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New York Office
Henry G. "Hank" Higdon, Managing Partner
 Hank Higdon's experience in the executive recruiting industry spans close to 40 years, the first 15 of which were spent with Russell Reynolds Associates. At Russell Reynolds, Hank spent six years in New York before establishing and building the firm's Houston office. He then moved to Los Angeles to manage the firm's west coast operations that included offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Menlo Park. He served on the firm's five-person Executive Committee. In February 1986, Hank left to become Chairman and one of the founders of Higdon, Joys & Mingle, Inc., which evolved into Higdon Group, and now into Higdon Partners. Hank is a graduate of Yale University, and has been recognized as one of the top 100 executive search professionals in America in the book, Career Makers, published by Harper Collins, and is also included in The Global 200 Executive Recruiters, published by Jossey-Bass. For The Career Navigation Handbook: America's top executive recruiters on choosing and changing your career path published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2004, Hank was selected to author the section on "Careers in Investment Management."
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Maryann Bovich, Partner
 Maryann Bovich has over 20 years of recruiting experience, the majority of which has been focused on senior level recruiting in the asset and wealth management fields. In addition to servicing traditional asset management clients, she has considerable experience working with alternative investment firms such as hedge funds, fund of funds, and private equity firms, in recruiting both investment and non-investment professionals. Maryann joined Higdon, Joys & Mingle in 1986, after having spent her earlier years overseeing the recruiting function in the Sales and Trading area at Bankers Trust Company in New York. Maryann is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.
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Jane Bierwirth, Partner
 Jane joined the firm in 2004 and has 10 years of executive search experience focused on the asset management industry. Jane leads the firm’s family office practice and has conducted more than 20 assignments. She was previously a Managing Director in Korn/Ferry International’s New York office, and a member of the firm’s Global Financial Markets practice. Prior to joining the search industry, Jane was an investor relations consultant for small-cap companies in the Northwest, and the Managing Editor of the Red Chip Review, a securities research publication. Jane began her career at the Chemical Banking Corporation, where she worked for more than 15 years, primarily in leveraged finance, private banking, and in the Chairman’s office as his assistant for two years. Jane holds a B.A. from Lancaster University in England and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.
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Derek Braddock, Partner
 Derek Braddock joined the firm in 2005 and previously had over nine years of experience in financial services, predominantly in sales and product management roles. At Higdon Partners, his search experience has been focused on investment and sales/marketing professionals, notably in the alternative investments arena. Derek began his career at Lord, Abbett & Co. in mutual fund sales and marketing. He then joined Salomon Smith Barney, where he became an Assistant Vice President, Nasdaq Trading, specializing in high tech companies while working closely with research and research sales. After receiving his M.B.A. in 2000, he spent over four years at Charles Schwab Company in San Francisco with responsibility for overseeing Schwab Institutional's trading technology offering. Derek earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Derek serves on the Association of Executive Search Consultants’ (AESC) Americas Council and on the Board of Directors for Per Scholas, a non-profit organization focused on workforce development in low-income communities.
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Edward Fowler, Partner
 Ed Fowler re-joined the firm in 2008 having started his recruiting career at Higdon Partners over 14 years ago. He has conducted senior level searches throughout the investment management industry and has worked closely with the endowment and foundation community for over 12 years. Ed focuses primarily on investment and institutional sales & marketing professionals, but has also completed a number of general counsel, COO, and other senior management searches for a variety of asset management organizations. In addition to his recruiting experience, Ed co-founded and managed Referral Networks, a successful recruiting-related software start-up. He also spent three years at Wachtell Lipton, a leading New York law firm. Prior to re-joining Higdon Partners, Ed spent four years running his own search firm which also focused exclusively on asset management. Ed graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Political Science and later earned an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. A native New Yorker, Ed currently lives in Charlottesville with his wife and daughter, and splits his time between New York and Virginia. He has been actively involved with the Boy Scouts, fund raising for The Taft School, and as a board member of a non-profit agency serving local children and families.
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Laurie Anne Eamma, Director of Research
 Laurie Anne, who joined the firm in 2000, is involved in all phases of the search process, providing research on investment management firms (traditional and alternative), personnel movement, market/performance data, industry developments, etc. Prior to joining Higdon Partners, she served for six years as a real estate paralegal with several New York law firms, including Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, and has experience in the fields of social work and education. Laurie Anne is a cum laude graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University (TX), earning her B.A. degree in both English and Sociology.
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Lorraine Brennan, Partner -- Administration
 Lorraine Brennan has been associated with the firm since 1989. She has oversight responsibility for all operations and administration. Earlier in her career, Lorraine served in the fields of education, insurance, travel, and community affairs. She earned a B.A. in English Literature from the College of Mount St. Vincent in Riverdale, New York.
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Boston Office
William R. Matthews, III, Partner
 Bill joined the firm in 2008, and leads the firm's Boston office. He was most recently a Managing Director at Conley & Company, where for four years he directed the firm's Alternative Asset search activities, and specialized in recruiting senior investment professionals and non-investment professionals (e.g., investor relations, marketing, finance, operations, risk, compliance) for private equity firms and hedge fund managers. Earlier in his career, Bill worked for nine years as a lawyer and investment banker in Boston. He practiced commercial litigation at several firms, including Goodwin Procter, and worked as an investment banker in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Bill holds a B.A. in history from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is National Association of Securities Dealers Series 7- and 63-certified (inactive), and is active with the alumni committees of Yale and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
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Erin McGrath Carroll, Senior Associate
 Erin helped establish the Boston office of Higdon Partners in October 2008. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at Conley & Company, where she was responsible for recruiting senior investment
and non-investment professionals for asset management, venture capital, and private equity firms. Erin earlier spent seven and one-half years in the Asset Management, Private Banking, and Wealth Management businesses of Merrill Lynch in New York and Boston. Before Merrill, she was an Associate at Douglas C. Lane & Associates, a New York based registered investment advisor. Erin received her B.S. in Business and Economics, cum laude, from Lehigh University in 1999. She is an active member of The Junior League of Boston.
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