Columbus Advisors and Ducruet & Associates
formed a joint venture in 2009.
Deborah Markus is a founding partner of Columbus Advisors, a
boutique retained asset management recruitment firm. Ms. Markus
has over a decade of experience in the financial services and
executive recruitment industries. Ms. Markus began her search
career at Russell Reynolds Associates. As a key member of the
Global Financial Services Team, Ms. Markus focused on senior
recruitments across both alternative and traditional investments.
Leveraging her tenure in asset management, Ms. Markus worked
closely with clients to strengthen and expand their investment
practices and distribution capabilities. Clients included global
asset management organizations, multibillion dollar alternatives
firms, and small growing boutiques. Prior to launching Columbus
Advisors, Ms. Markus was a founding member of a boutique retained
financial services recruitment firm where she was responsible
for building the asset management practice.
Ms. Markus spent over seven years with
JPMorgan Asset Management in a number of marketing and sales
roles and was responsible for generating and maintaining client
business across all asset classes. Ms. Markus was actively
involved in launching, positioning, and marketing the firms
traditional and hedge fund investments to leading institutional
accounts. Ms. Markus began her career on the Consumer M&A
team at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities in San Francisco.
She holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York
University with concentrations in finance and marketing and
a B.A. in political science, cum laude, from Binghamton University.
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Linda Ducruet founded Ducruet & Associates in 2003. Ms.Ducruet has over
fifteen years of experience in executive search, starting at Heidrick & Struggles
where she was a partner in the Financial Services practice and a founding member
of its Wealth Management, Global Banking and Hedge Fund specialty practices.
She subsequently joined the Directorship Search Group working with Russell
Reynolds, founder of the eponymous search firm, where she was Head of the Wealth
Management Practice. Ms. Ducruet founded Ducruet & Associates acting on
her belief that a boutique search firm providing a high touch, focused approach
was the best way to deliver outstanding executive search to clients in today’s
complex markets. Her consultative and research-intensive approach to search
forges long term relationships with clients as she helps them build senior
leadership teams to support their strategic plans.
Since 2003, Ms. Ducruet’s clients
have included asset management firms, hedge funds, investment
banks, investment consultants and wealth management organizations
for whom she has conducted searches that have included heads
of client service, directors of marketing, client advisors,
portfolio strategists, senior research analysts, senior investment
associates, director of trading and trading strategy, head
of trading analytics, chief operating officers, managing directors
in investment banking and senior private bankers.
Prior to search, Ms. Ducruet spent ten
years in banking working for Bankers Trust in the Media Division,
structuring transactions for clients in the cable, broadcasting,
motion picture production and theatrical exhibition industries.
She was a private banker with Fleet Bank, (formerly Connecticut
Bank & Trust). After
college Ms. Ducruet worked for IBM’s Data Processing Division
as a Marketing Representative serving Wall Street clients. She
later joined Memorex in Paris, France as head of IBM-compatible
marketing.
Ms. Ducruet graduated from Smith College
with an A.B. in Economics. Ms. Ducruet has served as a director
of a community bank, Alumni Co-Head of the Greens Farms Academy
Capital Campaign and is an “Angel” member
of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. She is a graduate of the Cordon
Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris, France. Ms. Ducruet is fluent
in French, decent in Spanish and working on her Italian. She
lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with her husband and two children.
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