co-founded BlueStar Search Partners in 2006. Evan conducts searches in all sectors of the financial services industry and is particularly focused on Alternative Asset Management and Equity Research. Prior to BlueStar, Evan was a Director at The Whitney Group, a global financial services recruiting firm, where she worked from 1996-2006. During her tenure at Whitney, she completed searches on the buy side and the sell side. Evan spent the prior 9 years at Merrill Lynch in the Institutional Client Group where she sold credit derivatives to institutional investors.
Evan is a board member at Cornell University’s undergraduate business school and she is on the advisory board for the Cornell Women’s Leadership Program. Evan was a featured speaker at The Cornell Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. Evan is also a board member of the Darien Foundation.
Evan graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Applied Economics and Columbia Business School with a Coaching Certification.