Jensen Partners Establishes Presence in Southwestern U.S. with New Office Location and Senior Appointment

Jensen Partners (“the Firm”), a leading global distribution-focused executive search and corporate advisory firm announced an important expansion with the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas and the appointment of Stacy Schiffman to Managing Director of Distribution. Schiffman, who recently assumed her new role and now leads Jensen Partners’ Austin office, is responsible for overseeing all aspects of search execution, including candidate generation and engagement, as well as client management and interview preparation, with a particular focus on investment and capital raising roles. Schiffman is also playing an integral role in driving the Firm’s business development outreach, research and market intelligence to help guide hiring decisions and foster greater client outcomes.

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Austin is a burgeoning financial center home to major private markets participants in the Southwestern US. As Jensen Partners’ Austin office head, Schiffman is responsible for solidifying the Firm’s relationships with clients and candidates in the area, and her appointment marks the latest development in Jensen Partners’ global growth journey. In January 2023, the Firm announced the opening of a new office location in Miami, Florida to serve its growing list of clients who expanded their footprint in the region; and in October 2022, Jensen Partners announced a strategic investment from JB Capital to accelerate data integration and scale key product offerings that address a wider range of talent challenges including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), recruiting, hiring and retention.

“Stacy’s role in Austin is the latest step towards enhancing our Firm’s commitment to maintaining a strategic presence in major financial centers in both the U.S. and across the globe,” said Sasha Jensen, Founder and CEO of Jensen Partners and Jensen DiversityMetrics™. “Her decades of insight will help us continue to build deeper relationships with the best talent in the industry and further solidify our capacity to drive superior long-term human capital solutions for our clients globally. We are thrilled to welcome her to the team.”

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Schiffman joins Jensen Partners from PIMCO, where she led marketing recruiting. Prior to PIMCO, she launched Highline Staffing, a firm that specialized in the recruitment and placement of capital raising and investment professionals for leading asset management firms globally. From 2005 to 2009, Schiffman was an institutional relationship manager for marketing and client management at Prisma Capital Partners, where she focused on business development and raising assets across strategies in the alternative investment industry. She was also involved with recruiting on the buyside, helping to expand global footprints. Schiffman began her career on the buyside with Sanford C. Bernstein, managing the firm’s esteemed research department.

“I’m excited to join such a dedicated and passionate group at Jensen Partners, whose unique vision and platform has solidified its place as the industry’s leading data-driven talent solutions resource,” said Schiffman. “Jensen Partners’ mission-driven and highly impactful integrated recruitment strategy has quickly become the gold standard in the alternative asset management space, and I look forward to contributing to the important work that Sasha and her team are doing.”

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