Ashton S. McFadden
Managing Director
New York

ashton@jamesbeck.com
212.616.7411

Ashton is a founding principal of Jamesbeck Global Partners. He formerly founded and ran his own investment management recruiting firm, Wellspring Search. Prior to founding his own firm, Ashton was the co-head of the investment management practice at Monster Worldwide Executive Search. Ashton joined Monster via the firm’s acquisition of Johnson, Smith & Knisely in 1998, where he was the head of the asset management practice.

Ashton began his career in portfolio management and securities analysis at Bankers Trust Company, before moving into a sales role for BT’s first generation of alternative investment products. Subsequently, he concentrated in the marketing and development of portfolio management analytics and security transaction products for Reuters America.

Ashton received a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1988, and completed two levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst program before entering the executive search field.