About Us
Global Asset Management Practice.
The Omerta Group’s Asset Management Practice works in close partnership with our clients to help them hire the leaders and contributors across investment, distribution and operations.
With team members based in London, New York and Hong Kong, we execute assignments globally and provide our clients with the strategic and tactical insights into the human capital trends that may impact them.
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We are fully integrated globally and functionally with specialist Hedge Fund, Private Markets, Systematic and Capital Markets Practices to advise both asset managers and asset owners with their core and emerging needs, including ESG and D&I.
Investments.
CIO | Portfolio Managers | Analysts | Quantitative & Data | Active & Passive
Sales & Distribution.
Institutional & Wholesale | Consultant Relations | Marketing & Digital | Corporate Communications | Product Development | Client Service
Solutions.
ALM/LDI | Quantitative Analysis | Product Specialist | Fiduciary/OCIO | Insurance
Private Markets.
Private Equity | Private Debt | Real Assets | Infrastructure
Hedge Funds.
Equities | Credit | Macro | Commodities Systematic & Quantitative
Corporate Functions.
COO | CRO | CTO | CCO | CFO | GC | Risk | Treasury | Technology
Our Reach
Coverage.
Our Track Record
Recent Completed Assignments.
Managing Director, Head of International Retail.
Global Asset Manager | London
Executive Vice President, Head of Singapore & South-East Asia.
US Asset Manager | Singapore
Head of ESG & Sustainable Investing.
Global Asset Manager | London
Head of US Asset Management.
UK Insurance Company | New York
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Head of Passive Equity Investing.
Sovereign Wealth Fund | Middle East
Associate Director, UK Institutional Sales.
UK Asset Manager | London
Senior Vice President, China Economist.
US Asset Manager | Hong Kong
High Yield Credit Analyst, Healthcare.
Credit Boutique | New York
Distressed Debt Team.
European Asset Manager | London
Head of Corporate Communications.
Sustainable Investment Manager | Amsterdam
Our People
Practice Team.
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Henry Grafton-Grattan
Managing Director
Jon Friedman
Managing Director
Bradley Garland
Managing Director, Head of Asia
Sarah Dudney
Vice President
Michael Stover
Managing Director, Head of the Americas
Daniel Rosado
Vice President
Shirley Ko
Associate
Jayden Fitzgibbon
Associate
Gabriella Willingham
Associate
Henry Grafton-Grattan
Henry is a senior member of the Alternative Investing team and is responsible for The Omerta Group’s Asset Management Practice, based in London.
Henry works with candidates and clients across the US, Europe and Asia and specialises in hiring front line professionals across investment and distribution functions at the mid and senior level. He works with small start-up funds through to established institutional investment management platforms and sovereign wealth funds, conducting searches across all asset classes.
Henry read American Studies at Manchester University and The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He is a trustee of I CAN, the children’s communication charity.
Jon Friedman
Jon, based in the New York office, is part of the firm’s Global Asset Management leadership team, focused on identifying, assessing and hiring senior talent across both, traditional and alternative asset managers. His core expertise stretches across senior leaders, portfolio managers, research analysts, sales & distribution, IR, quantitative professionals and risk managers.
Jon has established and managed relationships with buy side firms for over 20 years, including extensive experience with fundamental credit and equities; event-driven, special situations and distressed; emerging markets; structured corporate and mortgage credit; macro; and quantitative strategies. Jon has also run and executed numerous sell side searches, primarily in corresponding asset classes/markets.
In addition to establishing and building the asset management practice at two previous search firms he worked with, Jon has been part of the senior leadership teams, helping to set and execute firm and/or team strategy, including hiring, training and managing team members.
Prior to search Jon traded derivatives. He studied finance and Asia at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bradley Garland
Bradley leads The Omerta Group’s Asia Pacific business and is a senior member of the Asset Management and Global Markets practices.
Bradley joined The Omerta Group in 2016 and has over 18 years’ of experience in executive search, across Europe and Asia. He has made senior level placements with both buy side and sell side across; sales and distribution, investment and research, trading, structuring, origination and financing.
Previously, he was a founding member of an Asian focused, boutique search firm specialised in Fixed Income, Currencies and Financing. Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2008, Bradley worked in London for a prominent executive search firm leading the Structured Finance Practice.
Bradley read Equine Science at the University of the West of England.
Sarah Dudney
Sarah joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as Vice President in the Asset Management team, based in London.
Sarah’s primary focus is winning and executing Managing Director and Director level projects within the distribution and marketing functions of well known global investment brands across Europe, Middle East and Asia. She has worked across fixed income and equity as well as in frontier and emerging markets. She also has a strong track record developing clients in major UK pension funds and with UK investment consultants.
A secondary focus has been winning and executing technically focused senior searches in ALM, insurance asset management. She is well versed in specialist areas such as real assets with a focus on infrastructure, both debt and equity.
Sarah read Italian at the University of Edinburgh. She is fluent in French and Italian with a good knowledge of Spanish and German.
Michael Stover
Michael is Head of Americas, leading The Omerta Group’s regional client relationships, strategic development and senior search mandates across Global Markets, Global Systematic Markets, Investment Banking and Asset Management, based in New York.
Michael has had significant global front-office recruiting experience, with his career spanning 20 years working at a strategic level as a talent acquisition leader in the U.S., EMEA and Asia markets. His coverage has included; Global Securities (Equities, Fixed Income & Research), Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Asset Management, International Banking, Transaction Banking, Wealth Management and Shared Services senior recruitment.
Prior to joining Omerta, Michael was a Managing Director at a boutique executive search firm focused on the global financial services industry, where he was responsible for the origination of new business development and execution of searches across global markets and asset management.
Michael’s career has also included senior talent acquisition roles at Citadel, UBS, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank and Wachovia/Wells Fargo.
Daniel Rosado
Dan joined The Omerta Group in 2019 and leads the Research function, where he supports all firm practice teams for the U.S. operations. He also actively recruits for searches where additional resources are needed. Dan is based in New York.
Prior to joining The Omerta Group, Dan held senior Research positions with a number of global retained search firms, where he most recently served as the Head of Research for the Americas at a major global executive search firm.
Throughout his career, Dan has developed expertise around several areas within Financial Services including Fixed Income, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Fin Tech, Cash Management/Transaction Banking, and Risk Management, among others. Beyond Financial Services, Dan also has a successful track record and extensive exposure to search assignments for clients in the Payments, Software, Networking, AI and Real Estate spaces.
Dan attended Pennsylvania State University for his undergraduate degree.
Shirley Ko
Shirley is an Associate at The Omerta Group, based in Hong Kong, having joined in 2020. She works across Asset Management, Private Markets and Global Markets with focus on Credit in Asia.
Prior to joining Omerta, Shirley was with a Global executive search firm in Hong Kong, focusing on Fixed Income in Trading/Sales/Research/Structuring for both sell-side and buy-side.
Shirley read Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Jayden Fitzgibbon
Jayden joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Associate within the Asset Management Team in London.
Jayden will be supporting the team in searches across the US. Europe and Asia, including searches in investment and distribution including coverage of environmental and sustainable investment roles.
He Joined as a graduate from the University of London where he read History achieving a 1st Class Honours degree.
Gabriella Willingham
Gabriella joined the Omerta group in 2022, supporting the Quant and Investment professional team across Global Systematic Markets, Asset Management and Global Markets landscape.
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Prior to joining, Gabriella worked as an Associate with a boutique search firm based in New Jersey. She partners with quantitative funds, proprietary trading firms and tech start-ups across their algorithm development and technology roles.
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Gabriella graduated summa cum laude in Economics from Middlebury College.