Bio - RYAN NETTLES

Ryan was born and raised in the suburbs outside Chicago, Illinois and had the desire to become a veterinarian some day. But as life chooses one's path, Ryan's path lead him into the financial services industry a few years after his Animal Science studies at Oklahoma State University after he visited a friend working as a floor trader at Chicago Board of Trade. Ryan loved the excitement and challenges of the financial markets and has been active in financial services ever since for over 20 years.

In 1997, Ryan obtained his series 3 futures broker license and began his financial services career in a entry leval sales position at the brokerage firm Futures & Options of Texas based in Houston, Texas before the emergence of online futures trading. After less than two years after building a significant client base, Ryan ventured off on his own and founded the online futures brokerage firm First American Securities & Futures, LLC in 1998 which later he sold to a Latin American business group in 2002.

RYAN NETTLES

Since 2019, Ryan co-founded and is Managing Partner at Guru Capital, a Swiss private equity firm providing advisory services to investment funds on strategic opportunities within the financial services industry. In 2020, Ryan has been appointed as Non-Executive Director at ETX Capital which is a portfolio company of a fund associated with Guru Capital.

In 2003, Ryan's entry into the FX industry began when he joined Commerce Bank & Trust in Boston, Massachusetts as their Head of FX Sales where he was responsible for developing their global retail FX business. In 2010, Ryan joined Swissquote Bank located near Geneva, Switzerland where his role was Head of FX Trading & Market Strategy, being responsible of the revenue transformation of their FX, Precious Metals, CFDs and Cryptocurrency business.