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.

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.

Leah Bidon is Research & Operations Associate at Laz Partners, supporting the full team across the firm's specialist practice areas. Her work spans candidate research, market mapping, talent sourcing, and competitive market intelligence, contributing directly to the quality and pace of our search delivery.
Leah is thorough, technically sharp, and brings a level of care and precision to her work that the team genuinely values. She is a key part of how Laz Partners operates day to day.
She holds a degree in Secondary Education with a major in English from De La Salle, College of Saint Benilde. Outside of work, Leah enjoys seeking out the best local coffee and pastries, trips to the beach, and camping.