Hurston Eliot is an executive search firm for alternative investment managers, family offices, and foundations.
Strategic executive search
We are executive search specialists immersed in the investment management industry. Our process de-risks your search, giving you access to exceptional talent expertly matched to your needs.
40+ Years
Cumulative search-focused experience of our two founding partners
92%
Of our candidates are still in place two years post hiring
~40%
Average client cost saving realised through our fractional hiring services
Hurston Eliot’s Portfolio
Our client base includes both established and emerging alternative investment managers, family offices, and foundations.
Dynamic search across functions
Our search capabilities span full-time, part-time, and interim mandates for senior talent across your business.
Alternative Investment managers Family Offices Foundations
C-Suite
Finance & Operations
Legal, Risk & Compliance
Origination & Investments
Investor Relations & Marketing
Human Resources
Board Director & Chair
Our difference
We have developed a reputation as experts in certain key areas.
Gender diversity
Since inception, we’ve curated balanced shortlists that have consistently led to the appointment of senior women.
Fractional roles
For more than a decade we’ve helped clients realise the efficiency of hiring outstanding talent on a part-time basis.
Creative search
Our experience gives us the insight needed to put forward ‘wild cards’ who inject perspective and drive innovation.
Connected. Creative. Committed.
Julia Colegate-Stone
Partner
Julia founded Hurston Eliot in 2014. She started her career as a solicitor in the Investment Management group at Linklaters and subsequently held roles at Deutsche Bank, where she spent several years advising hedge funds and their investors, and a software start-up, as Head of Business Development. Since 2021, she has been an adviser to a quantitative investment firm focused on inefficiencies in the crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Julia is a qualified solicitor (non-practising) and holds an MA (Hons) in English from the University of Oxford.
Kate Lindsay-Fynn
Partner
Kate joined Hurston Eliot in 2018. She began her career at JPMorgan as an analyst in investment banking, before co-founding KHG Partners, an executive search boutique, which she grew until its subsequent sale to Hydrogen Group Plc in 2010. Kate was then Group COO at Hannam & Partners, before operating independently in a variety of consulting mandates for investment management firms and their portfolio companies. Kate read Classics at the University of Bristol.
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