JD Haspel

Founded in 2006, JD Haspel is an executive search firm specialising in the finance and real estate sectors. The company helps clients appoint C-suite leaders, business heads, top producers and functional experts, working with clients on a national, regional and global basis. JD Haspel's clients include retail, corporate and investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, private markets investors, real estate developers, consultants, insurance companies, mutuals, fintechs, payment firms and market infrastructure platforms. With values, integrity and excellence at the core of everything the firm does, clients can expect a bespoke, collaborative and high-touch recruiting service.

JD Haspel specialises across multiple financial services sectors including corporate and investment banking, real estate, asset management and private markets, hedge funds, insurance, and corporate functions. The firm has deep expertise in areas such as general insurance, life and pensions, health and the mutual sector. Within real estate, JD Haspel executes searches across commercial, residential, operational real estate, industrial and logistics, retail, hospitality and mixed-use development. The company's asset management team focuses on senior level appointments in distribution, investments, solutions and alpha generation within traditional long-only asset classes as well as the entire illiquid alternatives spectrum including infrastructure debt and equity, private debt, private equity and venture capital.

Operating globally, JD Haspel is headquartered in London with an additional office in the north-west. The firm takes great pride in delivering the best candidates fast whilst knowing as much as possible about respective markets and searching for fresh and thoughtful ideas. JD Haspel's approach centres on listening carefully to clients' needs, talking straight with honest feedback and plain-speaking advice, and delivering results consistently. The company applies a diversity and inclusion lens to every piece of work undertaken and is proud that in 2025, 45 per cent of people placed were women and 38 per cent were from a minority ethnic background.