Confidential Search & Advisory
Private Executive
Discreet search and advisory for the key roles in the private world of principals, family offices and private offices.
Trust is the real qualification
The most important roles around a family are never advertised. They are entrusted. Private Executive helps principals and family offices fill the positions where discretion, judgement and personal fit decide everything. We work quietly, for the long term, and by referral.
About
Story
Private Executive is a boutique advisory for filling key positions in the private world of wealthy individuals and families. We are deliberately small. Every search is led personally; no mandate is passed on.
Approach
We see ourselves as a trusted advisor, not a placement agency. Every mandate begins with listening: to the family, the office, the culture that has grown over time, and the role that is genuinely needed. Only once that picture is clear does the search begin. This is how placements last for years, not just past the probation period.
Values
Discretion, judgement and a long view shape everything we do. We build trusted relationships between exceptional principals and exceptional professionals, and we treat every piece of information entrusted to us as what it is: private.
Why Private Executive
In this world, business comes through referral and reputation. Both are earned over years and lost in a single day. That conviction informs our work down to the smallest detail.
Romy von Roeder
Founder
Romy von Roeder is a people executive with more than twenty years of experience developing organisations, from start-ups to enterprises of over 10,000 people. As SVP People & Organization at TIER Mobility she led the people organisation across 22 countries. She knows entrepreneurial families and private offices first hand and invests through the Procon family office. What sets her apart is the combination of a deep understanding of people and organisations with the discretion the private world demands. Private Executive grew out of that combination.
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Executive Search
Discreet search for the key roles in the private world. We map the market quietly, vet thoroughly, and present only people who fit the family and the office, in skill and in character.
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Private Office Advisory
Building and developing the structures of a private office. We advise on which roles an office genuinely needs, in what order they should be created, and how responsibility is divided cleanly.
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Candidate Assessment
Aptitude assessment and careful reference checks. We look beyond the CV to what only emerges in conversation and in the background: integrity, loyalty and maturity.
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Onboarding & Integration
Support that continues past the signature. We stay reachable through the first months, until the role holds and trust has grown on both sides.
Roles we place
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Chief of Staff
The principal's right hand and the link between family, office and the outside world.
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Executive Assistant
Anticipatory support at the highest level, in the office and in private life.
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Private PA
Personal assistance for private daily life, discreet and dependable.
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Household Manager
Running the household and its staff, with a feel for standards and atmosphere.
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Estate Manager
Responsibility for estates, properties and their seamless upkeep.
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Concierge Director
Orchestrating travel, schedules and daily life across residences.
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Lifestyle Manager
Shaping private life, from planning to quiet execution.
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Security Leadership
Protecting the family, led unobtrusively and professionally.
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Family Office Professionals
Key roles within the family office, from governance to operations.
A selection. Every mandate is its own.
How a mandate unfolds
Each engagement follows the same deliberate sequence, adapted to the particular circumstances of the principal and the role.
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Discovery
We understand the family, the office and the role before we talk about names.
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Search Strategy
We define the profile, the market and the approach, shaped by what is genuinely needed.
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Market Mapping
We map the relevant market discreetly and in full, without drawing attention.
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Assessment
We assess aptitude, character and references with the care they deserve.
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Placement
We guide selection, negotiation and contract through to the decision.
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Integration
We stay alongside both sides beyond the placement, until the role holds.
For professionals
We work with experienced professionals from family offices, luxury hospitality, private aviation, yachting and the wider UHNW world.
Joining our network happens by referral and after a personal conversation. We make introductions only where the fit is genuine, advise on paths within the private world, and treat every enquiry in strict confidence. Once you are part of our network, you stay part of it. Discretion runs both ways.
Insights
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How to build a private office
Contact
For confidential enquiries please contact us directly. We reply personally.
Tell us in a few words what this is about. Everything else we discuss in confidence.