Team.

Adam joined The Omerta Group in 2021 having spent over...

Adam Hunter

Director

Alex joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Associate...

Alex Allen

Associate

AJ joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as a Senior...

Arjing Kuo

Senior Associate

Bradley leads The Omerta Group’s Asia Pacific business and is...

Bradley Garland

Managing Director, Head of Asia

Capucine joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Associate,...

Capucine Santambrogio

Associate

Charlie is a Vice President in The Omerta Group’s Global...

Charlie Medhurst

Vice President

Chris is a Managing Director at The Omerta Group and...

Chris Harrison

Managing Director

Dan joined The Omerta Group in 2019 and leads the...

Daniel Rosado

Vice President

Edward joined The Omerta Group in 2021, supporting the Global...

Edward Guariglia

Senior Associate

Edward joined The Omerta Group Hong Kong office in 2020...

Edward Nethersole

Director

Eliza is a Vice President within The Omerta Group’s Global...

Eliza Wake

Vice President

Franky is a member of The Omerta Group’s Global Banking...

Franky Gordon-Saker

Director

Gabriella joined the Omerta group in 2022, supporting the Quant...

Gabriella Willingham

Associate

Graham leads the Global Hedge Fund practice for The Omerta...

Graham Smith

Managing Director

Guy is a member of The Omerta Group’s Global Banking...

Guy Blench

Director

Hannah joined The Omerta Group in 2023 as an Associate...

Hannah Cameron

Associate

Henry is a senior member of the Alternative Investing team...

Henry Grafton-Grattan

Managing Director

Jack Colquhoun

Associate

Jack joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as a Vice...

Jack Fuller

Vice President

Jack joined The Omerta Group in 2022 as an associate...

Jack Stevenson

Associate

Jamal joined The Omerta Group in 2022 as a Director...

Jamal Henry

Director

Jamie joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as Head of...

Jamie Souter

Director

Jason is the CEO of The Omerta Group, responsible for...

Jason Mort

CEO

Jayden joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Associate...

Jayden Fitzgibbon

Associate

Jeanne-Mari joined The Omerta Group in 2016 and leads HR...

Jeanne-Mari Gericke

Head of HR

Head of Global Systematic Markets & Digital Assets Practice. Global...

Jim Brownwood

Managing Director

Jon, based in the New York office, is part of...

Jon Friedman

Managing Director

Lisa joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Senior...

Lisa Sicsic

Senior Associate

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

Marcus Newman

Director

Matthew joined The Omerta Group in 2022 as an Associate...

Matthew Morton

Associate

Michael is Head of Americas, leading The Omerta Group’s regional...

Michael Stover

Managing Director, Head of the Americas

Mike is Managing Partner of the firm and personally responsible...

Mike Hindley

Head of Global Markets

Nathan joined The Omerta Group as Chief Operating Officer in...

Nathan John

COO

Oscar is Co Head of the EMEA Liquid Markets Practice...

Oscar Willett

Managing Director

Otto is a Vice President in The Omerta Group’s Global...

Otto Linder

Vice President

Peter focuses purely on L/S Equity professionals within hedge funds,...

Peter Wickham

Senior Associate

Pranav joined the Omerta Group in 2022 as an Associate...

Pranav Khemlani

Associate

Ruvhen joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as a Senior...

Ruvhen Chinaire

Senior Associate

Sannah is an Associate at The Omerta Group, based in...

Sannah Bajaj

Associate

Sarah joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as Vice President...

Sarah Dudney

Vice President

Shirley is an Associate at The Omerta Group, based in...

Shirley Ko

Associate

Taylor joined The Omerta Group at the beginning of 2022...

Taylor Watson

Senior Associate

Tilly joined The Omerta Group in 2020. Based in London,...

Tilly Burles

Vice President

Trystan is a Consultant working within our Global Systematic Markets​​​​​​​...

