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.

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

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.

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.

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.