IG US Holdings, Inc. (IG North America) announces today that it has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately, and a new Chief Technology Officer, effective at the end of calendar year 2023.
Isaac Poore will assume the role of CFO for IG North America, replacing Matt Hellmuth, who is moving on to his next opportunity. Mr. Poore previously served as financial controller for IG North America. Nicholas Cottone, currently Vice President of Finance, will be promoted to Director of Development and Operations for tastytrade.
Also promoted was Jordan von Kluck to the role of Regional Chief Technology Officer – North America. Linwood Ma, the current regional CTO, is retiring from the company at the end of calendar year 2023. To date, Jordan von Kluck has the role of Chief Technology Officer for the tastytrade brokerage. In the new role, Jordan von Kluck will oversee and lead all technology activities for tastytrade, tastylive, tastycrypto™ and IG US.
Chris Ingebrigtsen, currently VP of Engineering, will assume the role of CTO for tastytrade.
“I am pleased to announce these leadership appointments. At IG North America, we aim to nurture and promote talent from within who can help us continue to deliver innovation to our platforms and customer satisfaction,” said JJ Kinahan, CEO, IG North America and President of tastytrade . “I was a little nervous about appointing someone with the last name ‘Poore’ to a CFO role, but his experience and qualifications put to rest any doubts I may have had.”
Today’s announcement follows a year of growth for IG North America, including: the re-branding of the tastylive network and tastytrade brokerage, the launch of tastytrade’s first major marketing campaign, ‘Join the Club, Genius’, the launch of new features and versions of tastytrade’s web, desktop and mobile platforms, the release of a new tastytrade API, the debut of the Bad Trader app, and the repurchase of Small Exchange by one of IG North America’s subsidiaries.