ABOUT US
Integrity, collaboration, and results are at the core of everything we do.
Who We Are
Capital Search Group is a Washington DC area executive search firm specializing in Accounting and Finance, with deep experience across HR, Contracts, IT, and senior leadership. We work with organizations of every size and shape - from multinational publicly traded companies to early-stage VC-backed startups, government contractors, nonprofits, financial services firms, real estate and construction, manufacturing, and everything in between.
We've been doing this for over 40 years. Not as a large national firm with rotating junior recruiters and a call center, but as a close-knit team of experienced professionals who know this market, know the candidates in it, and have spent decades building the kind of relationships that make great hiring possible.
For Job Seekers
When you work with us, you get a real advocate -- not a resume processor. We take the time to understand where you are in your career, where you want to go, and what the right move actually looks like for you specifically. Everything is completely confidential. We have direct relationships with the best companies in the DC area and we'll only put you in front of opportunities that genuinely make sense. Many of the candidates we placed ten or fifteen years ago are now CFOs and Controllers who call us when they need to hire. That kind of relationship doesn't happen unless we do right by people.
For Employers
We don't just match resumes to job descriptions. We start by listening -- really listening -- to understand your culture, your team, your challenges, and what a successful hire looks like twelve months from now. Then we go find that person, whether they're actively looking or not. We send you a small number of well-qualified candidates rather than overwhelming you with a pile of maybes. Our clients are busy. Their time matters. Seventy-five percent of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, and that number has stayed consistent for decades. It's the clearest thing we can tell you about how we operate.
Our Story
It started the way a lot of great businesses do - with two people who clicked before they ever talked about working together.
Ken Logue and Ray Rice met in the DC area in the early 1980s and became fast friends. Ray was the CFO of a public company. Ken had a background in accounting and recruiting. Both had a knack for connecting people. And both recognized something that the large national staffing firms of the era were getting wrong: nobody was really serving the DC market's accounting and finance community with the personal attention and service it deserved.
So they decided to do something about it.
They launched Logue & Rice, Inc. and set up shop in Tysons Corner, in what locals knew as “The Shopping Bag Building”, and got to work. The timing was right, the market was hungry, and the two of them had exactly the right combination of financial credibility and relationship-building instinct to make it work. It didn't take long before Logue & Rice, Inc. became the go-to name in the DC area for accounting & finance search. If you were a CFO looking for a Controller, or a sharp Audit Manager ready to leave public accounting, Logue & Rice, Inc. was the call you made.
They grew the firm steadily, built a team, and established a reputation that held up year after year. Eventually, a large national firm came calling with an acquisition offer. They had built something worth buying, and they sold it.
They took some time away from the grind. But recruiting has a way of pulling people back, and Ken & Ray never fully stepped away. They continued working on retained searches here and there, staying connected to the market and the relationships they'd spent years building.
After a few years, the pull became too strong to ignore. They decided to do it again - but on their own terms as they always have. They founded Capital Search Group, brought in Lou DelRiego, a former CFO with deep roots in the DC market, and began rebuilding the team with a mix of familiar faces from the Logue & Rice days and new talent who shared the same standard for how recruiting should be done.
That was over 40 years ago combined across both chapters. The firm has grown, the team has evolved, and the DC market looks nothing like it did when Ken & Ray first hung their shingle. But the core of what they built - relationships first, quality over volume, and a genuine investment in the people on both sides of every search - hasn't changed at all.
Making a Difference in Our Community
At Capital Search Group, we've always believed that success means more than filling roles and closing searches. It means showing up for the community and giving back. That commitment runs from the top down -- and it's been that way since the beginning.
We’ve been a long active sponsor and mentor with the Special Olympics, an organization we support not because it's looks good on a website but because it matters to us personally. Our involvement extends to other community organizations across the DC area as well, reflecting a belief that the relationships worth having aren't just the ones at work.
It's a value that runs through the entire firm -- and one we're proud to carry forward.