Apex Executive
Executive Search · HFT · Quant · Engineering
I find senior technical and executive talent that conventional recruiters can't reach.
Five years sourcing inside HFT and quant finance — where the people you need have never updated a CV and aren't on any platform designed to surface them. That forced a different approach. It works anywhere the role is senior, the talent is passive, and getting it wrong is expensive.
The focus is on exact match, not volume. That applies from mid-level engineers upward — and beyond tech entirely, when the role calls for it.
Small number of retained mandates. Anonymous by default.
- Retained Search — engineering, leadership, C-suite
- Talent Strategy & Market Intelligence
- CV & Profile Review
- 1-on-1 Session — focused coaching on a specific area of your recruitment practice
Map the landscape before the search starts. Understand the culture before approaching anyone. Know a candidate's work before you know their name.
Competitive programming leaderboards. Olympiad alumni networks. GitHub. Academia. Industry relationships built over years — not looked up when a mandate arrives.
Jana Kaniaková
Slovak recruiter based between Bratislava and London. Five years in technical and executive search, with a niche built inside HFT and quantitative finance — one of the hardest talent markets to navigate. Before going independent, I worked across agency and in-house environments. I run Apex Executive s.r.o. as a one-person operation: no account managers, no hand-offs. Every search is mine from first call to signed offer.
If a hiring problem hasn't been solved by conventional means, get in touch. I respond within 24 hours.