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Chris Walsh

Vice President
· London

Areas of specialism

  • Commodities
  • Macro
  • Systematic Markets
In The Omerta Group since 2025 · 1 year

About Chris

Chris is a Vice President at The Omerta Group, based in London, specialising in executive search across global commodities and macro trading markets. With over 10 years of executive search experience, he has partnered with leading hedge funds, commodity trading houses, investment banks and family offices across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.

Chris predominantly focuses on the appointment of Portfolio Managers, Traders, Quantitative Researchers and Strategists across both discretionary and systematic trading strategies. His expertise covers Oil and Refined Products, Natural Gas, Power, Metals and Agriculture, with particular depth in European Energy markets. He also brings broader experience across Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange.

Chris joined The Omerta Group in June 2025, having previously led the Commodities practice at a boutique executive search firm in London, focused on hedge fund trading appointments. He began his executive search career in 2012 and has lived and worked across London, Paris and Dubai, developing an extensive international network across the global trading community

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Representative work

Representative assignments

Quantitative Portfolio Manager – Commodities

Quantitative Hedge Fund

London

Metals Portfolio Manager

Hedge Fund

Europe

Natural Gas Trader

Commodity Trading House

Asia

Power Analyst

Hedge Fund

United States

Background

Credentials

Education and experience

Options Group
Vice President, 2014 - 2019
Execuzen
Head of Commodities, 2023 - 2025

Based in

TOG London

10 Noble Street
London, EC2V 7JX

Consultants here19

CoverageEMEA

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Where Chris 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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