Sheffield Haworth announces the opening of a Chicago office and the appointment of Todd Fahey to lead its newly formed Global Quantitative Strategies Practice.

Sheffield Haworth continues to expand its presence in North America with offices in New York, Boston and now Chicago, growing its North American platform to service clients in all areas of asset management and investment banking. The Global Quantitative, Algorithmic and Automated trading arena is an expanding sector of the market and provides additional capabilities to our established capital markets core businesses.

Todd Fahey joins Sheffield Haworth from Exemplar Partners, which he founded in 2007. Prior to Exemplar Partners, Todd was an Executive Director and Head of Global Quantitative Strategies for Options Group in Chicago. His 13 year global track record includes placing executive level traders, quantitative strategists, quantitative modellers/analysts, and quantitative developers across capital markets globally. Todd studied Telecommunications Management at the DeVry Institute of Technology and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Joining Todd Fahey in the Chicago office will be Todd Hicks. Previously, Todd spent two years with Exemplar Partners; a front office focused recruiting firm specializing in senior quantitative and fundamental trading and research roles for banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms on a global basis. Todd began his career with DHR International, a global, retained search firm headquartered in Chicago.

Mark Esposito, Head of Americas said: “The new Chicago based team brings a wealth of search experience to Sheffield Haworth across the spectrum of quantitative analytics, trading, modelling and research. They will be able to harness the work in Europe across our technology search, research and advisory practice and spearhead growth in this specific field.”