Trading & Quantitative Finance
Trading, market making, systematic portfolios, quantitative research, trading technology, and energy and commodities.
View practice →Three focused executive search practices. Each requires a different understanding of performance, technology, markets, and leadership.
Trading, market making, systematic portfolios, quantitative research, trading technology, and energy and commodities.
View practice →Portfolio and investment leadership, hedge funds, family offices, private markets, banking, and capital markets.
View practice →Engineering and technology leadership, trading systems, applied AI, machine learning, data, and infrastructure.
View practice →The best candidates are defined by what they have actually done, not the name of their previous position. Our assessments follow the economics and technical realities of each mandate.
Evaluate attributable trading results, risk and capital requirements, strategy portability, restrictions and whether the candidate can operate on the hiring firm's platform.
Explore trading search evidenceExamine capital responsibility, portfolio construction, investment judgment, decision authority and the distinction between an individual's contribution and institutional resources.
Explore investment searchesLook beyond the technology stack to architecture ownership, live-system reliability, execution performance and collaboration with the trading or business teams the platform supports.
Explore technical search evidenceTell us what you are trying to build. We will tell you how we see the market and whether Ancilla is the right search partner.
Partner-led executive search for financial markets and technology. Established 1999.