Team

Maxwell Lipton

Founder

Maxwell Lipton is a 10-year recruiting veteran with a 7 year track record scaling an Inc. 5000 Recruiting Agency (HIRECLOUT).

Fionics is Maxwell’s brainchild and is the “No BS Resource for Quant Traders, Researchers, Developers & PMs evaluating their career.”

Lewis Cook

Head of Business development

Lewis leads business development at Fionics.

Lewis previously worked in natural gas trading with Equinor, founded a crypto fund recruiting agency, and developed business opportunities for hedge funds, trading firms, venture capitalists, and private equity firms.

Henry Lenehan

Head of Recruiting – EMEA

Henry runs Fionics Recruiting in EMEA and has spent nearly a decade recruiting US and EMEA based HFT and MFT quants, traders, and portfolio managers for prop trading and firm and hedge funds around the world.

Nicole Brunelle

Senior Quant Recruiter

Nicole Brunelle has 2 decades of Quant Finance recruiting expertise and has helped over 50 Quant Researchers, Developers, and PMs make career transitions within hedge funds and prop trading firms.

Nikhil Vaughan
Nikhil Vaughan-Jeremy

Senior Quant Recruiter

Nikhil’s career began recruiting Portfolio Managers, Researchers and Strategists for tier-1 hedge funds and global asset managers, where he successfully completed 50+ searches.

At Fionics, Nikhil specializes in placing elite Quants, PMs and Traders (HFT/MFT) into leading systematic hedge funds and proprietary trading firms worldwide

Josefina Oliva

Client Success Coordinator

Josefina is Fionics’s Client Success Coordinator and is your go-to for all things scheduling and follow-up between Fionics candidates and clients.

Patrick Jung

Quant Recruiter

Patrick covers the Asia region and has several years recruiting quants, traders, and portfolio managers across global markets.

With a background at Amazon and top-tier technology firms, he now focuses on placing HFT and MFT talent into systematic hedge funds and proprietary trading firms worldwide.

Avetis Antaplyan

Chairman of the Board

Avetis Antapylan is the Chairman of the Board at Fionics and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fionics’s Inc. 5000 Parent Company, HIRECLOUT.

Avetis is the visionary behind HIRECLOUT’s global success and continues to build the firm as a relationship driven, high-tech recruiting brand.

Jeffrey Mitchell

Board Member

Jeff Mitchel sits on the Board of Fionics and is the Co-Founder and President of Fionics’s Inc. 5000 Parent Company HIRECLOUT.

Jeff is a 4x Recruiting founder with 1000+ candidates placed, 150+ recruiters trained, and 40+ years in the business.

Jaia Verner

Quant Recruiter

Jaia led global recruitment and talent acquisition for crypto market makers and trading firms, with key experience at Auros and B2C2, where she built and scaled high-performance trading and engineering teams from zero through rapid growth.

At Fionics, she focuses on connecting top developers, quants, traders, and PMs with leading prop firms and crypto market makers across global markets.

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