Meet 10 top recruiters helping fintechs like Coinbase, Stripe, and Square nab top executives and staff up teams in a red-hot market for tech talent

SPMB

Key placements: NerdWallet, Juniper Square.

Based in San Francisco, SPMB’s practices range across sectors within fintech.

The executive search firm’s clients include Robinhood, BlueVine, Credit Karma, Nerdwallet, Affirm, Chime, Metromile, and Juniper Square, to name a few.

A partner at SPMB, Dean Nacey’s areas of focus include searches for board of directors, CEOs, and people in human resources roles.

Nacey has filled board of director, C-suite, and top HR roles at personal-finance app NerdWallet, and C-suite, HR, and business strategy executive roles at investment software Juniper Square.

Primarily working with enterprise and consumer-tech companies across public corporations, venture capital, and private-equity backed startups, Nacey leads the firm’s fintech practice alongside Dave Mullarkey, who has placed top executives at BlueVine, and Steve Popper, who has successfully conducted searches for NerdWallet and Affirm.