Toronto · Senior Security & Infrastructure Search
Kelmion is a boutique executive search firm for mid-market financial services companies in Toronto and the GTA. We place senior cybersecurity and infrastructure talent into regulated environments — OSFI B-13, PCI-DSS, FINTRAC — where compliance context is as critical as technical fit.
Who We Serve
A specific band of companies where a real security team exists, hiring pain is felt directly by the business, and a boutique firm can move faster than the alternatives.
Company Profile
Companies in active growth mode — past the startup stage, with a real security function, where hiring pain is felt directly by the business and the next senior hire genuinely moves the needle.
Verticals
Fintechs, payment companies, regional financial institutions, and insurance carriers with active compliance obligations.
Regulatory Context
Active mandates driving technology and security investment. Every search is built around the regulatory reality, not bolted on as an afterthought.
The Approach
The boutique model is deliberate, not default. It works best where technical leadership owns the hiring call, where regulated context shapes the brief from day one, and where a thoughtful shortlist outperforms a high-volume funnel. That is the work we are built for — and where we do our best work.
The Roles We Fill
OSFI B-13 now touches cloud, data, and platform engineering — not just the security team. We search across four practice areas where regulated context and technical depth overlap.
The hires that set the security agenda for the business. Retained and exclusive search for the top of the security organization — delivered with discretion and senior attention throughout.
Senior architects who can reason across cloud, application, and enterprise domains — and translate OSFI B-13 controls into defensible technical decisions rather than compliance theater.
The operational leaders running detection, response, and identity in regulated environments — where a missed alert or a misconfigured entitlement has consequences that reach the board.
The intersection roles where compliance obligations and modern platform engineering collide. Niche profiles most internal recruiters struggle to source or evaluate well — precisely where we focus.
Regulatory Focus
OSFI Guideline B-13 pulled technology and cyber risk out of the security silo and into the operating fabric of every federally regulated financial institution in Canada. For mid-market firms, the consequence is concrete: you now need senior people who understand cloud, data, and platform engineering and the regulatory context — at the same time. That talent is scarce, in high demand, and difficult to reach through conventional channels. Generalist recruiters rarely source or evaluate these profiles well. Kelmion was built around this specific problem.
Why Kelmion
The model works because the senior person does the work. No junior coordinators. No handoffs. One relationship from intake to placement.
The person who takes your intake is the person delivering your shortlist. No account managers, no junior coordinators, no handoffs between teams. Boutique by design means senior consultants own the work from first call to offer accepted.
OSFI B-13, PCI-DSS, and FINTRAC are not abstractions — they are the context every search is built around. We don’t need to be educated on your compliance environment before we can be useful.
We do not place junior or volume roles. Every search is senior — leadership, architecture, or niche intersection roles where an internal recruiter cannot get to a qualified pipeline on their own.
An active network across Toronto fintech and financial services security leadership — on both the client and candidate side. We know who is moving, who is about to move, and who is worth talking to before they are on the market.
We operate in the band where companies have outgrown generalist recruiting but have not yet been swallowed by procurement. No MSP program, no VMS, technical leadership owns the hiring call. That environment is where boutique search actually works — and where we fit.
Senior security requisitions routinely sit open 30 to 60 days when a generalist firm is on the search. Shortlists miss the regulatory lens. Offers fall apart late in process because the fit was never quite right to begin with. These are the specific patterns a specialist firm is built to solve — and the reason clients engage us in the first place.
Our MissionKelmion helps mid-market financial services companies in Toronto hire senior security and infrastructure talent in regulated environments — through a boutique practice kept deliberately senior.
Start a Search
Whether you have an open senior security requisition, a leadership seat to fill, or a hard-to-source intersection role that has been open for weeks — the conversation starts with a short call. No intake forms, no discovery theatre.
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Response time
Within one business day