Trystan Davies-Tommason

Vice President

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

Vithiya Vairon

Director

Adam Hunter

Position: Director
Email: adam.hunter@omerta-group.com
Categories: Corporate Functions, Digital Assets, Systematic Markets, Technology, TOG
Location: London

Adam joined The Omerta Group in 2021 having spent over 10 years’ covering senior technology mandates across Investment Banking, Asset Management and Systematic Markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

He has a track record of delivering for clients across the Technology C-Suite, traditionally including CTO & CIO. In line with the rise of new senior disciplines within Technology, Adam has recently covered searches across Financial Services clients for CISO, CDO (Data) and CPO (Product) roles. ​

Adam graduated from Leeds University and has spent time working across Asia as well as New York.

Alex Allen

Position: Associate
Email: alex.allen@omerta-group.com
Categories: Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, TOG
Location: London

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. His focus includes IR & FX trading and sales mandates, working closely with the hedge fund team.
 
Alex joined after graduating from the University of Warwick with a BA (Hons) in History.

Arjing Kuo

Position: Senior Associate
Email: arjing.kuo@omerta-group.com
Categories: Commodities, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

AJ joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as a Senior Associate in Hong Kong, working across Global Markets, Hedge Funds and Systematic Markets 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

Position: Managing Director, Head of Asia
Email: Bradley.Garland@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, Corporate Functions, Digital Assets, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

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.

Capucine Santambrogio

Position: Associate
Email: Capucine.Santambrogio@omerta-group.com
Categories: Investment Banking & Private Markets, TOG
Location: London

Capucine joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as an Associate, based in London. She is part of the Investment Banking and Private Markets Investing practice, supporting the Partners and Consultants on all aspects of search execution. Capucine specialises in Banking and Private Equity across the EMEA region.
 
Capucine read History and Italian at the University of Exeter. She speaks fluent French and Italian.

Charlie Medhurst

Position: Vice President
Email: chalie.medhurst@omerta-group.com
Categories: Hedge Funds, Liquid Markets
Location: New York

Charlie is a Vice President in The Omerta Group’s Global Hedge Fund team. He is experienced hiring Portfolio Managers, Analysts/ Strategists and Traders across Equities, Fixed Income and Credit globally.
 
He rejoined The Omerta Group in 2023 having originally joined the firm as an Associate in 2019. He spent two years with another Financial Services Executive Search firm building out a Hedge Fund focused Equities practice.
 
Charlie read Human Geography at The University of Exeter.

Chris Harrison

Position: Managing Director
Email: Chris.Harrison@omerta-group.com
Categories: Investment Banking & Private Markets, TOG
Location: London

Chris is a Managing Director at The Omerta Group and leads our Investment Banking and Private Markets Investing practice in the EMEA region. This includes leading our activities in advisory and financing across all equity, debt and derivative related businesses, as well as our Private Markets investing capabilities that include all private equity strategies, private credit, special situations, real estate and infrastructure.
 
Day-to-day Chris has two major areas of focus: advising our alternative investment management clients on global credit and private investing assignments. In this capacity, Chris has conducted numerous mid and senior level assignments placing predominantly investment professionals specialising in specialty and direct lending, NPL portfolios, servicing / origination platforms and asset investing across real estate and financial services.
 
In addition, Chris also advises our banking clients across all aspects of their financing and capital markets businesses including equity offerings, debt issuances, and derivative transactions. Particular areas of expertise include structured finance, leveraged finance and financial sponsor coverage, equity capital markets, structured equity and private capital markets.
 
With over 20 years’ experience of senior level recruiting, Chris’s extensive network and deep understanding of the competitive landscape in Europe has allowed him to complete complex assignments in competitive markets, while establishing the firm as an increasingly respected firm in the market.
 
Chris read Engineering and Business Studies at Warwick University.

Daniel Rosado

Position: Vice President
Email: Daniel.Rosado@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, Investment Banking & Private Markets, TOG
Location: New York

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 Guariglia

Position: Senior Associate
Email: edward.guariglia@omerta-group.com
Categories: TOG
Location: New York

Edward joined The Omerta Group in 2021, supporting the Global Markets, Investment Banking and Asset Management practice in New York City. He specializes in all levels of M&A advisory and investment roles across investment banking, asset management, hedge fund and private equity clients.
 
Prior to joining Omerta, Edward was an Associate Director with a nationwide search firm based in New York.  For nearly 10 years he partnered with banks, asset managers, insurance, real estate and fintech firms to support positions across investment/corporate banking, private equity, risk management, compliance, investor relations, sales, and all aspects of middle/back office operations.
 
