Ember Search

About Ember Search

The senior finance hire that changes everything, done fast, by the people who already know them. Most executive search firms will take your brief, charge 33–40%, and hand you off to a junior resourcer. Contingent firms will blast it across ten searches at once. Neither was built for what a US-based VC or PE-backed startup actually needs: someone who already lives inside the finance market, moves at startup speed, and has skin in the outcome. That's Ember Search. 250+ finance searches completed. $4B+ raised by placed candidates. 12 exits. 26 acquisitions. An average tenure of 2.9+ years. This isn't volume. It's depth. Daniel and Theo built this firm because they kept watching the same failure repeat. Too many layers. Too much junior-led outreach. Founders making critical finance hires based on a shortlist they barely trust, built by people they’ve never met. The system is broken. They built Ember instead of complaining about it. With 28+ years of combined experience, they had the network to do it differently. So they did. Every search is led directly by Dan or Theo. No handoffs. No account managers. You get the founders, on every call, until the hire is done. They're already mapped into the market. That means shortlists in weeks, not months. Not because they cut corners, but because they already know this market cold. If your startup is making its first serious finance hire, this is who you call.