■ Small team, high signal

Partners

Five people run every Keldwell search, from the first briefing to the day your hire starts. No junior researchers, no automated outreach, no one cold-messaging on our behalf.

Managing Partner

Ines Varga

AI & ML research

London

Ran research hiring at a frontier lab for six years before co-founding Keldwell. Leads every search that ends in a research title.

Write directly

ines@keldwell.com

Searches led

86

Partner

Tomas Brenner

Quant & trading

Chicago

Twelve years placing researchers and engineers into systematic funds. Former C++ developer on an equities desk.

Write directly

tomas@keldwell.com

Searches led

112

Partner

Priya Raman

Inference & infrastructure

San Francisco

Came from platform engineering at a hyperscaler. Knows the difference between a serving team and a demo team on sight.

Write directly

priya@keldwell.com

Searches led

64

Partner

Marcus Oyelaran

Leadership & team builds

New York

Builds whole functions, not single seats. Twenty-two heads of engineering placed since 2016; all but one still in role.

Write directly

marcus@keldwell.com

Searches led

71

Principal

Hana Kessler

Candidate practice

Zürich

Looks after the people we’ve placed and the ones who aren’t ready yet. One call a quarter, never a pitch.

Write directly

hana@keldwell.com

Searches led

38

Principal

Jonah Wexler

Market maps & data

London

Former systematic researcher. Builds the market maps behind every search and the numbers in our Friday notes.

Write directly

jonah@keldwell.com

Searches led

29

No junior sourcers

Every first call is made by a partner. It is slower and it is the whole point.

We publish the funnel

Clients see who we called and who said no, every Friday, for the whole search.

We say no

We turn down about a third of the briefs we are offered, and we explain why.

Candidates first

No CV leaves this office without the candidate’s written permission. Ever.

Offices

■ Three rooms, one desk

We work across time zones as one team. Every search has one partner, wherever you are.

London

3 Ashby Yard, London EC1V 4AB

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New York

88 Lafayette Street, 6th floor, NY 10013

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San Francisco

210 Mint Street, Suite 400, CA 94103

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Partners

Junior sourcers

Average years in the field

Searches a year, at most

■ Join us

We hire one person a year, usually someone we once placed.

If you have spent a decade doing the work and want to spend the next one finding the people who do it best, write to ines@keldwell.com. There is no application form.