Argentex Group
AGFX:LN
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We are an FCA regulated, founder-led business listed on the London Stock Exchange. We have traded more than $75bn in over 70 currencies for our clients since 2012. Making and receiving payments on their behalf.
We are a profitable, debt-free, cash rich business and operate as a Riskless Principal broker for non-speculative and commercial currency transactions. Whether our clients' objectives are short or long-term, our sharp execution combined with expert analysis achieves material impact on both pricing and efficiency.
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Board of Directors
Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham KB
Non-executive Chairman
Lord Jones graduated from University College London and spent 20 years with corporate law firm Edge and Ellison working his way up from Articled Clerk to Senior Partner. He was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry for six and a half years and was knighted for his services to business and charity in 2005. After leaving the CBI in 2006 he spent 12 months as advisor to Deloitte and Barclays Capital, as well as being the UK Skills Envoy. In 2007 Lord Jones was appointed Minister of State for UK Trade and Investment, becoming a life peer but not joining the party of government. Lord Jones is an active crossbencher in the House of Lords. He serves as non-executive chairman of Triumph Motorcycles Ltd, Thatcher’s Cider Ltd, One Asset Ltd (trading as Elonex) Metalfloor UK Ltd, ProBuild 360 Ltd and On Logistics Ltd and is a non-executive director of Leicester Tigers plc and drp Holdings Ltd. He is a corporate ambassador to Aon Risk Solutions. Lord Jones was also non-executive deputy chairman of the Unipart Experts Practices (UEP) Division (2013-2017), chairman of the International Advisory Board of HSBC (2009-2012), chairman of the international advisory board of British Airways plc (2010-2014) and chairman of Celixir plc (2015-2018). He was also a senior adviser to BP plc (2012-2015) and to Harvey Nash plc (2010-2017) and a corporate ambassador to Jaguar Cars (2009-2017) and to JCB (2010-2015).
Harry Adams
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Adams is a founding partner of Argentex. After graduating from the University of West of England in Business Studies, Mr. Adams began his career as a proprietary trader at a futures trading firm, specialising in the fixed income and FX markets. From there, he spent three years as a corporate FX dealer at Travelex and then became a senior trader at Schneider Foreign Exchange where he worked for five years before moving to establish the LLP.
Jo Stent
Chief Financial Officer
An experienced CFO, Jo has spent the majority of her 25-year career in senior finance roles in global, fast-paced organisations and has operated in a number of sectors and geographies. She has a demonstrable track record in organisational scaling and international expansion in addition to building best in class finance functions. Most recently, she was CFO at European Tour and Ryder Cup, and prior to that CFO of Vodafone Americas. She has also held senior finance roles in Telus Communications Inc, Deloitte and Scottish & Newcastle plc. Jo qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY. Jo is a non-executive director at UK Coaching
Dr Lena Wilson CBE
Senior Independent Director and Independent Non-executive Director
Lena brings extensive experience to Argentex, from an international career spanning over 60 countries, and both the private and public sectors. She currently serves on the Group Board of RBS plc, Intertek Group plc and Scottish Power Renewables Ltd.One of Scotland’s best-known business leaders, Lena was Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise from November 2009 until October 2017, having previously held the roles of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Scottish Development International (Scotland’s international trade and investment arm) and Senior Director, Customer Relations.Prior to this, Lena was Senior Investment Advisor to The World Bank in Washington DC, advising developing countries on foreign direct investment and private sector development. Lena has also served as a member of Scotland’s Financial Services Advisory Board and as Chair of Scotland’s Energy Jobs Taskforce.
Nigel Railton
Independent Non-executive Director
Mr. Railton has been the Chief Executive Officer of Camelot UK Lotteries Limited since June 2017 and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Camelot Global. Mr. Railton previously served as Financial & Operations Director of Camelot Group plc (from November 2007) and Finance Director of Camelot Group plc (from 2003) and was responsible to its Board for all aspects of financial control, compliance, reporting and supplier development in its operation of the National Lottery. Prior to Camelot, he served as Senior Management Accountant of Daewoo Cars Ltd., from 1996 to 1998. Beginning his career at British Rail, he progressed through various finance roles before reaching management grade and served as Assistant Financial Manager from 1989 to 1991. Mr. Railton then joined Network South-East in 1991, moving to Railtrack plc as a Project Accountant in 1992 and Railfreight Distribution as a Management Accountant from 1993 to 1994. Mr. Railton is a Qualified Accountant and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA).
Henry Beckwith
Non-executive Director
Mr. Beckwith is a founding partner of Argentex. Mr. Beckwith is a director of Pacific Investments and leads their financial services and asset management division, taking an active role in both deal origination and the management of the portfolio of companies. In 2011 he became a founding shareholder of Zorin, a leading provider of alternative finance for the UK property market. In 2016 he became a founding partner of Pacific Asset Management, the core asset management business of Pacific Investments. Mr. Beckwith is a graduate of Newcastle University and a member of both the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the Society of Technical Analysis.
Jonathan Gray
Independent Non-executive Director
Mr. Gray has considerable financial services experience having worked in senior roles in the City of London at HSBC, UBS and NCB. He founded and now works at Elm Square Advisers, a corporate finance boutique. Mr. Gray has substantial public company experience and has worked on numerous flotations. He has served as a non-executive director on the board of Tescom, an AIM-listed software business and also as non-executive chairman of PGF II SA, a Luxembourg domiciled private property fund. Mr. Gray is currently an independent non-executive director of Urban Logistics REIT plc.