Edward studied Finance at Seton Hall University

Edward Nethersole

Position: Director
Email: edward.nethersole@omerta-group.com
Categories: Commodities, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

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, Portfolio managers and Analysts, 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.

Eliza Wake

Position: Vice President
Email: Eliza.Wake@omerta-group.com
Categories: Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: London

Eliza is a Vice President within The Omerta Group’s Global Hedge Fund team focused on placing Portfolio Managers, Analysts/ Strategists and Traders at our numerous clients globally. She has worked with multi strat and single manager hedge funds across a range of strategies including L /S Equity, Event driven, Equity Vol, Fixed Income RV & Macro, Emerging Markets, FX and Commodities.
 
She joined The Omerta Group in 2018 initially with the Global Asset Management & Alternatives Team and was based in Hong Kong in 2020.
 
Eliza read Biological Sciences, specialising in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, at the University of Edinburgh and graduated with a First-Class degree.

Franky Gordon-Saker

Position: Director
Email: Franky.Gordon-Saker@omerta-group.com
Categories: Investment Banking & Private Markets, TOG
Location: London

Franky is a member of The Omerta Group’s Global Banking and Private Markets Investing practice in London, working with clients across the EMEA region.
 
She works closely with the firm’s clients across both Investment Banking and Investing. Franky’s experience in hiring for our banking clients includes Infrastructure & Structured Finance, Real Estate Finance, Private Capital Advisory and Infrastructure & Energy Investment Banking. For our investing clients, Franky has successfully completed a number of hires across Capital Raising, ESG, Infrastructure and Real Estate Investing (both equity and debt) and Credit Investing.
 
Since joining The Omerta Group in 2016, Franky has supported our clients on searches across Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, working on searches for both internationally recognised global firms, as well as European boutiques.
 
Franky is a strong advocate for making financial services a more diverse and inclusive industry and has advised many of our clients on addressing the lack of diversity within their teams. She is an active member of 100 Women in Finance, Level 20 and the Women’s Infrastructure Network.
 
Prior to joining The Omerta Group, Franky worked at a small London based search firm where she led their Infrastructure Finance practice, focusing predominantly within Infrastructure & Project Finance but also covering other related areas including Natural Resources, Aviation, Shipping and Trade Finance.
 
Franky read French and Russian at University College London.

Gabriella Willingham

Position: Associate
Categories: Asset Management, Digital Assets, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: New York

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.

Graham Smith

Position: Managing Director
Email: Graham.Smith@omerta-group.com
Categories: Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: London

Graham leads the Global Hedge Fund practice for The Omerta Group and is based in London. He has focused exclusively on Executive Search into Hedge Funds for over twenty years, partnering with numerous clients through their expansion in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
 
Graham has predominantly focused on placing Portfolio Managers, Investment Analysts, Strategists and Traders of all levels into his clients. He has also successfully completed numerous searches for COO’s and Business Managers, CRO’s and Risk roles at al levels, Quantitative analysts/strategists, and other senior support staff across a wide range of single manager and multi-strat Hedge Funds. He has successfully completed searches across all Hedge Fund strategies including: Equity Long/Short, Equity Event Driven, Quantitative/Systematic Strategies, Fixed Income Macro & Fixed Income Relative Value, FX Vol, Liquid and Illiquid Credit, Commodities, and Emerging Markets.
 
Graham re-joined Omerta in 2019 following eleven years jointly overseeing the Buy-side practice area of a Global boutique search firm. He began his career in London at a search boutique in 2000. He graduated with a BSc. In History and Politics.

Guy Blench

Position: Director
Email: Guy.Blench@omerta-group.com
Categories: Investment Banking & Private Markets, TOG
Location: London

Guy is a member of The Omerta Group’s Global Banking and Private Markets Investing practice in London, working with clients across the EMEA region.
 
He is responsible for The Omerta Group’s activities in Investment Grade Financing and Risk Management, and is also a key member of the Asset Management Practice where he leads all Insurance related assignments for insurance companies, private equity clients and asset management firms.
 
