MAI Capital Management is one of the fastest-growing registered investment advisors in the country — more than $75 billion in assets under management, over 40 offices nationwide, and roughly 675 employees. The firm serves both traditional wealth management clients and ultra-high-net-worth family office relationships across its MAI and Evoke Advisors platforms. Fueled by a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, MAI faced relentless hiring demand — across executive leadership, wealth management, family office, marketing, finance, operations, compliance, and investments, all at once, and often in highly competitive talent markets.

District Partners first engaged with MAI on a handful of difficult-to-fill strategic roles. As those searches delivered, the relationship expanded into a broad talent-acquisition partnership across multiple business units, geographies, and levels of seniority. Rather than operating as a transactional vendor, District Partners worked as an embedded, trusted advisor — building deep knowledge of MAI's culture, growth strategy, and organizational structure, and proactively mapping passive talent across wealth management and family office markets nationwide. The model was built to flex — from retained executive search to project-based and high-volume recruiting — depending on what the business needed.

As MAI continued to grow, the partnership grew with it. What began as isolated search support became a broad, enterprise-wide talent relationship spanning executive leadership, wealth advisory, family office, marketing, finance, HR, operations, compliance, and investments across MAI's national footprint. District Partners has supported successful placements at every level, from individual contributor to the C-suite, and helped extend MAI's reach into passive talent its internal team couldn't easily access on its own. The relationship continues to scale alongside the firm.