Overview
Renee Neri is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ New York office, leading the firm’s global Family Capital Practice and is a senior member of the Asset Management Sector. With more than 25 years of experience in executive search, Renee advises clients on leadership, succession, and talent strategy across family capital, insurance and institutional asset management.
Experience
Renee has conducted hundreds of senior-level global searches for presidents, chief investment officers, senior investment and portfolio leaders, risk executives, and senior sales, marketing, and distribution professionals. She has particular expertise advising family offices and organizations managing insurance assets, as well as investment management firms, endowments, foundations, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds. Her work often involves leadership succession, organizational evolution, and the evolving capabilities required of investment executives.
Renee joined Heidrick & Struggles in 2004 after her role as vice president at a boutique executive search firm in its wealth management practice. Previously, she was a senior recruiter for Banc of America Capital Management, a division of Bank of America. She began her career at another global executive search firm, focusing on asset management, investment banking, and capital markets.
Renee contributes to industry dialogue on leadership, talent, compensation, and professional development.
She is a frequent speaker and participant in industry forums and has contributed perspectives and research to organizations and publications including Institutional Investor, Pensions & Investments, With Intelligence, and FundFire. She is a co-author of Heidrick & Struggles’ inaugural Family Office Compensation Survey and has been published on leadership and talent trends in asset management.
Education
Fordham University, Bachelor’s Degree, History and Philosophy
Awards
Renee has been recognized by CIO magazine as “One of Executive Recruiting’s Elite.”
Philanthropy and Service
Renee serves on Heidrick & Struggles’ retirement plan investment committee. She formerly served on the advisory boards of Girls Who Invest and Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, the board of Gateway to Leadership, and the impact arm of the Money Management Institute. She has also contributed professionally to 100 Women in Finance, Ellevate, The Family Office Exchange, and the New York State Society of CPAs Family Office Group.