Guy joined The Omerta Group in 2010 and has over 20 years’ of experience in executive search. His specific expertise is in EMEA Debt Capital Markets where he focuses on Investment Grade Origination, Syndicate, Capital Structuring and the associated product groups, as well as Structured Finance. He has a deep specialism in Private Side Fixed Income and Equity Derivatives Marketing and Structured Solutions.
 
Guy is also a senior member of the Emerging Markets practice where he works closely with the firm’s other offices successfully completing searches in Illiquid Trading, Origination and Syndicate.
 
Prior to joining the firm, Guy ran the Fixed Income Sales and Structuring Practice at a prominent executive search firm for 6 years
 
Guy read Political Science & Philosophy at Birmingham University.

Hannah Cameron

Position: Associate
Email: hannah.cameron@omerta-group.com
Categories: Hedge Funds
Location: London
Hannah Cameron:

Hannah joined The Omerta Group in 2023 as an Associate within the Global Hedge Fund team and is based in our London Office. Her focus includes on Portfolio Managers, Analysts/Strategists and Traders globally.

Hannah previously worked at a recruitment firm for 2 years where she specialised in private wealth management.

Hannah read Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle, graduating graduating in 2021.

Henry Grafton-Grattan

Position: Managing Director
Email: Henry.gg@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: London

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.

Jack Colquhoun

Position: Associate
Email: jack.colquhoun@omerta-group.com
Categories: Digital Assets, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: New York

Jack Fuller

Position: Vice President
Email: Jack.Fuller@omerta-group.com
Categories: Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: London

Jack joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as a Vice President, sitting in the Global Systematic Markets practice based in London. Jack focuses on sourcing candidates in the Systematic space – Quantitative Traders, Quantitative Researchers, Developers & Hardware (FPGA) Engineers.
 
Jack joined The Omerta Group from a boutique executive search firm where he was responsible for servicing a global client base, made up of Proprietary Trading Firms and Hedge Funds.​​​​​​​
 
Prior to this, Jack helped build and grow a team who focused on Infrastructure & Software Development recruitment, bringing on a number of clients in the High Frequency Trading space.

Jack Stevenson

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

Jack joined The Omerta Group in 2022 as an associate on the EMEA Equities and Electronic Trading team, based in London. 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.

Jamal Henry

Position: Director
Email: jamal.henry@omerta-group.com
Categories: Corporate Functions, TOG
Location: London

Jamal joined The Omerta Group in 2022 as a Director in the Corporate Functions Team.
 
Jamal started in Executive Search in 2003 and has focused on the delivery of senior mandates such as Chief Compliance Officers, General Counsels and MLROs across a wide range of Financial Services companies, globally.
 
​​​​​​​Jamal studied languages at the MOD’s linguistics academy and is fluent in French and Spanish.

Jamie Souter

Position: Director
Email: jamie.souter@omerta-group.com
Categories: Corporate Functions, TOG
Location: London

Jamie joined The Omerta Group in 2020 as Head of Control, Corporate Functions practice, based in London.
 
He leads client relationships across Corporate Functions – COO, Risk, Audit & Compliance. Jamie joined from Korn Ferry where he hired at the C-Suite level. He has experience completing corporate functions searches across the UK, US, Continental Europe, Africa and Asia. He has over 18 years’ experience in Executive Search and he brings a track record of hiring a number of Director and Managing Director level individuals into COO, Risk, Audit and other Corporate Functions within financial services companies throughout his career.
 
Jamie grew up as an ex-pat across London, Geneva, Tokyo and Shanghai, He completed his undergraduate degree in the UK and spent five years of his early career working in Hong Kong.

Jason Mort

Position: CEO
Email: Jason.Mort@omerta-group.com
Categories: Digital Assets, TOG, TOG Management
Location: London

Jason is the CEO of The Omerta Group, responsible for key client relationships and overall management of the firm globally.
 
Jason also leads The Omerta Group’s Digital Assets Practice, concentrating the firm’s 20+ years of expertise in Global Markets across Cryptocurrency, Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
 
Through his two-decade career in Executive Search, Jason has built up a deep network across global financial services and has completed a considerable number of mandates across multiple jurisdictions for his clients, including significant team moves and creation of new revenue streams.
 
