Key Takeaways
- • Assembly Group, a Austin, Texas-based boutique executive search firm serving private equity and growth equity-backed software and technology companies, has added Sam Boynton to expand its growth equity practice, according to a Business Wire announcement.
- • Boynton, based in Boston, will focus on helping growth equity investors and their portfolio companies recruit executive teams, with emphasis on leaders who can use AI to drive innovation, transformation, and growth.
- • Boynton previously founded Lumeidon Partners, which was acquired by 33eleven in 2022, where he served as a Partner and completed searches for growth equity sponsors including M33 Growth, Lead Edge Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Frontier Growth, and Level Equity.
- • Assembly Group CEO and Founding Partner Carissa Clark said demand from growth equity clients is accelerating as companies scale quickly and require leaders who can apply AI.
Summary
Assembly Group, a boutique executive search firm headquartered in Austin, Texas, has announced that Sam Boynton has joined the firm to expand its work with growth equity clients, according to a Business Wire press release. Boynton will be based in Boston and will focus on helping growth investors and their portfolio companies recruit executive teams, with particular emphasis on leaders across functions who can harness AI to drive innovation, transformation, and growth.
Assembly Group has built its reputation placing C-level executives for private equity sponsors, including TA Associates, Hg, PSG, and Insight Partners. The firm said it sees a continued opportunity in growth equity, where companies are scaling quickly and demand is rising for leaders in every function who can deploy AI. Boynton will work with growth equity investors and the CEOs and founding teams they back, applying Assembly's senior-led, high-touch search model to companies at an earlier and faster-moving stage of growth.
Carissa Clark, CEO and Founding Partner of Assembly Group, said demand from growth equity clients is building, adding that Boynton has spent his career recruiting leaders for such companies and understands both investors and founders. Boynton brings more than a decade of experience recruiting executive leadership teams for high-growth software and technology companies, with search work spanning CEO and senior placements across go-to-market, product, technology, and finance.
Boynton founded Lumeidon Partners, a boutique executive search firm acquired by 33eleven in 2022, where he later served as a Partner. At 33eleven he worked extensively with growth equity-backed software companies, completing searches across the portfolios of M33 Growth, Lead Edge Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Frontier Growth, and Level Equity. Boynton said he sees a significant opportunity to build on the platform Assembly has established, particularly as AI reshapes leadership needs at growth-stage companies.
Assembly Group has built its reputation placing C-level executives for private equity sponsors, including TA Associates, Hg, PSG, and Insight Partners. The firm said it sees a continued opportunity in growth equity, where companies are scaling quickly and demand is rising for leaders in every function who can deploy AI. Boynton will work with growth equity investors and the CEOs and founding teams they back, applying Assembly's senior-led, high-touch search model to companies at an earlier and faster-moving stage of growth.
Carissa Clark, CEO and Founding Partner of Assembly Group, said demand from growth equity clients is building, adding that Boynton has spent his career recruiting leaders for such companies and understands both investors and founders. Boynton brings more than a decade of experience recruiting executive leadership teams for high-growth software and technology companies, with search work spanning CEO and senior placements across go-to-market, product, technology, and finance.
Boynton founded Lumeidon Partners, a boutique executive search firm acquired by 33eleven in 2022, where he later served as a Partner. At 33eleven he worked extensively with growth equity-backed software companies, completing searches across the portfolios of M33 Growth, Lead Edge Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Frontier Growth, and Level Equity. Boynton said he sees a significant opportunity to build on the platform Assembly has established, particularly as AI reshapes leadership needs at growth-stage companies.
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