Key Takeaways
- • Assembly Group, a boutique executive search firm serving private equity and growth equity-backed software and technology companies, has added Sam Boynton as a partner based in Boston to expand its growth equity practice.
- • Boynton previously founded Lumeidon Partners and, after its 2022 acquisition by 33eleven, served as a Partner there, completing searches across portfolios of M33 Growth, Lead Edge Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Frontier Growth, and Level Equity.
- • Boynton will focus on helping growth equity investors and their portfolio companies recruit C-level and senior executives, with emphasis on leaders who can apply AI to drive innovation, transformation, and growth.
- • Assembly Group CEO and Founding Partner Carissa Clark said demand from growth equity clients is building as companies scale quickly in the AI era.
Summary
Assembly Group, a boutique executive search firm headquartered in Austin, Texas, announced via Business Wire that Sam Boynton has joined the firm to further expand its work with growth equity clients. Based in Boston, Boynton will help growth investors and their portfolio companies recruit executive teams, with particular emphasis on leaders across functions who can use AI to drive innovation, transformation, and growth.
According to the announcement, Assembly has spent roughly a decade placing C-level executives for leading private equity sponsors, including TA Associates, Hg, PSG, and Insight Partners. The firm said it has seen a clear and continued opportunity in growth equity, where companies are scaling quickly and demand is accelerating for leaders who can put AI to work. Boynton will partner with growth equity investors and the CEOs and founding teams they back, bringing Assembly's senior-led, high-touch search model to companies at an earlier and faster-moving stage of growth.
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 functions. He founded Lumeidon Partners, a boutique executive search firm acquired by 33eleven in 2022, where he joined as a Partner and worked extensively with growth equity-backed software companies.
Carissa Clark, CEO and Founding Partner of Assembly Group, said demand from growth equity clients "keeps building, especially now," and described Boynton as a natural fit who knows the investors and founders and cares about the experience of both candidates and clients. Boynton said he sees a tremendous opportunity to build on the platform Assembly has established, particularly as AI reshapes the leadership needs of growth-stage companies.
According to the announcement, Assembly has spent roughly a decade placing C-level executives for leading private equity sponsors, including TA Associates, Hg, PSG, and Insight Partners. The firm said it has seen a clear and continued opportunity in growth equity, where companies are scaling quickly and demand is accelerating for leaders who can put AI to work. Boynton will partner with growth equity investors and the CEOs and founding teams they back, bringing Assembly's senior-led, high-touch search model to companies at an earlier and faster-moving stage of growth.
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 functions. He founded Lumeidon Partners, a boutique executive search firm acquired by 33eleven in 2022, where he joined as a Partner and worked extensively with growth equity-backed software companies.
Carissa Clark, CEO and Founding Partner of Assembly Group, said demand from growth equity clients "keeps building, especially now," and described Boynton as a natural fit who knows the investors and founders and cares about the experience of both candidates and clients. Boynton said he sees a tremendous opportunity to build on the platform Assembly has established, particularly as AI reshapes the leadership needs of growth-stage companies.
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