Global leaders
in executive search
Sainty, Hird & Partners
Sainty, Hird & Partners is one of the world’s leading Financial Services executive search firms. Headquartered in London, with offices in Dublin, Zurich and New York, it has helped to build investment banks, asset managers and insurance companies around the world for 25 years.
Our reputation for excellence is founded on an exceptional record of success, resulting in long-term relationships with business leaders, board members and human resource professionals.
Our clients define us. We do more than recruit for them. We offer advice; we keep watch for them; we fight their corner. And we also never forget an executive search firm is only as good as its next search.
Our Services
Executive Search
Our capabilities span all products and functions within Financial Services, at all levels of seniority and experience, across EMEA and North America.
Market Mapping
We create market maps to illustrate current business structures, headcounts and demographics within specific market sectors.
Assessments & Reviews
We help complex organisations evaluate and improve the performance of their executive committees and boards.
Professional Partnerships
Our partners offer team assessment by artificial intelligence; psychometric profiling; executive coaching and board evaluation.
Strategic Opportunities
We advise clients on acquisition targets or joint venture partners, in order to address product or business gaps.
Our Practice Areas
We have a long record of success working with asset and wealth managers across the world; as with sovereign wealth funds, family offices and pension funds.
Asset & Wealth Management
We have a strong track record in placing Chairmen, Senior Independent and Non-Executive Directors, as well as Risk, Audit and Remuneration Committee Chairmen.
Board Appointments
The team has an extensive track record across all debt and equity capital market disciplines in EMEA and North America.
Capital
Markets
We have one of the best-known teams in the market, which has been instrumental in some of the most high-profile appointments in the UK and Europe.
Corporate & Investment Banking
We have unrivalled access to the talent in the Life and Non-Life industry having handled more than 600 executive and board searches around the world.
Insurance
We are increasingly recognised for bringing new talent into charities, NGOs and other not-for-profit enterprises at Chairman, CEO and CFO level.
Not For Profit
We work at all levels within private debt and equity, including real estate and infrastructure. We work with both general and limited partners, and for portfolio companies.
Private Markets
Sainty Hird has an unparalleled track record within secondary markets, its partners having been responsible for approximately 1,000 hires over the past 20 years.
Sales, Trading & Research
We work with established, growing and nascent financial services firms to find leaders for all technology areas, including cybersecurity, infrastructure, AI and digital strategy.
Technology
Diversity & Inclusion
Sainty, Hird & Partners is committed to the principles and practices of diversity and equality within our own business and those of our clients.
We strive always to present our clients with the most talented individuals, regardless of race, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender or disability status.
Environmental,
social & governance
We are proud of our credentials. Efforts to decrease our own environmental impact include becoming paperless, banning single-use plastics and early adoption of flexible working practices. We regularly implement new ideas to reduce wastage and energy expenditure. We are also proud to support the aims of Chapter Zero.
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Contact Us
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