Victoria Hooijdonk-Cox is a Managing Director and the Practice Leader for the UK Private Capital and Investment Management division at Russell Reynolds Associates, based in London. Bringing nearly two decades of elite international financial services recruitment, leadership assessment, and strategic talent placement to her practice, Victoria specializes in executing high-stakes CEO, C-suite, and investment leadership mandates. Her coverage spans large global, multi-asset class private capital houses, long-only asset managers, mid-market institutions, and single-strategy General Partners (GPs) across Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and North America. She focuses on sourcing elite talent across private equity, private credit, corporate functions, and infrastructure/real assets. Victoria joined Russell Reynolds in New York in 2011 to spearhead North American market relations before relocating to London in 2014, where she now orchestrates several of the firm's most critical global enterprise client partnerships. Prior to her tenure at Russell Reynolds, she sharpened her industry focus as an Executive Search Consultant at Sousou Partners, a boutique private capital talent advisory firm operating between New York and London with a core focus on real estate and infrastructure. Victoria holds a First Class Master of Arts (MA Hons.) from the University of Edinburgh and earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge. Her foundational education was completed at the prestigious Cheltenham Ladies' College.