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

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.