FUND OPERATIONS

As private markets strengthen their corporate functions, securing exceptional leadership is increasingly important. Our Head of Corporate Functions, Dean Terry, and Finance & Data expert, Dylan Rosser, specialise in recruiting COOs, CFOs, Heads of HR, General Counsel, transformation specialists and other senior corporate functions professionals.

Our experts

Dean joined PER in 2018 and has since built a strong track record in appointing Corporate Functions professionals across the private markets.
Dean Terry

Principal, Head of Corporate Functions

Dylan joined PER in 2024 and leads the Finance and Data team. Dylan specialises in mid to senior-level finance, portfolio management, analytics and data hires across Private Equity, Real Estate and Direct Lending strategies in London and Europe.
Dylan Rosser

Vice President, Finance & Data

Sophie is a Principal for Latin America, working with Private Equity, Family Offices, Infrastructure, Energy and Real Estate funds.
Sophie de la Sierra

Principal, Latin America

Letty provides comprehensive administrative support for the corporate functions team, the finance & data team, as well as life sciences and high growth teams.
Letty Maurin

Assistant Team Coordinator

Stacey Epps oversees the logistics and administration for roles across finance & data, corporate functions, life sciences and high growth, ensuring every detail is handled smoothly and efficiently.
Stacey Epps

Team Coordinator

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OUR EXPERTISE

Fund operations appointments 

within the private markets space

Global reach is essential for us to successfully complete mandates for international clients.

Over the last four years, we have built an extensive network and talent pool of senior to junior candidates across multiple jurisdictions including the UK, the USA and Europe.






LEVELS

Building your leadership pipeline



The search for fund operations leadership, requires a strong understanding of the market and the players within it. We approach all senior mandates with thorough research, extensive network reach-out, careful interview screening and detailed reports to help ensure the success of these pivotal searches.
 


Mid-level search for Corporate Functions roles will often focus on both inside and outside of the private markets space including the wider finance and professional services sectors. Ensuring the level of performance and quality of experience is key to the success of mid-level search and our experts will reference and network to benchmark the suitability of the hire.


Junior team members are often recruited from outside the private markets space, and each search requires an extensive reach out to the wider ecosystem. Our experts combine wide outreach with web-based advertising, networking through our database and broader search tools to identify strong shortlists of people with the required level of skill and experience.

EXPERIENCE
Client stories

A leading impact investor was looking to expand their legal function by hiring a legal counsel

The fund was looking for an ambitious up-and-coming legal professional with exposure to transaction/M&A law. Utilising our broad search network of junior-mid level professionals in this space, we successfully screened a number of candidates from our private practice/in-house candidate pool. From these options, we sourced a fantastic candidate with the right experience and a keen interest in impact investing.


A first time private equity fund, who had just raised their first fund and were about to launch their second fundraise, were looking to build out their finance team by hiring a CFO

They were looking for a young and ambitious finance professional with private equity experience, looking to make the step up, to come in and take full ownership and build out the finance function of the business. Due to our long term presence in this market, we used our existing and extensive network of finance professionals in private equity and put together a strong initial shortlist, of which the successful candidate was hired from.
A global investment manager with a diverse portfolio was looking to hire a company secretary/head of governance to oversee legal proceedings following a period of growth

With investments across several jurisdictions, the fund needed a corporate governance professional to sign off on board procedures in line with appropriate regulators. Through a meticulous and specialised search process, and identification of an experienced candidate pool, we were able to find our client a suitable candidate with whom they were thrilled.


A long standing client of PER was having difficulty with a Tax Associate search in their New York office

Due to the success we’d had with the client in their European offices, they asked if PER could help with this search also. We utilised our central research function and marketing platforms and we were able to find a number of strong candidates the local agencies had missed, from which we placed a really strong candidate.
A global multi-asset investment fund was searching for an HR manager to join their London office in a generalist capacity

The ideal candidate needed prior experience in designing and optimising people processes. A specialised search was undertaken to focus on this skillset, and after phone screening the initial shortlist was produced. From this the client pursued the most suitable candidate, and made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.



We worked with a leading private capital and growth investor who had established a new role in the business, and were looking for a portfolio management professional

They needed to take ownership of the portfolio management function and drive improvements in data management and portfolio reporting in order to better serve their investors. The candidate required previous private equity experience and data management capabilities. We first leveraged our existing network in this space and supported the search further with our central research function. We were able to find our client a fantastic candidate that they were really happy with.

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