Richard Williams

Profile. Senior level Executive Search Chairman & CEO with over 28 years of experience working as a Principal for a Wall Street Executive Search Firm . Clients consist of Top Tier Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Asset Management Firms as well as Money Management Firms. As CEO I am tasked with identifying, recruiting and placing senior level Global Heads of Trading, Investment Bankers, Private Equity bankers Quants, M&A Specialists, Strategists, and Structurers. As an Innovative principal with a long history of sourcing clients and recruiting for top tiers, such as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs & Co. Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, DE Shaw and a host of Hedge Funds, including Giants i.e. Citadel out of Chicago, ILL, I have amassed a strong track record of excellence within the Wall Street Community . As of 2020 I continue to work in esoteric areas of Financing, off balance sheet transactions, and funding with Goldman Sachs and a few Asset Managers.

Product and Financial Experience ( Partial list )

Structured Credit, Correlation Trading, Index Arbitrage, PFI ( Principal Funding & Investments )

QIS Smart Beta, ABS/RMBS/ REITS, Quantitative Trading, event driven strategies, index trading and factor based trading modeling,, structured financing and funding, and illiquid assets.

Professional Experience.

Business Development Manager for a software Startup.

2018 to 2020. Responsible for Client Development in the Entire USA on a revolutionary and proprietary software that involves safety in commercial buildings in the event of a crisis or emergency.

Transamerica Securities

June 2021- Present

Registered Representative as of October 21, 2022

1995 to present

Chairman & CEO of Global Derivatives Search Firm.

Mellenium Enterprise Group

1991 to 1994

Sullivan & Coglianlo

Role. Managing Director

Hired to originate and develop a financial recruitment department from scratch for a firm that had absolutely “no presence” on Wall Street in the financial markets or investment banking community.

This would turn out to be historic for so many reasons that space won’t allow, but it was a very arduous and next to impossible task as most “Wall Street” Headhunting firms are located in New York or London, UK. Such firms are Korn Ferry, Egon Zender, and Heidrich & Struggles . I was dedicated to accomplish this next to impossible feat and to make a very long story short….I did it. It involved hiring French Nationals, Latin Nationals, Japanese and Chinese Speakers. As a matter of fact, we outperformed Korn Ferry on a famous search for Harvard Management here in Boston, with then President Mr. Jack Meyer. Jack and I labored for weeks before he gave me legal permission to work with Harvard Management. Initially, Jack had doubts about my ability as I was not New York based. I worked with Jack Meyer and we had an excellent relationship which resulted in my placing 3 Key Traders at Harvard Management, one of which was a Jesuit Priest and an ICON on Wall Street.

I was tasked with interviewing a global team of recruiters, and I had to teach them and instruct them on the etiquette of Headhunting . The language of finance and derivatives is a very complex one and to have credibility these recruiters had to know how to function in this language and come across as polished and at least aware of what is going on In the global economies. Etc. As a result of my efforts fees at this firm which were typically in the $5,000 to $7,000 range skyrocketed to $100,000 to $400,000 and eventually $1MM because of my development of very high level recruitment assignments . My average minimum hours per week in this task was circa 80 hours

Education;

Currently Studying for my FINRA Series 7 Exam

Passed FINRA SIE on August 31, 2020

Northeastern University

2 years studying Electrical Engineering

Emmanuel College;

Economics / Microeconomics . Dean’s List

Licenses & Certifications :

FINRA Series 63 & FINRA SERIES 6

Addendum to CV

Professional Experience.

Business Development Manager for a software Startup.

2018 to Present. Responsible for Client Development in the Entire USA on a revolutionary and proprietary software that involves safety in commercial buildings in the event of a crisis or emergency The software was hosted my Microsoft Cloud. The Azure Cloud which is where Homeland Security sits. My role was Rainmaker and client door opener. My territory was the entire USA. I called on Chiefs of Police, Sheriffs and all senior Law Enforcement to set up Webinars where my sales and technical team would demonstrate the capabilities of this software I was also tasked with calling on School Superintendents across the USA with the task of setting up webinars for them as well. The end goal was to have the School Districts purchase this School Safety Alert system given all of the School violence we have seen in recent years

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