Along with the value-creation thesis, making the right hire at the right stage is among the highest-stakes decisions a PE investor makes. The search industry stopped treating it that way.
Executive search has drifted toward a transactional approach focused on resume defensibility, at exactly the moment PE-backed companies need something different. Junior partners are running critical searches. Search firms are presenting optics, not outcomes. When the wrong hire can derail an investment, that approach is not good enough. Access was built in response, with the strategic insight, judgment, deep relationships, and rigorous methodology PE requires.
Most search firms can fill a role. Few truly understand why the last two hires in the seat did not work, what the business actually needs at its current investment stage, and who in the candidate market is an experienced fit and actionable right now. This knowledge comes from 25 years of focused experience in one market. Access was founded to put it to work, with a firm built around one function, one market, and a methodology stress-tested from the ground up for the demands of private equity.
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The private equity firms below have trusted Access Search with their CFO searches, many of them more than once.
Access Search is led by partners with decades of C-suite search experience, supported by an advisory bench whose networks reach into the finance and operating communities our candidates come from.
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