
Career Stewardship For Your CFO Career and Beyond
Our Story
After two decades advising senior leadership teams and Boards on the recruitment of CFOs and their senior teams Ed Montoya founded StewardSearch to be a career accelerating and leadership hiring partner for the CFO community. Drawing upon the experience of over 150 executive placements across companies ranging in size from start-up to Fortune 500 we provide executive access and a trusted, high-touch partnership model to assist the CFO with pro-active career development, team hiring and value capture. We empower our clients with the executive access and career resources to be Stewards of their CFO Career and Beyond.


For Talent Recruitment
Executive Search &
Talent Advisory
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100% focus on the CFO organization, helping CEOs hire CFOs and CFOs build their teams through high impact hires in:
Business Finance, Financial Planning and Analysis, Accounting, Internal Audit, Risk Management, Supply Chain Finance, Investor Relations, Treasury, Corporate Development, Data Science and Business Intelligence.
For Career Management
Resume Optimization & Executive Interview Assessment
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Optimize your resume for LinkedIn and other AI powered talent marketplaces

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Interview coaching on positioning yourself for "milestone career goals" (e.g., landing your first enterprise CFO position, CFO to COO/CEO)
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Primer on CFO hiring trends across the talent ecosystems in venture capital, private equity, and public companies

For Career Management
Compensation Guidance &
Value Capture
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Approach your next promotion cycle with an informed sense of your compensation based on role and industry benchmarks.
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Customize a 3 month engagement to help you determine your "market value", inform compensation negotiations and introduce you to a bespoke community of executive peers and potential future employers.
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Bespoke access to executive coaches, peer group networks and career mentors.

Industry Specialization
Our Clients
Across a career in executive search spanning nearly twenty years the principals of StewardSearch have placed or led leadership hires for the following representative companies.