Enterprise Risk Leadership
Placing experienced Directors and Heads of Enterprise Risk to design comprehensive risk frameworks, oversight structures, and business resilience strategies.
Strengthen your organization's corporate governance with specialized risk recruitment solutions. We connect investment banks, private equity firms, and financial institutions with vetted risk leadership and technical specialists across enterprise, operational, credit, and market risk functions. Leverage our rigorous screening process to access qualified quantitative analysts and compliance leaders.

Specialized search and staffing solutions for crucial risk governance, quantitative analytics, and regulatory compliance leadership roles.
Placing experienced Directors and Heads of Enterprise Risk to design comprehensive risk frameworks, oversight structures, and business resilience strategies.
Sourcing senior operational risk officers and managers skilled in risk control self-assessments, internal controls, and corporate governance protocols.
Recruiting quantitative specialists proficient in PD, LGD, and EAD modeling, portfolio performance metrics, and stress-testing methodologies.
Providing experienced model risk analysts for validation, governance, model auditing, and ongoing quantitative performance monitoring.
Delivering seasoned market risk managers to supervise portfolio exposure, set trading limits, and navigate broker-dealer regulatory standards.
Connecting firms with quantitative analysts and developers skilled in Python, SQL, and financial modeling for investment and trading risk.

We invest time upfront to thoroughly examine your firm's corporate governance framework, technical requirements, team culture, and long-term organizational objectives.
Supporting top financial institutions, brokerages, and investment firms with high-caliber risk management placements.
Boutique focus paired with decades of deep executive search experience in specialized sectors.
Our firm is guided by founders bringing over twenty-five years of executive search expertise.
Efficient recruitment processes allow us to present qualified candidate shortlists within two to three days.
Every professional undergoes comprehensive technical assessments, multi-stage interviews, and reference checks.
We provide customized models including Retained Search, Direct Hire, Contract Staffing, and Temp-to-Hire.
Specialized executive recruiters dedicated to strengthening corporate governance.
Head of Contract Services
Kristin Lutz serves as Head of Contract Services at Ikon Search, the boutique staffing firm she helped establish in 2021. With deep expertise in contract and contingent workforce solutions, Kristin brings a client-first approach to every engagement, investing time upfront to thoroughly understand each organization's culture, values, and long-term hiring goals. Her extensive background in executive search and staffing enables her to connect businesses across financial services, technology, insurance, and marketing with exceptional professionals efficiently and accurately. Kristin is committed to delivering clean, quality-driven candidate pipelines and building lasting partnerships that support sustainable growth for clients ranging from growing startups to established corporations and PE-backed portfolio companies.

Head of Insurance
Connor Brown is the Head of Insurance at Ikon Search, leading the firm's specialized Insurance, Risk & Compliance recruiting division. With a focused expertise in the insurance sector, Connor works closely with carriers, brokerages, MGAs, reinsurers, and TPAs to identify and place top-tier talent across a wide range of roles. He leverages deep industry knowledge, broad professional networks, and Ikon Search's cutting-edge recruitment technology to present highly qualified candidates typically within two to three days. Connor takes pride in building genuine relationships with both clients and candidates, ensuring every placement aligns with the organization's operational needs, culture, and long-term strategic objectives.

Managing Partner
Adam Levy is a key team member at Ikon Search, the boutique staffing firm founded in 2021 with a mission to deliver tailored talent solutions across select industries. Adam contributes to the firm's commitment to pairing rigorous candidate vetting with a deep understanding of client needs, helping businesses across financial services, technology, insurance, and marketing find exceptional professionals. He embraces Ikon Search's core values of tailored focus, market speed, and data quality, working diligently to build and maintain strong relationships with both clients and candidates. Adam's collaborative approach supports the firm's ability to handle diverse hiring engagements, from full-time permanent placements to contract and temp-to-hire arrangements.
We recruit across the entire risk governance hierarchy. Roles include Chief Risk Officers, Heads of Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management Directors, Operational Risk Officers, Market Risk Managers, Model Risk Analysts, Credit Risk Analytics Managers, and Quantitative Risk Developers. We cover both strategic oversight and hands-on quantitative modeling functions.
Speak directly with our risk recruiting specialists to discuss your immediate hiring goals.
Industry-standard search methodologies delivering elite executive risk talent.
Proven track record placing contract and direct-hire professionals.
Specialized alignment with financial services risk and compliance frameworks.
Connect with our specialized risk recruitment practice to discuss your talent requirements or initiate a search.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 347 332 9668. You can also send us a quick email at KristinL@ikonsearch.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 347 332 9668. You can also send us a quick email at KristinL@ikonsearch.com.