Our People
Meet the people behind your search.
Every member of our team owns a market they know deeply, built over years of placements, relationships and judgement. Meet the people behind Carnegie Consulting.
Experience across the markets we serve.
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Guy Steel leads Carnegie Consulting’s buy side recruitment work across asset management, hedge funds, private markets and alternative investment firms. His work covers Operations, Investment, Distribution, Product and Business Change. He also works with James Holm on Carnegie NAVsec, Carnegie’s specialist offering for secondaries and NAV financing.
Before establishing Carnegie in 2006, Guy spent seven years in investment management recruitment at Witan Jardine, where he led the Operations recruitment team. He began his recruitment career in 1999, following four years with Surrey Police, where he qualified nationally for promotion to Sergeant.
Over 25 years in recruitment has given Guy a wide perspective on the buy side. He is known for honest judgement and straight talking, and places lasting relationships above a role that is not genuinely right for the individual. He is particularly proud that Carnegie has remained independent and has evolved through two decades and several market cycles.
Fiercely competitive, Guy channels plenty of that energy into refining his golf swing and training in the gym. Sport, the outdoors, physical challenges, family and the family dog all have their place beyond work.
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Darren Reuben recruits mid to senior accountants for private equity, private credit and venture capital funds. Alongside individual appointments, he supports private markets businesses with compensation structures and sound hiring processes.
Darren brings 30 years in recruitment, nearly 15 of them at Carnegie. He began in secretarial recruitment and moved into Finance in 2000, initially as a Temps Consultant. At Carnegie, he has worked across all disciplines as a Permanent Consultant. His earlier career included award winning performance and a consistent record as a high performer.
Darren’s approach is consistent, empathetic, effective and trustworthy. He is proud of relationships that endure; his longest client relationship is now in its twentieth year. He has also helped develop Carnegie’s Private Markets practice as a finance recruitment presence in the sector.
Away from work, Darren is an Arsenal season ticket holder, a role he has held since the age of eight. He enjoys historical fiction and thrillers, is building a vinyl collection and has taken up golf since Covid. Family life includes his wife, two adult daughters and Reggie, the family’s Shih Tzu.
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Clare Robson recruits Business Support professionals for private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and portfolio companies, principally in the UK. For 20 years, she has connected people with financial services and investment businesses, bringing experience from both sides of the desk.
Before recruitment, Clare spent many years in Financial Services. Her career took her through the City, Canary Wharf and Mayfair, as well as a stint in New York and extensive travel. Her earlier roles included Corporate Entertainment Manager, UK and US Roadshow Manager, EA and Office Manager. That breadth gives her a grounded understanding of the practical demands of Business Support, the needs of the business and the contribution of the individual.
Clare is straight talking and driven by relationships. She knows her market and its people, looks carefully at fit and builds her work around trust. Where the obvious route is not the right solution, she is comfortable considering a more creative one.
A move from London to rural East Sussex exchanged City buzz for countryside living. Dogs, good food, family and friends are important to Clare; she is happiest with a full house, a well supplied table and lively conversation.
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John Amey recruits HR and Compliance professionals across the buy side, working with private equity, private credit, hedge funds, asset management and investment management businesses. His work ranges from early career appointments to senior HR and Compliance leadership.
Before recruitment, John spent eight years in the Royal Navy, including two Antarctic summers on HMS Endurance around the Falklands and Antarctic Peninsula. He has since spent many years recruiting across financial services, increasingly focused on HR and Compliance in the buy side.
John’s approach is straightforward and informed by the market. He values long standing relationships over the first available role, and many of the people he knows have been both candidates and clients at different points in their careers. One such relationship led him to co-found the HR Investment Network with a client four years ago; it remains active today.
Outside work, John enjoys yachting, epee fencing, vegetable growing and the serious business of lawn care. He grows chillies, makes his own chilli sauce and remains very fond of penguins.
James Holm
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James Holm recruits across private equity secondaries, credit secondaries, GP-led and continuation vehicle specialists, NAV lenders and the wider alternative asset management market. His work covers investment professionals from Associate and Vice President level to senior leadership, alongside fundraising and business development appointments.
James began his career at HSBC in the late 1990s and moved into recruitment in 2007. He has worked with S&P listed recruitment firms and niche specialists, building multiple desks across a range of functions. He has been a consistently high biller throughout his recruitment career.
Years immersed in an evolving market enable James to contribute beyond an individual search, with insight on team design, market mapping and talent planning. Clients value his market knowledge, curated network and honest advice on talent strategy. Candidates value discretion, a consultative approach and a long term commitment to their careers.
Naturally curious and entrepreneurial, James enjoys travelling and discovering new places. Time with family and friends matters greatly to him, as does bringing people together and building relationships that last in business and everyday life.
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John Hindley helps private equity, venture capital and private credit funds build their finance functions. His private markets finance mandates cover fund accounting, financial reporting, valuations and FP&A.
Over 11 years in London recruitment, John has hired finance and accounting professionals predominantly across financial services. He progressed to Principal Consultant at a boutique London recruiter respected for its private markets specialism, an experience that has kept his focus on finance hiring within the sector.
Clients and candidates value John’s speed to react, alongside a thorough, personal approach and support throughout each process.
Away from work, John is an avid Leyton Orient fan and season ticket holder, following the club home and away where he can. He and his partner grow fruit and vegetables at their East London allotment. Their next ambition is particularly specific: to grow the UK’s largest pumpkin in 2027. It is a project that calls for patience, planning and, no doubt, a little optimism.
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Aaisha Uddin works across finance and investment recruitment in private markets. She recruits fund accounting, fund finance and corporate accounting professionals, with an increasing focus on private equity and private credit secondaries.
She works with private equity secondaries funds, credit secondaries investors, GP-led and continuation vehicle specialists, NAV lenders and wider alternative asset managers. Her remit spans investment professionals from Analyst through to Vice President, with particular emphasis on people considering the move from the sell side to the buy side.
Aaisha takes a consultative, relationship led approach. She invests time in understanding each candidate’s experience, ambition and longer term direction, then combines honest market insight with opportunities that are genuinely aligned to their careers.
Outside work, Aaisha enjoys time with family and friends, travelling and exploring tropical islands with her husband. Her creative side finds an outlet in floral arrangements and a small floristry business, reflecting the entrepreneurial spirit she brings to recruitment.
“We practise what we preach: we take the time to source the best people, so our clients can focus on what matters most.”
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