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Private Equity & Venture Capital

Investment professionals and portfolio leaders for private equity and venture firms, and the companies they back.

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Overview

On both sides of the deal.

We work on both sides of the deal: partners and investment teams for the firms themselves, and the chief executives, finance leaders and operating partners who deliver the value-creation plan in their portfolio companies.

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Roles we place

The leaders we recruit for.

  • Managing Partner
  • Partner
  • Principal
  • Vice President, Investments
  • Operating Partner
  • Head of Portfolio Operations
  • Head of Investor Relations
  • Chief Financial Officer (Fund)
  • Portfolio Company CEO
  • Portfolio Company CFO
  • Head of Value Creation
  • General Counsel
  • Board Director

In their words

  • They understood our board before we did. The CFO they found has changed how we run the bank, and the search never once felt rushed.

    Catherine Ellis

    Board Chair

    Regional bank, Midwest

  • Discreet, rigorous and genuinely invested in fit. Two years on, every leader they placed with our portfolio is still in the seat.

    Daniel Mercer

    Managing Partner

    Mid-market private equity firm

  • They represented me with the care of an adviser, not a recruiter, and were candid about the role in a way no one else was.

    Priya Raman

    Chief Investment Officer

    Independent asset manager

  • They took the time to understand a small bank with big ambitions. Our new CFO was the right person for where we are going, not just where we have been, and the process was handled with complete discretion.

    Grace Holloway

    Chief Executive Officer

    Community bank, Southeast

  • Every conversation was honest, including the ones about roles that weren't right. The offer I accepted was the one I would have chosen with a year to decide.

    Marcus Adeyemi

    Chief Financial Officer

    Mid-sized commercial bank

  • The preparation was thorough and the feedback after each interview was direct. A year into the role, the partner who placed me still checks in.

    Helena Strand

    Managing Director

    Private equity firm

Our approach

Five stages, one partner.

From the first briefing to the new leader’s first year, every search follows the same deliberate process, led by one partner.

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