Ian Bailey

Ian is Vice President at Harrington Starr, specialising in sales and marketing recruitment across financial services and FinTech.

He works across a broad range of financial technology markets including capital markets, trading technology, payments, digital assets, regtech, market infrastructure, and wider FinTech. Ian partners with organisations ranging from early-stage start-ups and scale-ups through to global technology vendors, exchanges, trading firms, and tier-one financial institutions.

Ian specialises in supporting businesses through periods of growth and transformation, particularly those building commercial teams within highly specialised technology markets. He works closely with sales, business development, account management, customer success, partnerships, and marketing professionals, primarily at mid-to-senior level.

His market focus centres around go-to-market hiring within financial services technology, with a particular interest in emerging technologies shaping the industry, including AI, digital assets, post-trade infrastructure, payments, observability, and workflow automation. Alongside recruitment, Ian advises clients on hiring strategy, compensation trends, and how to attract top commercial talent in competitive markets.