Richard H., CEO & Founder
Richard founded Bayes Group after around five years at a top-tier Wall Street executive search & consulting firm, where he quickly rose through the ranks, culminating in a year where he was APAC’s top revenue producer, earned promotion to the youngest VP in company history, and ran several high profile client relationships and full cycle search processes for the most discerning global investors and their most complex & discrete front-office talent requirements.
Through his extensive, high quality global network, he has sourced and placed a variety of options traders, PMs across products, systematic trading leaders, machine learning researchers, and traders across experience levels, products, & geographies. In addition to his primary focus on building relationships with the 1% of 1% of senior portfolio managers and trading leaders, he has launched several $xxxM allocations, built new, highly technical businesses for sophisticated multi-family offices from scratch, and even placed the global head of Quantitative R&D for a billion-dollar brand new machine-learning focused fund.
With a true passion for the business and understanding of the content and unique challenges facing high performing PMs, which comes out in every conversation he has with the market, combined with a depth of technical understanding and a client-focused, consultative mindset, Richard’s proactive and process-driven approach leaves no stone unturned and has made him a trusted client advisor, from his native NYC to his current home of Hong Kong. He is supported by a small team of researchers & consultants in Bayes Group’s 1 IFC office, and has partners in London & New York, where around half of the firm’s search business originates.
Richard majored in Political Science with a game theory research focus, studying & helping to frame the thought processes incentive structures of stakeholders and decision makers, and double minors in Brain & Cognitive Science and Journalism. He received the highest possible marks for specially approved doctorate level coursework in Borders & Human Movement, and completed an award-winning senior thesis on incentives (and disincentives) surrounding the completion of New York’s Second Avenue Subway extension, as well as the Jesse Rosenberger prize for advanced coursework across departments. He has lived in Hong Kong for seven years after beginning his career on Wall Street and growing up in the New York City area.
Recent Placements
Representative placements include:
Global Head of ML Quant R&D, Top 3 Sovereign
PM, Greater China Events & Risk Arb, $xxxM allocation, Global L/S HF
Head of Options Trading, Chicago, Top 5 Market Maker
Head of Cash HFT, HK, Top 5 Market Maker
Head of HF Equities, Sydney, Top 5 Market Maker
New Office Launch, Vol Trading Team Lift-Out, Sydney, Global Prop Shop
CEO, Retail Digital Asset Business, Top 5 Exchange by Volume, London
Digital Asset Options Traders, all seniority levels, HK & NYC
Derivatives Traders, Sub-PMs, Quantitative L/S Hedge Fund APAC new Build
Senior Analyst, HK/China, Options Trading Desk, HK/Sydney
Alpha-oriented Quant Researcher, new asset class, Sydney, Equity L/S HF
Developers of all levels, CTO, Head of HFT Infra, developers embedded on trading desks, among others.
MD of new digital asset business (CFDs) for multi-family office, HK
Head of Data Science, regional market maker, HK
Senior Analyst, HK OMM, Top Global Market Maker
More detailed information, competitive intelligence, detailed market mappings, and references available upon request.