PRESS RELEASES

ECA Partners Adds Natasha Bunten as Senior Director

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 9, 2024 – ECA Partners, a Santa Monica-based executive search firm, announced the appointment of Natasha Bunten as a senior director. Natasha, with her distinguished career in private equity and sales operations, brings valuable expertise to this vital role.

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, ECA Partners is an innovative tech-enabled executive search firm with more than 400 clients, the majority being private equity and investor-owned companies. ECA works with clients to place executives in full-time or interim roles, spanning from portfolio company CEOs and CFOs to a robust freelance business staffing on-demand MBB consultants on short-term engagements. ECA has become a Top 50 search firm through a proprietary, evidence-based approach developed by Atta Tarki, ECA’s founder and managing partner of Nobel Investments, a private family office.

ECA Partners is committed to providing innovative executive search solutions for their private equity and corporate strategy clients. As managing partner Ken Kanara noted, “Natasha’s extensive experience in the private equity, B2B services, and healthcare sectors, combined with her track record of driving growth and delivering results, will be a significant asset to our clients and ECA. Her expertise in sales operations, leadership, and process will further enhance our ability to serve clients with our best team forward approach in these key industries.”

Natasha has held key positions in the PE industry, including her prior role as VP of sales and marketing at Centrae, a firm that provides a go-to-market (GTM) framework delivered through a tech-enabled platform, paired with GTM advisory services. Centrae supports private equity firms and their portfolio companies in creating and executing value creation plans. Natasha has spent the last four years supporting private equity firms from due diligence to post-acquisition value creation.

Her depth in PE adds cachet to ECA’s reputation as a go-to search firm for institutional investors. managing director Jason Blonstein also highlighted this aspect of Natasha’s background, saying, “We are excited to have Natasha join the team at ECA! As ECA continues to grow our relationships serving middle market PE, Natasha brings a wealth of experience into partnering with private equity.”

Before her tenure at Centrae, Natasha dedicated eleven years to Cardinal Health, a Fortune 14 company, where she led BD teams and negotiated contracts with managed care organizations such as Regence. Given her expertise, managing director Burt Francis said, “We’re looking forward to Natasha hitting the ground running! Her specific depth in healthcare lends additional horsepower to ECA’s Healthcare Practice,” on top of her notable track record of “supporting CEOs with critical go-to-market strategy talent and the right combination to execute with impact.”

Sharing her enthusiasm for her new role, Natasha commented, “Joining ECA Partners is an absolute privilege.  ECA is an elite team of the very best and brightest.  They are uniquely positioned to help high-growth companies scale because they understand private equity and how critical talent is to creating value.”

About ECA
ECA Partners is a Top-50 boutique executive search firm, focused on strategy, operations, and finance talent serving private equity and private equity portfolio companies, for interim, project and full-time talent needs. The firm has been in operation since 2010 and has more than 400 clients.