Harjeev Bhalla

Harjeev is a Managing Partner at Options Group and Global Head of Electronic Trading, based in New York. He joined Options Group in 2007 to co-found and form the electronic practice globally.

He currently focuses on a wide remit including arbitrage strategies across both the Equity and Fixed Income markets. He has helped the firm achieve a dominant market share and has led significant build-outs for portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and high performance technologists. Harjeev leads a global team with members across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. He oversees the execution of full life cycle recruitment products and services and has partnered closely with senior-level management and founders at client firms on strategic level retained searches.

In addition to recruitment, Harjeev and his team also provide competitive intelligence management scans, management and cultural assessments, benchmarking and succession planning, market sentiment analysis, and compensation analytics and advisory. Harjeev has led a process-driven, research-intensive methodology which truly differentiates Options Group from the competition.

Prior to joining Options Group, Harjeev spent seven years with KPMG in its New York-based advisory unit focusing on the financial services industry, serving bulge bracket Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and proprietary trading firms. He received his Bachelor’s in Information Systems from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2000.

Away from the office Harjeev enjoys spending time traveling with his wife and their three children. He is a diehard fan of the Philadelphia Eagles.