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Graham Smith

Senior Partner
· London

Areas of specialism

  • Macro
  • Credit
In The Omerta Group since 2019 · 7 years

About Graham

Graham leads The Omerta Group’s Global Hedge Fund practice and is based in London. He has more than 25 years’ experience in executive search and has advised and recruited for many of the world’s largest multi-manager platforms alongside leading single-manager hedge funds across Europe, the US and Asia.

His work is predominantly focused on Portfolio Managers and senior investment professionals, including the build-out of investment teams across both established platforms and specialist funds. His experience spans the full spectrum of hedge fund investment strategies, with particular depth across global macro, rates and fixed income relative value, equities, credit, commodities and systematic strategies.

Graham has also completed numerous C-suite searches for hedge funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, proprietary trading firms and family offices.

Graham re-joined The Omerta Group in 2019, having previously spent eleven years leading the Buy-Side practice of a global boutique executive search firm. He holds a BSc in History and Politics.

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Representative work

Representative assignments

Emerging Markets Macro team build

Multi-strategy hedge fund

London

Portfolio Manager team

Long Short Equity TMT

New York

Chief Risk Officer

Multi Strategy Hedge Fund

London

COO

Macro Hedge Fund

London

Background

Credentials

Education and experience

Oxford Brookes University
BA History and Politics
The Omerta Group
2019 - Present

Based in

TOG London

10 Noble Street
London, EC2V 7JX

Consultants here19

CoverageEMEA

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Where Graham works

Practices

Portfolio managers, analysts, strategists and traders, and the COO, CRO and business management mandates that keep a platform running.

Quantitative researchers, traders, portfolio managers and developers across high and mid-frequency strategies.

Sales, trading, structuring, capital raising and research across every major asset class.

Leadership, portfolio managers, research, distribution and risk across traditional managers and alternatives.

Managing directors and product heads across M&A, ECM, DCM, leveraged finance and restructuring.

Managing directors and product heads across M&A, ECM, DCM, leveraged finance and restructuring.

Chair, non-executive director, CEO and executive committee searches across financial services.

COO, CFO, CRO, general counsel, audit and compliance leadership at partner and managing director level.

CAIO, CTO, CIO, CDO and head-of-engineering mandates, and the executives building the AI and data infrastructure behind them.

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