His clients include prominent Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Proprietary Trading Firms, Exchanges, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Asset Managers, Commodity Trading Houses and Family Offices.
 
Prior to his career in Executive Search, Jason worked in Investment Banking as a Fixed Income Trader.
 
Jason read Economics & Business Finance at Brunel University.

Jayden Fitzgibbon

Position: Associate
Email: jayden.fitzgibbon@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, TOG
Location: London

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.

Jeanne-Mari Gericke

Position: Head of HR
Email: Jeanne-Mari.Gericke@omerta-group.com
Categories: Operations, TOG
Location: London

Jeanne-Mari joined The Omerta Group in 2016 and leads HR and Operations for our global business. This includes all Internal Talent/HR Management, Hiring (Intern, Graduate and Associate) and Operations Management.

Jim Brownwood

Position: Managing Director
Email: Jim.Brownwood@omerta-group.com
Categories: Digital Assets, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: London

Head of Global Systematic Markets & Digital Assets Practice. Global Co-Head of Liquid Markets.
 
Jim specialises in placing senior PMs and quant traders into the firm’s retained buyside clients.
 
He is the Head of the Global Systematic Markets practice (GSM) which he founded in 2016 following 12 years in trading executive search. GSM focusses on discreet and precise executive search across a range of quantitative and technical fields with a core focus on high frequency and mid frequency quantitative portfolio managers, traders, quantitative strategists, and quantitative developers. This is across traditional markets such as equities, futures, options, and bonds, as well as centralised cryptocurrency cash and derivatives trading and decentralised finance.
 
Jim also co-runs the firms Liquid Market Practice which is responsible for the TOG’s front office hiring for both quantitative and discretionary sales and trading. He is also a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Jon Friedman

Position: Managing Director
Email: Jon.Friedman@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, Commodities, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, Investment Banking & Private Markets, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: New York

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.

Lisa Sicsic

Position: Senior Associate
Email: lisa.sicsic@omerta-group.com
Categories: Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, TOG
Location: London

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.

Marcus Newman

Position: Director
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.

Matthew Morton

Position: Associate
Email: matthew.morton@omerta-group.com
Categories: Corporate Functions, TOG
Location: London
Matthew Morton:

Matthew joined The Omerta Group in 2022 as an Associate in the Corporate Functions Team.
 
​​​​​​​Prior to joining The Omerta Group, Matthew studied for his Masters degree in Contemporary History at the University of Birmingham

Michael Stover

Position: Managing Director, Head of the Americas
Email: Michael.Stover@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, Corporate Functions, Digital Assets, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, Investment Banking & Private Markets, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: New York

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

Position: Head of Global Markets
Email: Mike.Hindley@omerta-group.com
Categories: Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, TOG, TOG Management
Location: London

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.

Nathan John

Position: COO
Email: Nathan.John@omerta-group.com
Categories: Operations, TOG, TOG Management
Location: London

Nathan joined The Omerta Group as Chief Operating Officer in 2018. He was previously an Executive Director in Human Resources at UBS Investment Bank, responsible for leading executive recruitment across EMEA and the global recruitment business partner for Corporate Client Solutions (IBD).
 
Along with these positions, Nathan was responsible for global executive search Firm management and was the global lead for diversity and inclusion and member of the EMEA Investment Bank Diversity Council.
 
Nathan has an extensive background in recruitment, having operated in over 25 countries within the Investment Banking, Wealth and Asset Management divisions of UBS, BAML, Barclays and Russell Investments.
 
Prior to moving in-house to Merrill Lynch in 2006, Nathan worked for a boutique executive search firm, specialising in Private Banking.

Oscar Willett

Position: Managing Director
Email: oscar.willett@omerta-group.com
Categories: Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, TOG
Location: London

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.

Otto Linder

Position: Vice President
Email: Otto.Linder@omerta-group.com
Categories: Hedge Funds, Liquid Markets
Location: London
Otto Linder:

Otto is a Vice President in The Omerta Group’s Global Hedge Fund team focused on placing Portfolio Managers, Analysts/Strategists and Traders at our numerous clients globally. He focuses on placing Fixed Income PMs across both developed and emerging markets across numerous different strategies.
 
