Evolve Currency Management (Video)

Interview with Jake Spark, Managing Director of Evolve Currency Management

Tell Us About Your Journey

I was born and raised in England. I went to university to study business. And I always knew that I’d want to work in financial services. In 2013, I started working for a Fortune 500 company who, at the time, was the largest non-bank provider of foreign exchange. I worked for them for about 6 and a half years, 3 of which were in London. And halfway through that period, they asked me to move to the US where I managed a derivatives portfolio for them for US businesses. We got an opportunity to move back to London when I left that business, and I started working for a private equity-backed foreign exchange company. I worked for them for 2 years, and after that period they asked me to move to Amsterdam, where I became Head of Europe for that business. Now, with it being private equity owned, it was inevitable that at some point it was going to be sold. We completed that transaction