Financial Services

Sector-native leadership for Global Financial Services

Kingsley Gate’s established financial services expertise, strengthened by our acquisition of The Omerta Group and its 20+ years of specialist experience, gives clients unmatched depth in the sector.

Executive search in financial services demands consultants who have spent their careers inside the specific markets they cover.

Kingsley Gate’s Global Financial Services practice covers Hedge Funds, Systematic Markets, Global Markets, Asset management & Capital Formation, Investment Banking & Capital Markets, and (Re)Insurance, led by consultants with deep roots in each.


Every search is powered by IGNYTE, our proprietary search intelligence platform, delivering real-time market intelligence, full process transparency, and a single quality standard across the 50+ countries where we operate.

The Omerta Group, a Kingsley Gate company

Our deep expertise spans finance’s critical frontiers 

Hedge Funds

Placing investment and leadership talent across the full spectrum of single-manager and multi-strategy funds.

Systematic Markets

Connecting quantitative minds to the firms defining high- and mid-frequency trading, from traditional assets to digital.

Global Markets

Covering the sell-side and buy-side trading floor across every major asset class and seniority.

Asset Management & Capital Formation

Finding the leaders who deploy capital and the ones who raise it, across traditional and alternative managers.

Investment Banking & Capital Markets

Placing senior dealmaking talent across M&A, capital markets, and private capital.

(Re)Insurance

Securing the leaders who write the risk and build the platforms, from specialty underwriting to full divisional lifts.

Cross-sector expertise

Functional leadership across financial institutions

Board & CEO

Leading chair, non-executive, and CEO searches across the full landscape of
financial institutions, in partnership with Kingsley Gate’s global Board & CEO practice.

Corporate Functions

Placing the operational, financial, and risk leaders who steer institutions across every major global market.

Technology, Data, Product & AI

Recruiting the engineering and data leaders building the infrastructure now reshaping financial services.

Meet the consultants 

Karin Brandes

Senior Partner

Jim Brownwood

Senior Partner

Pablo Cavero

Senior Partner

Eduardo Conde

Senior Partner

Nestor D’Angelo

Senior Partner

Andy Davies

Senior Partner
Gilles Dregi de Fontcuberta

Gilles Dregi de Fontcuberta

Senior Partner

Jon Friedman

Senior Partner

How we work

Intelligence from day one

Kick-off Intelligence

You leave the first meeting holding a role brief, a search strategy, and an initial market map powered in real time by IGNYTE while your consultant focuses on understanding your business.

Consultant Continuity

The specialist partner who takes your brief leads your search from start to finish. Sector-native expertise backed by a single global methodology across 50+ countries.

Private equity & venture capital solutions 

Transforming portfolio companies in financial services

Beyond financial services search, the wider Kingsley Gate group brings dedicated Private Equity & Venture Capital expertise to your portfolio.

Hire your financial services leader

Our first conversation is a collaborative discovery session that produces a search strategy you validate with us in real time.

Insights

Hire Your Financial Services Leader 

Our first conversation will be a collaborative exercise where our consultants will go through a discovery process that will deliver a search strategy validated by you in real time.