Daniel Legg — Founder, Investor, FinTech Operator

About

I build the teams and the companies behind financial markets. Founder of Exec-Tech, the recruitment firm behind 1,000+ placements for brokers, fintechs and iGaming operators in 100+ countries. Before that I built TeamFX to eight-figure revenue and sold it. Today I invest in and advise payments, banking and trading businesses from Dubai.

BasedDubai, UAE. British-Spanish, raised in the UK.

FocusRecruitment, FinTech consultancy and minority investments in financial services.

Track recordOne company built and sold; one scaling across 100+ countries.

What I do

Three ways we can work together.

Recruitment is the main event. Consultancy and investment follow from the same network and the same decade in financial services.

01

Exec-Tech · Recruitment

Senior talent for brokers, fintechs, iGaming and crypto.

Executive search and specialist recruitment for financial and technology businesses. A nine-stage process, a global candidate network and consultants who have worked inside the industries they hire for.

Executive search and retained hires
Sales, dealing, compliance, product and engineering
Shortlists of 5 to 10 from a researched field of 20 to 50
Dubai Marina headquarters, placements worldwide

About Exec-Tech → 02

FinTech consultancy

Licensing, payments and growth for financial firms.

Hands-on help getting a financial business regulated, banked and selling.

What I help with → 03

Investing

Capital and operating support for fintech founders.

Payments, banking and financial-services businesses with revenue and a clear edge.

What I look for →

Exec-Tech

The recruitment firm I run day to day.

Founded in 2021, Exec-Tech connects financial and technology companies with people who move the numbers. Over 1,000 placements across 100+ countries, with 20+ years of combined forex and crypto experience in the team and an average of six days from CV to first interview.

About Exec-Tech → exec-tech.com ↗

Where we hire

TradingBrokers, prop firms, dealing desks

FinancialEMIs, banks, payment providers

CryptoExchanges and digital assets

BlockchainInfrastructure and protocols

iGamingOperators and platforms

TechnologyProduct and engineering teams

How a search runs

Briefing with the hiring manager, a written job brief, research into donor companies, then a networked approach to the market. Every candidate is qualified for suitability and interest before you see them, and we manage the process through to offer.

What clients and candidates say

Having recently worked with Dan and it was a pleasure. He was very professional and he really knows the industry and the key parameters of the job I was looking for.
John Yi · Trustpilot

Great people and fast communication with good focus on me and my skills.
Gabriel · Trustpilot

The story so far

Built one. Sold it. Building the next.

A decade in financial markets, first as a trader, then as a founder, now as an operator and investor.

17

2017 · United Kingdom

TeamFX

Started trading at 18 with a small account and a lot of early losses. Turned what I learned into TeamFX, a multilingual online trading education platform that grew from one laptop into a global brand with an audience across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Scaled to eight-figure revenue (£) · The TeamFX story →

22

2022 · Exit

Sold the business

TeamFX was sold to a private education corporation in a seven-figure deal. The buyer rebranded the product and I stepped away with my first exit before 25 and the capital for what came next.

Seven-figure exit · product rebranded under new ownership

21

2021 to now · Dubai

Exec-Tech, consultancy, investing

Moved to the UAE and founded Exec-Tech to solve the hiring problem every broker and fintech I knew was struggling with. The same network now feeds my consultancy and investment work.

1,000+ placements · 100+ countries · 40+ brokers · 25+ iGaming firms · 10+ EMIs and banks

FinTech consultancy

Getting financial firms licensed, banked and growing.

I work with founders and boards on the parts of a financial business that stall growth. Fixed-fee projects, a retained seat at the table, or equity where I believe in the project.

Consultancy in detail →

Licensing and regulation

Choosing the right licence and getting through the door.

Jurisdiction selection, application strategy, policies and the operating model regulators expect to see.

Payments and banking

Opening the rails a regulated business needs.

Acquiring, PSP and EMI relationships, settlement flows and keeping banks comfortable with your model.

Marketing and growth

Acquisition that survives compliance review.

Paid media, affiliate and IB programmes, CRM, retention and messaging that converts within the rules.

Team and operations

The people and process to run it.

Leadership hires through Exec-Tech, sales floor design, commission structures and operating cadence.

Investing

FinTech founders with revenue and an edge.

I back businesses in payments, banking and financial services where I can add more than money: a licence pathway, a banking relationship, a sales team or a first senior hire.

Sectors

Payments, EMIs and banking, brokerage and trading infrastructure, regtech and the tooling financial firms buy.

Stage

Live in market with paying customers. Pre-revenue only where the founders have done it before.

Geography

UK, Europe and the Gulf first. Open to anywhere a licence and a bank account can be secured.

How I work

Minority positions, hands-on. Expect introductions, hires and operating help, not just a cheque and a quarterly call.

To pitch

A short deck, current numbers and the one problem you think I can solve for you. Reply within a week.

Press, awards and speaking

Coming soon

Contact

Hiring, licensing, or a deal worth a look?

One inbox for all of it. Tell me which of the three you're after and I'll point you at the right next step.

Email

hello@dan-legg.com