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Jim Brownwood

Senior Partner
· London

Areas of specialism

  • Quant Research Leads
  • Quant Portfolio Managers
  • Heads of Business
  • C-Suite
In The Omerta Group since 2016 · 10 years

About Jim

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.

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Representative work

Representative assignments

Head of Artificial Intelligence Research

Quant Hedge Fund

London

Head of High Frequency Trading

Principal Trading Firm

London

Head of Equity Statistical Arbitrage Portfolio Management

Hedge Fund

London

Head of Quant Futures Intraday Research

Quant Hedge Fund

London

Background

Credentials

Education and experience

Judd Boys School
Tonbridge, Kent
The Omerta Group
2011 – Present

Recognition

Crypto trading conferences
Regular speaker

Based in

TOG London

10 Noble Street
London, EC2V 7JX

Consultants here19

CoverageEMEA

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Colleagues

Mike Hindley

Mike Hindley

Mike Hindley is Founder and Managing Partner of The Omerta Group and serves as Global Head of Financial Services at Kingsley Gate Partners.  With more than 25 years of experience in executive search, he advises leading financial institutions across Global Markets,...

Senior Partner

Where Jim 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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