Our Team
We work as one team from London with global coverage.
We have multiple decades of experience in search and consulting. The team have worked together for 20+ years.
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Tanya Lutyens
Tanya Lutyens is a founding partner of Lutyens Advisory. She has over 20 years of experience working with global family offices and asset managers advising them on human capital placing key non executives and executives into roles across all functions.
She also advises on succession planning, retention, compensation, team lift-outs and acquisitions. She was previously the Co-Founder of Lutyens da Cunha, an asset management and family office focused executive search boutique servicing clients globally across all functions and asset classes.
She started her executive search career at Armstrong International where she covered asset management. She began her career at Mercury Asset Management (now BlackRock) where she joined on the graduate training scheme and worked in both investment and distribution roles. Tanya holds an MA (Hons) in Economics from Edinburgh University. IMC.
02
Anna Rolt
Anna Rolt is a founding partner of Lutyens Advisory. She has spent over 15 years in executive search working with institutional asset managers, asset owners, investment boutiques and family offices across all asset classes and functions.
She has advised clients on compensation, team lift-outs, competitor analysis and detailed market intelligence. She joined Lutyens da Cunha in 2006 where she consulted traditional and alternative clients, asset allocators and family offices on senior leadership, investment and distribution appointments and team build-outs.
She began her career in 2002, producing and directing documentaries. Anna holds a BA (Hons) in English from Bristol University.
03
Oliver Stanley
Oliver Stanley was appointed Chairman of Lutyens Advisory in 2017. He brings to the firm over 25 years of experience within executive search during which time he has led and advised on some of the most high profile executive and non-executives searches within the family office, wealth management and asset owner community.
Oliver is renowned for his unique relationship-driven, long-term client and candidate focused approach to search. He is a champion of diversity and works with Lutyens Advisory to maintain and build upon their partnership-oriented and consultative style, developing the advisory projects that complement their traditional search mandates. Oliver previously founded and ran Oliver Stanley Partners, a firm focused on the family office, endowment and wealth management arena.
Prior to that he was one of the founding partners of the specialist financial services executive search firm Armstrong International. He started his career in finance at Merrill Lynch. Previously he served in the Coldstream Guards.
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Sophie Carless
Sophie is a generalist researcher. She joined Lutyens Advisory in 2021. She works on searches across the asset management and family office space.
She previously worked for Harrods within its private client department, having begun her career at JCDecaux.
Sophie graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in Marketing Management and French.
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Olivia Bardy
Olivia joined Lutyens Advisory in 2018. She has over 7 years of experience in executive search working with family offices, institutional asset managers and sovereign wealth funds.
Olivia started working with Tanya and Anna in 2014. She has advised on senior investment, operational and distribution mandates, both individual and team placements.
She began her career in May 2013 working in talent representation for the television and film business. Olivia holds a BA in Politics and Sociology from The University of Exeter.
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Lucy Leventhorpe
Lucy is a generalist researcher. She joined Lutyens Advisory in 2021. Since joining LA, she has worked on searches across the wealth management and family office space. Lucy graduated from Wesleyan University with a Major in History.