Kathryn Mason serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Rice Search Partners, a boutique executive search firm headquartered in London with offices in New York and Switzerland. She has spent more than fifteen years in financial services recruitment, specializing in senior placements across trading, risk, and technology roles globally, and rose through the organization from early-career recruiter to partner and eventually co-owner.
Mason is known for her commitment to workplace diversity and inclusion. Since the firm's de-merger in 2013, when it was predominantly white, male, and privately educated, she has helped transform it into a far more diverse organization at both staff and management levels. She champions organic talent development through early exposure, delegated responsibility, and mentorship, and pairs that focus on internal culture with community engagement through charitable partnerships tied to health and socioeconomic diversity in finance.
