Ling Shih, LSP’s founding partner, grew up in Kingston, Ontario. She began her career in accounting at PwC, before quickly realizing that her affinity for solving people problems trumped her desire to become an auditor. Prior to founding LSP, Ling worked at leading Bay Street recruitment firms where she spent over a decade developing her abilities.

Ling has over fifteen years of experience focused on recruiting within financial services. This has given her deep insight into the industry and a strong network. She has built a reputation on Bay Street for her candour, integrity, and friendliness. Her passion for connecting the right people has driven her success.

Clients lean on Ling for market insights and as a trusted advisor on recruitment strategy. She has partnered with some of the most recognized companies and investment funds in Canada, helping build many of their teams from the bottom up.

Ling graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Economics degree.

Sarah brings almost a decade of search experience catering to financial services clients, with a focus on investment management and corporate leadership.

Sarah started her career helping recruit junior and mid-level buyside finance candidates. She then moved on to Heidrick & Struggles, a top-tier Global Executive Search firm, where her client work focused on recruiting senior executives and board members for large financial institutions, predominantly across Canada and the US.

Throughout her search career, she has played a key role in helping clients market map while providing competitive intelligence as they enter new industries. Sarah’s approach to search has been built around creating a transparent, enjoyable, and efficient process for both candidates and clients, and takes pride in finding creative solutions to complex problems.

Sarah is a graduate from the University of Toronto where she received a HBSc in Pharmacology and Psychology.

Rob Shih, Ling’s other half, started his career at PwC (guess how they met) before joining a private equity firm and then equity research at OMERS. In recent years, Rob has balanced strategic consulting projects while searching for a private acquisition and working behind the scenes to help Ling manage the recruitment business.

One of his latest consulting projects was co-leading a COVID-19 testing business and driving its rapid growth to over 400 staff in only a few months. It became one of Canada’s leading COVID-19 testing businesses, servicing top companies in numerous industries as well as the Ontario Government.

At LSP Rob is implementing new tools, creating processes and metrics, and developing strategies to help consistently deliver best-in-class recruitment services for clients. Rob also manages many other aspects of the business to allow Ling and Sarah to focus on search.

Rob graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and holds a CPA designation.

Angela has over a decade of experience in leadership and sales. Her continued success stems from focusing on client needs and maintaining long standing relationships. Having spent most of her career brokering advertising deals for large Canadian broadcast corporations, she is not unfamiliar with being the intermediary between two parties looking to benefit from a mutual agreement.

Her thirst for knowledge led her to the field of neuromarketing, occupational health and now finance. Her work ethic, results orientation and having an engaging personality has allowed her to smoothly transition between these industries.

Angela graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Science with Honours.