Segalen+associes

What Segalen+associes does

Segalen+associes is an independent executive search and leadership consulting firm headquartered in Paris, founded in September 2011 by Diane Segalen. The firm serves corporate boards, listed companies, family businesses, investment funds (private equity, growth capital, venture capital, private debt, real estate, infrastructure), and family offices across Europe and North America.

The firm's service platform is organized around three pillars. The first is Executive Search, covering senior placements such as CEO, CFO, CHRO, COO, independent board members, senior advisors, operating partners, and investor relations/fundraising professionals. The second is Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards, which combines board recruitment with performance evaluation, including AMF-compliant reviews in France. The third is Leadership Services — talent and market mapping, Hogan-certified executive assessment, executive coaching, board evaluations, sector monitoring, reference checks, and compensation benchmarking. The underlying methodology is a proprietary eight-component framework spanning needs identification through candidate onboarding, anchored in psychometric assessment via Hogan methodology.

Commercially, Segalen+associes operates a professional services model with bespoke, quote-based retained engagements and multi-year client relationships. The firm reports operational metrics of 50% of searches closed in under three months, a 90% external placement rate, and an average placed-candidate tenure of more than five years. Distribution is exclusively direct enterprise client engagement, with thought-leadership content (LinkedIn, French business media including Le Figaro and Les Echos, Radio Classique) supporting top-of-funnel activity. Geographic footprint spans Paris, London, New York, and Munich, supplemented by a strategic partnership with Renovata & Company (announced June 2023) covering California and US technology and PE portfolios. The team comprises approximately twelve employees, of whom roughly half are shareholders, with six named partners plus functional heads.

Name

Segalen+associes

Legal name

SEGALEN+ASSOCIES (DS Advisory Ltd)

Website

https://segalen-associes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Segalen+associes is an independent executive search and board consulting firm founded in 2011, placing senior executives, board members, and investors for corporates, investment funds, and family offices across Paris, London, New York, and Munich.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Executive Search and Leadership Services: The firm generates revenue through retained executive search assignments, leadership assessment services using Hogan methodology, executive coaching, and board consulting. Revenue is derived from professional service fees typically structured as retained search engagements with clients including corporates, investment funds, and family offices.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Segalen+associes is an independent executive search and leadership consulting firm that recruits senior executives, board members, and expert profiles for corporates, investment funds, family offices, and family-owned businesses. Its core offerings span Executive Search, Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards services, and Leadership Services (talent mapping, Hogan-methodology executive assessment, executive coaching, sector monitoring, and reference checks), delivered as retained engagements rather than discrete products.

Product overview

Segalen+associes is an independent executive search and leadership consulting firm offering a unified portfolio of services. The core offerings consist of Executive Search for recruiting senior executives, Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards services for board recruitment and assessment, and Leadership Services covering talent mapping, executive evaluation, coaching, and sector monitoring. These services are delivered as integrated consulting engagements rather than a modular software platform, with specialized assessment tools including Hogan methodology for evaluations and a structured methodology spanning eight components from needs identification to candidate onboarding support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Executive Search Retained executive search service for recruiting senior executives, C-suite roles (CEO, CFO, CHRO, COO), and expert profiles for corporates, investment funds, listed companies and family-owned businesses across financial services, real estate, healthcare, and technology sectors.
• Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards Specialized service for recruiting independent board members and conducting board performance evaluations using Hogan assessment methodology, supporting balanced representation, diversity mandates and AMF regulatory compliance for listed companies.
• Leadership Services Comprehensive suite covering the full leadership talent lifecycle including talent mapping, executive and board evaluation (Hogan methodology), individual and collective executive coaching, sector monitoring, and reference, image and compensation benchmarking studies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50% of searches executed in less than 3 months
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Renovata & CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2023SEGALEN+ASSOCIES established a strategic partnership with Renovata & Company in June 2023. Renovata provides global reach with presence in California, New York, United Kingdom, and Germany. Their complementary expertise lies in portfolio companies, particularly in the technology sector. The partnership enables SEGALEN+ASSOCIES to serve clients across the transatlantic market and expand capabilities in executive search for private equity and technology companies.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Russell Reynolds Associates: Global executive search firm with strong financial-services and board practice; directly comparable as a peer targeting C-suite, board, and investment-team mandates for PE, asset management, and banking clients.
• Renovata & Company: Transatlantic executive search firm specialising in PE-backed technology and SaaS companies; directly comparable as Segalen's strategic partner since June 2023, sharing PE portfolio-company mandates across the US and Europe.
• Odgers Berndtson: International executive search firm with strong UK and European presence; comparable as a peer serving financial services, PE, and asset-management clients with senior executive and board mandates.
• Signium: Global executive search firm with European roots; comparable as a peer offering executive search and board advisory across financial services, with similar boutique-to-mid-scale positioning.
• Egon Zehnder: Global leadership advisory and executive search firm; comparable as a peer offering board advisory, executive search, and leadership assessment across financial services and PE in Europe and the US.
• Heidrick & Struggles: Global executive search and leadership consulting firm; directly comparable as Diane Segalen (Segalen's founder) previously served as a Consultant at Heidrick, and the firm operates in the same financial-services and board-advisory segment.
• Spencer Stuart: Premier global executive search firm with deep board and C-suite practice; directly comparable because Segalen partner Emmanuel Dufour led the Financial Services practice there and the firm targets overlapping financial-services and PE clients.

Broad incumbents

• Korn Ferry: Largest global organisational consulting firm with a major executive search practice; comparable as a broader incumbent offering overlapping board, executive search, and leadership development services to financial-services clients.

Regional players

• Eric Salmon & Partners: European-headquartered executive search firm with strong PE and financial-services practice; comparable as a similarly-sized European peer serving investment funds with investment-team and portfolio-company mandates.

Emerging players

• Alvarez & Marsal Executive Search (formerly Sheffield Haworth): Executive search practice serving financial services and PE with a strong investment-team focus; comparable as an emerging peer targeting the same PE, asset-management, and investment-banking client base as Segalen.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/segalen-&-associ-s/posts/?feedView=all
• Xx.com/segalenassocies

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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