Global Equities Practice.

About Us

Global Equities Practice.

The Omerta Group’s Equities Practice has many years’ experience providing our clients with high end human capital across all areas of the equities vertical. The division’s clients include Investment Banks, Electronically Biased Brokerages, Liquidity Venues and Exchanges, Trading Platforms and Disruptive Technology companies.
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The practice also works in close partnership with the Systematic Markets, Hedge Fund and Asset Management Practices which we believe gives us a unique full 360-degree view of not only the market, but available talent pools for our client base.

Each consultant has excellent depth of market understanding combined with very detailed product knowledge. This experience accompanied by an excellent research product enables us to deliver not only quickly, but accurately on assignments we work on as a team.

We believe in partnership and our aim is to understand our client’s needs, challenges and unique cultural nuances. This in turn this helps us to work with these selected clients more closely and improve their businesses by adding diverse and targeted human capital.

Global Reach.

London & EMEA

Americas

APAC

Services.

Full Search Methodology

Executive Search

Market Mapping

Competitor Analysis

Consultancy

Team Development

Roles.

Senior Management

Sales & Trading (cash & derivatives)

Research

Electronic & Program Trading

Quant

Systematic Trading

Market Making

QIS

Our Reach

Coverage.

Our Reach

Coverage.

Roles.

Senior Management

Sales & Trading (cash & derivatives)

Research

Electronic & Program Trading

Quant

Systematic Trading

Market Making

QIS

Global Reach.

London & EMEA

Americas

APAC

Services.

Full Search Methodology

Executive Search

Market Mapping

Competitor Analysis

Consultancy

Team Development

Our Track Record

Recent Completed Assignments.

Director, Asian Equity Sales.

European Investment Bank | London

Vice President, Pan European Sales Trader.

European Investment Bank | London

Head of Mid-Frequency Stat Arb.

Prop Trading Firm | London

Director, Head of EMEA EQS/QIS Structuring.

European Investment Bank | London

Director, Cross Asset Solutions Sales, Nordics & Italy.

US Investment Bank & European Investment Bank | London & Milan

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Managing Director, Global Head of Execution Services.

Global Investment Bank | London

Managing Director, Head of EMEA Cash Equity Trading.

Global Investment Bank | London

Managing Director, Luxury Goods Research Analyst.

US Investment Bank | London

Managing Director, Utilities Research Analyst.

US Investment Bank | London

Long/Short Equity Healthcare Portfolio Manager.

Global Multi Strat Fund | London

Vice President, Electronic Sales Trader.

US Investment Bank | London

Senior APAC Execution Researcher.

Global Hedge Fund | Singapore

Director, Head of APAC Algorithmic Quant Research.

US Investment Bank | Hong Kong

Director, Algorithmic Quant Research.

US Investment Bank | London & New York

Our People

Practice Team.

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Marcus joined The Omerta Group in 2021 and leads EMEA...

Marcus Newman

Partner

Vithiya oversees the APAC Liquid Markets practice in Hong Kong....

Vithiya Vairon

Partner

Jack joined The Omerta Group in 2022 working in the...

Jack Stevenson

Senior Associate

Katherine joined the Omerta Group in 2024 as an Associate...

Katherine Bond-Webster

Associate

Marcus Newman

Position: Partner
Email: marcus.newman@omerta-group.com
Categories: Equities, TOG
Location: London

Marcus joined The Omerta Group in 2021 and leads EMEA Equities and electronic markets, based in London.
 
Prior to Omerta, Marcus spent six and a half years as Managing Director and Global Head of Electronic Markets at a global executive search firm, building out the cross asset electronic markets practice. Before this he was a Partner at a boutique markets search firm in a similar capacity.
 
Marcus originally started his career at NASDAQ in exchange membership and market data services before moving to an electronically biased brokerage where he worked in electronic trading marketing equity execution services to the European buy side.
 
Marcus’s remit covers servicing the sell side, hedge funds, asset managers, proprietary trading companies, liquidity venues and trading platforms and he specialises in placing mid-level to senior individuals across these areas.

Vithiya Vairon

Position: Partner
Email: vithiya.vairon@omerta-group.com
Categories: Equities, Hedge Funds, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

Vithiya oversees the APAC Liquid Markets practice in Hong Kong.

Joining The Omerta Group in 2013, Vithiya has spent the past 10 years covering both buy and sell side clients and has successfully placed across portfolio management, trading, sales, analysts and quants for Asia.

Prior to The Omerta Group, Vithiya was part of the Scientific Department for the French Consulate where she was instrumental in bespoke institutional mandates predominantly for Hong Kong and China.​​​​​​​

Vithiya holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from Ecole Centrale Paris.

Jack Stevenson

Position: Senior Associate
Email: jack.stevenson@omerta-group.com
Categories: Equities, TOG
Jack Stevenson:

Jack joined The Omerta Group in 2022 working in the EMEA Equities and Electronic Trading team, based in London. As a Senior Associate, he focuses primarily on sourcing candidates in the Equity Derivatives space, servicing the sell side, hedge funds, asset managers, proprietary trading companies, liquidity venues and trading platforms.
 
Prior to joining The Omerta Group Jack was a PGA professional golfer for over 10 years.

Katherine Bond-Webster

Position: Associate
Email: katherine.bond-webster@omerta-group.com
Categories: Equities, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

Katherine joined the Omerta Group in 2024 as an Associate based in Hong Kong focusing on the Equities practice across APAC.
 
Prior to joining Omerta, she worked at a boutique HR recruitment firm specialising in placements across financial and legal firms.
 
She graduated from The British College of Osteopathic Medicine with a Masters in Osteopathy.