About Us
Contingent Recruitment
Embedded Talent Solutions
Contingent Recruitment
Utilise our talent acquisition expertise, market reach and speed to make the right hire at the right time.
Retained Search
Embedded Talent Solutions
Contingent Recruitment
Engage with our dedicated talent acquisition service to optimise, map and identify Executive talent.
Embedded Talent Solutions
Embedded Talent Solutions
Embedded Talent Solutions
Trust our talent acquisition solutions to source, assess, select, onboard and orienteer new employees via our embedded partnerships.
For Our Clients:
Financial Services, Fintech and Crypto Finance
We provide contingent and retained recruitment services across the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Our embedded talent acquisition solutions are available in person in the UK or remotely globally.
Our clients are primarily from the Financial Services, Fintech, and Crypto Finance sectors.
We are experts within the following arenas:
- Sell side: Investment Banks, Market Makers, and Brokers
- Buy side: Asset and Investment managers, Hedge Funds, Pension Funds, and Insurance companies
- Quantitative finance: Systematic Funds, Algorithmic Trading (HFT/MFT), and Prop Trading
- Commodities trading: Hydrocarbons, Energy, Metals, and Agriculture
- Venues: Exchanges (stock, options, metals), Global and Digital Custody, and Clearing
- Fintech: P2P Lending, Banking, Investments and WealthTech, Personal Finance, Crowdfunding, Payments, and Research & Data
- Crypto finance: Exchanges and Trading, Digital Asset Custodian and Wallet Services, Asset Tokenization, and DeFi protocols
About the Team
RiverHead Search was founded by Gareth Allan, a seasoned People Leader with nearly two decades of experience in Talent Acquisition. He has successfully established billing desks in agencies, worked with both specialist and big-brand RPO's, and led in-house TA/HR teams for global brands in the technology, consulting, and financial services sectors. He has commercial success in searching, attracting and selecting hires in the USA, UK and Channel Islands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Singapore.
At RiverHead Search, our values are the foundation of our culture and guide our behaviour in everything we do. We are committed to:
- Professionalism: We are honest and ethical in our dealings with others.
- Innovation: We are always looking for new ways to improve our products and services.
- Transparency: We are transparent about our goals and our progress.
- Performance: We set high standards for ourselves and we strive to achieve them.
We are passionate about recruitment, our clients, our candidates, our work, and our company.
