Private Equity Team
Amanda Smithson
020 7220 0273
Amanda works on assignments across all practice areas. Before Blackwood she worked at Morgan Stanley for thirteen years. She spent ten years in Mergers & Acquisitions in London and New York before becoming COO of the Investment Banking Division. She read English and then Law at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Susie Cummings
020 7220 0257
Susie works on assignments across all practice areas at the board level. She has worked in search since 1984 and has conducted searches in most geographies at all levels in both the financial services and corporate sectors. She has a background in venture capital and equity broking.
Emily Taylor
020 7220 0275
Emily works on assignments in all areas of finance including CFOs, finance directors and financial controllers across all industries. She also works broadly in Financial Services, focusing on investment banking and retail financial services. Before Blackwood she worked at The Rose Partnership for four years. She read Classics at Bristol.
Deborah Felix
020 7220 0286
Deborah works on assignments in the real estate, investment banking, and private equity practices. Before Blackwood she worked at Russell Reynolds Associates for four years. Prior to that she was a strategy consultant at Mercer Management Consulting. She read Land Economy and Management Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Joanne Clayton
020 7220 0297
Joanne works on assignments in the investment banking and private equity practices. Before Blackwood she worked at research and recruitment consultancy FreshMinds for two years. She read Modern History at St. Andrews and then spent a year studying History and Political Science in the US.
Ariana Issa
020 7220 0262
Ariana works on assignments in the investment banking and private equity practices. Before Blackwood she worked at Oxbridge Group on graduate recruitment campaigns. She read Oriental Studies at Balliol College, Oxford and spent a year studying Mandarin at Peking University, China.
Tamara Dupree
020 7220 0292
Tamara works on assignments across all practice areas. Before Blackwood she worked at a market research firm. She read Spanish and Portuguese at Bristol University.
Chris Unwin
020 7220 0280
Chris works on assignments across all practice areas. Before Blackwood he worked at a Planning Consultancy firm. He read French and German at Keble College, Oxford.
Rosie Ruck Keene
020 7220 0274
Rosie works on assignments in the investment banking and private equity practices. Before Blackwood she worked at CTPartners for three years, in the Financial Services Team. She read English Literature and History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin.
Margareta Welldenberg
020 7220 0256
Margareta works on assignments across all practice areas. Before Blackwood she worked at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Division (Distressed Debt Sales and Sourcing). She studied Economics at Stockholm School of Economics.