William Ahdout
Owener at KKW LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ahdout is a seasoned financial-technology entrepreneur and executive with over two decades of experience architecting global FX businesses and trading platforms. As a founding leader at FXCM he built proprietary trading systems, led international expansion to 18 offices, executed 10+ acquisitions, and helped scale the company to $1.5B market cap and $500M revenue. He negotiated major JVs and exits—spinning off and selling FastMatch, DailyFX, and international subsidiaries for sizable returns—demonstrating uncommon deal, product and integration chops combined with hands-on engineering of trading software. Now running KKW LLC, he continues to apply a founder’s discipline and operational rigor, having once bootstrapped a global FX platform from a six-person team to 1,000+ employees without external capital. Based in New York, he blends strategic planning, risk/P&L stewardship, and technical product development in ways that bridge trading, technology and M&A.
10 years of coding experience
Yeshiva University
Github Skills (46)
xapi10
integrate10
financial-data10
trading10
edgar10
finance10
robot10
fixprotocol10
forex-trading10
websocket9
rest9
ethereum9
api9
frontpage9
rest-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FXCMAPI/fxcmapi.github.io
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 40 pushes in 8 months
jekylljekyll-thememobile-responsivefrontpagetypography
fxcm/fxcmrest-php
May 2021 - Dec 2022
FXCM Rest API library for php
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apiphpapi-libraryrestrest-api
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