Executive search built on trust and discretion, delivered with conviction and at pace.
Executive search and talent advisory focused on the non-investments functions of hedge funds and alternative investment platforms.
Approach
AJH Search & Advisory partners with hedge funds and alternative asset managers on senior non-investment hires.
We deliver retained or fractional executive search solutions across corporate, control and talent functions — Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, HR and Commercial leadership.
Every mandate combines tier-one search discipline with senior in-house judgement, so recommendations are backed by current market intelligence and an understanding of what makes exceptional talent join and stay.
Specialisms
Retained Search
Delivered with discretion, conviction and pace, for hard-to-fill Corporate, Control, Talent and Technology roles.
Market Intelligence & Competitor Insights
Real-time visibility on comp benchmarks, org design and who's hiring across hedge funds and alternatives.
Succession Planning
Building the bench before you need it, mapping internal and external options for your most critical non-investment seats.
Fractional & Interim
Embedded delivery capacity for funds scaling faster than their internal team without adding headcount.
Selected Mandates
London
HR build out for a scaling macro hedge fund
London
Restructuring an in-house technology team
Dubai
Hiring operations optimised through advisory
Ask any hedge fund CPO what keeps them up at night.
Increasingly, it is not the market. It is whether one person leaving breaks the back office.
Adam Hilder
Founder
Adam is the founder of AJH Search & Advisory, an executive search consultant focused on hedge funds and alternative investment managers. His career spans elite search firms — Russell Reynolds and Marlin Hawk — and senior in-house leadership at HSBC, where he led Managing Director appointments across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. That combination of tier-one search discipline and first-hand institutional judgement shapes how he works with COOs, CHROs and business leaders.
He advises on senior hires across Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, HR & Talent, Commercial, Technology and Finance leadership — from retained search and succession planning to leadership pipelining and market mapping. The aim is not simply to fill a role, but to strengthen the leadership platform around the investment business.
Discreet Consultation
All enquiries are handled with absolute confidentiality.