$50B+ EQUITY HEDGE FUND
$50B+ EQUITY HEDGE FUND
Function: C-Suite / Risk Management
Industry: FS – Asset Management
Location: New York, NY
Summary: Identified and placed a key risk management professional who worked along side the Chief Investment Officer of this successful hedge fund. The client needed to upgrade their archaic risk reporting system. With our candidates exceptional quantitative and qualitative expertise, he was able to transform their risk investment approach which resulted in substantial savings and ease of use.
$30B+ PRIVATE EQUITY FUND
Function: C-Suite/Information Technology
Industry: FS – Asset Management
Location: New York, NY
Summary: Identified and represented a proven leader within alternative investments technology at this leading global financial services firm. The engagement took a total of 3 months, where 5 candidates were presented within a month of signing the contract. After the candidate started, he optimized the network infrastructure and helped transforming their trading systems, resulting in our client savings of $20M year over year.
$1 Trillion + dollar GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM
Function: Multiple
Industry: FS – Banking & Asset Management
Location: United States
Summary: OSI placed more than a thousand technology and business professionals during its ten-year relationship with a global bank. OSI became their go-to source for the industries best and brightest. This massive financial company went through years of restructuring from a centralized to non-centralized business structure. OSI assisted hundreds of their newly formed micro companies flourish by implanting Business and Technology Leaders who would have ownership of their own P&L One such notable search was placing their Head of Future Technology. Our CEO convinced one of the head scientists at the Super Collider in Texas to move to New York. At the super collider, this candidate worked on such projects like the particle accelerator. When he joined, he conceived and implemented brand new technology that still remains their core platform today. OSI placed over 1,000 professional within this bank’s Capital Markets, Corporate, Retail, Commercial & Investment Bank, and Capital Markets & Securities and Private Banking divisions.
$100B+ HEDGE FUND
Function: Back Office
Industry: FS – Asset Management
Location: Connecticut
Summary: OSI hired to find an exceptional intellect to transform their algorithmic trading arm which at the time was $8bn. OSI delivered the ideal candidate within one month. This luminary had a 5.0 GPA from MIT and 7 years Financial Services experience from a smaller fund. His technological accomplishments increased their AUM five-fold within two years.
45B BANKING AND INSURANCE CONGLOMERATE
Function: C-Suite / Back Office
Industry: FS – Banking & Insurance
Location: New York, NY
Summary: This European conglomerate opened an office in NY and hired OSI to find it’s Americas COO. It was necessary for the ideal candidate to have significant SEC expertise and we found such a perfect fit from a competing International Bank. Post hiring, OSI was retained to find all their leadership and teams. We initially placed their Head of Treasury, Derivatives Leader, Head of Technology, Head of Risk and many other leaders and teams. OSI became an invaluable partner also introducing them to a Prime Broker who was acquired for $750m+. Subsequently, as they needed more space, they moved to a new headquarters in midtown Manhattan taking over 17 floors. OSI’s consulting arm “OSCSI” was hired as their Lead consultant to build their technology over all their floors. We had over a hundred consultants working on this project for more than two years bringing the project in on time and in budget.
$40B+ GLOBAL ADVISORY FIRM
Function: Front Office
Industry: Professional Services – Advisory and Consulting
Location: Worldwide
Summary: We have had an incredible 23 yr working relationship with this 45 billion dollar Management Consulting firm. In addition to our placing hundreds of partners and countless MD’s, Directors, Managers, Principles, Sr Associates and teams, we can measure our value in terms of actual profitability. Partner candidates OSI placed (98% still with the firm) produce more than 3 billion USD in reoccurring annually revenue. OSI is not a one placement per client firm. We tend to be asked to stay many years with our clients as their goals are our goals and we are only satisfied when we bring continued value. We earn our relationship by first properly understanding their mission statement, their ecosystem, their culture, personality and the values that drive them. We build on our relationship by our diligent attention to detail and the success of each member who joins even as their landscape morphs with global conditions. Finally, we are relentless in pursuit of the absolute best of class candidate we represent, thus saving them valuable time in meeting with those who do not have the exact attributes necessary to be a good fit. Simply put, we pay attention – attention to their partnership culture and capabilities and what makes them successful. Our is a repeatable process as we measure our success predicated solely upon the success of our clients. This is what I believe distinguishes OSI from its’ competition. -Steve Warren, Founder
$10B+ GLOBAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM
Function: Front Office
Industry: Professional Services – Advisory and Consulting
Location: Worldwide
Summary: OSI was hired by this global management consulting firm to start their US Professional Services Practice. We brought them highly qualified Big Four consulting professionals for their Accounting and Financial Services Technology team, spearheading their practice.
TWO TOP 3 CREDIT RATINGS FIRM
Function: C-Suite / Information Technology
Industry: Financial Services
Location: New York, NY
Summary: OSI was Moody’s Investor Services exclusive agent for over ten years bringing hundreds of Business and Technology professionals to the firm. Moody’s decided to outsource their technology and so we had the pleasure of representing our candidates again. Their Head of Technology was a perfect fit for S&P who with luck hired us at the right time and Moody’s CIO was the perfect fit to run S&P’s global technology. S&P became our new exclusive client for many years thereafter.
$30B+ PRIVATE EQUITY FUND
Function: Front Office / Technology
Industry: Investment Management /Quantitative Trading
Location: United States
Summary: Our client, a private equity fund hired OSI to find their new Leader of their Quantitative Strategy/Mortgage (ABS/MBS) Fixed Income trading arm. Their goal was to re-imagine their automated trading vehicle and increase momentum trading. Their asks were to find a smart PhD who specialized in exotic financial instruments with Mortgage prepayment/delinquency/default/severity (OAS) modeling. Our candidate delivered exactly that profile with his knowledge of sophisticated analytical tools allowing the technology to be more nimble and created an accurate decision process as well as a robust automated risk management stopgap.
$10B+ PRIVATE EQUITY FUND
Function: Middle Office
Industry: FS – Private Equity
Location: San Francisco, CA
Summary: This Asia-focused multi billion $ PE fund-of-funds hired our candidate responsible for overseeing all recruiting, benefits, and administration efforts, reporting directly to the Managing Partner of the firm. The search was challenging as they not only needed to come from an Asia focused PE firm, but also flawless fluently in Mandarin and Cantonese. Beyond that, they would need to be available at any hour overnight as their headquarters was located in the Far East . She was the first candidate recruited for this client and hired immediately and who has since become a major relationship with our firm, both here and abroad.
GLOBAL
Function: C-Suite / All levels
Industry: Financial Services & All Industries
Location: Worldwide
Summary: It is predicted that there will be 3.5 million additional Cybersecurity positions available globally by 2021. OSI has thus taken the lead in identifying best of class Cybersecurity, Risk and Privacy professionals who are expert at enabling trust in a digital, data-driven world. To that end, these world-class luminaries are uniquely positioned to deal head-on with the upcoming tsunami of Cyber related crimes. One search OSI recently completed was for a Cyber Leader for an Asia- Pacific Financial Services firm. We identified and placed a highly sought after chief executive regional cyber leader within several months of accepting the search. This candidate had over 20 years experience of Top Secret Security Clearance from the Australian Federal Government as we;; as a Board member of both SecureNet & CyberTrust Japan. He was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a pristine global Banking conglomerate and attained all key Information Security and Risk accreditation across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea and Australia. As the preeminent authority within that region, he was hired to lead all strategy, enablement, reporting, governance and oversight for all Information Security and Technology Risk related functions globally and across all divisions.
