Boutique executive search
Executive search for the people who run the company
We place finance and operations leaders at venture and PE backed companies, Director through CXO. Every search is run by a senior recruiter who stays on it from the first call through the signed offer.
Where we focus
Finance & operations, Director to CXO
Finance
Owns the model, owns the board deck, and has an answer ready when an investor asks something hard.
- Chief Financial Officer
- VP of Finance
- Head of FP&A
- Head of Strategy
- Controller
Operations
The one who takes a founder's plan and makes it run without the founder in the room.
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief of Staff
- VP of Operations
- Head of Business Operations
- Head of Sales Operations
Exclusive recruiting partner
We're the only search firm the Operators Guild works with
The Operators Guild is where finance and ops leaders at venture backed companies talk about the stuff they can't put on LinkedIn. So our first call on a search usually goes to someone who isn't looking, and who wouldn't have opened a cold email anyway.
How we work
You won't get handed off
The recruiter who scopes your search is the one who runs it, start to finish.
First conversations happen fast
You're talking to real candidates within days, because the network's already there.
New candidates every week
You see people as we find them, rather than one batch at the end.
You'll see the numbers
Every update: how many we reached, how many we spoke with, how many passed and why.
Engagements that flex
Full retained at one end, fractional at the other, priced to the project.
We'll push back
If the role as written won't get you what you need, we'll say so early.
The team
Jamie Ceglarz
Founder & Managing Director
Ken Stakis
Senior Principal Recruiter
Melissa Heller
Senior Principal RecruiterGet in touch
Hiring a leader this quarter?
Send us the role and we'll be straight with you about whether we're the right firm for it, and what it'd take to fill.