The hedge fund talent consultancy
Monroe Partners operates as a unique and specialist talent consultancy to a selective number of global hedge funds.
Our offices in London and Singapore provide global market coverage across all Investment Strategies: Equity Fundamental, Equity Arbitrage, Fixed Income, Commodities and Quantitative Strategies. Our consultative approach is based upon over 30+ years markets experience of our founding partners.
Dan James
Managing Partner
Dan James was most recently a senior member of the European Business Development team at Millennium Management for 4 years. Prior to joining Millennium Dan was a Managing Director, Head of Synthetic and Quant sales at Goldman Sachs, London. Previously he worked at Barclays and Merrill Lynch. At Millennium, Dan was involved in the talent acquisition of senior investment professionals across all market strategies.
He has deep client relationships across the hedge fund industry and unparalleled knowledge of Investment Management talent. This enables a fundamental consultative approach from initial engagement with candidates, approaching senior client contacts, interview feedback, in-depth contractual negotiations, and successful agreement.
Henry Howell
Partner
Henry Howell spent the first 16 years of his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director co-running the European Listed & OTC Cleared Derivatives business and globally running Electronic Futures. After Goldman, he spent three years in hedge fund Business Development, first at Eisler Capital and then at Nickel Digital AM. Most recently, Henry ran a FinTech business as the CEO.
Henry brings vast experience and strong relationships across both the sell-side and buy-side of financial services. He has built teams, hired investment professionals and worked closely with senior leaders across the industry.
Tony Ernest
Managing Partner, Asia Pacific
Tony Ernest has over 16 years’ experience covering Hedge Fund CIOs and Portfolio Managers across Asia Pacific. Tony has most recently spent a decade at Morgan Stanley Asia where he was Head of Institutional Equity Sales, Southeast Asia. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Tony had spent 6 years at JP Morgan Cazenove Asia in Equity Sales covering Portfolio Managers and Analysts.
Over the span of his 16-year career, Tony has developed a deep understanding and network of Hedge Funds, portfolio construction, risk management and cross-asset knowledge of strategies and markets. Being able to utilise this knowledge allows Tony to conduct both a quantitative & qualitative approach to candidate analysis and selection.
Florian Martigny
Partner, Asia Pacific
Florian has more than 20 years of experience of advising on securities, asset management and entrepreneurship. Over the past years, Florian has successfully launched several start-ups, both in the financial and the digital space.
Prior to this Florian held Director roles as Pan Asian Equity Sales Trader, Delta One Trader, Pan European Equity Sales Trader and Assistant Financial Analyst at Standard Chartered Securities (Hong Kong), JPM Cazenove (Hong Kong), Credit Agricole Indosuez Cheuvreux (New York) and Exane BNP Paribas (Paris). Prior to joining Monroe Partners, he was an Executive Director for a relative value crypto arbitrage fund in Singapore. Florian’s experience enables him to be able to work closely with asset managers and assist them in building their businesses.
Priya Nathwani
Head of Research
Priya Nathwani has over 17 years’ experience working in a range of support and supervisory roles on the buy side. For much of that time her primary focus was on establishing and developing an in-house equity finance function covering offices and trading desks in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Through this role she developed a wide range of relationships with her peers on the buy side and key providers from the sell side.
She started her career at Merrill Lynch having gained a BA in Banking and Finance. She is working with the team to ensure an efficient and personalised experience whilst building on her previous contacts and experience.
Vicky Griffiths
Senior Consultant
Vicky has over 25 years’ experience across professional and financial services, including five years at Brevan Howard where she worked in both IR and Risk. She has been working in search for over 10 years, joining Monroe in 2025.
In a non-executive capacity, Vicky sits on the board of a challenger bank, GB Bank, where she chairs the Remuneration and Nomination Committees. She is also a non-exec on the boards of the MCC at Lord’s cricket ground, the Team GB Olympic Foundation, and she chairs the Advisory Board of Vincent’s Club at Oxford University (from where Vicky graduated in Economics & Management).
Tom Whitbread
Consultant
Tom has worked in recruitment since 2022 and joined Monroe Partners in 2024 to help further coverage across Europe and US. Before moving to London, he studied Politics at Newcastle University and spent time on the marketing team for a domestic T20 cricket tournament (CPL T20). He now focuses on portfolio manager talent in Europe and US across asset classes, as well as assisting with capital introductions.
Our Services
01.
Executive Search
Working with only a select number of hedge funds, our in-depth client relationships extend across all senior management. This enables our consultative approach to investment professionals in understanding our client’s business opportunity, strategy integration, risk metrics and upside performance in their next career step.
02.
Client Market Consultancy
Our market knowledge is borne out of real relationships and constant research into the changing dynamics and performance of funds, teams and individual performance. We work with clients to understand how they may enable and maintain a competitive talent advantage.
03.
Capital Introduction – Separately Managed Accounts (SMA)
With the growth of SMA allocations from multi-strategy hedge funds, we have the key client relationships, experience and knowledge to work with Portfolio Managers to structure both exclusive and non-exclusive SMA agreements.