Company Overview

"We have been helping companies find the optimal candidates since 1995"

RAH FinancialFinancial Staffing Solutions

RAH Financial is a retainer-based, Financial Services, executive search firm. Though we are networked into the web of the Northwest’s top executives, our clients also include some of the premier companies in the U.S. We conduct executive staffing searches, Advisor/Team lift-outs and provide Acquisitions Consulting services.

We have been helping companies find the optimal candidates since 1995. RAH Financial's search team understands the urgency and importance of finding the right candidate for key executive positions.

The principals of RAH Financial are Roger and Lea Hendrix, who together manage the business of RAH Financial. Roger is responsible for managing all recruiting efforts, and Lea is responsible for many business and customer service aspects of the practice. Lea also serves as the firm's IT Manager. In addition to the principals, RAH Financial employs the services of additional recruiters and researchers, who are assigned to specific recruiting projects as best fits their backgrounds and areas of expertise.

To every client, we bring extensive Financial Services industry knowledge and business perspective, embedded in a consultative process of helping companies find the right talent for key executive positions. The executive search consultants at RAH Financial invest the time up front to understand your business and its mission, culture, strategic drivers, core competencies, and organizational dynamics, including the personalities, working styles, values, and agendas of people who interact with the executive position.

Because we are a retained search firm, we take the risk out of executive recruitment by guaranteeing a perfect fit for the first year of employment. We are specialists in the Financial Services industry with expertise in the identification and recruitment of a wide range of executives within Investment Companies, Fund Managers and Wealth Managers. With increasing numbers of companies and organizations recognizing the strengths of women in key executive roles, the competition for female executives is rising steadily. Our database of female executives helps us connect you with well-qualified women executives to take your organization to the next level.

Areas of Specialization

RAH Financial's areas of specialization within Investment Companies, Fund and Wealth Managers, include the following niches:

  • Senior Level Management

  • Sales, Marketing and Client Services for Money Managers

  • Private Client Business Development Professionals

  • Accounting and Finance

  • Operations and Administration Management

  • Human Resources

  • Equity and Fixed Income Portfolio Managers and Analysts

  • Diversity Recruiting

Leadership

Roger Hendrix (President and CEO)

Roger has more than two decades of recruiting experience, conducting searches for both National and Northwest regional firms. He has a special focus in the area of Securities Industry/Financial Services. He has a distinctive recruiting background encompassing operational experience as a software and aerospace engineer and registered Financial Advisor/Consultant. Roger's broad experience, having functioned as both a retained and contingent recruiter, spans the Banking, Capital Markets and Asset and Wealth Management areas within the Securities Industry.

Prior to founding RAH Financial, Roger was Principal and Director of the Financial Services Division of a Seattle-based Executive Search firm and was the co-founder of a Bellevue-based, Financial Services Northwest Executive Recruiting firm. Roger worked for several years as a Registered Representative and Financial Advisor for both Shearson, Lehman Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney. Earlier in Roger's career, he was employed by the Boeing Company as both a Software Engineer/Developer and a Design/Stress Engineer.

Roger holds an MBA from Seattle University, Seattle, Washington as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Roger also holds NASD licenses, Series 7 and 66 (inactive).

Roger has lived in the Northwest since 1981 and resides in Kent, Washington with his family. He spends his free time golfing and weightlifting. Roger is also a lifetime, drug-free powerlifter. He is a nine-time Washington State USAPL Masters Powerlifting Champion, five-time USAPL Master Nationals Powerlifting Champion and four-time IPF World Championship team member.

Lea Hendrix (Operations Manager)

Lea Hendrix is a web designer/developer by training, having worked for several Northwest technology and retail firms within their IT departments. Lea currently works for Boeing as a UX designer and web developer.

Lea has a Ph.D. in Information Technology, Master of Science degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor of Science degree in Web Design and Interactive Media. Prior to Lea's career in technology, she was a professional Olympic weightlifter, competing on 8 World Championship teams and was inducted into the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame.

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