Spire Search Partners opened its doors in 2007 – launched by two long time friends and search consultants Dennis Grady and Adam Connors.
Childhood friends in Westchester County, New York, they reconnected in the late 1990s when Adam placed Dennis at UBS Investment Bank. Several years later, Adam was hired to launch the contingent financial services search practice at Core Staffing. Dennis joined the team as the second hire and helped to fill finance, operations and risk roles with major financial institutions including 2 of the top 5 investment banks, Swiss Re, RiskMetrics/MSCI and others.
In 2007 the two left to start Spire Search Partners. As a firm, Spire began working on more senior level roles and increasingly complex risk and quantitative roles. Through the market shocks and recession that hit shortly after launching, the firm expanded to work with private equity firms (Cerberus), hedge funds (JAT, Schumway, SAC, ZBI, MSD Capital, Silver Point, Permal, Ssaris), consulting firms (Capco), as well as Fintech firms (MSCI, RiskMetrics, Numerix, Trepp, SuperDerivatives, RMS) and insurance (Swiss Re, Axis Capital).
Although there were trying times in the economic cycle, the firm grew to 15 people with areas of expertise in Risk, Compliance, Finance and Sales/Trading.
On its 10-year anniversary, the partners have come together to breathe new life into the firm and lever the deep relationships and search process expertise they have acquired over the years to bring high quality, specialized service to their clients.