Mission
Our mission is to apply decades of successful experience in the industries we represent to identify impact players, meaningfully qualify candidates, and significantly streamline the hiring process for our clients.
Peter Wagner, Managing director
Founder Peter Wagner came to New York City in 1992 with a freshly minted master's degree in Computer Science from Brown University. He spent the next 20 years building front-office trading and risk systems for some of the largest and most prestigious firms in the financial industry. Peter managed the development of the strategic, fixed-income risk platform for Lehman Brothers - still the primary front-office risk platform now in use at Barclays. At Morgan Stanley, he was responsible for the credit derivatives risk reporting system and managed the firm's data warehouse providing all transaction data to the credit risk and capital systems of the bank. Peter also has significant experience building and managing offshore teams. With his wealth of technology and industry experience, Peter is uniquely positioned to find and evaluate talented individuals who excel in the high-pressure environment of the financial industry. His writing appears in QuantNet, and his quarterly assessments of the financial IT hiring landscape are widely read.
jennifer@affinityny.com
Jennifer Jacobs, head of Quantitative recruitment
Jennifer Jacobs started her career at First Boston (now Credit Suisse) in the Mortgage Products Financial Engineering Group. At CSFB she developed proprietary analytical software for the firm, and also performed structuring and analysis for a variety of real estate, mortgage, and asset backed securities. After about 10 years with the company, armed with a specialization in complex waterfalls, esoteric assets and multi-layered debt structures, she took her varied product knowledge to a number of financial services clients as an independent contractor. After a hiatus to focus on family, Jennifer is happy to be back in the business, leveraging all of her industry knowledge to connect the most talented software developers, quantitative analysts, and financial industry technical professionals with the best opportunities on the Street.