Global Commodities Practice.

Jon, based in the New York office, is part of the firm’s Global Asset Management leadership team, focused on identifying, assessing and hiring senior talent across both, traditional and alternative asset managers. His core expertise stretches across senior leaders, portfolio managers, research analysts, sales & distribution, IR, quantitative professionals and risk managers.
 
Jon has established and managed relationships with buy side firms for over 20 years, including extensive experience with fundamental credit and equities; event-driven, special situations and distressed; emerging markets; structured corporate and mortgage credit; macro; and quantitative strategies. Jon has also run and executed numerous sell side searches, primarily in corresponding asset classes/markets.
 
In addition to establishing and building the asset management practice at two previous search firms he worked with, Jon has been part of the senior leadership teams, helping to set and execute firm and/or team strategy, including hiring, training and managing team members.
 
Prior to search Jon traded derivatives. He studied finance and Asia at the University of Pennsylvania.

Vithiya oversees the APAC Liquid Markets practice in Hong Kong.

Joining The Omerta Group in 2013, Vithiya has spent the past 10 years covering both buy and sell side clients and has successfully placed across portfolio management, trading, sales, analysts and quants for Asia.

Prior to The Omerta Group, Vithiya was part of the Scientific Department for the French Consulate where she was instrumental in bespoke institutional mandates predominantly for Hong Kong and China.​​​​​​​

Vithiya holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from Ecole Centrale Paris.

AJ joined The Omerta Group in 2020. As a Vice President in Hong Kong, working across Global Markets, Hedge Funds and Systematic Markets, he focuses on Greater China Sales and the Macro Trading space in Asia.
 
Prior to joining Omerta, AJ was a consultant at The Laurus Group executive search and started his career being a Senior Consultant at Selby Jennings search firm covering FX, Rates Sales and Trading practice for their Sales and Trading team.
 
AJ studied Business Communications and Management at Ohio University, USA.

An industry professional, Hamish brings over 20 years of proprietary trading, derivative sales, structuring and financing experience across both physical and derivative markets.

Hamish is a business builder and has been central to the development of commodity desks across North America and Australasia. With deep expertise across power, natural gas & oil markets – as well as secondary experience across base and precious metals – Hamish now leverages his commercial experience into Executive Search, delivering value through partnering with Hedge Funds, Commodity Trading Houses, Financial Institutions and Merchants.

Holding a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Hamish joined The Omerta Group in 2025.

Ross joined The Omerta Group in June 2025 bringing with him over 16 years of international executive search experience, predominantly focusing on commodity trading.

Ross has lived and worked in commodity trading hubs across the world (London, Singapore & New York), partnering with leading Energy Majors, Trading Houses, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, and Private Equity firms.

Ross personally leads with a deep expertise in the Global Oil & Products market and Global Metals/Agriculture/Softs as his secondary market expertise.

He has led and built global commodity trading executive search teams, covering the entire commodities product spectrum, to deliver executive search, market intelligence and thought leadership solutions.

Ross studied (BSc) Management at The University of Southampton.

Chris joined  The Omerta Group in June 2025, bringing over 10 years of executive search experience spanning across fixed income, currencies, and commodities with a particular emphasis most recently on commodities trading.

Chris has lived and worked across London, Paris and Dubai partnering with leading Global Hedge Funds, Investment banks, Local Banks as well as Family Offices.

He joins us having led the commodities practice most recently for a boutique executive search firm in London, where he focused solely on commodity trading for Hedge funds.

His experience covers the full spectrum of commodity products, and he personally leads with a deep expertise in the European Energy market.