Paul is the Managing Partner of Hammond Partners and has led assignments across all practice areas since 2006.

Paul focuses on senior roles across all practices, with a particular focus on Investment Banking, Equities, all aspects of Asset Management and Private Equity.

Prior to Hammond Partners, he spent 20 years in Investment Banking, primarily in Equities Sales and Trading.

He started his career in Equity Sales in 1981 at L. Messel & Co, moving to James Capel in 1984.

In 1988 he moved to Goldman Sachs to build their Equities presence in Europe, and was co-Head of UK Equities.

In 1995 he moved to Morgan Stanley as Head of UK Equities. He represented both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley at LIBA, and sat on the London Stock Exchange Markets Committee.

Paul read PPE at Christ Church, Oxford.

Elizabeth is the Founding Partner of Hammond Partners and acts as a relationship manager and advisor to a number of the Hammond Partners’ clients.

Elizabeth started her career at Goldman Sachs before pursuing a career in search and has over 25 years experience working within the search industry.

Prior to founding Hammond Partners, Elizabeth was the co-global head of the Financial Services Practice at Heidrick & Struggles.

Amongst other businesses, Elizabeth also founded and sits on the board of TXG, a leading organisation in the coaching and leadership development industry.

She is a trained high performance coach and mentor and also advises a number of small businesses and entrepreneurs as a mentor and occasional angel investor, using her experience and training in business strategy and team and leadership development.

Elizabeth is on the committee of the charity Action for Children and also sits on the Women Taking Action committee.  She is also an expert relationship / marriage coach and increasingly spends a significant amount of her time focusing on this.                                   (www.elizabeth-hammond.co.uk)

Emily has over 15 years executive search experience within financial services. She specialises in Investment Banking and Equities advising investment banks, boutiques and broking houses on senior level team expansions, detailed market intelligence and competitor analysis. Emily joined Hammond Partners in 2005 and prior to that worked at Sainty, Hird & Partners.

Emily holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Language from the University of Leeds.

Alex focuses on search assignments in the investment and distribution areas within traditional and alternative asset management.

Working for a broad range of firms from large global asset management firms to specialist investment boutiques. He concentrates on Director to Board level appointments across EMEA, US and APAC.

Prior to Hammond Partners, Alex has 18 years’ experience of executive search across a broad range of financial services. He started his career in equity research at JP Morgan.

Emma runs our Fixed Income & Currencies practice.

Emma specialises in Fixed Income across Trading, Research and Sales. She joined Hammond Partners from The Mulsanne Partnership where she led the Credit Trading and Research business for five years. Emma has worked on a wide range of assignments across Credit, Rates and FX operating in both the UK and continental Europe. Earlier in her career she focused on headhunting within Private Equity having begun her career in 1999 at an international recruitment firm.

Emma holds a BA in Geography from Manchester University.

Richard specialises in Global Equity and Equity derivatives trading, structuring and sales on both the buy and sell side. He has executed searches at all levels and has played a key part in a number of business and team build-outs at several Investment Banks.

Prior to Hammond Partners, Richard worked for an executive search firm where he built and ran the equities franchise across all equity product groups working for three tier 1 Investment Banks.

Richard holds a BA (Hons) in Theology from Exeter University.

Mark specialises in Risk Management, his coverage includes buy side and sell side market risk (cross-asset), credit risk, liquidity, portfolio, regulatory and quant/model risk. He has successfully completed a number of Global CRO/MD level searches and has supported his clients in the building/restructuring of key risk functions.

Prior to Hammond Partners Mark spent several years as the Chief Operating Officer for a Risk Intelligence consultancy. He began his career in 2000 for an international recruitment firm in London before moving to Hong Kong where he built and ran two well regarded Asian executive search risk practices.

Mark holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Geology.

Simon runs our Infrastructure Practice

After starting his career in Global Markets, Simon has been involved in senior level search across risk management, controls, governance and C-Suite since 2000. Simon joined Hammond Partners in 2017 to broaden the firms Infrastructure offering covering both traditional search, consulting services and the provision of technology around Rogue Trading, Surveillance and Market Abuse. Simon is a product specialist in both the first and second line of defence operating across all facets of Financial Services working as a trusted Partner and Advisor for his clients.

Practice Areas:

Risk Management, Front Office Control and Supervision, Surveillance, Business Management, C-Suite

Simon holds a BA (Hons) in History and Modern Languages from Manchester University.

Katrien specialises in Investment Banking and Private Equity searches, advising various investment banks, boutiques and buy-side funds on hiring across various levels. Katrien joined Hammond Partners in 2015 from an industry background. She previously held positions in Corporate Finance with ABN AMRO in the Netherlands and Private Equity where she most recently held a Fundraising/Investor Relations role at leading secondaries firm, Coller Capital.

Katrien graduated with a BA in Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada and has an MSc in Finance from the University of Amsterdam.

Katrien is originally from the Netherlands and speaks Dutch and Portuguese.

Oliver is a Principal in the Equity and FICC practice where he specialises in the area of Prime Services and Financing.

Prior to working at Hammond Partners, Oliver worked at a boutique recruitment firm focussing across Financial Technology providers and Investment Banks. During this tenure he established a strong network across the Prime Brokerage and Electronic Trading world.

Oliver holds a BA (Hons) in Business from The University of Durham.

Emily joined Hammond Partners in 2014 and is an Associate in our Fixed Income practice where she executes searches across FIC, DCM & Syndicate.

Emily graduated from Durham University with a BA Combined Honours Degree in Geography and History of Art.

Louisa joined Hammond Partners in 2017 to support and build the firm’s Risk Management practice.

Prior to this she worked for a boutique financial services search firm supporting a partner in developing the Infrastructure practise where she was involved in working closely with top-tier sell and buy side firms on global mandates in Risk and Control.

Her track record includes Capital Markets, Asset Management, Retail Banking, Hedge Funds, Insurance Companies, Clearing Houses/Exchanges and Consultancies.

Louisa’s executive search experience has also seen her working closely with the Asia market, where she worked for a large global search firm in Australia supporting the MD on substantial global searches.

Louisa holds a Bachelor Degree in English and Drama from Bristol UWE.

Matilda joined Hammond Partners in September 2017 as a Researcher in our Fixed Income practice.

Matilda graduated from Oxford Media & Business School with Distinction Honours.