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.

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.

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.