Partner and senior revenue-generating hiring for executive search firms in Financial Services
Ninth Space is a retained headhunting practice focused on Partner and senior revenue-generating hiring for executive search firms operating across Financial Services.
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Our core work is Partner and Managing Director-level hiring, with selected mandates at Principal, Director, VP, or Associate Director level where the individual carries meaningful origination capability, client ownership, sector credibility, or clear future Partner potential.
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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.
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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.
Ninth Space exists for executive search firms that want the senior FS search market engaged properly, discreetly, personally, and with context.
Focused on Financial Services search and advisory markets
Ninth Space operates across the senior Financial Services search ecosystem.
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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.
Direct conversation, personal representation, and traditional headhunting
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Ninth Space is phone-first by design.
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We do not rely on mass LinkedIn approaches, generic InMails, speculative email campaigns, or junior-led outreach.
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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.
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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
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Ninth Space was founded by Steven Salter, drawing on almost three decades in executive search across the UK, US, and international Financial Services markets.
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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.
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The practice reflects that experience: retained, discreet, phone-first, and built around proper representation rather than market distribution.
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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.
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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.”
