Our expertise
Nine practices, one financial services bench
We cover financial services and nothing else. Each practice is led by a consultant who has spent years inside the market it serves — so a brief is understood before it is taken, not after.
How we are organised
By sector and by function — because that is how these hires happen
A hedge fund hiring a portfolio manager and a bank hiring a chief risk officer are not the same search, and pretending otherwise is how generalist firms miss. Our sector practices follow the market a person works in; our function practices follow the seat they hold. Most mandates sit in one, some in both, and where they overlap the two consultants run it together rather than passing it along.
Every practice draws on the same bench across London, New York and Hong Kong, and on Kingsley Gate’s platform beyond them — which is what makes a cross-border search a single process rather than three.
By sector
The markets we cover
Hedge fundsPortfolio managers, analysts, strategists and traders across L/S equity, event-driven, macro, fixed income relative value, FX volatility, systematic, credit, commodities and emerging markets — plus the COO, CRO and business management mandates that keep a platform running.View practice
Systematic marketsQuantitative researchers, traders, portfolio managers and developers across high and mid-frequency strategies. Traditional markets through to centralised crypto derivatives and decentralised finance.View practice
Global marketsSales, trading, structuring, capital raising and research across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, credit, commodities and digital assets — sell-side, buy-side, proprietary trading firms and non-bank market makers.View practice
Asset management & capital formationSenior leadership, portfolio managers, research analysts, distribution, investor relations and risk across traditional managers, alternatives and private markets. Public and private, active, passive and systematic.View practice
Investment banking & capital marketsManaging directors and product heads across M&A, ECM, DCM, leveraged finance, restructuring, sponsors coverage and structured finance — and the investing side, from credit funds to infrastructure and real assets.View practice
(Re)insuranceInsurance, reinsurance and MGA mandates across Lloyd’s of London, captive, offshore and the broader specialty market — from chief executives and business producers to underwriting, actuarial, CAT modelling and parametric.View practiceBy function
The seats we fill
Board & CEOChair, non-executive director, CEO and executive committee searches across banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, exchanges and family offices. Delivered with Kingsley Gate’s global Board & CEO practice.View practice
Corporate functionsCOO, CFO, CRO, general counsel, audit and compliance leadership at partner and managing director level, across the UK, US, Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.View practice
Technology, data, product & AICAIO, CTO, CIO, CDO and head-of-engineering mandates, quantitative developers and the executives building the AI and data infrastructure now reshaping every financial services function.View practiceHow we work