About Carnegie

Specialist recruitment for Private Markets and Alternative Investments.

Since 2006, we’ve helped clients build their teams and professionals build their careers across Investment, Finance, Operations, Business Support, HR and Compliance. Deep sector knowledge and honest, practical advice underpin everything we do.

Our story:

Specialists since 2006.

Carnegie Consulting was founded by Guy Steel in 2006 to provide specialist recruitment built on honest advice, strong relationships and a thorough understanding of the markets we serve.

Today, we work with clients across Private Markets and Alternative Investments, helping them recruit across Investment, Finance, Operations, Business Support, HR and Compliance.

Knowing the sector is only part of the job. We take time to understand each client’s business, the people within it and what a successful appointment needs to achieve. That understanding helps us challenge a brief, give realistic advice and represent the opportunity convincingly to the right people.

Our relationships often span years and multiple appointments. Candidates become clients, clients introduce us to colleagues, and those connections have helped shape the business we are today.

Twenty years on, our principles remain the same. Know your market. Give honest advice. Follow through on your commitments.

We support clients and candidates across the UK, Europe and the United States.

“Our ambition is to be your first call. When we cannot be, we make sure we are the trusted next call: the partner who understands the brief, the market and what is at stake.”

What we believe

The principles that guide every engagement.

Discretion

The most important conversations are rarely loud. We handle every mandate with confidentiality our clients and candidates depend upon.

Judgement

We are paid for our opinion, not simply our access. We tell clients what they need to hear, even when it is not what they hoped to hear.

Relationships

We measure success in decades, not placements. The strength of our network is the product of relationships carefully maintained over time.

Specialism

We choose depth over breadth. By concentrating on a small number of markets, we advise with authority rather than generality.

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Our people

The people behind Carnegie.

From our founder Guy Steel to the consultants covering private markets finance, business support, human resources and NAV financing & secondaries: every member of the team recruits in a market they know deeply.

“We take the time to source the best people, so our clients can focus on what matters most.”

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THE CARNEGIE TEAM

When was Carnegie Consulting founded and by whom?
Carnegie Consulting was founded in March 2006 by Guy Steel, who remains Founder and Director. The firm has specialised in finance recruitment for private equity and investment-led markets from the beginning and is headquartered in London, with an office in New York.
Carnegie is a specialist, not a generalist. Its consultants work only in the markets they know deeply: private equity, asset management, hedge funds, business support, human resources and NAV financing & secondaries. Every mandate is led by a partner or director, candidates are assessed for temperament as well as technical capability, and the majority of mandates come from repeat clients.
Discretion is the default at Carnegie, not the exception. Every mandate is handled with the confidentiality clients and candidates depend upon, and a candidate’s name is never put forward without their explicit consent.
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