backlog, collecting and creating product requirements.
• Analyzing the progress, reporting and optimizing development performance.
• Ensuring business involvement throughout the product life cycle.
• Organization of multilevel public testing before the official release of the product.
• Ensuring that the final delivered solution is what was originally requested.
• Support business users to ensure smooth transition from development to production by providing product knowledge and UAT.
• Business processes automatization.
• Day to day management of change requests to ensure agreed deadlines are met.
• Being a SME for Dev team and running workshops on financial markets. Running demos and knowledge sharing sessions for team.

Ilia Iarovitcyn’s goal is to create self-organizing teams

Troughout his career, he was responsible for mmore than 20 successful launches of various products and projects, which include setting up new trading platforms and information services, developing IB programs and social trading systems, various bonuses and tournaments, connecting PSPs, metrics, etc.

Ilia Iarovitcyn self-identifies as a great team player and a team builder with an ability to work in a global 24 hour marketplace and good understanding of clients and potential clients needs.

His self-described goal is to create self-organizing teams that are able to achieve maximum results based on available resources and select the most efficient software development methodology to meet the objectives of the project.

The new chief executive joined Spotware Systems in 2017 as Business Analyst. Previously, he spent nearly six years at MFX Broker, where he was Head of the Technical Development Department and Chief Dealer.