Our CEO Ryan Kaye, celebrating his twentieth anniversary within the financial recruitment industry

2024 is a landmark year for us here at Market Talent as it’s the year Ryan Kaye, our CEO celebrate’s his twentieth anniversary of working in the financial recruitment industry.

Over the past two decades Ryan has engaged with some of the most progressive companies and placed some exceptional talent that have imprinted their brilliance within the enterprises that hired them.

Ryan added “There have been so many people that I have worked alongside that it’s too many to thank , but I will give an honourable mention to the man that made all this happen. Thank you Len Oatham at AY Bank. He took a punt on me when I was very green and naïve, and started my career in the city when he took me on into Operations and then the bank’s Treasury team.”

“AY Bank or Anglo-Yugoslav Bank doesn’t exist anymore, but the experience and mentoring I received there I’ve carried with me throughout my career. Thank you again Len”

Ryan’s first seven years were spent mastering the city’s ins and outs at both international and top-tier banks including Royal Bank of Scotland, JP Morgan, Sony and even the now defunct Enron. The next 20 years Ryan had total immersion in the financial and banking recruitment sector with a hat tip to LMA Recruitment, and now our business Ryan founded nearly 10 years ago where he’s taken the lead and have hopefully given to others, the same education and opportunities that Len gave him.

With a new government bedding in and monetary policy on a firmer and less fire-fighting mode, there’s a renewed vigour in the Square Mile and beyond, and that’s evident in the amount of inquiries we are receiving and the placements being made. Ryan mentioned “I couldn’t do this without my colleagues, and clients now and of the past, so cheers for the past twenty years and I look forward to the next with confidence and professional curiosity”