Bio

In addition to setting the vision and goals of the firm he created, Joe brings experience in developing executive search processes. He brings particular expertise to establishing retained mandates, designing and implementing growth-stage recruitment campaigns and architecting acquisition-oriented strategic partnerships.

The Manhattan College graduate has been in the executive search industry since 2007, starting up Eastward in 2015 after an impressive eight years of increasing responsibility at a global firm. Over his career, Joe has cultivated an elite client list of some of the most sought after financial advisory and strategy firms in the world.

A native New Englander, Joe has since decamped Rockland County, N.Y., with his wife Annalisa and their young children Sienna and Grayson.

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Hannah is known internationally as an executive search consultant skilled in helping clients restructure their professional teams as a result of M&A or other strategic objectives. The University of Leeds alumna began her career in London in 2014 then transplanted to New York in 2019. Before moving to the U.S., Hannah spearheaded her firm’s entry into several new markets, leading teams of up to six associates in the M&A, Corporate Strategy and Development markets.

A detail-oriented professional, Hannah’s primary role is leading the firm’s Financial Advisory practice. This client-facing responsibility affords her opportunities to build rapport with clients and develop candidates.

When not in the office, Hannah often relaxes with a good book, at home with her husband Jimmy in Brooklyn.

Bio

Eastward’s private equity specialist, Reed thrives at building leaders by helping them find the perfect opportunity to demonstrate their value.

While he relies on technologically sophisticated tools to help him identify candidates, it is Reed whom Eastward clients rely on to find outliers who might not look like a good fit on paper but eventually prove out.

Bilingual, with extensive Latin American experience, Reed holds degrees from both George Washington University and la Universidad de Chile. He recently joined Eastward after spending the first part of his career in advisory roles. While out of the office, he devotes time to preventing distracted driving accidents through his work on the board of Text Less, Live More.

The winter sports enthusiast splits time between his Upper East Side apartment and his family’s home in Vermont.