Qenexus

Qenexus is a specialist recruitment agency founded in 2024 by Tom O'Cuinneagáin, a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in the systematic trading sector. The firm specialises in headhunting, recruitment and talent advisory services within the highly competitive front office trading and technology sectors. Qenexus is dedicated to connecting top-tier talent with leading financial institutions, hedge funds and technology firms, with a particular focus on placing quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, traders, execution specialists, engineers, developers and data specialists across the trading spectrum.

Qenexus recruits exclusively within systematic trading and related financial technology domains. The company places candidates in roles spanning quantitative research including alpha research, machine learning and statistical signal development across mid and high-frequency strategies, portfolio management across systematic, semi-systematic and quantamental disciplines, trading roles in options market making, volatility, foreign exchange, commodities and rates, and technology positions for engineers, developers and data specialists working across the trading spectrum.

The recruitment agency operates across eight major financial hubs including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, New York, Chicago, Dubai and Singapore, with its headquarters based in Dublin. Qenexus differentiates itself through a deliberately limited client base, ensuring exclusive candidate introductions rather than mass CV distribution, with 79 percent of candidates introduced to their most active client progressing to interview in the past 12 months. The firm's deep industry knowledge, extensive network and over a decade of recruiting experience in the systematic space enable them to identify candidates and track desk moves, team buildouts and talent displacement events across the industry before mandates formally open.