Gold Coast

Gold Coast Search Partners is a specialized executive search firm that partners with investment firms to recruit exceptional buyside talent. Based in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and Los Angeles, Gold Coast builds longstanding client and candidate relationships through transparent, thoughtful and thorough search processes.

Gold Coast Search Partners specializes exclusively in recruiting investment professionals for buyside firms across all fund sizes and strategies. The firm executes searches from Associate through Partner level for private equity, growth equity, and venture capital clients throughout the United States. Their experienced team provides strategic advisory services with candid communication and responsive partnership approach.

The firm's founders, Anna Brady and Janelle Matthews, bring extensive experience from both the buyside investment world and executive search. Anna spent eight years in technology investment banking at Robertson Stephens, Deutsche Bank, and Jefferies before transitioning to nine years of buyside recruiting. Janelle was an Associate at TPG in the Fundraising Group and an Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers before her nine years in executive search.

Gold Coast's expertise spans the complex timing and strategy of on-cycle Associate recruiting, where they excel at assessing analysts from investment banking and consulting firms to identify candidates capable of transitioning to the buyside. At the post-MBA level, their work encompasses Senior Associate through Partner placements, with particular strength in mid-level talent placement and team building for first-time funds.

The firm leverages deep knowledge of investment firms to assess candidates' deal experience, analytical rigor, sourcing capabilities, corporate culture fit, and investment training. As supporters of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), they have significant expertise in helping clients hire and retain diverse talent at all levels. Their detail-oriented approach and extensive buyside firm knowledge enables them to provide thoughtful counsel throughout the entire search process.