Executive & Professional Search for Financial Services and Private Capital
We bring an executive’s perspective to search—combining deep industry experience, trusted relationships and a highly personal approach to finding exceptional talent.
Where a handshake still matters.
Built on trust. · Driven by results.
Experience Changes How You Search.
We Know What It’s Like to
Valley Ridge Partners was built from the perspective of an executive—not from the outside looking in. We understand the weight of an important hire, the dynamics of leadership teams and boards, and the difference between a candidate who looks right on paper and a leader who is right for the business.
Our experience inside public-company and financial-services environments shapes every search. We look beyond credentials to understand judgment, leadership style, culture, chemistry and the ability to create results.
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Deep Expertise in the
Search is more effective when your partner understands the business behind the role. Our experience across financial services and private capital allows us to understand the environment, ask better questions and identify people who can create value within it.
Search Services
Built on Relationships.
Every search begins with understanding the business behind the role—its strategy, culture, challenges and ambitions. We combine experienced judgment, trusted relationships and a highly engaged approach to find the people who can make a meaningful and lasting impact.
We lead confidential, high-touch searches for executives who can shape strategy, strengthen leadership teams and guide organizations forward.
We conduct focused searches for experienced professionals whose expertise, judgment and execution strengthen critical business functions.
Technology has changed how people connect. It hasn’t changed what makes a great relationship.
We believe the best searches begin with a real conversation. We get to know our clients, our candidates and what matters to each of them. We value reputation over algorithms, relationships over transactions and follow-through over promises.
It’s an old-school philosophy applied to modern search—and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
The best searches start with a conversation.
Meet the Founder
Built by an Executive.
Personally Engaged. Invested in Your Success.
Alecia Hanson Gronneberg founded Valley Ridge Partners after more than 15 years with Two Harbors Investment Corp., where she built her career inside a public-company and financial-services environment and served as a member of executive leadership team, as well as an officer and board liaison.
Great businesses are built by exceptional people. Whether you’re strengthening your leadership team, making a critical hire or considering your own next chapter, the right conversation can be the beginning of something meaningful.
