Paige C. Scott is a partner with Sextant Search Partners’ Traditional Asset Management and Hedge Fund Practices. Based in Boston and San Francisco, Paige focuses on senior-level searches for institutional sales and marketing, institutional client service, and consultant relations professionals; equity and fixed income portfolio managers and product specialists; equity and fixed income analysts; chief investment officers; hedge fund investment professionals; heads of wealth management and investment portfolio managers.

Before joining Sextant, Paige was a senior client partner within Korn/Ferry’s Investment Management Practice as well as co-head of the firm’s Hedge Fund Practice, based out of the Boston and San Francisco offices.

Previously, Paige was a senior recruiter for Source Finance in San Francisco, where she was instrumental in building the firm’s West Coast practice. She began her career working on due diligence and trial preparation for the law firm for Furth, Fahrner & Mason.

Paige earned a BA in French and Russian literature from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She is an active member of the Boston Club, the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco, the Financial Planning Association of Boston and the Executive Women’s Golf Association of Boston.

Holly Davidson is a partner with Sextant Search Partners’ Private Equity, Traditional Asset Management and Global Banking Practices, specializing in the recruitment of senior-level investment and fund operating professionals for LBO, growth equity and venture capital firms, as well as for fund-of-funds, endowments and other alternative asset management clients. Based in Sextant’s San Francisco office, Holly has conducted managing partner, partner/managing director, principal/director and vice president searches for fund and financial services clients in the Bay Area and across the country.

Holly brings over a decade of relevant private equity and financial services industry experience to her clients. Prior to joining Sextant, Holly was an investment professional at a leading San Francisco-based technology buyout firm. Previously, Holly was director of Corporate Development at Blue Martini Software, a customer relationship management software company, as well as a senior associate at Robertson Stephens’ Technology Group. At Robertson Stephens, Holly advised a variety of internet and software clients on M&A and financing transactions. Holly spent her earlier career with Morgan Stanley in New York, where she worked in Mergers & Acquisitions and the Fixed Income Derivative Products Group.

Holly received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her BBA from the University of Michigan with highest distinction. She is a frequent speaker at private equity and investment management conferences, as well as an active member of the Stanford alumni community.

Mark Esposito leads Sextant’s Corporate Administration and Finance Practices, specializing in senior functional roles within private equity and hedge funds, investment, commercial and retail banking, institutional asset managers and insurance companies, as well as financial sponsored portfolio companies.   Mark has completed board, CEO, CFO and select leadership mandates in finance, administration, technology, operations, sales/marketing, legal/compliance and risk management functions.

Formerly a partner at Christian & Timbers, Mark was the founder of the firm’s Global Financial Services Practice, leading the practice for seven years. He was also a member of the firm’s leadership advisory board.

Previously, Mark was affiliated with D.S. Wolf Associates and Smith Hanley Associates. Before entering search, Mark held a series of sales and marketing roles with a leading financial services publisher.

Mark received a BA from Gettysburg College in business administration.

A founding partner of Sextant Search Partners, Sloan Klein is based in San Francisco and maintains an "of counsel" relationship with the Hedge Fund, Private Equity and Traditional Asset Management Practices. Sloan's private equity search experience includes partner and portfolio manager searches for venture capital and leveraged buyout firms, as well as funds-of-funds and endowments and foundations. In investment management, Sloan has conducted assignments in all functional areas, including sales, marketing and client service, portfolio managers and analysts, and general management.

Before founding Sextant, Sloan was a principal in the San Francisco office of TMP Worldwide Executive Search, where she was a member of the Financial Services Practice. Prior to joining TMP, Sloan was a vice president at Higdon Prince, a boutique investment management executive search firm where she played a key role in building the firm's private equity search business. Earlier, Sloan worked in capital markets at Lehman Brothers for four years, first as a research equity marketing associate and then as an equity portfolio strategist. She began her career at PaineWebber in institutional equity sales.

Sloan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University.

Vanessa Eertmans de Samamé leads Sextant Search Partner’s Private Wealth Management Practice. She is also a member of the firm’s Global Banking, Private Equity, and Traditional Asset Management Practices in New York. Vanessa has conducted searches for large private wealth management institutions, as well as smaller high net worth alternative investment boutiques across the US market, recruiting for leadership, business development and product specialist roles for example. She has additional expertise in the private equity fund-of-funds space, and the debt, credit, corporate finance and M&A markets in Europe and the United States.

Her previous search experience includes several years in London with the executive search firms Whitehead Mann and Alexander Mann, where she conducted banking, asset management and legal assignments.

Prior to search, she spent a year in commercial banking with Bank Brussels Lambert in Cologne, with a short stint in Madrid. Vanessa graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with a Bachelor of Arts in German and Spanish.

Patrice W.L. Young is a principal with Sextant Search Partners in Boston. A member of the Healthcare, Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and Traditional Asset Management Practices, Pat specializes in the recruitment of senior investment professionals and senior operating executives to financial sponsor-backed companies in the healthcare, life sciences, and cleantech industries.

Before joining Sextant, Pat executed searches for J. Robert Scott, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, focusing on the recruitment of senior operating executives of biotechnology companies and on the recruitment of senior executives in the financial services industry.

Pat is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and was the managing partner of the Chicago office of Berman & Clark, a Los Angeles-based law firm. She also was legal counsel to Aon Technical Insurance Services in Chicago. Throughout her legal career, Pat was a litigator and specialized in professional liability defense.

Pat holds a JD from Boston College Law School. She was raised in Hawaii and attended the University of Hawaii before receiving a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Pamela Cox-Cavanagh is an associate at Sextant Search Partners in Boston. A member of the Asset Management and Hedge Fund Practices, Pamela specializes in recruiting institutional sales, marketing, client service, and consultant relations professionals; equity and fixed income portfolio managers, product specialists; analysts; chief investment officers; hedge fund investment professionals; heads of wealth management, and investment portfolio managers.

Prior to joining Sextant, Pamela worked in the Healthcare, Education and Not-for-Profit Practices at Korn/Ferry International. Previously, she was a writer at the Boston Globe.

Pamela received a BS in journalism from Suffolk University and is an alumna of Simmons College.

Peter W. McDermott is an associate supporting multiple practices at Sextant.

Previously, he was a sales recruiter for People Ventures Inc, a boutique search firm in Washington DC, where he collaborated with Fortune 500 companies to fill their recruiting needs.  At People Ventures, Peter’s specialty was candidate identification and outreach. Prior professional experience includes an internship in the Asset Management Group at Bloomberg LP.

Peter received his BA from the University of Richmond in Rhetoric & Communication Studies and American Studies, coupled with a concentration in Ethnic Studies and a minor in History.