GP-Level Hiring.
Senior leadership for private markets firms — across Investment, IR, Corporate Functions, HR and the next generation of talent running them day to day.
Investment & IR
Led by Charles Peck & Amanda Levin
We place the people who deploy capital and the people who raise it: Investment Directors, IR Directors, Heads of Capital Formation, Capital Markets specialists and Product Specialists — across Private Equity, Venture, Private Credit, Secondaries, Real Estate and Infrastructure.
Select clients: Waterland, Patria, Asper, Park Square, ICON Infrastructure, Castleforge.
Corporate Functions
Led by Mark Maynard & Amanda Levin
The infrastructure roles that keep private markets firms running: CFOs, Heads of Tax, General Counsel, Deal Counsel, Heads of Compliance.
Select clients: Charterhouse, Oakley Capital, HarbourVest, Hollyport, IK Partners.
Technology & HR
Led by Alex Ford
The people and technology functions inside a private markets firm both require a different skill set to general search. We place leaders across both — from Chief People Officers, Heads of HR, Heads of Reward, Heads of Talent and HR Business Partners, to Chief Technology Officers, Chief Information Officers, Heads of Data and Heads of Analytics — across GPs, advisory firms, family offices and portfolio companies.
Select clients: Blackstone, Charterhouse, family offices, GP HR teams, PortCo HR.
Next Gen Talent
Building strong private markets platforms requires more than senior leadership. The quality of the next layer of talent — the people running functions day to day — is often what determines whether a firm scales successfully.
We identify and hire the next generation of leaders across finance, investor relations, legal, operations and HR. These are the second-in-command roles that provide continuity, strengthen decision-making and ensure leadership teams operate effectively. Our focus is on individuals with the judgement, capability and potential to grow into future leadership positions, while delivering immediate impact today.
Portfolio Hiring.
Led by Mark Maynard & Alex Ford
In portfolio companies, leadership is the single greatest lever of value creation. The right hire compounds returns across the hold; the wrong one consumes time, capital and momentum.
Human Capital Alpha is built for the moment when leadership is the variable in a value-creation plan — and the cost of getting it wrong is permanent.
We do not match CVs to job specs. We map leaders to value levers. Before we open a brief, we invest time understanding the value-creation plan, the cultural dynamics and what the incoming leader needs to inherit, build or dismantle. Our diagnosis shapes the search — not the other way around.
We place CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CPOs, CTOs, Chief Strategy Officers and Heads of M&A across PE-backed FinTech, HealthTech, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Professional Services.
Beyond the hire — Leadership Alpha.
In partnership with Woodman Morgan
Finding the right leader is half the equation. Making sure they perform — at the GP and across the portfolio — is the other half.
Through our partnership with Woodman Morgan, we extend Human Capital Alpha into the work that determines whether leadership delivers: leadership diagnostics, executive team effectiveness, founder-to-scale transition, succession readiness and governance discipline.
At GP level
Leadership Alpha strengthens investment team maturity, partner succession, governance and influence with portfolio CEOs.
At portfolio level
It strengthens execution — through CEO and ExCo effectiveness, founder-to-scale transitions, organisational maturity and board-ExCo alignment.
Where Human Capital Alpha finds the leader, Leadership Alpha operationalises them — applied at the moments where execution risk is highest: post-acquisition, executive transition, pre-exit, partner succession.
Two frameworks. One philosophy. Leadership treated with the same rigour as capital allocation.
Supporting services.
Interim
For short-term hires, March Interim gives you rapid access to the best interim candidates on the market. Same rigour, same selection process, same standards as our permanent work.
Market Insights & Benchmarking
Salary benchmarks, market practice and organisational design intelligence, drawn from our network and research — tailored to where your firm is today and where you want to take it.
Industry Roundtables & Events
We host industry-recognised roundtables under Chatham House Rules, bringing leaders together across Legal, COO, IR, HR and CFO functions to share experiences candidly and raise standards across private markets.