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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lucia Ripi is an associate with Sextant Search Partners' Healthcare and Private Equity Practices in New York, focusing on executive-level roles within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and high technology industries.  Lucia was the search administrator for the Healthcare Practice when she joined the firm in 2005.

Previously, Lucia gained valuable business experience as an entrepreneur in the construction and glass industry as a partner in her own company.  With its origins as a small family-run business, the company quickly grew to an established and well-respected contender in the glass industry.  This success was due in part to Lucia's business development and relationship skills.  Before this entrepreneurial pursuit, Lucia was the assistant to the president of NHL Enterprises, the licensing arm of the National Hockey League.

Lucia is a 1985 graduate of Briarcliffe Secretarial College.

Danielle Smith is an associate with Sextant's Private Equity Practice. She is based in San Francisco.

Prior to joining Sextant, Danielle worked for DRA Advisors, a registered investment advisor specializing in real estate investments.

Danielle received a BA in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley