Elizabeth Havens

Elizabeth has over 20 years of experience in executive search and asset management. She focuses on recruiting senior investment talent across asset classes for endowments, foundations, family offices, as well as traditional and alternative asset management firms. Elizabeth joined David Barrett Partners from a boutique search firm where she co-led the firm’s investment management practice. Previously, she spent over ten years within investment management, most recently as a founding member of Busara Advisors, a hedge fund of funds.

Prior to Busara, Elizabeth worked as an Advisor in Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Division in San Francisco. She began her career at Goldman Sachs in New York in the Portfolio Advisory Division and spent time in Investment Research, Real Estate Principal Investing and Private Wealth Divisions.

Elizabeth received a BA in Political Economics (magna cum laude) from Barnard College/Columbia University and obtained an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.