Permanent Search · Contract & Interim · Quant Engineering · Systematic Finance
Platinum & Partners was founded by Tabby Kaan after twenty years placing front-office talent into the world's leading financial institutions. The firm narrowed its focus to a single specialism: quant and systematic search and contracting for the buy-side. The reasoning was simple — the firms doing the most interesting work in finance hire differently. They care about codebases, research stacks, P&L track records and team chemistry. They need a search partner who speaks their language and knows their bench. We built the firm to be that partner — for permanent searches and contract engagements.
We understand the research process — from signal generation and backtesting to portfolio construction and live trading. We speak the language of quants.
We do not recruit across all of finance. Our entire practice is dedicated to systematic and quantitative strategies — this depth is our competitive advantage.
Buy-side hiring is highly sensitive. Every search — whether at a hedge fund, asset manager or prop desk — is handled with complete confidentiality, protecting both our clients and the professionals we represent.
Built over 20 years across Europe, US and Asia, our network spans the world's top systematic funds, prop desks and AI-driven financial institutions. We access talent not visible to generalist firms.
Most search firms cover the whole front office. We don't. Platinum & Partners is built around the engineering and research talent that powers systematic trading — KDB engineers, C++ developers, Python researchers, systematic PMs and alpha generators. That focus is deliberate. It means we know the technologies, the codebases, the team structures and the people. When a head of quant infra at a multi-strat needs a senior KDB engineer who can land in a Kx 4.0 environment without three weeks of onboarding, we already know who is available. When a CIO at a launching pod needs a low-latency C++ team built in eight weeks, we have the bench mapped. We take roles outside our specialism only when we tell clients upfront — and we tell them early when a search is not a fit for us.