CARPENTER FARRADAY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Researcher, Wealth Management / London
Before joining Carpenter Farraday, Anna worked as a client relationship manager for an independent financial adviser. She joined the team in 2021 and supports our Wealth Management division by identifying the best talent for our wealth management clients across a wide range of geographies.
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- Researcher, Alternative Investments / London
Bonnie joined Carpenter Farraday in 2024 and supports the alternative investments team with assignment management, data administration, candidate research and sourcing. Bonnie holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Job Titles:
- Consultant, Asset Management
Caroline joined Carpenter Farraday in 2021 and focuses on active equities, multi asset and senior distribution searches. She has over 20 years' experience in executive search, spending the last 9 years working with leading buy-side firms and boutiques across the UK, EMEA and North America. Caroline has a joint honours degree in history and philosophy from the University of Birmingham.
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- Director, Norgay Partners / New York
Chandler is a co-founder and Managing Director at Norgay Partners. She is actively involved in business development, marketing, and search execution across the firm's fundraising, investor relations, and asset management practice areas. Chandler has been in financial services recruiting since 2010 and has placed candidates across fundraising and investor relations, investment banking, investing, and operations. Previously, she was a sales consultant for recruiting technology solutions. She graduated with a 4.0 cumulative GPA from The University of Georgia in 2009 and completed a postgraduate fellowship from Princeton University in Hangzhou, China.
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- Consultant, Alternative Investments / London
David is a Consultant within the alternative investments division covering investment professionals in the private markets space. Before joining Carpenter Farraday in 2023, David spent four years in Management Consultancy at Accenture where he worked on cross-industry digital and tech transformations for global clients. David has a First Class Honours Masters in Management Consultancy from Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and a First Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce from University College Cork.
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- Chairman
- Chairman / London
David draws on his 26 years of director-level experience in a wide range of financial services businesses to support us with strategic direction, coaching, and management. He has sat on the retail bank and wholesale bank exec committees and led the commercial and business banking operations for one of the largest European lending banks. He now chairs a number of businesses in a range of sectors, from SMEs to PLCs. His experience and insights help us create significant differentiation for our clients, candidates and staff.
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher, Wealth Management / London
Emma researches the discretionary investment management world for our wealth and asset management teams. She joined us in 2012 from one of the UK's largest listed recruitment organisations, where she covered a wide range of finance disciplines. Emma has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the Cork Institute of Technology.
Job Titles:
- Asset Management Team 's Lead Researcher
- Senior Researcher, Asset Management / London
Fiona is the Asset Management Team's lead researcher, focussing on equities and senior distribution searches. She's also helped our traditional and alternative investment clients recruit sales talent for a variety of products across a wide range of geographies.
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- Director, Head of Wealth & Asset Management / London
Gavin's one of our directors and has been with Carpenter Farraday since 2011. Gavin leads senior appointments for our asset management clients across a range of investment strategies. He's also responsible for driving the growth and development of our asset management coverage across Europe. Gavin has a bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Manchester.
Job Titles:
- Director, Alternative Investments / London
James manages all searches for indirect private equity, credit, and real asset strategies for fund, secondary, and co-investment funds. He leads many of our senior secondary investment and advisory mandates for some of the largest market participants across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Carpenter Farraday, James spent ten years in investment banking search, and eight years at HSBC in their trading operations team.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant, Wealth Management
Jamie joined Carpenter Farraday in 2021 and leads our international business across Wealth Management and Private Banking. Prior to joining, Jamie oversaw the EMEA private banking search function at a top search boutique in London. Jamie has a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Nottingham.
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- Office Manager
- Office Manager / London
Kate takes care of the logistics, helping our clients' extensive interview processes run smoothly and efficiently and keeping any candidate offer details up to date. Kate manages the day-to-day operations of the office ensuring its people and environment are well looked after and she also take an active lead in the firm's CSR and D&I initiatives. She came to us from the London Business School, where she was a Business Development Manager. Kate has a Bachelors degree from University of Bristol.
