Sarah Burley Reid is a member of the firm’s Financial Services Practice and specializes in executive searches within investment management and wealth management. She also co-leads the firm’s global Private Wealth Management Practice. Sarah focuses on the recruiting of senior executives, investment professionals, and sales, marketing and client service leaders. She works with a variety of client organizations including institutional asset managers, wealth management firms, endowments and foundations, hedge funds, private equity firms and funds of funds. Based in the firm’s New York office, Sarah has partnered with clients throughout the U.S.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Sarah was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, where she advised senior management of Fortune 500 companies on a variety of strategic and operational issues. Her clients included leading players in the financial services, media, telecommunications and manufacturing industries. Earlier in her career, she worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Previous to that, she served as research manager for The VIP Forum, a program of the Corporate Executive Board, which provides strategic research services to investment management firms, mutual fund complexes, private banks and trust companies.
Sarah graduated from Harvard College, where she received her A.B., cum laude, in history & literature. She also holds an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.