About us

Alex founded Laz Partners in 2018 after spending nearly a decade in Macro Sales, where he covered buy-side macro & multi-asset desks across London, New York, and Continental Europe.

Having worked closely with a range of top-tier investment teams, Alex identified a clear gap in the executive search market: a lack of firms with genuine market understanding and the ability to operate as long-term partners to investment leadership. He founded Laz Partners to address this, building a specialist search business with a strong team of consultants, grounded in deep sector expertise and differentiated access to senior investment talent.

Today, Alex and the Laz Partners team maintain long-standing advisory relationships with a number of the world's most well-respected alternative investment managers, hedge funds, insurers and sell-side institutions. 

Since inception, Alex & the team have delivered over 200 search assignments across four continents, including multiple high-profile CIO and senior investment leadership appointments. Alex also regularly advises clients on team restructures, hiring strategy and succession planning.

Rebecca Jenkins joined Laz Partners in 2025.  With over 15 years’ experience working in major global corporations within the media sector, her career includes senior roles at Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures and Paramount, where she most recently led a team of 20 operating across Europe, Australasia and Africa.

Rebecca brings extensive expertise in international growth, commercial strategy and operational leadership. She has overseen complex, multi-market programmes, managed multi-million-pound budgets and delivered structured, scalable approaches to long-term business performance.

At Laz Partners, Rebecca will define and drive the firm’s strategic agenda - strengthening the organisation’s capabilities, supporting its investment and recruitment priorities, and guiding the next phase of growth.

Belén Gomez is an Associate on Laz Partners’ Credit Desk, specializing in Public and Private Credit Research Analysts, Credit Desk Analysts and Equity Research Analysts.

She advises alternative investment managers, asset managers and sell-side institutions on research and desk-level hires, supporting business-critical hires.

Belén holds a degree in Arabic and Spanish from the University of St Andrews and a Master’s in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh. Outside of work, she enjoys surfing, athletics and cooking.

Sven Dwars is a Senior Associate on Laz Partners’ Credit and Insurance desk, covering Insurance Solutions & Structuring as well as Public & Private Credit Portfolio Management (IG & HY) across the UK, US and Continental Europe.

He specialises in the placement of Insurance Solutions and Structuring professionals, as well as Investment Grade and High Yield Credit Portfolio Managers, advising on leadership and business-critical mandates.

Sven holds an LLM in Financial Law from the University of Amsterdam. Outside of work, he enjoys endurance and adventure sports.

Jamil Yamout is a Senior Associate on Laz Partners’ Macro desk, specialising in placing portfolio managers, traders, strategists and macro analysts.

He works in close partnership with alternative investment managers, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers and leading sell-side institutions, drawing on previous experience across recruitment and large-scale engineering programme delivery in the Gulf region.

Jamil holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering and has undertaken independent study in machine learning and data science. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, travelling, and following Formula 1.