Anita Hill Sands is the Founder and Managing Partner of Intuition Financial Placement, a boutique executive search firm specializing in financial services. A former Wall Street trading executive with more than 22 years of front-office experience, Anita brings deep market intelligence, global relationships, and product expertise to every search engagement.

Prior to launching her firm, Anita held senior roles across securities lending, repo, delta one trading and equity finance. She began her career at Merrill Lynch, where she opened the firm’s securities lending office in Tokyo, traded corporate bonds on the New York Repo desk, and helped build the equity swaps business. After 15 years at Merrill, she joined Bear Stearns before launching and building the Equity Finance desk for the broker-dealer arm of Crédit Industriel et Commercial in New York, where she assembled and led her own team.

Today, Anita leverages her international experience, product breadth, and first-hand understanding of trading desks to advise clients and senior candidates on strategic talent decisions.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Stony Brook University and an MBA from Fordham University