Damian joins from The Options Group and at Sheffield Haworth he will cover the full spectrum of commodities, with particular focus on energy and power, softs and agricultural, precious and base metals. Damian originates and executes senior search mandates across trading, structuring, sales and marketing and private equity. In addition Sheffield Haworth will continue to develop its coverage of the renewable and alternative energy sectors. Damian previously worked for Credit Suisse building their Collateral Management group and then moved to ANZ Investment bank, where he traded Emerging Market repos. He is a graduate of the Royal Agricultural College and holds a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Agricultural Business Management. 

Linda joins from Stephen Raby Associates and prior to that worked at CT Partners and Global Sage. Linda moved into search from Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets division, where she spent five years as Head of Research, Marketing and Sales. Linda focused on Research Relationship Management with Deutsche Bank’s priority global accounts. Prior to Deutsche, Linda began her career in the Smith Barney training programme on Wall Street and has worked as a fixed income sales person for JP Morgan (Chase Bank), HSBC, Barclay’s Capital and Greenwich Capital (RBS).

Tim Sheffield, CEO comments: “Damian is a well established name in the commodities search market and has over nine years’ experience in developing senior management relationships with investment banks, corporates, trade houses and hedge funds. Linda has over two decades of financial services experience and has buy-side and sell-side clients in Europe and United States. Linda joins the Global Markets team with responsibility for developing our emerging markets space.

I have no doubt that both consultants will add to our core capabilities by strengthening our presence in both the commodities and fixed income arenas.”