John Byrne

Forging a new Corporate Culture at Ascent Global Partners

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

About

Financial services executive recruiter with extensive experience in the Japanese market. Specialties: Retained Searches, Contingent Searches, Market Mappings, Career consultation and Salary Negotiations. Areas of coverage include: Research Sales, Sales Trading, Electronic Execution, Research, Structuring, Quantitative, Product Manager, Facilitation Trading, Proprietary Trading, Program Trading, Global Equity (non-yen), Single Stock Options, Convertible Bonds, Index Arbitrage, Prime Brokerage, Stock Loan, Desk Analyst, Futures and Options, OTC derivatives, High Frequency Trading and Delta 1.

Experience

  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ascent Global Partners
    Jun 2012 - Present · 14 yrs 2 mos

    Ascent Global Partners is an Executive Recruitment firm based in the Tokyo Ohtemachi area. Our company is registered in Japan and officially licensed by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ascent Global Partners provides mid to senior level management solutions for a range of different clients (from multinational corporations to start-ups). Our industry professionals have extensive experience in the Japanese and Asian recruitment market.

  • Executive Recruiter at New Millennium Group
    Jul 2007 - Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Japanese cash equity and buy side recruiting specialist. I originate and execute searches which include but aren't limited to Research Sales, Sales Trading, Facilitation/Prop Trading, Execution Trading, DMA/Algo's, Research, Portfolio managers etc.

  • Financial IT Recruitment Consultant at Japan Recruiting Associates
    Mar 2006 - Jun 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Worked on both senior and mid level searches in the financial technology sector in Japan. These positions included both development (mainly equity and FICC) in addition to infrastructure positions.

  • Business Development & Recruitment Manager at EIRE Systems
    Jul 2005 - Feb 2006 · 8 mos

    Responsibility for sourcing new IT Infrastructure moves, outsourcing work, development work etc in addition to hiring contract staff/Permanent staff for the firm.

  • IT Recruiting consultant at CDS Consulting
    Feb 2005 - Jun 2005 · 5 mos

    Business Development of new and existing clients. Cold calling and prospecting new candidates. Working on mainly technical positions given my IT background. Provided training for my colleagues with basic IT infrastructure and programming courses.