45B BANKING AND INSURANCE CONGLOMERATE
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.
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.
REVOLUTIONARY OBJECT-PROGRAMMING COMPANY
Function: Technology
Industry: Internet & Technology
Location: Global
Summary: Steve Jobs called upon OSI after Apple fired him. He started a new company, NeXT and having trouble marketing this new venture. Our founder worked directly with Jobs and instrumental in aligning NeXT’s relationship with Systemhouse, a US and Canadian Consulting firm. OSI was then retained to identify senior technology luminaries to implement their new platform at key clients. NeXT was a revolutionary upgrade that used object-oriented programming, “Objective C”, “OpenStep” and “Nextstep”operating systems. These new advances were the first of its’ kind and represented a quantum leap in the way programmers coded as well as how information was distributed. As NeXT prepared to launch their product in the mid-90’s our leader met Jobs in the UK and lent a hand in assisting their marketing effort. Ross Perot invested 20 million and in 1993 went to market. Jobs soon returned to Apple with a sweetheart deal that included $429 million in cash plus 1.5 million shares of Apple stock to buy NeXT This architecture became the foundation for all future Mac products that went to market.
$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.
