The Public Finance Community's Trusted Search Partner
For more than three decades, ESP has connected public finance firms with the professionals who lead them — through relationships, discretion, and a deep understanding of the people who move this market.
Public finance is a relationship business.
The strongest teams and most meaningful career moves are built through trust, discretion, and long-term connection — not job postings or databases.
ESP supports firms and professionals with confidential, thoughtful introductions across municipal finance, public finance banking, institutional sales, and financial leadership. Whether you are building a team or considering your next move, we offer a safe place for that conversation.
"Public finance has always been a relationship business. The right introduction can shape a career, strengthen a team, and serve communities for years."
Richard Baggott founded Executive Search Placements in 1989 with a singular focus: to serve the public finance community with the same level of expertise and discretion the industry demands of its own professionals. Over 35 years, that commitment has produced hundreds of executive placements across the country — built not on databases, but on decades of relationship intelligence and genuine community presence.
Relationship Intelligence
For more than three decades, ESP has developed a proprietary understanding of the professionals, firms, leadership teams, and career paths that shape public finance.
Our work is not driven by job boards. It is driven by conversations, relationships, market knowledge, and trust accumulated over thousands of interactions across the public finance community.
ESP is not powered by software. ESP is powered by decades of relationships.
Relationship Capital
Four decades of trusted relationships across public finance — reaching professionals who are not visible in the open market.
Industry Fluency
Deep understanding of municipal finance, public-sector capital markets, bond structures, underwriting, advisory, and the professionals who lead them.
Confidential Guidance
A safe, discreet environment for firms and professionals to discuss goals, timing, and opportunities — without pressure, without exposure.
Precision Over Volume
ESP does not submit resumes. We make thoughtful introductions based on fit, trust, and long-term alignment.
Institutional Memory
Knowledge built through decades of career tracking, placements, and industry relationships — in ways no database can replicate.
Specialized in Public Finance & Financial Services
Our search practice is built around a focused set of disciplines where we have cultivated genuine market knowledge, deep community relationships, and a proven track record spanning more than three decades.
Public Finance
Municipal banking, underwriting, trading, advisory, and capital markets professionals serving state and local governments.
Municipal Finance
Professionals supporting transportation, healthcare, education, utilities, infrastructure, and community development.
Investment Banking
Public finance bankers, originators, underwriters, structurers, and managing directors.
Financial Services
Institutional sales, trading, advisory, credit, underwriting, and related financial services leadership.
Accounting & Finance
CFOs, controllers, finance directors, analysts, and executive finance professionals.
Executive Leadership
Managing directors, practice leaders, department heads, and C-suite executives.
Perspectives on the Market
Hiring trends, compensation observations, executive movement, and leadership commentary from inside the public finance community.
How Can We Help You?
Whether you are building a team or considering your next move, we welcome a discreet, no-obligation conversation.
Identify Your Next Leader
When a leadership need arises, ESP helps firms identify respected public finance professionals who are not visible in the open market. Our process is grounded in discretion, relationship knowledge, and a deep understanding of public finance talent.
Discuss Your SearchExplore Your Next Chapter
Whether you are actively exploring opportunities or simply curious about your long-term options, ESP offers confidential guidance rooted in decades of public finance relationships. No pressure. No exposure. Just an honest conversation.
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