Ilya Talman
President
- Background
Ilya has led Roy Talman & Associates since 1982. From the firm's roots with Chicago and East Coast trading firms, he has built it into an international practice that fills executive and senior roles for large asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, exchanges and digital-asset trading firms: quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, quantitative risk managers, quantitative traders, senior quantitative developers, and technology leaders up to CTO and CIO. He also works directly with traders and trading teams, and remains full-time and hands-on in the firm's searches.
He holds an M.S. in mathematics and computer science and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and Crain's Chicago Business. His Talman Tidbits essays, published from 2018 to 2023, followed machine learning from side project to core business, the move to remote and hybrid work, and what each shift meant for hiring. That same interest is behind the AI-based search system the firm's recruiters use today.
- Ilya Talman on LinkedIn