Justin Grossbard
Justin Grossbard, co-founder and CEO of CompareForexBrokers
Melbourne, Australia
MEL / AUS
EST. 2014
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Justin Grossbard

Co-Founder & CEO, CompareForexBrokers

Justin Grossbard is the co-founder and CEO of CompareForexBrokers, a forex and CFD broker comparison network founded in 2014. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he has written on forex and CFD trading for outlets including Kiplinger, Entrepreneur, Finance Magnates and MoneyShow since 2019, and he holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Master of Marketing from Monash University.

34 articles across 13 outlets since 2019.

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Credentials and press

Monash University

Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Master of Marketing, both recorded by the university in its own alumni profile.

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Financial Education Professionals Pty Ltd

RG146 Tier 1 Generic Knowledge, completed 14 June 2026. It is the compliance qualification required to provide general financial product advice in Australia. The certificate is private, so there is no independent page to link to.

Held privately
Kiplinger

Contributor, seven articles published between 2022 and 2023.

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Entrepreneur

Contributor, writing on self-employed retirement saving and online business.

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Finance Magnates

Contributor, two articles on automated trading and automated investing.

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MoneyShow

Contributor, four articles on EUR/USD and on avoiding forex scams.

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Forbes Business Council

Former member, with three council articles published in 2023. The membership is no longer active, which is why this says former.

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Companies and roles

Ventures

CompareForexBrokers

Co-Founder and CEO

BrokersThai

CEO and Co-Founder · since 2026

A forex broker comparison platform for Thai traders, based in Bangkok.

Alley Group

Co-Founder and Director · since 2023

Innovate Online

Founder · 2011 to 2023

SMS Comparison

Founder

The network also operates TheRockTrading, BestPropFirms, Spread-Bet.co.uk, BrokersRegulados and CorretoraForex.

Career and education

Background

Career

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    CompareForexBrokers

    Founded 19 October 2014 in Melbourne. A forex and CFD broker comparison network, founded with fellow Monash alumnus Noam Korbl after the pair met at a forex training company in 2014. The business expanded into Asia and Europe before turning to North America.

  • 2023 to present

    Co-Founder and Director

    Alley Group

    Formed when Innovate Online merged with performance agency Alley Group, part of Nunn Media. The role covers direction of the business and its earned media work.

  • 2011 to 2023

    Founder and General Manager

    Innovate Online

    A Melbourne search and digital agency working with large Australian advertisers. It merged into Alley Group in 2023, and innovateonline.com.au now redirects there.

  • Operations management

    National health and safety organisation, United Kingdom

    An operations role in the UK, taken up after the VicRoads graduate programme.

  • Graduate programme

    VicRoads

    Included a rotation through finance and treasury.

Education

  • Master of Marketing

    Monash University

    Returned to university for the marketing specialisation after the honours year took a management path.

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)

    Monash University

    Covered finance, economics and statistics, with the honours year in management.

Published work

Writing

All publications

Quoted elsewhere

Press

All press mentions

Outside the day job

Away from work

Justin has been married to Paula for over ten years. They have a young son, Benji, and two cats.

He follows Australian Rules football, soccer and tennis, and umpired AFL matches for five years despite his own description of himself as no great sportsman. Away from sport the interests run to whisky tastings, puzzles and computer games.

Contact

Getting in touch

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