Sextant Search Partners is a specialist executive search firm providing lasting, innovative leadership solutions to clients in Asset Management, Global Banking, Healthcare, Hedge Funds and Private Equity. This includes the full range of business roles, including Corporate Administration.

Through access to our dynamic community of industry leaders and senior executives, Sextant harnesses the power of collective intelligence, connecting talent with opportunity and insight with results.


A sextant is a navigational instrument used to determine a vessel's exact position at sea. When approaching unfamiliar waters, sailors use a sextant to take accurate measurements against the stars, ensuring a safe and efficient route to their final destination. With the same focus and precision, Sextant Search Partners identifies the brightest stars in the candidate universe and charts a course to deftly navigate critical human capital challenges.

As competition soars, asset management firms adapt and differentiate
Posted by Paige Scott in Asset Management Blog on 12/11/2007

Industry Insights on Firing, Hiring and Protecting Yourself in Chaotic Markets
Posted by Amy Elizabeth Russo in Word on the Street: Banking Talks to Smart People in Real Time on 9/18/2007

State of the Union: Asset Management Mid-Year Update
Posted by Jeffrey McCroy in Asset Management Blog on 8/16/2007

If talent is so scarce, why are companies failing to use their existing talent more effectively?
Posted by Garrett Sheridan in Human Capital Strategy on 5/22/2007

PIPEs Bursting on Wall Street
Posted by Nancy Gartlan in Word on the Street: Banking Talks to Smart People in Real Time on 5/16/2007

Breaking Into Private Equity and Venture Capital
Posted by Holly Davidson Little in Private Equity Blog on 4/19/2007

Capital Raising: Death of Commissions and Birth of an Arb
Posted by Greg Joslyn in Hedge Fund Blog on 4/10/2007

Sextant and Institutional Investor Institute team up for the fifth year to publish Calibrating Compensation: Charting a  Course in Asset Management 2007 - 2008. Download the findings from the compensation survey here.

Holly Davidson Little Promoted to Partner

Regina Glocker Joins Global Banking, Hedge Fund and Private Equity Practices as Partner

Sextant in the News

Sextant's Jonathan Goldstein talks to The Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal about the qualities private equity fund managers look for in a CEO, and weighs in on recent recruiting trends in banking for The New York Sun.
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