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- Co - Founder and Director at Norgay Partners
- Director, Norgay Partners / New York
Kylie is a co-founder and Director at Norgay Partners. She helps lead Norgay's private markets investment practice with a strong expertise in private equity secondaries, private credit, and private equity direct and co-investing. She also works with clients in recruiting investment banking talent across all levels. Kylie has been in executive search since Summer 2013, upon graduating from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a degree in Latin Language & Literature.
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- Founder and Managing Partner at Norgay Partners
- Managing Partner, Norgay Partners / New York
Mary Gay is the Founder and Managing Partner at Norgay Partners. She has been in the executive search business for over 20 years and has executed hundreds of searches across secondaries, fundraising, private equity, investment banking, infrastructure, and other subsectors within the financial services industry. She has actively participated on the boards of Breakthrough NY, a non-profit organization that transforms the lives of children through education, and is part of the Vestry Leadership at St. John's Episcopal Church Cold Spring Harbor. Mary Gay graduated from The George Washington University and The French Culinary Institute.
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- Director, Alternative Investments / London
Michael leads all senior client searches for European private equity, alternative credit, and real asset sales and investor relations. Prior to joining Carpenter Farraday in 2017 he spent two years in Consultant Relations with Alliance Bernstein and four years with PWC in their Tax Advisory team in Dublin. Michael is a qualified chartered accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant, Wealth Management / London
Rachel is a Consultant covering Discretionary Investment Management and Financial Planning across our Wealth Management and Private Banking divisions. She joined in 2022 from Nelson Scott where she specialised in placing Paraplanners, IFA Administrators, Wealth Managers and Financial Advisers and was previously an Assistant Paraplanner for Tilney Smith and Williamson. Rachel has a Master of Arts from The University of Warwick and a Bachelor's degree in English and American Literatures from Keele University.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Managing Director & Head of Alternative Investments / London
Simon is the founder of Carpenter Farraday and heads our alternative investments coverage. He has over fifteen years' experience running searches for private equity, alternative credit and infrastructure funds across a range of functions, levels, and geographies. Prior to working in search, Simon spent five years working in risk management and graduated from Coventry University with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Researcher, Asset Management / London
Stephanie supports the asset management team with candidate research, sourcing and data administration across global equities, fixed income and multi asset assignments. Before joining Carpenter Farraday in 2023 Steph worked as a recruitment coordinator for a boutique healthcare firm.
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- Director, Head of Wealth Management / London
Tom is one of the company directors and heads up the Wealth Management division. He moved across from commercial sector search to join us in 2009. He covers private banking and relationship management in the UK and other European jurisdictions and works closely with Norgay Partners, our partner firm, expanding their wealth, asset management, and alternative investments client offering into the US. He works with a wide range of institutions, including large US banks, traditional private banks through to private investment and family offices.
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- Director, Norgay Partners / Los Angeles
- Managing Director at Norgay Partners
Wendy is a Managing Director at Norgay Partners in Los Angeles, where she oversees the West Coast search practice. Wendy works across alternative investments placing candidates in fundraising, investor relations, investing, finance, and operations roles. Her clients include public and private real estate companies, private equity firms, and investment banks. Wendy graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with minors in French and Business. She studied at the Sorbonne while completing a semester abroad in Paris, France.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant, Alternative Investments / London
Zac is a Consultant within the alternative investments division covering IR and capital raising searches for private equity, credit, and Infrastructure funds. Zac joined Carpenter Farraday in 2023 from Three Hills Capital Partners - a European structured-capital investor - where he was a member of the Investor Relations team. Prior to this he was part of Credit Suisse's Private Funds Group, where he focused on the project management of fundraising processes for private equity clients. Zac has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Exeter.
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- Researcher, Alternative Investments / London
Zoe supports the alternative investments team with data administration, candidate research, sourcing, and assignment management. Zoe joined Carpenter Farraday in 2022 and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in in Visual Communication from the Arts University, Bournemouth.