He joined The Omerta Group from a global executive search firm where he focused on FIC macro traders and sales placements to predominantly sell-side clients.

Peter Wickham

Position: Senior Associate
Email: Peter.Wickham@omerta-group.com
Categories: Hedge Funds, Liquid Markets
Location: London
Peter Wickham:

Peter focuses purely on L/S Equity professionals within hedge funds, placing Analysts, Portfolio Managers and Traders. He joined Omerta in 2023 following a year and a half focusing on front office professionals within fixed income and four years at Credit Suisse within the Portfolio Management team.
 
Peter holds a Level 4 CISI Certificate in Investment Management and CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.

Pranav Khemlani

Position: Associate
Email: pranav.khemlani@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

Pranav joined the Omerta Group in 2022 as an Associate based in Hong Kong. He works across Asset Management and Private Markets with a specialisation across regional Sales & Distribution, Investor relations and Product Strategists / Client Portfolio Managers in Asia.
 
Prior to joining Omerta, Pranav was with an executive network firm focused on connecting industry professionals with consulting and investment clients.
 
Pranav read English at the University of London.

Ruvhen Chinaire

Position: Senior Associate
Email: ruvhen.chinaire@omerta-group.com
Categories: Equities, Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: New York

Ruvhen joined The Omerta Group in 2021 as a Senior Associate covering Equities markets for both Buy and Sell-side institutions within EMEA, Asia and the US. Focusing across all levels of seniority, Ruvhen has a wealth of experience hiring Portfolio Managers, Traders, Analysts and Sales people.

He joined the firm having had three years prior experience working within a financial services executive search firm, specialising in Equities into Investment Banks.

Ruvhen read International Finance & Accounting at Coventry University and also sat for the Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst Certification awarded by the Corporate Finance Institute.

Sannah Bajaj

Position: Associate
Email: sannah.bajaj@omerta-group.com
Categories: Equities, Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

Sannah is an Associate at The Omerta Group, based in Hong Kong, having recently joined in 2021. She focuses on the Asian Equity market across both the Buy-side and Sell-side.
 
Prior to joining Omerta, Sannah was with Randstad focusing on back-office contracting roles.
 
Sannah read Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.

Sarah Dudney

Position: Vice President
Email: sarah.dudney@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, TOG
Location: London

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.

Shirley Ko

Position: Associate
Email: shirley.ko@omerta-group.com
Categories: Asset Management, Fixed Income & Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, TOG
Location: Hong Kong

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.

Taylor Watson

Position: Senior Associate
Email: taylor.watson@omerta-group.com
Categories: Digital Assets, Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: London

Taylor joined The Omerta Group at the beginning of 2022 and works as a Senior Associate sitting in the Global Systematic Markets Practice based in London.

Prior to The Omerta Group, he worked at a Global contingent firm where he was responsible for servicing a global client base, focusing on those in the Digital Assets Markets.

Taylor read Industrial Economics and Insurance at the University of Nottingham.

Tilly Burles

Position: Vice President
Email: Matilda.burles@omerta-group.com
Categories: Investment Banking & Private Markets, TOG
Location: London

Tilly joined The Omerta Group in 2020. Based in London, She is a Vice President working as part of the Investment Banking and Private Markets Investing practice, supporting our Managing Directors and Directors on all aspects of search execution. Tilly specialises in Financing, Credit Investing and Real Assets across the EMEA region.
 
Prior to joining The Omerta Group Tilly was an Associate at a boutique executive search firm where she was part of the Fixed Income practice. She predominantly focussed on Credit (Trading, Sales and Research).
 
Tilly graduated from Oxford Media & Business School with Distinction Honours.

Trystan Davies-Tommason

Position: Vice President
Email: Trystan.DT@omerta-group.com
Categories: Systematic Markets, TOG
Location: London

Trystan is a Consultant working within our Global Systematic Markets​​​​​​​ practice, based in London.
 
Trystan joined The Omerta Group from a financial technology recruitment firm, where he led research within their software engineering practice. He has over 4 years’ experience supporting his clients, specialising in sourcing Quantitative Developers responsible for building trading systems across the buy and sell-side.
 
Trystan read Law at the University of the West England.

Vithiya Vairon

Position: Director
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.

 
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