Fox Hill Partners

Operating talent for venture and private equity–backed companies

A Venice Search Partners brand

What we do

We place the leaders who build investor‑backed companies.

Fox Hill recruits senior operating talent across technology, strategy, finance, and operations, from the first executive hire through a fully built leadership team. Our partners have worked as investors and as operators.

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Leadership

An investor’s lens
on every search.

Spencer Castillo

Co-founder

Spencer co-founded Venice Search Partners in 2023 to offer a high-touch approach to scaling investment firms and high-growth operating companies. By applying an investor's lens to the vetting process, he serves as a strategic thought partner to help clients achieve their long-term human capital goals at both the fund and portfolio levels.

Prior to VSP, Spencer spent six years as a private equity investment professional—predominantly with Oaktree Capital Management and Odyssey Investment Partners—focusing on buyout transactions within the industrials and business services sectors. He began his career in M&A advisory at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame.

Bank of America · Oaktree · Odyssey · Notre Dame

Paul Quigley

Co-founder

Paul co-founded VSP to offer a practitioner-led approach to scaling venture-backed startups and venture capital firms. Drawing on his background as a technology operator and venture capitalist, Paul specializes in identifying technical, high-impact talent required to thrive in the early-to-growth stages of the technology ecosystem.

Prior to VSP, Paul spent six years at HOF Capital—joining as the first full-time analyst hire and helping grow the firm to over $1B in AUM through Principal—where he made investments into category-defining companies including Anthropic, SpaceX, and BillionToOne. He began his career at Addepar and Palantir, and holds a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, where he also conducted research in the Stanford AI Lab.

HOF Capital · Addepar · Palantir · Stanford