Michael Katz

Chief Marketing Officer, UFX Bank

Michael Katz entered the world of online marketing as a Brand Manager managing retention activities for a number of Microgaming online casinos back in 2002, while working at Spiral Solutions.  He began to specialize in online Poker marketing at the end of 2003 after the launch of the Prima Poker network.  In 2004, Michael played a key role launching and managing Noble Poker, the flagship poker room of the iPoker network until it was sold in 2005.  Michael then took responsibility of the marketing activities of Titan Poker until 2006.

After being approached by the World Poker Tour, Michael set up an office in Israel, recruited and managed a team of developers, search engine experts, affiliate managers, media buyers and graphic designers, until the World Poker Tour decided to change direction and look to Cryptologic as their online gaming solution.

Finally, entering the forex landscape in 2008 as the Chief Marketing Officer at Xforex, Michael used his gaming background and marketing expertise to see the parallels between gaming and forex.

Michael became the Chief Marketing Officer of UFX Bank when the company launched at the start 2009.

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