Who we all are
We’re a diverse group of recruitment professionals with a wide range of backgrounds. But we all have one thing in common – we put the long-term futures of our clients and our candidates first.
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Anna Moorhouse
Researcher, Wealth Management
Anna Moorhouse
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.
Bonnie Jones
Researcher, Alternative Investments
Bonnie Jones
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.
Caroline Elsdon
Consultant, Asset Management
Caroline Elsdon
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.
Chandler Holbrook
Co-founder and Partner, Norgay Partners
Chandler Holbrook
Co-founder and Partner, Norgay Partners
New York
Chandler is a co-founder and Partner 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.
David Parfrey
Consultant, Alternative Investments
David Parfrey
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.
David Singleton
Chairman
David Singleton
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.
Emma Dwane
Senior Researcher, Wealth Management
Emma Dwane
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.
Ethan Smith
Senior Associate, Norgay Partners
Ethan Smith
Senior Associate, Norgay Partners
Los Angeles
Ethan is a Senior Associate at Norgay Partners in Los Angeles, assisting in search execution with a focus on private equity and credit, investor relations, infrastructure, secondaries, co-investments, and investment banking. Prior to joining, Ethan led talent acquisition efforts at Kayne Anderson, a multi-strategy alternative asset manager based in LA. Ethan recruited for and supported all company strategies at Kayne, including but not limited to Real Estate, Direct Lending, Renewables, Energy and Infrastructure, Growth Capital. He began his financial services recruitment career with Spencer Ogden. Ethan graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a major in Management.
Fiona Rose
Senior Researcher, Asset Management
Fiona Rose
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.
Gavin O'Donoghue
Director, Head of Wealth & Asset Management
Gavin O'Donoghue
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.
Henry Milton
Consultant, Asset Management
Henry Milton
Consultant, Asset Management
London
Henry joined Carpenter Farraday in 2024 and focuses on front-office asset management searches. Henry has 5 years of experience working with Asset Managers, Pension Funds & Sovereign Wealth Funds across the UK & EMEA. Henry has a BA in Modern Languages with Business from The University of Nottingham.
Jake O'Donovan
Consultant, Alternative Investments
Jake O'Donovan
Consultant, Alternative Investments
London
Jake leads on searches in EMEA across infrastructure & real assets having rejoined the business in 2024 after spending time at a boutique Infrastructure focussed search business. Jake began his career in professional services & banking in Ireland with a focus on non-performing loan sales and restructuring risk advisory. Jake entered search in 2020 at Carpenter Farraday, he holds a BSc in Law from University College Cork and a MSc in International Law & Business from UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
James Holm
Director, Alternative Investments
James Holm
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.
John Major
VP, Norgay Partners
John Major
VP, Norgay Partners
Los Angeles
John joined Norgay Partners in 2021 as a Senior Associate and is based in Los Angeles. His focus areas include investor relations, real estate, accounting, finance and operations and has executed searches with private equity firms, investment banks, private wealth management channels and asset managers. Prior to joining Norgay, John oversaw Finance and Accounting searches at Atrium Staffing. John is a graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Business Management.
Julian Schneider
Associate, Norgay Partners
Julian Schneider
Associate, Norgay Partners
New York
Julian is an Associate at Norgay Partners in New York, aiding in research and execution with a focus on private equity and credit, investor relations, infrastructure, secondaries, co-investments, and roles within investment banks. Julian has worked in financial services recruitment since 2021, where he covered front-office roles across a spectrum of private equity and credit funds, infrastructure funds and developers, placement agents, investment banks, and alternative asset managers. Before joining Norgay, Julian worked with Rand Thompson and Madison Hunt. He graduated from Hamilton College with a major in Political Science and government and a minor in Francophone Studies.
Kate Wilson
Operations Manager
Kate Wilson
Operations 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.
Kylie Hart
Co-founder and Partner, Norgay Partners
Kylie Hart
Co-founder and Partner, Norgay Partners
New York
Kylie is a co-founder and Partner 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.
Lucy Martin
Associate, Alternative investments
Lucy Martin
Associate, Alternative investments
London
Lucy is an Associate within the alternative investments division and covers investment and capital raising searches for VC and private equity funds. Before joining Carpenter Farraday, Lucy worked as a Consultant for Finatal, a search firm specialising in private capital investors and their portfolio companies, where she recruited technology investment professionals for venture and growth equity funds. Lucy has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Criminology from the University of York.
Michael Bergin
Director, Alternative Investments
Michael Bergin
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 over four years in Consultant Relations with AllianceBernstein 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.
Simon Nixon
Managing Director & Head of Alternative Investments
Simon Nixon
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.
Tom Upson
Director, Head of Wealth Management
Tom Upson
Director, Head of Wealth Management
London
Having joined the firm in 2010, Tom is one of the company directors and heads up the Wealth Management division, helping to launch the UK Wealth Management and Private Banking practice at Carpenter Farraday. Tom has worked with a wide range of institutions over the years, which include Private Banks, Wealth Management & Financial Advice firms and Family Offices in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Tom is recognised as a leading headhunter in the wealth management sector and is featured in the Spears 500 index for search consultants.
Zac Farren
Head of APAC, Alternative Investments
Zac Farren
Head of APAC, Alternative Investments
Singapore
Zac leads Carpenter Farraday’s APAC office with a core focus on IR and capital-raising searches for private equity, credit, and Infrastructure funds. Zac joined Carpenter Farraday in 2023 from Three Hills Capital Partners where he was a member of the Investor Relations team. Before this, he was part of Credit Suisse’s Private Funds Group, where he focused on fundraising for private equity clients. Zac earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Exeter.
Zoe Filpi
Researcher, Alternative Investments
Zoe Filpi
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.
Mary Gay Townsend
In memoriam 1968 - 2024
Mary Gay Townsend
In memoriam 1968 - 2024
Mary Gay Townsend, beloved mother and wife, passed away peacefully on Thanksgiving morning on the 28th November 2024. Mary Gay fought bravely against cancer for more than 25 years but never allowed the disease to define her. She was a true leader in private equity executive recruitment and touched the lives of everyone she worked with. Mary Gay’s tenacity, compassion, sense of humour, and resilience were instrumental in shaping Norgay Partners into the firm it is today. The Carpenter Farraday team are heartbroken by this loss and will honour her legacy through our continued commitment to placing exceptional talent with our clients.
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