Looking for a new job this year? There are interesting career opportunities being created by owners of companies who are partnered with private equity. I hire for these unique businesses and have come to see a huge difference compared to corporate recruiting. It may seem choke-on-your-chai-tea rude to say businesses with private equity on board do not care about your career. If you grasp this difference though, you are more likely to get the job and make them care. These businesses have ow...

It’s a suggestive coincidence: Before they independently decided on careers in wealth management – and certainly long before they met – Elaine Martinez and Melina Mastromartino-Leberge, partners in Women2Women Wealth Management (W2W), thought it fitting to work in the field of counselling. “When I first left school I was interested in going into either law or social work and counselling,” says British native Elaine. She married at 19; three kids became career enough. In 1994,...