About
Karbon Agency is a boutique executive search and consulting firm focused on the capital markets industry. Founded in 2016 by Kevin Cassata, our agency brings 25 years of combined search experience. Operating out of our New York and Los Angeles offices, we cover multiple financial markets centers including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai.
Over the years, Karbon Agency has refined its focus. We primarily support hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and fintech. The common thread tying our client portfolio together is a commitment to the innovation of markets technology - embracing data and analytics as an edge, and routinely pushing the envelope of tech-empowered trading.
With a deep network of world-class traders, mathematicians, AI scientists, software engineers, and academics; we take a ‘talent first’ approach to our business – doing everything in our power to ‘connect the dots’ of career advancement and entrepreneurship for the talent we partner with. We hold confidentiality as our core value, going above and beyond what is customary to ensure an airtight process for both talent and end-client. Client companies trust us to recruit and consult on their most secretive projects.
Services
Executive Search
Strategic Consulting
Capital Introduction
Our core competency. We broker introductions between the highest caliber talent and the world's most selective firms.
Whether it be market mapping, succession planning, confidential replacement hires, compensation inquiries, etc - Karbon Agency is uniquely positioned to advise client companies on hiring, talent, and personnel-related challenges of all kinds.
Having a network of institutional investors, seeders, third party marketing firms, platform funds, prime brokerage executives, and others; Karbon Agency can kickstart the fundraising and entity-formation processes for the PM or team that are ready to take the entrepreneurial path towards starting their own shop.
Areas of Expertise
Alpha Generation
Our primary focus is what we call ‘alpha generators’ – in context, these ‘artists of the trade’ are typically referred to as portfolio managers, traders, or researchers. Our network and expertise are strongest in, but not limited to, the following strategy flavors:
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Systematic Equities
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Systematic Futures
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Systematic Marco
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Global Macro (Discretionary)
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Fixed Income Relative Value Arbitrage (Discretionary)
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Volatility Arbitrage (Systematic & Discretionary)
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Systematic Crypto
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All things HFT and market making
Quantitative Development
As an advocate of the alpha generator, we boast a deep network of research engineers and ‘quant-devs’. These ‘mathy coders’ are employed in the development of research infrastructures, analytics platforms, simulation engines, and production trading models. In cases where we’re helping portfolio managers build their teams, this is often the first hire.
Data Science
The ‘curators of the data’. We seek out data scientists utilizing state of the art machine learning techniques in the optimization, cleansing, and analysis of the datasets used for alpha generation.
Core Development
Trading systems developers. Karbon possesses a deep bench of extremely talented C++ programmers whose obsession is building the most resilient, fast, high-volume trading engines in the world. Typically, these developers are working on market access, gateways, OS tuning, low latency exchange connectivity, and various related engineering challenges.