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Jon Friedman

Senior Partner
· New York

Areas of specialism

  • Credit
  • Macro
  • Private markets
In The Omerta Group since 2018 · 8 years

About Jon

Jon, based in the New York office, is part of the firm’s regional and global leadership team. He works with a number of growing FinTech, digital assets, broker dealer, private markets, hedge fund, asset management and non-bank market maker clients. His core expertise stretches across senior leaders, business line heads and individual contributors, including portfolio managers, research analysts, sales & distribution, IR, quantitative professionals and risk managers.

Jon has established and managed relationships with tech driven, sell and buy side firms for over 20 years, including extensive experience with real estate; equities and credit; special situations and distressed; structured corporate and mortgage credit; macro; and quantitative strategies. Jon also runs and executes numerous sell side searches, primarily in corresponding asset classes/markets.

In addition to establishing and building the alternative and traditional 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.

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Representative work

Representative assignments

Chief Executive Officer

Tech-enabled broker dealer

New York

Chief Executive Officer

Digital assets company

New York

Head of Prime Brokerage

Broker dealer

New York

Head, NE Origination, PE Real Estate

Private markets firm

New York

Background

Credentials

Education and experience

University of Pennsylvania
BA, MA
DS Wolf
MD, COO and Head of Alternative and Traditional Asset Management
The Omerta Group
2018 - Present

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New York, NY 10170

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Where Jon 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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