Retained Executive Search · Finance & Accounting

Finance leadership for energy, industrial, private equity, and family offices.

Retained executive search for CFOs, Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers, and VPs of Finance, run through The Hazeltine Process. Big 4 and investment banking talent, including leaders now in industry, video-vetted before you spend an hour on them.

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Hazeltine Executive Search is a Houston-based retained search firm specializing in Finance and Accounting leadership. We place permanent CFOs, Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers, and VPs of Finance, with a network anchored by Big 4 CPAs, investment bankers, and finance leaders who started in Big 4 or investment banking and have since moved into industry. Every candidate is video-vetted through The Hazeltine Process before you ever spend an hour on them.

Every search runs through The Hazeltine Process.


Every search starts with a recorded video intake with your hiring manager. Candidates hear about the role from you, not from a recruiter's pitch. We vet them on structured video, calibrate with your team every week, and stay with your hire through the first year. See The Hazeltine Process →

Who we work with


Energy companies nationwide, where Hazeltine started in 2015 and still our most experienced practice, across finance, technical, land, and geoscience roles. Industrial companies. Private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Family offices. Founder-led and public companies too. If enterprise value rides on the finance function, that's our lane. Who We Serve →

Why clients stay


100s
of Finance & Accounting leaders placed, full-time and interim
2015
founded in Houston; grown year over year on repeat business
1 yr
of follow-up after every placement

Also: Interim CFO and Accounting Executives


A growing part of the firm. When a finance seat goes empty, an interim leader from our bench can be in the seat in days, while the retained search for your permanent hire runs in parallel. One firm. No handoff. Interim CFO and Accounting Executives →

Built on results, grown by referral.


Hazeltine began in 2015 placing elite Accounting and Finance talent in Private Equity-backed upstream oil and gas companies. The work was good, so the phone kept ringing: first midstream, then energy transition and CleanTech, then PE firm-level finance roles, then PE-backed companies outside energy, and ultimately family offices and public companies. Every phase of that expansion came from referrals. What began in one vertical now spans many, for one reason: the process works, and it's unlike anything else in executive search.

Hazeltine has grown year over year since 2015 on one thing: results. Most of our work comes from repeat clients and referrals.

Leadership


Chad Spencer

Founder & Managing Partner

Chad founded Hazeltine in 2015, starting with upstream oil and gas. He leads the firm's strategic direction and search practice, and built The Hazeltine Process.

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Hazeltine is affiliated with the Sanford Rose Associates network, a Hunt Scanlon Top 10 search organization operating since 1959. We stay boutique. The reach doesn't.

Tell us what you're up against.

CFO seat empty? Deal on the clock? Auditors circling? We respond to every inquiry within 24 hours.

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