Team Archive - Armstrong International

Matthew Osborne

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:21:35 +0000

Matt is our Managing partner with day-to-day responsibility for the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) across Buy and Sell-side including Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Pension Funds & Private Equity. He specialises in senior hires across Portfolio Management, Sales, Trading, Structuring & Origination for both developed and emerging markets. Matt has an unrivalled reputation as a talent advisor within these areas and has been responsible for some of the highest-profile moves in recent years operating across London, New York and Asia.

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Iona Prideaux

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:22:07 +0000

Iona runs the business development team and is responsible for increasing the number of clients and managing the existing clients. Iona is also responsible for executing c-suite searches and has previously placed chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, chairman and non-executive directors. Iona graduated from University West of England with a degree in Spanish and Sociology.

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Martin Armstrong

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:23:25 +0000

Martin Armstrong is a specialist in Talent. He works with family offices, private equity and venture capital funds advising them on how to optimise the returns that they have on the companies they own through by being better at managing and acquiring Talent.

Martin has over 35 years of experience in the recruiting and the Talent advisory business, working with leading organisations in the financial services and investment sphere. He has helped some of the leading entrepreneurs in the investment business build their businesses into multi billion dollar companies. Martin’s particular area of expertise is producing excessive shareholder returns through the optimisation of people.

He avoids transactional recruiting in favour of a much longer term holistic process ensuring continual outperformance and cultural alignment and the absolute best bench for his clients. Martin also speaks and writes on Talent related issues particularly around, entrepreneurship, intergenerational wealth transfer, and business scaling.

Martin has founded over the years a number of leading Talent and Sports businesses including sportsession.com, skillcapital.com, Justpeople.com, sousoupartners.com amongst many others. Martin is committed to helping people with learning disabilities integrate into the workplace and is a cofounder of teamdomenica.com a leading charity for people with learning disabilities.

As well as his involvement in and commitment to Talent, Martin is also a breeder of thoroughbred racehorses horses (Stormbreaker, Rozalia , Higher Power, Lady Stardust) and Sussex Cattle. Martin and his wife own the most important collection of Oncidium and Cymbidium orchids in the world. He also plays the guitar in a band called S T R E T C H. He is married with four grown-up children.

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Nick Harper

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:24:57 +0000

Nick is a partner of the firm in London, overseeing the Equities, Investment Banking, and Digital businesses. Since joining the firm in 2002, he has earned a reputation for delivering strategic insights to a diverse range of clients, from boutique firms to established financial institutions. Nick excels in identifying and securing top talent, whether it’s senior strategic leaders or emerging stars in the market. His extensive network spans across major Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, and Private Equity Firms, allowing him access to a deep bench of talent across the industry.

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Oliver Blaydon

admin — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:16:10 +0000

Olly specialises in advanced analytics, hiring engineers and data scientists on the buy-side and sell-side across both research and trading. He has nearly 20 years experience in executive search, largely spent building risk and quant teams in New York and London for some of the world’s largest banks and funds.

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Roger Threlfall

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:19:35 +0000

As a Partner of the firm, Roger co-manages our private markets business, where he is responsible for developing and growing our business lines in private credit, venture capital, growth equity, real estate and infrastructure. Roger specialises in hiring fund raisers for all asset managers, both public and private, across EMEA.

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Harry Pilkington

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:18:54 +0000

Harry spent 11 years working at the firm before leaving for Heidricks & Struggles as a partner in 2008. In 2012 Harry moved to Korn Ferry, again as a partner for wealth management, before re-joining Armstrong International in 2016. Harry has day-to-day responsibilities for the private banking and wealth management business. He has a successful track record and great knowledge of the wealth management sector. Harry holds a bachelor’s degree in politics & international studies from the University of Warwick.

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Alex Drummond

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:09:03 +0000

Alex joined Armstrong in 2010 and specialises in Fixed Income Sales and sell-side Credit Trading mandates across the UK and Europe. Prior to joining Armstrong, Alex worked with a Global search firm in London where he focused on recruiting for positions across Fixed Income Sales, Trading and Analysis/Research around Europe and the Middle East.

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Shamiya Punter Kaur

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:22:36 +0000

With over 10 years of IT experience, Shamiya managed diverse companies infrastructures across continents from Asia to Europe ensuring robust data security and user confidence. Her portfolio includes numerous successful projects tailored to each company’s needs. Passionate about technology, she specialises in cloud and security solutions, backed by multiple Cyber Essentials certifications for businesses. Beyond improving IT landscapes.

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Daisy Ritblat

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:25:59 +0000

Daisy works on the Real Assets team and business development for Decarbonisation. Daisy graduated with an English Literature Degree from Oxford Brookes University.

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