Jamesbeck Names Managing Director in New York
May 29, 2025 – Jamesbeck, a New York City-based recruitment firm specializing in senior-level talent for the broad investment management community across private market and traditional firms, has expanded with the addition of Vince Talamo as a managing director based in its New York City office.
Mr. Talamo has spent his entire career in executive search and brings over 25 years of investment management search experience to Jamesbeck. He spent the previous five years launching and building an executive search business focused on private markets and diversified investment management across all distribution, investment and leadership functions.
Mr. Talamo spent the earlier part of his career at Warren International, where he began his career in Research before moving into a Recruiting role. He joined PrinceGoldsmith LLC after its first year in operation and at the height of the financial crisis in 2009, moved over to Goldsmith & Co. For the next 10 years, he helped build the firm into one of the premier asset management-focused, boutique search firms at the time.
Jamesbeck specializes in the investment management industry across public and private markets. The firm recruits senior-level talent across investing, distribution, product and C-suite positions on behalf of a range of clients from boutiques to the largest multi-product organizations.
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Jamesbeck was acquired last year by ZRG. Hunt Scanlon Ventures, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based human capital M&A advisory firm, served as an advisor to ZRG. With this acquisition, ZRG enhanced its financial services brand by adding a team dedicated to asset management while providing a complement to the breadth of work already underway with private equity portfolio companies through executive search, interim, and RPO solutions. Jamesbeck’s Melissa Norris, managing partner, and Beth Rustin, founding partner, are now the co-heads of asset management search at ZRG.
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ZRG’s expansion effort, according to rivals, has been swift and strategic. Less than a year ago, ZRG secured a secondary equity investment from a consortium of new and existing institutional investors led by Timber Bay Partners. It has used that capital and an expanded credit facility to continue an acquisition journey that has produced 11 deals over the past four years.
“Joining forces with ZRG is an exciting opportunity for Jamesbeck,” said Ms. Norris. “We have always been committed to delivering exceptional talent solutions to our clients across the front office, but being part of ZRG will enable us to broaden our reach and impact, leveraging their extensive resources and innovative approach to talent advisory.”
ZRG, founded in 1999, is a mid-sized global executive search firm and one of the fastest growing in the search industry. It provides a full suite of executive, middle management, and customized search solutions through its offices in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. The firm finds leaders across a broad spectrum of business markets, including aerospace, consumer, education, healthcare services, and solutions, industrial, life sciences, non-profit, private equity and venture capital, and technology. ZRG is based in Rochelle Park, NJ.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
