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About Carnegie

Built on relationships. Defined by judgement.

Since 2006 we have advised the firms and professionals shaping private capital, helping them make the appointments that matter most.

Our story

A specialist firm, by design.

Carnegie Consulting was founded in 2006 with a simple conviction: that finance recruitment is best done by people who genuinely understand finance. Not as a category, but as a craft.
In the years since, we have become the recruitment firm that private equity houses, asset managers and specialist financial businesses treat as an extension of their own team. We are trusted with their most sensitive appointments precisely because we treat them as exactly that.
We have never sought to be the largest firm in our market. Our ambition is to be your first call. And when a search sits outside what we know intimately, we say so and point you to someone better placed, which is why so many clients keep us as the trusted next call too.
Today we serve clients from London and New York, and through our strategic partnership with Greenfield in Luxembourg we cover Europe’s two leading private markets hubs as a single coordinated team.
About the London & Luxembourg partnership

“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

Specialists who own their markets by name.

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

Meet the team

“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 finance markets they know deeply: private equity, asset management, hedge funds and hospitality. 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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  • Established 2006
  • London · New York · Luxembourg
  • Discreet & confidential