EXECUTIVE SEARCH — EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS · PERSONAL ASSISTANTS · CHIEFS OF STAFF
We don't recruit assistants.
We build tandems.
A specialist search firm for Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants and Chiefs of Staff — built on a decade in the Paris market and a growing international network spanning family offices, private banks and private equity. We don’t match résumés. We match people.
A specialist, not a generalist
We work exclusively with Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Office Managers — distinct roles that deserve distinct expertise, not a single job description.
The tandem approach
Every search is a three-way commitment — to the leader, to the candidate, and to the match between them. We look for compatibility of working style as closely as we look for competence.
Paris-rooted, internationally minded
Built on a decade of experience in the Paris market, extended today through a growing international network of principals, family offices and private banks.
WHO WE PLACE
Four roles. Four different realities.
The market treats them as synonyms. We don’t.
Executive Assistant
Strategic proximity to a leader: board materials, high-stakes scheduling, absolute discretion.
Personal Assistant
Where the professional and the personal overlap — households, family logistics, the details only trust allows.
Chief of Staff
An extension of leadership itself: managing other assistants, shaping priorities, standing in when needed.
Office Manager
The operational backbone of a team, without the strategic proximity of the roles above.
HOW WE WORK
A tripartite commitment.
01 — With you
Before any search begins, we go beyond a brief. A short conversation with the person the role reports to tells us more than any job description — the words a leader chooses reveal exactly who they need.
02 — With the candidate
We know the market because we know the people in it — their ambitions, their limits, and where they will genuinely thrive, not just where they will accept an offer.
03 — The match
Our work is done when both sides would choose each other again. That is the only measure of a successful placement.
FOUNDER
Claire de la Fage
Claire de la Fage founded Execast Recruitment after building her expertise in the Paris market — working closely with family offices, private equity funds and private banks to place the assistants who quietly keep their leadership running.
That Parisian foundation now supports an international practice, extended through a growing network of principals and partners worldwide. Every search she leads is handled personally, from the first conversation to placement.
Discretion is not a courtesy here. It is the method.
If you are looking for an assistant — or considering a move as one — the first conversation is confidential, and free of obligation.