About Us
Global Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange Practice.
The Omerta Group’s Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Practice is the original foundation upon which the firm was built, with a proven track record of partnering with a diverse range of clients.
The group offers global coverage with product specialists consulting from our offices across New York, London and Hong Kong.
Clients.
Global & Regional Investment Banks | Hedge Funds | Brokerages | Trading Platforms | Advisory Boutiques | Insurance Companies
Roles.
Investing | Portfolio Management | Trading | Sales | Structuring | Financing & Research
Sectors.
Credit | Interest Rates | Foreign Exchange – Developed & Emerging Markets
Regions.
North & Latin America | UK & Continental Europe | Middle East & Africa | Asia ex Japan.
Our Reach
Coverage.
Our Track Record
Recent Completed Assignments.
German Credit Sales.
US Investment Bank | Frankfurt
FX Hedge Fund Sales.
Asian Investment Bank | New York
EMEA Head of STIRT Trading.
European Investment Bank | London
Head of Distressed Debt Analysis.
US Investment Bank | London
Read More
Chief Credit Officer.
Global Insurance Firm | London
Credit Trader.
Systematic Market Maker | Amsterdam
European Head of Credit Structuring.
European Investment Bank | London
Relative Value Trader.
Global Hedge Fund | London
Global Head of Interest Rate Trading.
Asian Investment Bank | Singapore
Head of Illiquid Credit/Hard Asset Trading.
Asian Investment Bank | London
Our People
Practice Team.
TOP
Alex Allen
Associate
Arjing Kuo
Senior Associate
Bradley Garland
Managing Director, Head of Asia
Daniel Rosado
Vice President
Edward Nethersole
Director
Jon Friedman
Managing Director
Lenia Kossifos
Associate
Lisa Sicsic
Senior Associate
Michael Stover
Managing Director, Head of the Americas
Mike Hindley
Head of Global Markets
Oscar Willett
Managing Director
Shirley Ko
Associate
Victoria Noya-Vargas
Associate
Alex Allen
Alex joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Associate within the Global Markets team, covering both Fixed income and Foreign Exchange and is based in our London Office.
Alex joined after graduating from the University of Warwick with a BA (with Honours) in History.
Arjing Kuo
AJ joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as a Senior Associate in Hong Kong, working across Global Markets practice focusing on Greater China Sales and Macro Trading space in Asia.
Prior to joining Omerta, AJ was a consultant at The Laurus Group executive search and started his career being a Senior Consultant at Selby Jennings search firm covering FX, Rates Sales and Trading practice for their Sales and Trading team.
AJ studied Business Communications and Management at Ohio University, USA.
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, with a specific specialisation in Asset Backed Securitisation, Whole Business Securitisation, ABS Research and Real Estate Financing, CMBS and Subprime Lending.
Bradley read Equine Science at the University of the West of England.
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.
Edward Nethersole
Edward joined The Omerta Group Hong Kong office in 2020 as a Director focusing on mid to senior level Fixed Income Sales & Trading hires for Global Markets and Hedge Funds in APAC. Specialisms are FX and Rates Trading, Macro Sales and Corporate Sales.
He started his search career in 2014 in London working across the buy and sell side before moving to Asia in 2018 to cover Fixed Income Sales for a Global Markets search firm.
Edward read Sociology at the University of Leeds.
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.
Lenia Kossifos
Lenia joined The Omerta Group in 2023 as an Associate within the Global Markets team, covering both Fixed income and Foreign Exchange and is based in our London Office.
Prior to joining Omerta, Lenia spent two years as a generalist working on mandates in the Energy and Metal & Mining industries at a commodity-specific recruitment agency.
Lisa Sicsic
Lisa joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Senior Associate within the Global Markets team, covering both Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange and is based in our London office.
Prior to joining The Omerta Group Lisa was an Associate at an Expert Network search firm where she focused on Private Equity Clients across EMEA.
She holds a double Master’s Degree in International business Administration and Fashion, Luxury Management from Grenoble Ecole de Management.
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.
Mike Hindley
Mike is Managing Partner of the firm and personally responsible for the Capital Markets business at The Omerta Group.
He has been in Executive Search since 1999 and has both an extensive track record and client network across the investment bank, hedge fund, brokerage, family office and independent exchange sectors.
With oversight for Fixed Income, Equities, Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets, he has an extensive placement track record across a wide variety of sectors including sales, trading, structuring, capital raising, research & analytics.
Prior to establishing The Omerta Group in 2002, Mike worked at two leading European Executive Search firms.
Mike read Geography at Northumbria.
Oscar Willett
Oscar is Co Head of the EMEA Liquid Markets Practice based in London. This includes oversight of the public side business for sales, trading, structuring and research across credit, interest rates and FX. Their focus encompasses flow and structured products for both developed and growth markets.
Functionally Oscar focuses on covering European Cross Sales product and Interest Rate and FX Trading, working closely with the hedge fund team. Oscar has worked exclusively within the fixed income sector since 2009.
Historically, he has conducted a broad number of searches within the senior and mid-level European Financial Services sector.
Oscar joined The Omerta Group in 2009 having previously worked at two leading executive search firms as a generalist researcher with more of a focus on Fixed Income assignments.
Oscar read Economics & Economic History at York University.
Shirley Ko
Shirley is an Associate at The Omerta Group, based in Hong Kong, having joined in 2020. She works across Asset Management and Global Markets with focus on Fixed Income and Macro spaces 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.
Victoria Noya-Vargas
Victoria joined The Omerta Group in 2023 as an Associate within the Global Markets team, focusing on FX and Interest Rates.
Previously Victoria worked in procurement technology and NGOs.Victoria holds a BA in International Development from King’s College and an MSc in Sociology and Global Change from University of Edinburgh.