Clifton Vaughan

Senior Associate Practice Leader

Practices

About Clifton

Clifton Vaughan is a senior associate practice leader who co-leads the private equity recruiting practice at Charles Aris Executive Search. His work is focused on placing current and former management consultants into investing and operating roles with private equity firms, with a specific emphasis on the Northeast. He has completed over 50 searches for private equity clients.

Clifton earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he studied business administration and management with a focus on marketing. Clifton grew up on a family farm in Holly Springs, North Carolina and went to high school at the Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania. Today, he lives in New York City and is passionate about fitness and travel.

CONTACT CLIFTON

Direct: (336) 217-9133
Email: clifton.vaughan@charlesaris.com

CANDIDATE TESTIMONY

“It was probably the best recruiting experience I have had and could hope for. There was a lot of transparency around the process and excellent communication.” – Portfolio operations associate placed by Charles Aris

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Key Documents

2023 Private Equity Strategy Offer Report

We’re excited to release our first annual 2023 Charles Aris Private Equity Strategy Offer Report, which details a subset of offers for private equity strategy searches we completed in the last year.