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.

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.

Regina Glocker joined Sextant Search Partners' New York office in July 2007. A partner in Sextant's Global Banking, Hedge Fund and Private Equity Practices, Regina specializes in senior-level banking assignments in corporate finance, M&A, and capital markets, and has worked extensively with hedge funds and private equity firms.

Previously, she was a partner at Westwood Partners from 2002 to 2007, where she focused on investment banking, hedge funds and private equity. She began her search career at Korn/Ferry in 1997, where she was a partner in the Investment Banking/Capital Markets Group. Before turning to executive search, Regina sold derivative and debt capital market products to international energy companies for Chase Securities and Chemical Securities. She worked in Aetna’s private placement group prior to attending business school.

Regina has a AB in economics from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in public and private management from Yale University.

Jonathan S. Goldstein is a partner and founding member of Sextant Search Partners, bringing to the Private Equity Practice over a decade of experience in executive search and direct investing in the alternative asset class. Based in Sextant’s New York office, Jonathan has completed numerous associate, vice president and partner searches on behalf of private equity and other alternative asset management firms.

Prior to forming Sextant, Jonathan was a consultant in the Private Equity Practice of the executive search division of TMP Worldwide. Previously, he was a vice president at Sun Capital Partners, a middle-market leveraged buyout group focusing on turnarounds and under-performing companies.

Jon began his career working in the private equity markets of the former Soviet Union, where he was a fund manager with the AIG Brunswick Millennium Fund and New Century Holdings, investment firms focusing on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

He received a BA from Brown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Joseph T. Healey is a founding partner of Sextant Search Partners and leads the Private Equity Practice in New York. Joe's distinguished sixteen-year career in executive search has been focused on recruiting senior executives in the financial services industry. Since 1995, he has specialized in recruiting engagements for senior investment professionals on behalf of alternative asset managers, with a particular emphasis on private equity funds. Representative clients include leveraged buyout and venture capital funds, private equity funds-of-funds, secondary investment firms and hedge funds. In addition, Joe and his partners at Sextant have been involved in the formation of numerous private equity investment firms.

Previously, Joe led the Global Private Equity Practice of the executive search division of TMP Worldwide. Before his affiliation with TMP Worldwide, Joe was a founding member of The Highland Search Group, a premiere financial services executive search firm that was formed in 1995 and acquired in October 1999 by TMP.

One of the private equity industry’s most recognized human capital experts, Joe is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Joe earned his undergraduate degree in accounting from Hofstra University.

Practice Specialties
    Private Equity

Amy Elizabeth Russo is a partner leading Sextant Search Partners’ Global Banking Practice in New York. Amy's search experience has been focused on the debt, credit, risk and investment banking markets in both Europe and the United States.

Before entering the search industry, Amy's career was in banking at Citicorp and Barclays, in New York and in London, across a variety of credit-intensive product and risk management roles. In search, she has worked with a mixture of U.S. and European-headquartered financial institutions, helping them to build their capital markets, investment banking or private equity activities.

Amy received an AB from Harvard College and attended the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School. She is a board member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York.

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.

Nancy L. Gartlan is an associate with Sextant Search Partners’ Global Banking and Corporate Administration Practices in New York, specializing in the recruitment of M&A, private placements, PIPEs bankers, and leveraged finance professionals. Additional areas of expertise include mid-to-late stage venture assignments and growth equity mandates. Nancy was Sextant’s director of research from the firm’s inception in 2002 to 2006.

Prior to joining Sextant, Nancy was a research associate at TMP Worldwide Executive Search after the company's acquisition of the Highland Search Group. At Highland, Nancy was the director of research supporting the private equity, investment banking, capital markets, asset management and real estate sectors. Previously, Nancy was the director of research for the New York Financial Services Practice at Boyden International.

Nancy received a BFA from New York University.

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.