Partner and senior revenue-generating hiring for executive search firms in Financial Services
Ninth Space is an independent headhunting practice specialising in Partner and senior revenue-generating appointments within executive search and leadership advisory firms operating across Financial Services.
Our work combines selective retained search with confidential, off-market individual representation, drawing on established relationships and detailed knowledge of the senior search market across the UK, US, and internationally.
We operate in a deliberately narrow market. Over more than a decade, we have mapped the senior Financial Services search market across the UK, US, and wider global market, including where credible originators sit, how firms are positioned, and where coverage appears under-developed.
This is traditional, discreet, analogue headhunting. Technology, data, and research support the work, but the value sits in direct conversation, judgement, timing, discretion, and senior-to-senior engagement.
Focused on Financial Services search and advisory markets
Ninth Space operates across the senior Financial Services search ecosystem.
Our coverage spans asset and investment management, private markets, private credit, hedge funds, banking and capital markets, insurance and reinsurance, FinTech, wealth management, private banking, real estate and real assets, and the senior functional search markets that support those sectors.
The focus is deliberately narrow. It gives us visibility across the firms, practices, people, and platforms shaping senior Financial Services search across the UK, US, and wider global market.
It allows us to understand where capability is strong, where coverage appears under-developed, where succession pressure is building, and where senior revenue-generating search professionals may be open to the right conversation at the right time.
How We Work
Client-led Retained Search
Working exclusively on retained mandates with executive search and leadership advisory firms, identifying and securing Partner, Managing Director, and senior revenue-generating appointments across Financial Services.
Combining targeted market mapping, direct headhunting, and discreet engagement to deliver individuals with the sector expertise, client relationships, and commercial track record to strengthen and grow established practices.
Off-Market Individual Representation
Working discreetly with selected Partners, Managing Directors, and senior revenue-generating professionals across Financial Services executive search and leadership advisory.
Drawing on established relationships and detailed knowledge of the UK and US markets, we identify and engage with firms where an individual's sector expertise, client relationships, and commercial track record align with the platform's strategic ambitions, often ahead of any formal hiring requirement.
Direct conversation, personal representation, and traditional headhunting
Ninth Space is phone-first by design.
We do not rely on mass LinkedIn approaches, generic InMails, speculative email campaigns, or junior-led outreach.
Senior search professionals are rarely moved by templates. They are moved by credibility, timing, context, discretion, and live conversation.
For clients, this means the market is engaged properly, senior-to-senior, with control over message, timing, and approach.
For candidates, it means representation, not distribution. Names are not mass-marketed, circulated speculatively, or pushed into the market by email. Each conversation is selective, personal, and handled with judgement.
Perspective built over almost three decades in executive search
Ninth Space was founded by Steven Salter, drawing on almost three decades in executive search across the UK, US, and international Financial Services markets.
That perspective has been shaped by building and leading search businesses, working with senior search professionals at key career decision points, and operating close to the commercial realities of leadership, performance, revenue generation, and value creation.
The practice reflects that experience: independent, discreet, phone-first, and built around proper representation rather than market distribution.
For Ninth Space, senior hiring is not simply a process. It is a commercial, reputational, and leadership decision that depends on timing, judgement, discretion, and direct engagement with the right people.
Ninth Space
71-75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ5
Email: contact@ninth.space
“We are a signatory to HM Government’s Voluntary Code of Conduct for Executive Search Firms.”
