Our Team’s Mission

We are committed to delivering outstanding executive search & advisory services across the entire spectrum of financial services and technology. We have a 30 year track record of supporting our client’s needs across an increasingly complex talent landscape.

Since 1990 our team has represented hundreds of clients with the singular purpose of recruiting talent that provides our client’s business with a sustainable competitive advantage.

We combine the advantages of a boutique firm with a global track record and several decades of industry expertise. That industry knowledge combined with our commitment to delivering the best possible talent to our client on each search has been and remains the cornerstone of our success. Reach and experience all in one place.

Alternative Investments, Hedge Funds & P.E.

Since 1990, we have helped our clients navigate the complex staffing needs of the Alts universe. Alts pioneer was our first client in the space. We leveraged that experience to expand into working with clients across the full array of hedge fund strategies. Reach & experience is critical to attracting industry best talent.

Hedge Funds Track Record

Our PE clients have relied on our experience recruiting executives across the following industries: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, Technology, & Consumer Products.

Private Equity Track Record

Wealth & Asset Management

Private banks, Wealth & Asset Managers have turned to us for 3 decades to navigate the talent market to ensure they maintain a competitive advantage and deliver best in class performance to their clients.

Today, the investment and wealth management space faces greater challenges than ever before. Fee compression, technology for the self-directed investor and increasing regulatory oversight have created a competitive environment where only the best will succeed.

To be the best you have to find and hire the best. We have a 30-year track record of recruiting the absolute best talent in the industry to accomplish that for our clients.

Banking, Wealth & Asset Management Track Record

Cyber Security & FinTech

We have compiled a strong track record in cyber-security and fin-tech. Our ability to help clients spans the last 30 years and includes searches for exectutive level and functional experts for cyber and fin-tech firms as well users of their services. It also includes tech consulting companies.

Attracting good talent in cyber & technology is a challenging task. Competition for talent is fierce and it requires an approach that ensures clients have access to industry best talent. It also requires a detailed understanding of the technology to properly assess candidates.

We help our clients traverse the challenges faced in identifying and attracting professionals that have a material impact on their business.

Cyber Security & FinTech Track Record

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Chairman & CEO

Richard Risch is the Chairman and CEO of the Risch Group. He launched the firm in 1990 and since has been the force that has developed and managed the growth and strategy of the business for almost three decades.

He is a collaborative leader with a record of recruiting and developing winning teams that grow profitable and successful enterprises for the firm’s clients.  Dick has a broad business background including senior roles in finance and business development. He has worked with clients to increase both their top and bottom line revenue, and help position their organizations as leaders in their industry.

He has broad and deep industry experience in financial services and technology honed over 30 years of working with US & European firms in the Alternative Investments, Private Banking, Cyber Security, FinTech, Investment Management, and Software markets.

Dick has worked closely with experts in the industries the firm serves to study and uncover the individual traits of candidates that drive business performance and has integrated that into the firm’s recruiting process; thus ensuring the client is getting the most strategically aligned candidate for each search.

The Risch Group is the third executive search firm he has built. Born in Milwaukee, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin there and resides in both his home town and Manhattan.

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