eToro Group (ETOR) appoints Laura Unger and Lior Shemesh to Board

eToro Group Ltd. (“eToro”, or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: ETOR), the trading and investing platform, today announced the appointment of Laura Unger and Lior Shemesh as Board Members. Both Ms. Unger and Mr. Shemesh will also join eToro’s Audit & Risk Committee.

Commenting on the appointments, Yoni Assia, Co-founder and CEO, said: “As eToro enters this new chapter as a Nasdaq listed company, we are delighted that Laura Unger and Lior Shemesh will join eToro’s Board. As leaders in their respective fields, they bring extensive knowledge and expertise to the Board. We look forward to benefiting from Laura’s experience across regulatory governance and risk management, as well as Lior’s financial and operational leadership as we continue to grow eToro’s presence around the world, including our goal to expand our operations in the U.S.”

Ms. Unger is a financial services regulatory, legislative, policy and strategy expert. She has held a variety of public and private sector roles and served on multiple corporate boards over the last twenty years, including Borland Software, MBNA, Merrill Lynch IQ Funds, Ambac Financial, CA Technologies, CIT Group and Navient Corporation. She is a former SEC Commissioner and Acting Chair, and former Counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.

Ms. Unger currently serves as an independent director and Risk Committee Chair for the global investment bank Nomura Holdings Inc. (NYSE “NMR”) (Tokyo), as Audit Chair and director of its largest subsidiary, Nomura Holdings America, and director of its trading platform, Instinet.

Ms. Unger began her government career as an SEC Enforcement Attorney in NYC and Washington, DC, followed by her service as Securities Counsel to the US Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. She received a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983, and a J.D. from New York Law School in 1987.

“I’m pleased to join eToro’s Board at such an exciting moment for the company and for the investing landscape more generally. I look forward to sharing my two decades of experience by providing capital markets, regulatory and governance insights. Beyond this, eToro and I share a passion for understanding technology’s impact on capital markets. At a time when the pace of technological innovation is accelerating, I’m thrilled to be joining a company which prides itself on being at the forefront of compliant innovation,” said Ms. Unger.

​Lior Shemesh is an experienced CFO with a strong track record of shaping and leading the financial strategy and operations for technology companies. He has served as CFO of Nasdaq listed software company Wix since April 2013. Before joining Wix, Lior served as VP Finance and then CFO at Alverion Ltd., a provider of optimized wireless broadband solutions. Previously, he held senior finance roles at Veraz Networks Inc., a softswitch, media gateway and digital compression solutions provider, and ECI Telecom Ltd., a network infrastructure provider.

​From July 2012 to June 2021, Mr. Shemesh served on the board of directors of Aspen Group Ltd., where he was also on the compensation committee, financial statements committee, as well as Chair of the audit committee.

​Mr. Shemesh began his career as an accountant at Israel Aerospace Industries. He has a B.A. in Accounting & Economics and an M.B.A. from Bar-Ilan University.

“I’m honored to be joining the Board of eToro at such a pivotal time in its growth journey. I’ve spent years in the technology space and am deeply impressed by eToro’s commitment to harnessing technology to empower individual investors around the world. I look forward to working with the Board and eToro’s leadership team to support the company’s mission and help drive its continued growth and success,” said Mr. Shemesh.

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